Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 1 > Chapter 11 - Acts, Resolves and Constitutional Amendments

• Brand name: means a word, name, symbol or device, or any combination thereof, that identifies the commercial feed of a distributor or registrant and distinguishes it from that of others. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 712
• Child: means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2802
• Child care center: means :
  (1) A house or other place in which a person maintains or otherwise carries out a regular program, for consideration, for any part of a day providing care and protection for 13 or more children under 13 years of age; or
  (2) Any location or locations operated as a single child care program or by a person or persons when there are more than 12 children being cared for. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8301-A
• Child care facility: means a child care center, small child care facility or nursery school. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8301-A
• child placing agency: means a facility which advertises itself or holds itself out as finding homes for or otherwise placing children under the age of 18, in homes where care is provided on the basis of 24 hours a day. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8201
• Child support: means money paid directly to a parent, to another person or agency awarded parental rights and responsibilities with respect to a child or to the department on behalf of a child receiving public assistance and medical or dental insurance coverage provided on behalf of a child pursuant to court order. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 1501
• Child support order: means a support order for a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state or foreign country. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2802
• children: means persons who are not related by blood or marriage to, or who have not been legally adopted by, the licensee or administrator of any facility, defined in section 8101, 8201 or 8301?A, that provides services to these children. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7701
• Commercial feed: means all materials except unmixed seed, whole or processed, when not adulterated within the meaning of section 717, subsections 1 to 4 which are distributed for use as feed or for mixing in feed, provided that the commissioner by regulation may exempt from this definition, or from specific provisions of this Act, commodities such as hay, straw, stover, silage, cobs, husks, hulls and individual chemical compounds or substances when such commodities, compounds or substances are not intermixed or mixed with other materials, and are not adulterated within the meaning of section 717, subsection 1, paragraph A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 712
• 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.
• Customer-formula feed: means commercial feed which consists of a mixture of commercial feeds or feed ingredients or both, each batch of which is manufactured according to the specific instructions of the final purchaser. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 712
• Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7942
• Deputy: means either a full-time or part-time county law enforcement officer appointed under section 381. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 351
• Directed plan of correction: means a plan of correction issued by the department which directs a long-term care facility how to correct a deficiency or deficiencies of state licensing rules and when the correction must be made. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7942
• distributor: means any person who distributes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 712
• Drug: means any article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in animals other than humans and articles other than feed intended to affect the structure or any function of the animal body. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 712
• drug treatment center: as used in this subtitle , shall mean a residential facility, not licensed as a medical care facility under chapter 405, for the care, treatment or rehabilitation of drug users, including alcohol users. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8001
• Duty of support: means an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide support for a child, spouse or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 19-A Sec. 2802
• facility: means any of the places defined in section 8001, 8101, 8201 or 8301?A, subsection 1?A, paragraph B. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 7701
• Family child care provider: means a person who provides day care in that person's home on a regular basis, for consideration, for 3 to 12 children under 13 years of age who are not the children of the provider or who are not residing in the provider's home. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8301-A
• Family foster home: includes the home of a resource family whether the family provides foster care, kinship care, adoption or permanency guardianship services, as long as the home meets the requirements and standards for adoption of children in foster care. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 8101
• Feed ingredient: means each of the constituent materials making up a commercial feed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 712
• Foreign country: means a country, including a political subdivision thereof, other than the United States, that under its law authorizes the issuance of support orders and: