Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 23 > Part 7 > Chapter 615 - State Railroad Preservation Act

• Adult: means a person who has attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Benefit: 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
• 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
• Board: means the Logging Dispute Resolution Board established in section 3702. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3701
• Collaborative: means the Industry Partnership Assistance Collaborative established in section 3301. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3302
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Construction employer: means a person constructing a generation facility in this State who hires any person to construct that generation facility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3501
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Customized employment: means employment acquired as a result of implementation of a flexible blend of strategies, services and supports designed to increase employment options for job seekers with complex needs through voluntary negotiation of the employment relationship with the employer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3402
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means any department, commission, institution or agency of State Government including the Maine Community College System. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
• Department: means the Department of Labor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3501
• Disability: means a physical or mental disability as defined in Title 5, section 4553?A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3402
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Earnable compensation: includes :
  (1) Workers' compensation benefits;
  (2) Maintenance, if any;
  (3) Any money paid by an employer to a 3rd party under a tax sheltered annuity contract or a deferred compensation plan for the future benefit of an employee provided that the money is not derived from amounts excluded from earnable compensation by paragraph B; and
  (4) Pick-up contributions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 5 Sec. 17001
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Financially responsible person: means a financially responsible person, as defined in the United States Code, title 49, § 10910(a), who intends to acquire, lease or contract to operate all or part of the railroad line in question. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 7152
• First and preferred service or support option: means the first employment service option that is offered by a state agency, prior to the offer of other supports or services, including day services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3402
• Forest land: means land used primarily for growth of trees to be harvested for commercial use. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3701
• Forest landowner: means a person that owns or possesses economic control over more than 50,000 acres of forest land. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3701
• Forest products harvester or hauler: means an individual who qualifies as an independent contractor under section 1043, subsection 11, paragraph E and who is engaged in harvesting or hauling trees from forest land for a forest landowner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3701
• Generation facility: means a facility for the generation of electricity that has an installed capacity of 2 megawatts or more, other than a facility located on the customer side of an electric meter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3501
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• High-priority occupations: means those occupations identified on a list published annually by the Center for Workforce Research and Information pursuant to section 3303, subsection 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3302
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Industry cluster: means a group of employers closely linked by a common product or services, workforce needs, similar technologies, supply chains or other industry sector factors. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3302
• Industry partnership: means a workforce collaboration that brings together multiple employers and employees, or employee representatives when appropriate, in the same industry cluster to address common workforce needs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3302
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Integrated community-based employment: means employment in the competitive labor market that is performed on a full-time or part-time basis in the general community or through self-employment and for which a person with a disability is compensated at or above the minimum wage but not less than the prevailing wage and level of benefits paid by the employer for the same or similar work performed by persons without disabilities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 26 Sec. 3402
• 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.
• Juror: A person who is on the jury.
• 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}
• Local district: means :