Current through 2024-51, December 18, 2024
Section 669-30-2 - DEFINITIONSA. 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.01- 669 C.M.R. ch. 30, § 2