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- Accepted road: means a state, county or town road which is under the control of state, county or municipal authorities and maintained at public expense. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952
- Accessory use or structure: means a use or structure of a nature customarily incidental and subordinate to a principal use or structure. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952
- 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.
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Automobile graveyard: means a yard, field or parcel of land used as a place of storage for 3 or more unserviceable, discarded, worn out or junked motor vehicles. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952
- Billboard: means a sign, structure or surface, or combination thereof, used for advertising purposes exceeding 15 square feet in area. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952
- Bog: means a periodically or continually wet, spongy area exceeding 1,000 square feet in area with soil composed mainly of decayed vegetable matter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952
- Building: means any structure, regardless of the materials of which it is constructed, which has a roof or partial roof supported by columns or walls, used or intended to be used for the habitation, enclosure or shelter of persons or animals or to provide uses which include, but are not limited to, working, office, display, sales, storage or parking space. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952
- Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- Dark fiber provider: means a person, its lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court, owning, controlling, operating or managing federally supported dark fiber that:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102Decedent: A deceased person. Development: means the carrying out of any significant earthmoving, grading, dredging, filling, building, construction or mining operation; the deposit of refuse or solid or liquid wastes on a parcel of land other than agricultural utilization of animal wastes; the making of any material change in noise levels, thermal conditions or emissions of waste material; the commencement or change in the location of advertising; or the alteration of a shore, bank or floodplain of an estuary, river or pond. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952 District: means a specified area of land or water within the corridor, delineated on the district boundary map, within which certain regulations and requirements apply under this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952 Emission: means a release of air contaminants into ambient air or the air contaminants so released. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 582 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. Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller. Federal interconnection rights and obligations: means the rights and obligations of a telecommunications entity under 47 United States Code §§ 251 and 252 or any other provision of federal law or regulation governing telecommunications network facility interconnection or wholesale access rights and obligations to the extent the rights and obligations under the federal law or regulation may be regulated or overseen by the commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Home occupation or enterprise: means an occupation, enterprise or profession which is carried on in a dwelling unit or accessory structure by a person residing in the dwelling unit, incidental and secondary to the use of the dwelling unit for residential purposes, which conforms to the following performance standards:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Junkyard: means a yard, field or other parcel of land used as a place for storage for:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952lands: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants. Marsh: means a periodically wet or continually flooded land area exceeding 1,000 square feet with the surface not deeply submerged, covered dominantly with sedges, cattails, rushes or other hydrophytic plants. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952 Mean high waterline: means the average high tide level. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952 Normal high water line: means the line on the shore or bank of the fresh-water portion of a river at the point or elevation where the natural vegetation changes from predominantly aquatic to predominantly terrestrial. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952 Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. Outdoor wood boiler: means a fuel burning device:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 582Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, whether private, public or quasi-municipal, municipality, state governmental agency or other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 582 Person: includes a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, association, trust, estate, any other legal entity or natural person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Personal property: All property that is not real property. Provider of last resort service: means a flat-rate service with voice grade access to the public switched telephone network; local usage within the basic service calling areas of incumbent local exchange carriers as of January 1, 2012; dual-tone multifrequency signaling or its functional equivalent; single-party service or its functional equivalent; access to emergency services; access to operator services; access to interexchange service; access to directory assistance; toll limitation for qualifying low-income customers; and the capacity to maintain uninterrupted voice service during a power failure, either through the incorporation into the network or network interface devices of suitable battery backup or through electric current. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 7201 Public right-of-way: is a n improved roadway maintained for passage by motor vehicles in which the owner of fee does not control the right of passage. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952 Public utility: includes every gas utility, natural gas pipeline utility, transmission and distribution utility, telephone utility, water utility and ferry, as those terms are defined in this section, and each of those utilities is declared to be a public utility. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Real estate: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Service drop: means any utility line extension that does not cross or run beneath any portion of a water body as long as:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims. Structure: means any object of a significant nature constructed or erected with a fixed location on or in the ground, or attached to something having a fixed location or in the ground, which may include, but is not limited to, buildings, mobile homes, walls, fences, billboards, signs, piers and floats. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952 Swamp: means a periodically or continually wet area exceeding 1,000 square feet in area which supports tree growth. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952 Telephone utility: includes every person, its lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court, that provides telephone service for compensation inside this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Town: includes cities and plantations, unless otherwise expressed or implied. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Tributary stream: means a channel between defined banks and associated flood plain wetlands. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952 United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Wetlands: means marshes, bogs, swamps and other areas exceeding 1,000 square feet, periodically covered by water which exhibit predominantly aquatic vegetation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 952 Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72