Maine Revised Statutes > Title 18-C > Article 3 > Part 3 – Informal Probate and Appointment Proceedings
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- Account: means a general account or a compliance account. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A
- Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
- Agency: means the Maine Municipal and Rural Electrification Cooperative Agency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
- Allocation: means the number of carbon dioxide allowances to be credited to a carbon dioxide budget unit or to the general account of the sponsor of an approved carbon dioxide emissions offset project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A
- 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.
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Carbon dioxide budget unit: means any single fossil fuel fired unit that serves a generator with a nameplate capacity equal to or greater than 25 megawatts of electrical output. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A
- Carbon dioxide emissions budget: means the total amount of carbon dioxide emissions allowances allocated by the State on an annual basis. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A
- Carbon dioxide emissions offset project: includes , but is not limited to, landfill and agricultural methane capture and destruction, reduction in emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, sequestration of carbon due to forestry practices and reduction or avoidance of carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas, oil or propane end-use combustion due to end-use energy efficiency and other categories established by the department by rule. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A
- Carbon dioxide offset allowance: means a carbon dioxide allowance awarded to the sponsor of a carbon dioxide emissions offset project. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A
- Climate action plan: means the state plan adopted under section 577. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 574
- Combined cycle system: means a system composed of one or more combustion turbines, heat recovery system generators and steam turbines configured to improve overall efficiency of electrical generation or steam production. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A
- Combined heat and power unit: means a device that simultaneously generates electricity and thermal power and operates at a high level of output efficiency by utilizing the waste heat created as a by-product of electricity generation for domestic, commercial or industrial heating or cooling purposes, and whose useful thermal output equals at least 10% of the fossil fuel energy input of the unit. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A
- Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 1111
- compliance account: means the account established by the department for a carbon dioxide budget unit wherein carbon dioxide emissions allowances and carbon dioxide offset allowances are held and available for compliance purposes under the carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Cooperative: means any corporation organized as of January 1, 1981, under chapter 37 or former Title 35, chapters 221 to 227 on a cooperative plan under the laws of the State and supplying or authorized to supply electricity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Dam: means any artificial barrier, including appurtenant works, the site on which it is located and appurtenant rights of flowage and access, that impounds or diverts water, and that:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 1111Decedent: A deceased person. Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial. Electrical generating unit: means a fossil fuel fired combustion device that serves a generator. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Emergency: means breaches and all conditions leading to or causing a breach, overtopping or any other condition in a dam and its appurtenant structures that may be construed as unsafe or threatening to life and property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 1111 Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts Fossil fuel: means natural gas, petroleum, coal or any form of solid, liquid or gaseous fuel derived from such a material. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Fossil fuel fired unit: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-AFraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another. general account: means the account established by the department upon the request of an entity wherein the entity may hold carbon dioxide allowances and carbon dioxide offset allowances. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Generator: means a device that produces electricity and is required to be reported as a generating unit pursuant to the United States Department of Energy Form 860. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value. Greenhouse gas: includes , but is not limited to, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 574 Gross annual greenhouse gas emissions: means the total amount of greenhouse gases emitted by all sources within the State each year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 574 Gross electrical generation: means the electrical output in megawatts at the terminals of the generator. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Integrated manufacturing facility: means a facility that:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-AJurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases. lands: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt. Long-term electricity contract: means a contract for a period of 3 years or more with a carbon dioxide budget unit for the purchase of electricity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Majority: when used in reference to age shall mean the age of 18 and over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 memorandum: means the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Memorandum of Understanding dated December 20, 2005 that establishes an electric power sector carbon emissions cap-and-trade program within the northeast region of the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Model rule: means the model rule, as amended, referenced in the memorandum of understanding. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. Municipality: means any municipal, plantation or quasi-municipal electric, or electric and utility, corporation, or municipal electric, or electric and utility, system within the State which, as of January 1, 1981, was authorized to and engaged in the manufacture, generation, transmission, distribution, purchase or sale of electricity to the general public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103 Nameplate capacity: means the maximum electrical generating output, expressed in megawatts, that a generator can sustain over a specified period of time when not restricted by seasonal or other deratings. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Net annual greenhouse gas emissions: means gross annual greenhouse gas emissions less the total amount of greenhouse gases absorbed each year by plants and natural ecosystems, including, but not limited to, trees, crops, soil and wetlands within the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 574 New England power pool: means the relationship or organization created by the New England power pool agreement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103 New England power pool agreement: means the contractual agreement between electric utilities which is open to all electric utilities, whether private or governmental, operating in New England, which provides for cooperation and joint participation in developing and implementing a regional bulk power supply of electricity, which constitutes the central dispatching and primary pooling arrangements for electric utilities in the New England states, and which has been permitted to become effective under the Federal Power Act by the Federal Power Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103 Oath: A promise to tell the truth. Oath: includes an affirmation, when affirmation is allowed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. Other independent system operator participating states: means the following states participating in the regional greenhouse gas initiative as of January 1, 2011 that are located within the New England independent system operator control area: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Person: means person as defined in section 102 or any public agency, state or political subdivision or agency of the State, or any body politic of any nature organized and existing under the law of any state, the United States, any Province of Canada and also includes Canada, its provinces and all political subdivisions, departments, agencies and instrumentalities of Canada. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103 Personal property: All property that is not real property. Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents. Probate: Proving a will Project: means any plant, works, system or facilities inside or outside the State, and real and personal property of any nature or any interest in any of them, together with all parts of them and appurtenances to them, used or useful in the generation, production, transmission, distribution, purchase, sale, exchange or interchange of electricity and in the acquisition, extraction, conversion, transportation or storage or reprocessing of fuel of any kind for any purposes or an interest in, or the right to the use, services, output or capacity of a plant quota, works, system or facilities; provided that "project" does not include construction of nuclear generating facilities or the storage, reprocessing or transportation of nuclear fuel within the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103 Project cost: means , but is not limited to, the cost of acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, enlargement, betterment, extension or disposal of a project or part of a project, including:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4103Proprietary information: means production, commercial or financial information claimed as confidential on documents required to be submitted to participate in an auction, the disclosure of which would impair the competitive position of the account holder and would make available information that is not otherwise available. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business. Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Regional greenhouse gas initiative: means the initiative referred to in the Memorandum of Understanding and the corresponding model rule that memorializes the ongoing cooperative effort by the State and other states to design and implement a regional carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program covering carbon dioxide emissions from electrical generating units in the signatory states. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Regional organization: means the entity that will manage the regional greenhouse gas initiative on a regional basis and with which the State contracts for related service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Regional transmission organization: means the independent systems operator that administers and oversees the wholesale electricity markets in which the State participates. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Sector: means one of the 5 sectors identified in the climate change action plan adopted by the Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers in August 2001. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 574 Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations. Ton: means 2,000 pounds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A Transmission and distribution utility: means a transmission and distribution utility as defined in Title 35?A, section 3201, subsection 6, 12 or 16. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 580-A United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried. Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72