Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 24-A > Chapter 89 - Portable Electronic Device Insurance

• AADT: means the average annual daily traffic as determined by the department using accepted engineering practices. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bridge: means a structure, including supports, designed principally to carry motor vehicles that is erected over a depression or an obstruction, such as water, a highway or a railway, and has an opening measured along the center of the roadway of more than 20 feet between the undercropping of abutments or spring lines of arches or the extreme ends of openings for multiple boxes. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
• Capital improvement: includes construction of new structures, replacement of existing structures, removal of closed structures and rehabilitation of existing structures. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
• Capital responsibility: means the responsibility to provide all resources needed to make capital improvement to a structure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Culvert: means any pipe or other structure that has a span of less than 10 feet or multiple pipes or other structures with a combined opening of less than 80 square feet in area. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
• Customer: means a person who purchases a portable electronic device or service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 7001
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Detour length: means the shortest distance measured along a public way from one abutment of a bridge to the other abutment that would result if the bridge were closed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Enrolled customer: means a customer who elects coverage under a portable electronic device insurance policy issued to a vendor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 7001
• 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.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• FHWA: means an agency of the United States Department of Transportation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Limited lines license: means a license to sell or offer a policy for portable electronic device insurance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 7001
• Location: means any physical location in the State or any publicly accessible website, call center or similar operation directed to residents of the State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 7001
• Low use bridge: means a bridge with an AADT of under 100 motor vehicles. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
• Maintenance: means the work necessary to preserve a structure's existing structural or functional capacity and integrity and to abate deterioration of its components. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
• Maintenance responsibility: means the responsibility to provide all resources needed to perform maintenance on a structure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
• Minor span: means a structure designed principally to carry motor vehicles that is larger than a culvert but has a span less than that required to be defined as a bridge. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
• Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Municipality: includes departments or bureaus of State Government and quasi-independent agencies or boards of State Government that are responsible for structures on public highways, excepting the Maine Turnpike Authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 23 Sec. 562
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Portable electronic device: means an electronic device that is portable in nature, its accessories and services related to the use of the device. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 7001
• Portable electronic device insurance: means insurance authorized under section 705 providing coverage for the repair or replacement of a portable electronic device that may cover a portable electronic device against any one or more of the following causes of loss: loss, theft, inoperability due to mechanical failure, malfunction, damage or other similar causes of loss. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 24-A Sec. 7001
• Portable electronic device transaction: means :