Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 23 > Part 1 > Chapter 21 - Maine Traveler Information Services

• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Appeal: 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.
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Transportation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlled access bypass: means a highway designed to bypass an existing business district and meeting the definition of a controlled access highway. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Controlled access highway: means a highway to which, in the interest of safety and efficiency of operation, abutting property owners have no right of direct access and on which the type and location of all access connections are determined and controlled by the department. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• 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.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Erect: means to construct, build, raise, assemble, place, display, affix, attach, create, paint, draw or in any other way bring into being or establish. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• highway: means any public way which is so designated by this Title, including interstate, primary and secondary highways. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. 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.
• interstate highway: means any state highway which is or does become part of the national system of interstate or defense highways, as described in the United States Code, title 23, § 103(d) and amendments thereto or replacements thereof. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Jurisdiction: (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.
• 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}
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Logo: means a single or multicolored symbol or design used by a business as a means of identifying its products or services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Maintain: means to allow to exist. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Motor vehicle: means a self-propelled vehicle capable of legal operation on the traveled portion of the state highways. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Municipality: includes cities, towns and plantations, except that "municipality" does not include plantations in Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV; or Title 30?A, Part 2. 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.
• Official business directional sign: means a sign erected and maintained in accordance with this chapter, to indicate to the traveling public the route and distance to public accommodations, facilities, commercial services for the traveling public and points of scenic, historical, cultural, recreational, educational and religious interest. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• On-premises sign: means a sign that is erected and maintained according to the standards set forth in section 1914 upon the real property upon which the business, facility or point of interest advertised by the sign is located, a sign licensed pursuant to section 1914, subsection 4 that is within the portion of the public right-of-way that abuts that real property or an approach sign as permitted by section 1914, subsection 10. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, joint venture, partnership or any other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• primary highway: means any state highway which is or does become part of the federal aid primary system, as described in the United States Code, title 23, § 103(b) and amendments thereto and replacement thereof. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Principal building or structure: means a building where an advertised business or activity is regularly carried on or practiced or a parking lot or storage or processing area or other structure that is essential and customary to the conduct of the advertised business or activity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Private way: means a private road, driveway or public easement as defined in section 3021. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Producer: means a person who produces, cultivates, grows or harvests farm and food products, as defined in Title 7, section 415, subsection 1, paragraph B. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public way: means any road capable of carrying motor vehicles, including, but not limited to, any state highway, municipal road, county road, unincorporated territory road or other road dedicated to the public. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• secondary highway: means any state highway, but which is not part of the interstate or primary systems. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Sign: means any structure, display, logo, device or representation which is designed or used to advertise or call attention to any thing, person, business, activity or place and is visible from any public way. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Temporary sign: means a sign bearing a noncommercial message that has been placed within the public right-of-way for a limited period of time. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Traffic control sign or device: means an official route marker, warning sign, sign directing traffic to or from a community, bridge, ferry or airport, or sign regulating traffic, which has been erected by officers having jurisdiction over the public way and these signs shall be exempt from the requirements of this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Visible: means capable of being seen without visual aid by a person of normal visual acuity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 1903
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72