Code of Maine Rules › 01 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY › 669 - BUREAU OF FORESTRY (MAINE FOREST SERVICE) › Chapter 30 - PRIOR APPROVAL PROCESS AND STOP WORK ORDERS › Section 669-30-2 - DEFINITIONS

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
A. For the purpose of 12 M.R.S., Chapter 805,
				sub-chapter 3-A and this rule, the following terms are defined as follows.
				Unless otherwise provided herein, this rule incorporates by reference the
				definitions contained in MFS Rule Chapter 20 (Forest Regeneration and
				Clearcutting Standards).
1.
Bureau
means the Bureau of Forestry, Department of Agriculture,
				Conservation, and Forestry.
2.
Designated Agent
means a person, company or other entity that is
				authorized by the landowner to act on the landowner's behalf for timber
				harvesting and related activities on the landowner's property.
3.
Contractor
means a person,
				company, or other entity that contracts with a landowner or designated agent to
				conduct timber harvesting activities, regardless of whether that person is the
				actual person who cuts or fells any tree or removes any forest
				product.
4.
Director
means the Director of the Bureau of Forestry.
5.
Forest Land
means land
				primarily covered with trees, and where commercial timber harvesting is not
				precluded by legal requirement.
6.
Forest Products
means logs, pulpwood, veneer, boltwood, wood
				chips, stud wood, poles, pilings, biomass fuel wood, fuel wood or other
				products commonly known as forest products. It does not include Christmas
				trees, maple syrup, nursery products used for ornamental purposes, wreaths,
				bough material, cones or other seed crops.
7.
Landowner
means a person,
				company, or other legal entity which holds title to land, including as a joint
				ownership or as tenants in common. Where the ownership of the timber located on
				the land is different than the fee ownership of the land itself, the owners of
				the timber are deemed a landowner and are jointly and severally responsible
				with the fee landowner to comply with this rule. Where a corporate landowner is
				a wholly owned subsidiary of another corporation, both parent and subsidiary
				are deemed the same landowner.
8.
Parcel
means a contiguous tract or plot of forest land owned by a
				landowner. Multiple contiguous tracts, plots or parcels of forest land owned by
				the same landowner are considered a single parcel. Contiguous tracts completely
				separated by a public road or roadway are considered to be separate parcels
				under these rules. Tracts of land joined only at a single point are not
				contiguous.
9.
Person
means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, or any other legal
				entity.
10.
Public Road
or
Roadway
means any roadway that is owned or leased by a
				governmental unit or public entity.
11.
Purchaser
means a person
				that harvests or contracts to conduct timber harvesting activities.
12.
Seller
means a landowner or
				designated agent that contracts to have timber activities conducted.
13.
Stop work order
means a
				written order issued by the bureau requiring a person conducting timber
				harvesting activities to immediately cease part or all timber harvesting
				activities.
14.
Timber
				harvesting
means the cutting or removing of timber for the primary
				purpose of selling or processing forest products.
15.
Timber harvesting activities
means timber harvesting, the construction and maintenance of roads used
				primarily for timber harvesting, the mining of gravel used for the construction
				and maintenance of roads used primarily for timber harvesting and other
				activities conducted to facilitate timber harvesting.