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- Abandonment: means any conduct on the part of the parent showing an intent to forego parental duties or relinquish parental claims. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
- Abuse or neglect: means a threat to a child's health or welfare by physical, mental or emotional injury or impairment, sexual abuse or exploitation including under Title 17?A, sections 282, 852, 853 and 855 or deprivation of essential needs, or lack of protection from these, by a person responsible for the child. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002
- Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
- Adjusted acres: means the total number of acres of commercial forest land owned by a person throughout the State reduced by 500 acres. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2724
- Adult developmental services facility: means a facility that provides to an adult with an intellectual disability or autism any support or assistance that is provided, licensed or funded in whole or in part by the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to Title 34?B, chapter 5 or 6. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551
- Agent: means any person who sells or distributes licensed commodities in commerce for or on behalf of producers or others and whose operations may include planting, cultivating, harvesting, grading, packing and furnishing containers, supplies or other services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452
- Allegation: something that someone says happened.
- Ancillary service: means a service that is associated with or incidental to the provision of telecommunications services, including, but not limited to, detailed telecommunications billing service, directory assistance, vertical service and voice mail service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551
- Annual gross patient services revenue: means gross charges, excluding any grants, donations or research funding. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2871
- Annual net operating revenue: means gross charges less any amounts recorded as bad debts, charity care or payer discounts in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2871
- Applicant: means any person applying for a license under this subchapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- At-risk: means there is reasonable cause to suspect that a child's health, safety and welfare is in jeopardy due to abuse, neglect, abandonment or similar circumstances and that return to the child's or the child's parent's country of origin or country of last habitual residence would not be in the best interest of the child. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-I
- Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
- Audio equipment: means equipment used to play audio media and equipment used for recording sound for subsequent noncommercial playback. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551
- Audio media: means prerecorded magnetic tapes used for noncommercial playback of sound on audio equipment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551
- board: means the Maine Board of Tax Appeals as established in Title 5, section 12004?B, subsection 10. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
- Broker: means any person engaged in the business of negotiating sales of licensed commodities in commerce for or on behalf of the seller or the purchaser, respectively. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452
- Bureau: means the Bureau of Revenue Services, which may be referred to as "Maine Revenue Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
- Business: means a commercial activity engaged in as a means of livelihood or profit or an entity that engages in such activities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551
- Cable and satellite television or radio services: means all cable and satellite television or radio services, including the installation or use of associated equipment, for which a charge is made. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551
- Case plan prescription: means a plan developed by the family support team. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4092
- Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
- child: means an unmarried person who has not attained 21 years of age. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-I
- Child or children: means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- Code: means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and amendments to that Code as of December 31, 2022. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111
- Commercial forest land: means land that is classified or that is eligible for classification as forest land pursuant to the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law, chapter 105, subchapter 2?A, except that "commercial forest land" does not include land described in section 573, subsection 3, paragraph B or C when all commercial harvesting of forest products is prohibited. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2724
- Commercial vessel: means any type of watercraft used exclusively in a business or trade:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 1503Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 1503 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and the commissioner's agents. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Committee: means the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over taxation matters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 199-A 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. Community support services for persons with intellectual disabilities or autism: includes only those services provided by designated agencies under a contract with the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Community support services for persons with mental health diagnoses: includes only those services provided by a designated community support services provider licensed by and operating under a contract with the Department of Health and Human Services for such services, whether the provider is reimbursed through participation in the MaineCare program or with state grant funds. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Conference bridging service: means an ancillary service that links 2 or more participants in an audio or video conference call and may include the provision of a telephone number. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Consumer: means any person who purchases a licensed commodity for consumption or use other than sale, storage or retention for the purpose of sale. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Corrosive: means any substance which in contact with living tissue causes destruction of tissue by chemical action; but does not refer to action on inanimate surfaces. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Court: includes , but is not limited to, the Probate Court and District Court, or any other state court with juvenile jurisdiction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-I Custodian: means the person who has legal custody and power over the person of a child. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002 Customer: means a person who purchases one or more services subject to tax under section 2552, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Dealer: means any person other than a consumer, engaged in the business of buying or selling licensed commodities in commerce, except as provided in section 458. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Department: means the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801 Department: means the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Detailed telecommunications billing service: means an ancillary service of separately stating information pertaining to individual calls on a customer's billing statement. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Director: means the Director of the Division of Licensing, Registration and Engineering, Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 1503 Director: means the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801 Directory assistance: means an ancillary service of providing telephone number information or address information or both. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Donee: The recipient of a gift. Dory: means an unpowered, double-ended boat used exclusively for the transport and storage of fishing gear. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 1503 Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC established base of operations: means the location where a commercial vessel has its primary relationship with a municipality. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 1503 Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business. Fabrication services: means the production of tangible personal property for a consideration for a person who furnishes, either directly or indirectly, the materials used in that production. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Facility fiscal year: means the fiscal year actually used by a person subject to this chapter in keeping that person's books and records. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2871 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. Family support team: means a specialized team of professionals evaluating children who are suspected victims of child abuse and neglect as defined in section 4002, subsection 1. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4092 Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it. Flammable: means any substance which has a flashpoint of above 20 degrees to and including 80 degrees Fahrenheit as determined by the Tagliabue Open Cup Tester, except that the flammability of solids and of the contents of self-pressurized containers is determined by methods generally applicable to such containers and established by regulations issued by the commissioner and "extremely flammable" means any substance which has a flashpoint at or below 20 degrees Fahrenheit as determined by the Tagliabue Open Cup Tester. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Furniture: includes :
(1) Living room furniture, including, but not limited to, sofas, love seats, loungers, recliners, chairs, end tables, coffee tables, curio cabinets, home entertainment centers, book shelves and floor and table lamps;
(2) Bedroom furniture, including, but not limited to, headboards, footboards, bed frames, mattresses, box springs, dressers, chests of drawers, mirrors, armoires, nightstands, bunk beds, roll-away beds and chests;
(3) Baby furniture, including, but not limited to, cribs, dressers and changing tables;
(4) Dining room furniture, including, but not limited to, tables, chairs, dinette sets, hutches and dry sinks;
(5) Patio and outdoor furniture, including, but not limited to, tables, chairs, umbrellas, porch swings and gliders;
(6) Office furniture, including, but not limited to, desks, chairs, tables, workstations, movable partitions, shelving, file cabinets, coat racks and couches; and
(7) Home electronic devices, including home appliances, home computers, televisions, stereos and radios. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551Gross patient services revenue: means gross charges, excluding any grants, donations or research funding. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2881 Group residential services for persons with brain injuries: means services provided to adults with acquired brain injuries, including direct assistance with eating, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene and other activities of daily living provided by designated agencies under a contract with the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Hazardous substance: means any substance or mixture of substances which is toxic, corrosive, an irritant, strong sensitizer, flammable, or which generates pressure through decomposition, heat or other means and which may cause substantial personal injury or illness during any customary or reasonable anticipated handling or use including reasonably foreseeable ingestion by children and also means any radioactive substance, if, with respect to such substance as used in a particular class of article or as packaged, the commissioner determines by regulation that the substance is sufficiently hazardous to require labeling in accordance with this subchapter in order to protect the public health. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Highly toxic: means any substance which produces death within 14 days in at least half of a group of 10 or more laboratory white rats each weighing between 200 and 300 grams, when a single dose of 50 milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, is orally administered or when inhaled continuously for a period of one hour or less at an atmospheric concentration of 200 parts per million by volume or less of gas, vapor, mist or dust, or which produces death within 14 days in at least half of 10 or more rabbits tested in a dosage of 200 milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight, when administered by continuous contact with the bare skin for 24 hours or less. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Historic site: means any area of land owned, leased or otherwise controlled by the State, with or without buildings, improvements or other structures, that has been classified by the director for public use wholly or primarily because of its historical, archaeological or scientific interest or value. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801 Home service provider: means the facilities-based carrier or reseller with which a customer contracts for the provision of mobile telecommunications services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Home support services: means services provided to adults with intellectual disabilities or autism, including direct assistance with eating, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene and other activities of daily living. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Homeless youth: means a person 21 years of age or younger who is unaccompanied by a parent or guardian and is without shelter where appropriate care and supervision are available, whose parent or legal guardian is unable or unwilling to provide shelter and care or who lacks a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-D Hospital: means an acute care health care facility with permanent inpatient beds planned, organized, operated and maintained to offer for a continuing period of time facilities and services for the diagnosis and treatment of illness, injury and deformity; with a governing board, and an organized medical staff, offering continuous 24-hour professional nursing care; with a plan to provide emergency treatment 24 hours a day and including other services as defined in the "Regulations for Licensure of General and Specialty Hospitals in the State of Maine" as amended; and that is licensed under Title 22, chapter 405 as a general hospital, specialty hospital or critical access hospital. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2881 Household use: means any use, or intended use of an article in or about the living area or living quarters of a house, apartment house or other place of abode. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Inpatient hospital services: means services that are furnished in a hospital by or under the direction of a physician or a dentist for the care and treatment of an inpatient. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2881 International telecommunications service: means a telecommunications service that originates or terminates in the United States and terminates or originates outside the United States, respectively. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Interstate telecommunications service: means a telecommunications service that originates in one state, territory or possession of the United States and terminates in a different state, territory or possession of the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Irritant: means any substance, not corrosive, which on immediate, prolonged or repeated contact with normal living tissue will induce inflammatory reaction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 jeopardy: means serious abuse or neglect, as evidenced by:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002Label: means a display of written, printed or graphic matter upon or attached to the immediate package or container of any substance; and a requirement made by or under authority of this subchapter that any word, statement or other information appear on the label shall not be considered to be complied with unless such word, statement or other information also appears on the outside container or wrapper, if any there be, unless it is easily legible through the outside container or wrapper, and on all accompanying literature where there are directions for use, written or otherwise. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff. Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto). Licensed commodities: means dry beans and other vegetables listed in rules established pursuant to section 453, but does not mean potatoes, which are governed by chapter 103, subchapter 10, article 3. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Licensee: means any person who holds a commodities license issued under this subchapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Maine capital tax credit: is a credit against the tax imposed by section 2624. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2621-A misbranded: as used in this chapter or chapter 103 applies to all articles of commercial feeding stuff, commercial fertilizer or food, the package or label of which bears any statement, design or device regarding such article, or the ingredients or substances contained therein, that is false or misleading in any particular or that is falsely branded in any particular. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 484 Mobile telecommunications services: means commercial mobile radio service as defined in 47 C. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money. Multiple use: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1831Multiple use: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1845Net railway operating income: means railway operating revenues, including debits and credits arising from equipment rents and joint facility rents, less railway operating expenses, tax accruals and uncollectible railway revenues. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2621-A Noncitizen: means any person who is not a United States citizen. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-I Nonprofit: refers to an organization that has been determined by the United States Internal Revenue Service to be exempt from taxation under Section 501(c) of the Code. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Nonreserved public lands: means all public domain lands, public islands in inland and coastal waters, lands acquired under section 8003, subsection 3, paragraph N, lands acquired by the bureau pursuant to other lawful authority and any other lands the management and control of which are not otherwise provided for by law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801 Notice: means written notification served personally, sent by certified mail or sent by first-class mail to the last known address of the person for whom the notification is intended. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111 Nursing facility services: means nursing care or rehabilitative services provided in a nursing home, by or under the direction of a physician, for the accommodation of convalescents or other persons who are not acutely ill and not in need of inpatient hospital care, but who do require skilled nursing care and related medical services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2871 Nursing home: means a facility providing nursing facility services and licensed under Title 22, chapter 405 to provide nursing facility services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2871 Operating investment: means investment in railway property used in transportation service, less depreciation, plus cash, including temporary cash investments and special deposits, plus material and supplies. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2621-A Outpatient hospital services: means preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative or palliative services provided in a hospital to an outpatient. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2881 Overall length: means the horizontal distance stated in feet and defined as the straight line measurement over the deck, excluding sheer, from the foremost part of the watercraft to the aftermost part, measured parallel to the centerline, excluding outboard motors, brackets, bowsprits, rudders and similar attachments. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 1503 Owner: means a person or persons claiming lawful possession of a watercraft by virtue of legal title, equitable interest or a leasehold interest in the watercraft. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 1503 Parent: means a natural or adoptive parent or a parent established under Title 19?A, chapter 61, unless parental rights have been terminated. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002 Park: means any area of land or an interest in land, with or without improvements, that is acquired by or under the control of the State, managed primarily for public recreation or conservation purposes and classified by the director as a park, including:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801Person: 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 Person: means and includes any corporation, association, copartnership or one or more individuals. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Person: means an individual, corporation, facility, institution or agency, public or private. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002 Person responsible for the child: includes the child's custodian. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002 Place of primary use: means the street address representative of where a customer's use of mobile telecommunications services primarily occurs, which must be either the residential street address or the primary business street address of the customer and must also be located within the licensed service area of the home service provider. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way. Prepaid calling service: means the right to access exclusively telecommunications services that must be paid for in advance and that enables the origination of calls using an access number or authorization code or both, whether manually or electronically dialed, and that is sold in predetermined units or dollars, the number of which declines with use in a known amount. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Private nonmedical institution: means a person licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services to provide private nonmedical institution services to 4 or more MaineCare-eligible and other residents in single or multiple facilities under a written agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Private nonmedical institution services: means services, including food, shelter and treatment, that are provided by a private nonmedical institution. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Processor: means any person other than a consumer who purchases or contracts to purchase licensed commodities primarily for manufacture into articles of food by operations which change the physical form the commodities possessed when harvested. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Production: includes film production. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Protocols: means procedures developed for the interaction of the suspected child abuse and neglect committee and family support team. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4092 Public reserved lands: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801Publicly owned specialty hospital: means a publicly owned hospital that is primarily engaged in providing psychiatric services for the diagnosis, treatment and care of persons with mental illness and that is licensed as a specialty hospital by the Department of Health and Human Services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2881 Radioactive substance: means any substance which emits ionizing radiation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC Registration period: means from January 1st to December 31st of the year for which the certificate of number is issued pursuant to Title 12, section 13056. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 1503 Relative: includes , for an Indian child as defined by the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, 25 United States Code § 1903, Subsection 4, or by the Maine Indian Child Welfare Act, section 3943, subsection 8, an extended family member as defined by the law or custom of the Indian child's tribe or, in the absence of such law or custom, an extended family member as defined by the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, 25 United States Code § 1903, Subsection 2 or the Maine Indian Child Welfare Act, section 3943, subsection 5. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002 Reseller: when used in relation to mobile telecommunications services, means a provider that purchases telecommunications services from another telecommunications service provider and then resells, uses as a component part of or integrates the purchased services into mobile telecommunications services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Residential treatment facility: means an intermediate care facility for persons with intellectual disabilities, or a level I assisted living facility for persons with intellectual disabilities or autism, that falls within the definitions provided by the United States Social Security Act, 42 United States Code § 1396(d) and that provides services to individuals with developmental disabilities. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2871 Resource family: means a person or persons who provide care to a child in the child welfare system and who are foster parents, permanency guardians, adoptive parents or members of the child's extended birth family. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002 Retailer: means a person engaged in the business of buying licensed commodities in wholesale quantities and reselling the licensed commodities bought, primarily to consumers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Return: means any document, digital file or electronic data transmission containing information required by this Title to be reported to the State Tax Assessor. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111 Runaway: means an unmarried child under 18 years of age who is absent from the home of a parent or guardian or other lawful placement without the consent of the parent, guardian or lawful custodian. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-D Rural community health center: means a person that delivers, or provides facilities for the delivery of, comprehensive primary health care in a place or territory that is classified as rural according to the most recent federal decennial census. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Sale: includes every contract of purchase or sale, contract to purchase or sell, purchase, sale and disposition of licensed commodities for value. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Sale price: includes any consideration for services that are a part of a sale. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 School: means a public or incorporated nonprofit elementary, secondary or postsecondary educational institution that has a regular faculty, curriculum and organized body of pupils or students in attendance throughout the usual school year and that keeps and furnishes to students and others records required and accepted for entrance to schools of secondary, collegiate or graduate rank. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Seller: means any person who sells or contracts to sell licensed commodities in the regular course of business. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 452 Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party. Service provider: means a person who sells one or more of the services listed in section 2552. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Serving carrier: when used in relation to mobile telecommunications services, means a facilities-based carrier providing mobile telecommunications services to a customer outside a home service provider's licensed service area. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Similar circumstances: means conditions that have an effect on a child comparable to abuse, neglect or abandonment, including, but not limited to, the death of a parent. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4099-I state: includes the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 State fiscal year: means the uniform fiscal year established pursuant to Title 5, section 1501 for all financing and reporting of state government expenditures. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2871 Strong sensitizer: means any substance which will cause on normal living tissue through an allergic or photodynamic process a hypersensitivity which becomes evident on reapplication of the same substance and which is designated as such by the commissioner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Submerged lands: means :
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1801Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents. Suspected child abuse and neglect committee: means a committee representing public and private community agencies, hospital departments and the department which are directly involved in providing services to suspected victims of child abuse and the victims' families. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4092 Suspicious child death: means the death of a child under circumstances in which there is reasonable cause to suspect that abuse or neglect was a cause of or factor contributing to the child's death. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 22 Sec. 4002 Sustained yield: means the achievement and maintenance in perpetuity of a high-level regular periodic output of the various renewable resources of the nonreserved public lands without impairing the productivity of the land. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1831 Sustained yield: means the achievement and maintenance in perpetuity of a high-level regular periodic output of the various renewable resources of the public reserved lands without impairing the productivity of the land. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 12 Sec. 1845 Tax: means the total amount required to be paid, withheld and paid over or collected and paid over with respect to estimated or actual tax liability under this Title, any credit or reimbursement allowed or paid pursuant to this Title that is recoverable by the assessor and any amount assessed by the assessor pursuant to this Title, including any interest or penalties provided by law. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111 Tax expenditure: means any provision of state law that results in the reduction of tax revenue due to special exclusions, exemptions, deductions, credits, preferential rates or deferral of tax liability. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 199-A Tax year: means the hospital payment year, as defined by the Department of Health and Human Services, ending in state fiscal year 1999-00. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2881 Taxable revenues: means annual gross patient services revenue in the case of a residential treatment facility and annual net operating revenue in the case of a nursing home. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2871 Taxable revenues: means gross patient services revenue. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2881 Taxable year: means from January 1st to December 31st. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 1503 Taxpayer: means any person required to file a return under this Title or to pay, withhold and pay over or collect and pay over any tax imposed by this Title. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111 Telecommunications equipment: includes all transmission media that are used or capable of being used in the provision of 2-way interactive communications, including, without limitation, copper wire, coaxial cable and optical fiber, except those transmission media designed and primarily used to transmit electricity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Telecommunications services: includes transmission, conveyance or routing in which computer processing applications are used to act on the form, code or protocol of the content for purposes of transmission, conveyance or routing without regard to whether the service is referred to as "Voice over Internet Protocol" services or is classified by the Federal Communications Commission as enhanced or value added. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Toxic: means any substance other than a radioactive substance that has the inherent capacity to produce bodily injury or illness to humans through ingestion, inhalation or absorption through any body surface. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 7 Sec. 502 Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition. Tribal entity: means a business entity:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111Tribal land: means land within the Houlton Band Trust Land, the Passamaquoddy Indian territory or the Penobscot Indian territory. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111 Tribal member: means an enrolled member of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Passamaquoddy Tribe or the Penobscot Nation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 111 United States: includes a territory or possession of the United States. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Vertical service: includes conference bridging service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Video equipment: means equipment used to play video media, equipment used for recording images and sound for subsequent noncommercial playback and equipment used for noncommercial interactive utilization of electronic audio and video media. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Video media: means prerecorded magnetic tapes used for noncommercial playback of images and sound on video equipment, and other electronic audio and video media that provide for noncommercial interactive utilization by a person or persons, including digital video discs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Voice mail service: means an ancillary service that enables the customer to store, send or receive recorded messages. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 2551 Watercraft: means any type of vessel, boat, canoe or craft capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, other than a seaplane, including motors, electronic and mechanical equipment and other machinery, whether permanently or temporarily attached, and which are customarily used in the operations of the watercraft. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 36 Sec. 1503