Maine Revised Statutes > Title 14 > Part 5 > Chapter 509 – Executions
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| Subchapter 1 | General Provisions | 4651 – 4659 |
| Subchapter 2 | Bonds | 4701 – 4703 |
| Subchapter 3 | Sales On Execution | 4751 – 4953 |
| Subchapter 4 | Successive Executions | 5001 – 5006 |
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- Abandoned animal: means an animal that has been deserted by its owner or keeper, excluding animals that are part of a population control effort. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
- Act: means the Animal Welfare Act. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
- Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
- Adult: means a person who has attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Agent: means any person who sells or distributes licensed commodities in commerce for or on behalf of producers or others and whose operations may include planting, cultivating, harvesting, grading, packing and furnishing containers, supplies or other services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452
- Allegation: something that someone says happened.
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Animal: means every living, sentient creature not a human being. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
- Animal control: means control of dogs, cats, and domesticated or undomesticated animals in accordance with section 3948. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
- Animal control officer: means the person appointed periodically by a municipality pursuant to chapter 725. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907
- Animal shelter: means a:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant. Applicant: means any person applying for a license under this subchapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account. Assistance unit: means the individuals whose need the department considers when determining whether an applicant or recipient is eligible for program benefits. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3811 At large: means off the premises of the owner and not under the control of any person whose personal presence and attention would reasonably control the conduct of the animal. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 At risk: means , with regard to a person, that the person is a member of an economically disadvantaged family, a recipient or former recipient of services under the child protection or child welfare system of the State, in foster care, homeless, a member of a family exposed to substance use disorder, identified as having special needs, identified as having a physical or mental disability or identified as having limited English proficiency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931 Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court. Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court. Basic health care services: means health care services that an enrolled population might reasonably require in order to be maintained in good health and includes, at a minimum, emergency care, inpatient hospital care, inpatient physician services, outpatient physician services, ancillary services such as x-ray services and laboratory services and all benefits mandated by statute and mandated by rule applicable to health maintenance organizations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC Benefit: means any payment made, or required to be made, to a beneficiary under chapter 423, subchapter V or chapter 425, subchapter V. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 Bequest: Property gifted by will. Board: means the Board of the Maine Children's Trust Incorporated. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3881 Board: means the board of trustees, established under section 12004?F, subsection 9, to administer the Maine Public Employees Retirement System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 Boarding kennel: means any place, building, tract of land or abode in or on which 3 or more privately owned companion animals are kept at any one time for their owners in return for a fee or compensation and includes a facility where 3 or more companion animals are kept for training purposes for compensation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Breeding kennel: means a location where 5 or more adult female dogs or cats capable of breeding are kept and some or all of the offspring are offered for sale, sold or exchanged for value or a location where more than 16 dogs or cats raised on the premises are sold to the public in a 12-month period. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Broker: means any person engaged in the business of negotiating sales of licensed commodities in commerce for or on behalf of the seller or the purchaser, respectively. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Business day: means any day of the calendar year other than a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Capitated basis: means fixed per-member, per-month payments or percentage-of-premium payments pursuant to which the provider assumes full risk for the cost of contracted services without regard to the type, value or frequency of services provided. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Carrier: means a health maintenance organization, an insurer, a nonprofit hospital, a medical service corporation or any other entity responsible for the payment of benefits or provision of services under a group contract. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Cat: means a member of the genus and species known as Felis catus. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Cat identification: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907Chambers: A judge's office. Chief executive officer: means the Chief Executive Officer of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 Child: means a person under 6 years of age who has not entered kindergarten. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931 Child abuse and neglect prevention council: means a community organization that provides continuous year-round service as a county's primary organization that serves to encourage and coordinate community efforts to prevent child abuse from occurring. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3872 Child or children: means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry or the commissioner's duly authorized agent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 1-A Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and the commissioner's agents. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001 Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action. Community: means a geographical area represented by a community coalition and served or to be served by a project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931 Community coach: means an employee of or contractor with a community contractor who is trained under subsection 11 and performs administrative functions in carrying out the duties of a project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931 Community coalition: means a group of stakeholders, service providers or other members within a community under subsection 7 that sponsors and collaborates in the implementation and administration of a project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931 Community contractor: means a nonprofit organization that is the applicant and responsible lead member of a community coalition for a project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931 Community provider: means a child care center, family child care provider or other service provider that has entered into a contract with a community contractor to provide services as part of a project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931 Companion animal: means a cat or dog. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Constable: means a law enforcement officer appointed by municipal officers pursuant to law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Copayment: means an amount an enrollee must pay in order to receive a specific service that is not fully prepaid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Corrosive: means any substance which in contact with living tissue causes destruction of tissue by chemical action; but does not refer to action on inanimate surfaces. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Council: means the Animal Welfare Advisory Council as established by Title 5, section 12004?I, subsection 2?C or its duly authorized agent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Credit: means the right granted by a creditor to a person to defer payment of debt or to incur debt and defer its payment, or purchase property or services and defer payment therefor;
[PL 1973, c. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 4597 A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-AHighly toxic: means any substance which produces death within 14 days in at least half of a group of 10 or more laboratory white rats each weighing between 200 and 300 grams, when a single dose of 50 milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, is orally administered or when inhaled continuously for a period of one hour or less at an atmospheric concentration of 200 parts per million by volume or less of gas, vapor, mist or dust, or which produces death within 14 days in at least half of 10 or more rabbits tested in a dosage of 200 milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, when administered by continuous contact with the bare skin for 24 hours or less. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Home visitor: means a person who provides services to a participant in the participant's home. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931 Home visitor services: means interactions between a home visitor and a parent that on the part of the home visitor are nurturing, responsive and intentional and that support the parent in the parent's role as the primary teacher of the parent's child and assist the parent in using the parent's home and the community as the child's learning environment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931 Household use: means any use, or intended use of an article in or about the living area or living quarters of a house, apartment house or other place of abode. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Humane agent: means an employee of the department who assists in enforcing this Part. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Humanely clean conditions: means that both indoor areas and outdoor enclosures are cleaned on a periodic basis to remove excretions and other waste materials, dirt and trash with sufficient frequency to minimize health hazards and to provide adequately clean living conditions for the species of animal. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Humanely trap: means to trap an animal using traps and trapping methods that are designed to avoid injury to animals to the greatest extent practicable for animal control or animal rescue purposes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 hunt: means to pursue, catch, take, kill or harvest wild animals or wild birds or to attempt to catch, take, kill or harvest wild animals or wild birds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001 In-plan covered services: includes emergency services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Income: means annual contributions made to the fund through the income tax checkoff. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3881 Infant: means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury. Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit. intertidal land: means all land of this State affected by the tides between the mean high watermark and either 100 rods seaward from the high watermark or the mean low watermark, whichever is closer to the mean high watermark. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 572 Irritant: means any substance, not corrosive, which on immediate, prolonged or repeated contact with normal living tissue will induce inflammatory reaction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Keeper: means a person in possession or control of a dog or other animal. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Kennel: means 5 or more dogs kept in a single location under one ownership for breeding, hunting, show, training, field trials, sledding, competition or exhibition purposes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Label: means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon or attached to the immediate package or container of any substance; and a requirement made by or under authority of this subchapter that any word, statement or other information appear on the label shall not be considered to be complied with unless such word, statement or other information also appears on the outside container or wrapper, if any there be, unless it is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper, and on all accompanying literature where there are directions for use, written or otherwise. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 land: means real estate held by the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 598 Law enforcement officer: means any person who, by virtue of the person's public employment, is vested by law with a duty to maintain public order, enforce any law of this State establishing a civil violation, prosecute offenders or make arrests for crimes, whether that duty extends to all crimes or is limited to specific crimes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. library: means the statewide network created pursuant to this subchapter by which data custodians or their designees organize and catalog public geographic information and provide access to that information to all levels of government and to the public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 2002 Licensed commodities: means dry beans and other vegetables listed in rules established pursuant to section 453, but does not mean potatoes, which are governed by chapter 103, subchapter 10, article 3. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Licensee: means any person who holds a commodities license issued under this subchapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants. Livestock: means cattle; equines; sheep; goats; swine; domesticated cervids, fowl and rabbits; members of the family Camelidae, genus lama and genus vicugna; bison; and ratites. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Maine Child Abuse Prevention Councils: means the statewide organization composed of a majority of the child abuse and neglect prevention councils. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3872 Maine market dealer: means any dealer as defined in subsection 4 who sells milk subject to the price control authority of the Maine Milk Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152 Maine market producer: means any Maine milk producer selling to a dealer marketing milk on the Maine market, or any agricultural cooperative that buys milk or handles milk for such a producer and sells it to such a dealer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152 Maine Milk Pool: means the sum of collections as prescribed in section 3153, from Maine market producers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152 Majority: when used in reference to age shall mean the age of 18 and over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 manufacturer: means a manufacturer of prescription drugs or biological products or an affiliate of the manufacturer or a labeler that receives prescription drugs or biological products from a manufacturer or wholesaler and repackages those drugs or biological products for later retail sale and that has a labeler code from the federal Food and Drug Administration under 21 Code of Federal Regulations, 2027. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2700-A Member: means any person included in the membership of a retirement program of the retirement system, as provided in chapter 423, subchapter 2, or chapter 425, subchapter 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 misbranded: as used in this chapter or chapter 103 applies to all articles of commercial feeding stuff, commercial fertilizer or food, the package or label of which bears any statement, design or device regarding such article, or the ingredients or substances contained therein, that is false or misleading in any particular or that is falsely branded in any particular. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 484 misbranded package of a hazardous substance: means a hazardous substance in a container intended or suitable for household use unless the product bears a label with the information specified in section 507, except as otherwise provided by or pursuant to this subchapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money. Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money. Multiple unit housing: shall mean a structure or structures located on a single lot, which structures are designed or used to house 2 or more families. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 4807 municipal clerk: means the clerk of a municipality, the deputy clerk or assistant clerk, where directed by the clerk, carrying out the duties of this Part. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Municipal officers: means the mayor and municipal officers or councilors of a city, the members of the select board or councilors of a town and the assessors of a plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Municipality: means an organized city, town or plantation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Mutilate: means to injure or disfigure by irreparably damaging body parts. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 National Association of Insurance Commissioners: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or its successor organization of insurance regulators. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 15 NCQA accreditation survey report: means the unpublished, detailed survey report to a health maintenance organization by the National Committee for Quality Assurance upon completion of NCQA's accreditation survey of the health maintenance organization. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Nonprofit hospital or medical service organization: means any organization defined in and authorized to act under Title 24, chapter 19. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Normal retirement age: means the specified age, the years of service requirement or any combination of age and years of service requirements at which a member becomes eligible for retirement benefits and at which those benefits may not be reduced under section 17852, subsection 3 or 3?A; section 17852, subsection 10, paragraph C; and section 18452, subsection 3. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 Notice: means written notification served personally, sent by certified mail or sent by first-class mail to the last known address of the person for whom the notification is intended. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111 Nuisance dog: means a dog or wolf hybrid that causes bodily injury, other than serious bodily injury, to an individual or a domesticated animal who is not trespassing on the dog or wolf hybrid owner's or keeper's premises at the time of the injury; a dog or wolf hybrid that causes a reasonable and prudent person who is not on the dog or wolf hybrid owner's or keeper's premises and is acting in a reasonable and nonaggressive manner to fear bodily injury, other than serious bodily injury, by assaulting or threatening to assault that individual or individual's domesticated animal; or a dog or wolf hybrid that causes damage to property or crops not owned by the dog or wolf hybrid owner or keeper while the dog or wolf hybrid is not on the owner's or keeper's premises. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Oath: A promise to tell the truth. Oath: includes an affirmation, when affirmation is allowed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Obligor: means an individual who receives an overpayment or an adult individual who is a member of an assistance unit that receives an overpayment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3811 Office: means the Office of Information Technology. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 1972 Other land use activity: includes any commercial or industrial uses or combination of such uses. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 4807 Out-of-plan covered services: means nonemergency, covered health care services obtained without a referral from providers who are not otherwise employed by, under contract with or otherwise affiliated with the health maintenance organization or from affiliated specialists. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Over-order premium: means that part of the minimum Class I, Class II and Class III prices established by the Maine Milk Commission pursuant to chapter 603, that exceeds the applicable Class I, Class II and Class III prices established pursuant to the northeast marketing area milk marketing order as adjusted to reflect the increased costs of production pursuant to section 2954, subsection 2, paragraph A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3152 Overpayment: means program benefits that exceed the amount of program benefits for which an individual or assistance unit is eligible when the department or a court has determined that the benefits were provided as a result of an intentional program violation, an unintentional error by the individual or household or an error by the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3811 Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program. Owner: means a person owning, keeping or harboring a dog or other animal. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Parent: means the parent or parents of a child or the child's legal guardian, primary or authorized caregiver or foster parent or a person with whom the child has been placed for purposes of adoption pending a final adoption decree. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931 Participant: means an eligible child under subsection 5 who has been accepted to participate in a project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931 Participating provider: means a provider as defined in subsection 18 that, under an express or implied contract with a health maintenance organization, has agreed to provide health care services to enrollees with an expectation of receiving payment, other than copayment, directly or indirectly from the health maintenance organization. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, syndicate, organization, society, business trust, attorney-in-fact or any legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, society, club, corporation, financial institution, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, assignee or any other group or combination acting as a unit, the State or Federal Government or any political subdivision or agency of either government. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111 Person: means any individual, corporation, firm, partnership, municipality, quasi-municipal corporation, state or federal agency or any other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 4807 Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association or any other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Person: means and includes any corporation, association, copartnership or one or more individuals. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Person: means a human being or an organization. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001 Personal property: All property that is not real property. Pet: means a dog, cat or other domesticated animal commonly kept as a companion, but does not include tamed animals that are ordinarily considered wild animals or livestock. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Pet food supplier: means any retail location located in the State that sells feeding supplies for pets or livestock. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Pet shop: means a place or vehicle in or on which any dogs, cats, rodents, reptiles, fish, pet birds, exotic birds or exotic animals not born and raised on those premises are kept for the purpose of sale to the public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer. Point-of-service option: means a health maintenance organization product that allows an enrollee to select either the comprehensive health care benefits of the health maintenance organization or care from a provider of the enrollee's choice outside the health maintenance organization network with traditional indemnity benefits. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Point-of-service product: means a product that includes both in-plan covered services and out-of-plan covered services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Population control effort: means the activities, programs and projects aimed at reducing the number of cats and dogs without homes, including, but not limited to, the trapping, neutering and vaccinating of feral cats, the trapping of cats for impoundment at an animal shelter and spaying or neutering services for abandoned animals and stray dogs and cats. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC Prescriber: means a person who is licensed, registered or otherwise authorized in the appropriate jurisdiction to prescribe and administer drugs in the course of professional practice. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2700-A Prevention policies: means laws, rules, policies, procedures and practices, whether in the public or private sector, that have an actual or potential impact on the nature and incidence of child abuse and neglect. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3881 Prevention programs: means programs, plans or training associated with the primary prevention of child abuse and neglect and the promotion of high-quality child care. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3881 Probate: Proving a will Proceeds: means money arising or obtained from the sale of designated lands, excluding the costs of the sale. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 598 Processor: means any person other than a consumer who purchases or contracts to purchase licensed commodities primarily for manufacture into articles of food by operations which change the physical form the commodities possessed when harvested. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Program: means the First 4 ME Early Care and Education Program established under subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931 Project: means the program as implemented in a community by a community contractor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3931 Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government. Provider: means a physician, hospital or person that is licensed or otherwise authorized in this State to furnish health care services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business. Radioactive substance: means any substance which emits ionizing radiation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Real estate held by the State: means real estate wholly owned by the State by fee simple title. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 598 Reduced: means a reduction in the acreage of an individual parcel or lot of designated land under section 598?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 598 registered mail: when used in connection with any requirement for notice by mail shall mean either registered mail or certified mail. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Regulated advertisement: means the presentation to the general public of a commercial message regarding a prescription drug or biological product by a manufacturer of prescription drugs that is:
(1) Broadcast on television or radio from a station that is physically located in the State;
(2) Broadcast over the Internet from a location in the State; or
(3) Printed in magazines or newspapers that are printed, distributed or sold in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 2700-ARemainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant. Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings. Rescue group: means an organization or individual that receives domesticated animals that have been abandoned, surrendered or removed from an animal facility or that takes in homeless dogs or cats and sells, gives or otherwise places the animals in private homes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Respective municipality: means , in the case of towns, plantations and cities, the municipality where the dog or ferret is found; in the case of unorganized territories, the municipality near or adjacent to the unorganized territory where the dog or ferret is found; or the designee of that municipality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Retailer: means a person engaged in the business of buying licensed commodities in wholesale quantities and reselling the licensed commodities bought, primarily to consumers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Retirement: means termination of membership with a retirement allowance granted under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 Retirement benefit: means the same as retirement allowance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 Sale: includes every contract of purchase or sale, contract to purchase or sell, purchase, sale and disposition of licensed commodities for value. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Service: means service as an employee for which compensation was paid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 Service dog: means a dog that meets the definition of "service animal" set forth in Title 5, section 4553, subsection 9?E or "assistance animal" set forth in Title 5, section 4553, subsection 1?H. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Service dog kept for breeding purposes: means a male or female dog owned by a nonprofit organization for the purpose of producing puppies to be trained as service dogs and living with a resident of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Service dog kept prior to training: means a dog under 18 months of age, owned by a nonprofit organization for the purpose of training as a service dog and living temporarily with a resident of the State prior to training. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Single family residential unit: means any structure of any kind, including mobile homes, used or designed to house a single family, and shall include those structures used permanently and seasonally. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 4807 Small animal: means a bird, reptile or amphibian or a small mammal, other than a cat or dog, commonly kept as a household pet and that is an unrestricted species designated by the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in rules adopted pursuant to Title 12, chapter 915. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 State paper: means the newspaper designated by the Legislature, in which advertisements and notices are required to be published. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Stray: means off the owner's premises and not under the control of a person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Strong sensitizer: means any substance which will cause on normal living tissue through an allergic or photodynamic process a hypersensitivity which becomes evident on reapplication of the same substance and which is designated as such by the commissioner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony. Subsurface waste disposal: means any system for disposing of wastes or waste waters on or beneath the surface of the earth including, but not limited to, holding ponds, surface spraying, septic tanks, drainage fields and wells, but shall not include any discharge or the waste treatment system related thereto licensed under Title 38, section 413 or any discharge into a municipal or quasi-municipal sewer system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 4807 Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system. Superintendent: means the Superintendent of Insurance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Tax: means the total amount required to be paid, withheld and paid over or collected and paid over with respect to estimated or actual tax liability under this Title, any credit or reimbursement allowed or paid pursuant to this Title that is recoverable by the assessor and any amount assessed by the assessor pursuant to this Title, including any interest or penalties provided by law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111 Testify: Answer questions in court. Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries. Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident. Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Toxic: means any substance other than a radioactive substance that has the inherent capacity to produce bodily injury or illness to humans through ingestion, inhalation or absorption through any body surface. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Trust: means the Maine Children's Trust Incorporated. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 3881 Uncovered expenditures: means costs to a health maintenance organization for health care services that are the obligation of the health maintenance organization for which an enrollee may also be liable. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 4202-A Unorganized territory: means all areas located within the jurisdiction of the State, except areas located within organized cities and towns, and Indian reservations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 valid permit: means a license or permit lawfully obtained in the licensee's or permittee's name and signed by that person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001 Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge. Vertebrate: means a subphylum of chordate animals comprising those having a brain enclosed in a skull or cranium and a segmented spinal column, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Waste: means any liquefied sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, chemical, biological or radiological materials, human body wastes, or any other refuse or effluent in a liquid form generated from domestic, commercial or industrial activities, except any wastes containing insufficient liquid to be free flowing and wastes generated from agricultural activities or animal husbandry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 4807 Well: means any hole constructed by any method for the purpose of extracting water from below the ground. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 550-B Well cared for: means that the animal is receiving necessary sustenance, necessary medical attention, proper shelter, protection from the weather and humanely clean conditions and that the animal has not been nor is being injured, overworked, tormented, tortured, abandoned, poisoned, beaten, mutilated or exposed to a poison with the intent that it be taken by the animal. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Well drilling company: means a person, firm, partnership or corporation that owns or otherwise operates any mechanical equipment used to drill, drive or bore water wells. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 550-B Wildlife: includes wild animals and wild birds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001 Wildlife management: means the art or science of producing wild animals and birds and of improving wildlife conditions in the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 10001 Wolf hybrid: includes a mammal that is represented by its owner to be a wolf hybrid, coyote hybrid, coydog or any other kind of wild canid hybrid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 3907 Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.