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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 7217

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Railroad: includes every commercial, interurban and other railway and each and every branch and extension thereof by whatsoever power operated, together with all tracks, bridges, trestles, rights-of-way, subways, tunnels, stations, depots, union depots, ferries, yards, grounds, terminals, terminal facilities, structures and equipment and all other real estate, fixtures and personal property of every kind used in connection therewith, owned, controlled, operated or managed for public use in the transportation of persons or property. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 5001
Sections 1251, 1254, 7202, 7205, 7206 and 7214, so far as applicable, apply to plant railroads. The term “plant railroad” means a railroad of the owners of any mills, mines, quarries, gravel pits, log landings or yards, warehouses, storehouses, stock yards, bulk storage yards, airports, piers, docks, shipyards, educational institutions, power plants, gas works, petroleum tank farms or bulk stations, or other manufacturing, processing or mercantile establishments, and including state and federal institutions and developments, erected or in process of erection, which is located on land provided or acquired for the purpose by the owners, and whether operated by the owners or by state or federal government or an agency thereof or through connection with a public railroad under operating contract with it and by operation of its equipment over the plant railroad. [PL 2013, c. 36, §11 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY

PL 1989, c. 398, §8 (NEW). PL 2013, c. 36, §11 (AMD).