Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 27 > Chapter 13 > Subchapter 2 - State-Owned Objects and Specimens

• Artifact: means a physical entity which has been worked or modified by human action. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 373-A
• Authorized representative: means any official or group of officials employed by the permittors or other competent person authorized in writing by the permittors. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 373-A
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the 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.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• 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.
• Excavation: includes , but is not limited to, activities such as purposeful looting, material procurement, construction activities or vandalism. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 373-A
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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.
• 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.
• Landowner: means any person, corporation, partnership, organization or other legal entity, including a municipality, county or other political subdivision of the State, an agency of the Federal Government and any quasi-governmental entity, which owns or controls a site. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 373-A
• lands: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
• Materials: means 3-dimensional items, other than artifacts and specimens, and excludes books, papers, manuscripts and archival or library material commonly included in the display or research collection of museums. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 373-A
• 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
• Object: means any archaeological monument, artifact, relic or article. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 373-A
• 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.
• Permittors: means the Director of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission and the Director of the State Museum as well as the director of any state department administering state-controlled lands, acting in concert in the review, approval and granting of permits. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 373-A
• Principal investigator: means the senior scientist in charge of an archaeological excavation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 27 Sec. 373-A
• Protected site: means a site that is: