Maine Revised Statutes > Title 35-A > Part 7 > Chapter 87 – Telecommunications Relay Services
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Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 35-A > Part 7 > Chapter 87 - Telecommunications Relay Services
- Blockage level: means the proportion of placed calls that fail to reach a relay operator. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 8702
- Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- 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.
- Council: means the Telecommunications Relay Services Council. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 8702
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Hard-of-hearing person: means a person who has a hearing loss in the range of mild to profound, who uses residual hearing and who prefers to speak and listen with the help of amplification, implantable devices, assistive technology and speechreading. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 8702
- in writing: include printing and other modes of making legible words. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Incumbent local exchange carrier: means , with respect to an area, the local exchange carrier that on February 8, 1996 provided telephone exchange service in the area and:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102Partnership: 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. 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 Speech impaired person: means a person whose speech is nonfunctional or diminished for the purpose of ordinary communication. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 8702 Speechreading: means a technique of understanding speech by visually interpreting the movements of the lips, face and tongue with information provided by the context, language and any residual hearing. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 8702 TDD: means a teletypewriter, or TTY, or other telecommunication equipment used by deaf, hard-of-hearing or speech impaired persons to conduct telephone communications, including but not limited to devices required for captioned telephone service, equipment necessary to perform video relay service and 2-way paging devices. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 8702 Telecommunications relay service: means a service transmitting messages and information between a person using a telecommunications device for the deaf and another person. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 8702 Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried. Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72