Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 4302

• 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.
• Crew leader: means a person designated by an owner to supervise an organized crew. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 4302
• First hauler: means a person, firm, partnership, association or corporation engaged in the transportation of wild blueberries from the field where the berries were harvested. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 4302
• Grower: means a person, firm, partnership, association or corporation engaged in the growing of wild blueberries and that is not a "processor" as defined in subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 4302
• Organized crew: means a group of people working together under the supervision of a crew leader to harvest, pick, rake, possess or remove wild blueberries from the land of an owner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 4302
• Owner: includes a landowner or leaseholder of land on which wild blueberries are grown and harvested for profit, or the landowner's or leaseholder's authorized agent, and includes a receiver of wild blueberries grown in Canada and purchased from Canadian sellers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 4302
• 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 record: means a written record which is kept and maintained for not less than 6 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 4302
• Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, association, society, club, corporation, financial institution, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, assignee or any other group or combination acting as a unit, the State or Federal Government or any political subdivision or agency of either government. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
• Processor: means a person, firm, partnership, association or corporation first engaged in the fresh packing, canning, freezing, pressing, grinding, juicing or dehydrating of wild blueberries whether as owner, agent or otherwise. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 4302
• Seller: means a person, firm, partnership, association or corporation offering unprocessed wild blueberries for sale, either to themselves or to others. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 4302
• Shipper: means a person, firm, partnership, association or corporation engaged in the shipping, transporting, storing, selling or otherwise handling of wild blueberries either in processed form or as fresh fruit, whether as owner, agent or otherwise. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 4302
• Unprocessed wild blueberries: means wild blueberries that have not been fresh packed, canned, frozen, pressed, ground, juiced or dehydrated. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 4302
• Wild blueberries: means all lowbush blueberries grown, purchased, sold or handled for commercial purposes in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 4302