Maine Revised Statutes > Title 37-B > Chapter 16-B – Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act
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- Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
- Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Cost-effective: means , with respect to nonwires alternatives, that benefits exceed costs, as determined by benefit-cost analysis conducted pursuant to section 3132?C, subsection 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3131
- Disaster relief organization: means an entity that provides emergency or disaster relief services that include health services or veterinary services provided by volunteer health practitioners as long as the entity:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-ADomestic transmission and distribution utility: means any entity organized under the laws of this State to transmit or distribute electricity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3131 Donee: The recipient of a gift. Emergency: means an event or condition that is an actual or imminent civil emergency or disaster or an actual or threatened epidemic or public health threat that is the subject of an emergency proclamation pursuant to section 742 or an emergency declaration pursuant to Title 22, section 802. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-A Emergency declaration: means a declaration or proclamation of emergency issued by a person authorized to do so under the laws of this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-A Emergency Management Assistance Compact: means the interstate compact approved by the United States Congress in Public Law 104-321 (1996) and adopted by this State in chapter 16. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-A Entity: means a person other than an individual. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-A Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator. Foreign electric utility: means any entity organized under the laws of a state other than this State, or a province of Canada, that is authorized under the laws of the state or province in which it is organized to generate, transmit or distribute electricity, or to own, operate or otherwise participate in utility facilities or interests in utility facilities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3131 Health facility: means an entity licensed under the laws of this State or another state to provide health services or veterinary services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-A Health practitioner: means an individual licensed under the laws of this State or another state to provide health services or veterinary services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-A Health services: means the provision of treatment, care, advice or guidance or other services or supplies related to the health or death of individuals or human populations, to the extent necessary to respond to an emergency, including:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-AHost entity: means an entity operating in this State that uses volunteer health practitioners to respond to an emergency. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-A International Emergency Management Assistance Compact: means the mutual assistance compact described in chapter 16-A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-A License: includes authorization under the laws of this State to an individual to provide health services or veterinary services based upon a national certification issued by a public or private entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-A Nonwires alternative: includes but is not limited to energy efficiency and conservation measures, energy storage, load management, demand response and distributed generation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3131 Per stirpes: The legal means by which the children of a decedent, upon the death of an ancestor at a level above that of the decedent, receive by right of representation the share of the ancestor Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-A 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 Rate design stability: means the implementation of interclass cost allocation or intraclass rate design changes to any existing customer class, of the magnitude or on such a schedule as to not be seriously adverse to the existing class of customers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners. Scope of practice: means the extent of the authorization to provide health services or veterinary services granted to a health practitioner by a license issued to the practitioner in the state in which the principal part of the practitioner's services are rendered, including any conditions imposed by the licensing authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-A State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States or a Canadian province that is a party to the International Emergency Management Assistance Compact. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-A Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system. Transmission and distribution plant: means all real estate, fixtures and personal property owned, controlled, operated or managed in connection with or to facilitate the transmission, distribution or delivery of electricity for light, heat or power for public use and includes all conduits, ducts and other devices, materials, apparatus and property for containing, holding or carrying conductors used, or to be used, for the transmission or distribution of electricity for light, heat or power for public use. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102 Utility facility: means an item of plant used or useful in the transmission and distribution utility business, and includes, but is not limited to, such items of plant as transmission lines, office buildings and equipment and transportation equipment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 3131 Veterinary services: means the provision of treatment, care, advice or guidance or other services or supplies related to the health or death of an animal or to animal populations, to the extent necessary to respond to an emergency, including:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-AVolunteer health practitioner: means a health practitioner who provides health services or veterinary services while an emergency declaration is in effect, whether or not the practitioner receives compensation for those services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 37-B Sec. 949-A