Maine Revised Statutes > Title 18-C > Article 9 – Adoption
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- Affected land: means all reclaimed and unreclaimed land, land that has or will have the overburden removed, land on which stumps, spoil or other solid waste has or will be deposited and storage areas or other land, except natural buffer strips, that will be or has been used in connection with a quarry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W
- Affected land: means reclaimed and unreclaimed land, land that has or will have the overburden removed, land on which stumps, spoil or other solid waste has or will be deposited and storage areas or other land, except natural buffer strips, that will be or has been used in connection with the excavation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-A
- Airblast: means an atmospheric compression wave resulting from the detonation of explosives, whether resulting from the motion of blasted materials or the expansion of gases from the explosion. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W
- Average final compensation: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001Benefit: 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 Blast site: means the area where explosive material is handled during the loading of drilled blastholes, including the perimeter formed by the loaded blastholes and 50 feet in all directions from loaded blastholes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Blaster: means a person qualified to be in charge of or responsible for the loading and firing of a blast. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Blasting: means the use of explosives to break up or otherwise aid in the extraction or removal of a rock or other consolidated natural formation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W 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 clay: means a material that consists of particles of such a size that 45% or more of the fraction of those particles able to pass through a 3-inch sieve pass through the United States Standard Number 200 sieve, or a material that exhibits similar erosion potential, difficulty of stabilization or runoff based upon its gradation, plasticity, permeability or other relevant criteria. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-A Detonating cord: means a flexible cord containing a center core of high explosives that may be used to initiate other explosives. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W employee: includes an officer of a political subdivision of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002 employment: means any service performed by an employee in the employ of any political subdivision of the State, for such employer, except service which in the absence of an agreement entered into under this chapter would constitute "employment" as defined in the Social Security Act; or service which under the Social Security Act may not be included in an agreement between the State and the Federal Security Administrator entered into under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002 Excavation: means an excavation for borrow, topsoil, clay or silt, whether alone or in combination. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-A Explosive: means any chemical compound or other chemical substance that contains oxidizing or combustible materials used for the purpose of producing an explosion intended to break or move rock, earth or other materials. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Federal Insurance Contributions Act: means the Federal Internal Revenue Code, chapter 9, subchapter A, as such Code has been and may from time to time be amended. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002 Federal Security Administrator: includes any individual to whom the Federal Security Administrator has delegated any of his functions under the Social Security Act with respect to coverage under such Act of employees of states and their political subdivisions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002 Flyrock: means rock that is propelled through the air or across the ground as a result of blasting and that leaves the blast area. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Freshwater wetlands: means freshwater swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas, other than forested wetlands, which are:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 436-ALocal district: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001Matting: means a covering placed over load holes and adjacent areas in order to minimize generation of flyrock and limit airblast effects. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W 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 Membership service: means service rendered while a member of a retirement program of the retirement system on account of which contributions are made and for which credit is allowable under chapter 423, subchapter 4 or chapter 425, subchapter 4. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 Municipal officers: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001Municipality: means a city or town, except as provided in chapter 225. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001 Natural buffer strip: means an undisturbed area or belt of land that is covered with trees or other vegetation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Normal high-water line: means that line which is apparent from visible markings, changes in the character of soils due to prolonged action of the water or changes in vegetation, and which distinguishes between predominantly aquatic and predominantly terrestrial land. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 436-A operator: means the owner or operator of an excavation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-A Participating local district: means a local district that has approved the participation of its employees in the Participating Local District Retirement Program of the retirement system under section 18201. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 Passenger car equivalents at peak hour: means the number of passenger cars, or, in the case of nonpassenger vehicles, the number of passenger cars that would be displaced by nonpassenger vehicles, that pass through an intersection or on a roadway under prevailing roadway and traffic conditions at that hour of the day during which traffic volume generated by the development is higher than the volume during any other hour of the day. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Peak particle velocity: means the maximum rate of ground movement measured by any of the 3 mutually perpendicular components of ground motion. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, firm, organization or other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001 political subdivision: includes an instrumentality of the State of Maine, of one or more of its political subdivisions, the University of Maine System, academies, water, sewer and school districts and associations of municipalities, or an instrumentality of the State and one or more of its political subdivisions, but only if such instrumentality is a juristic entity which is legally separate and distinct from the State or subdivision and only if its employees are not by virtue of their relation to such juristic entity employees of the State or subdivision. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002 Preblast survey: means documentation, prior to the initiation of blasting, of the condition of buildings, structures, wells or other infrastructures; protected natural resources; historic sites; and unusual natural areas. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Private drinking water supply: means a surface water supply, a dug well, a spring or a hole drilled, driven or bored into the earth that is used to extract drinking water for human consumption and that is not part of a public drinking water supply. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Production blasting: means blasting conducted for the purpose of extracting or removing natural materials for commercial sale or beneficiation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W public drain: means any sewer or drain constructed or laid by a governmental entity for the use of the public and includes both gravity and pressure mains. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 2001 Public drinking water source: means a groundwater well or a surface water source that directly or indirectly serves a water distribution system that has at least 15 service connections or regularly services an average of at least 25 individuals daily at least 60 days of the year. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Quarry: means a place where rock is excavated. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Reclamation: means the rehabilitation of the area of land affected by mining, including, but not limited to, the stabilization of slopes and creation of safety benches, the planting of forests, the seeding of grasses and legumes for grazing purposes, the planting of crops for harvest, the enhancement of wildlife and aquatic habitat and aquatic resources and the development of the site for residential, commercial, recreational or industrial use. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-A Reclamation: means the rehabilitation of the area of land affected by mining, including, but not limited to, the stabilization of slopes and creation of safety benches, the planting of forests, the seeding of grasses and legumes for grazing purposes, the planting of crops for harvest, the enhancement of wildlife and aquatic habitat and aquatic resources and the development of the site for residential, commercial, recreational or industrial use. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Regulator: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-ARegulator: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-WRetirement: means termination of membership with a retirement allowance granted under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 Rock: means a hard, nonmetallic material that requires cutting, blasting or similar methods of forced extraction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Service: means service as an employee for which compensation was paid. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001 Social Security Act: means the Act of Congress approved August 14, 1935, chapter 531, 49 Stat. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002 state agency: means the Maine Public Employees Retirement System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002 Stemming: means inert material used in a blasthole to confine the gaseous products of detonation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Surface blasting: means any blasting for which the blast area lies at the surface of the ground. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W Topsoil: means the top layer of soil that is predominantly fertile and ordinarily moved in tillage or the equivalent of such a layer in uncultivated soils. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-A Underground production blasting: means a blasting operation carried out beneath the surface of the ground by means of shafts, declines, adits or other openings leading to the natural material being mined or extracted. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W wages: means all remuneration for employment as defined, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash, except that such term shall not include that part of such remuneration which, even if it were for "employment" within the meaning of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, would not constitute "wages" within the meaning of that Act. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 19002 Working pit: means the extraction area, including side slopes, of an excavation for borrow, clay, silt or topsoil. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-A Working pit: means the extraction area, including overburden, of an excavation for rock. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 490-W