Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501

• Consumer: means any person who purchases or contracts for the purchase of home repair services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Department: means the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
• Door-to-door sales: means the solicitation or sale of home repair services by a home repair seller or the seller's employees to a consumer as a result of or in connection with the seller's or the employee's direct contact accomplished by means of a personal visit to the consumer, other than at the seller's place of business, without the consumer soliciting the initial contact. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
• Employee: means any independent contractor, agent or person working for a salary or a commission who is affiliated with a home repair seller. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
• Home repair seller: means any person, partnership, corporation, business, trust or other legal entity that sells or provides home repair services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
• Home repair services: includes , but is not limited to, the construction, installation, replacement, improvement or cleaning of driveways, swimming pools, porches, kitchens, chimneys, chimney liners, garages, fences, fall-out shelters, central air conditioning, central heating, boilers, furnaces, hot water heaters, electric wiring, sewers, plumbing fixtures, storm doors, storm windows, siding or awnings or other improvements to structures within the residence or upon the land adjacent to the residence, including tree trimming. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
• 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}
• 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
• 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.
• Permanent place of business: means a building or other permanent structure, including a home residence, that is owned or held under a 12-month lease or rental agreement, from which business is commenced and that is used in whole or in part for the purpose of engaging in sales of home repair services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Residence: means a single-family or multifamily dwelling, including but not limited to a single-family home, apartment building, condominium, duplex or town house that is used or intended to be used by its occupants as a dwelling place. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
• seller: means a home repair seller who engages in the business of door-to-door solicitations or sales of home repair services who does not have, at the time of the solicitation or contract, a permanent place of business in the municipality in which the door-to-door solicitation or sale occurs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 14501
• Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72