Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 32 > Chapter 141 > Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• Board: means the Board of Licensure for Professional Land Surveyors. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201
• 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. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201
• 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.
• Land surveying: means any service or work involving the application of special knowledge of the rules of evidence and boundary laws, principles of mathematics and the related physical and applied sciences for measuring and locating lines, angles, elevations and natural and man-made features in the air, on the surface of the earth, within underground workings and on the beds of bodies of water. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201
• Land surveyor-in-training: means a person licensed under this chapter to practice land surveying under the responsible charge of a professional land surveyor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201
• 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
• Person: means an individual. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201
• Professional land surveyor: means a person licensed under this chapter to practice land surveying. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201
• Responsible charge: means direct control and personal supervision of land surveying. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 18201