Section 172-14-1 - DefinitionsFor purposes of subsection 7 of section 1192 of the Employment Security Law (26 M.R.S. § 1192(7)), the following terms shall have the following meanings:
A. "Written reasonable assurance" means a written communication in which an educational institution or educational service agency assures an individual employee that they will perform services for the educational institution or educational service agency during a subsequent term or school period after an established and customary vacation period or holiday recess ends as set forth in section 2 below.B. "Any other capacity for an educational institution" means employees employed in a non- professional capacity. Employees in this category perform services in other than instructional including adjunct faculty, research, or principal administrative capacity services.C. "Benefits based on services" means the benefits for which eligibility was determined pursuant to subsection 5 of section 1192 of the Employment Security Law (26 M.R.S. § 1192(7)) on the basis of wages paid in a claimant's base period by educational institutions or educational service agencies.D. "Contract" means a written agreement that an individual will perform services in an instructional, research or principal administrative capacity for any educational institution, as defined in subsection 29 of section 1043 of the Employment Security Law (26 M.R.S. § 1043(29)), or for any educational service agency, as defined in paragraph D of subsection 7 of section 1192 of the Employment Security Law (26 M.R.S. § 1192(7)(D)).E. "Educational institution" means any school, including nursery schools and schools of higher education, which is licensed by the State and which provides an organized course of study designed to transfer knowledge, skills, attitudes or abilities under the guidance of a teacher. A "nursery school" has the same meaning as in 22 M.R.S. § 8301-A (1-A((D) and provides a curriculum of educational instruction provided by appropriately licensed teachers.F. "Established and customary vacation periods or holiday recesses" means those vacation periods or recesses which the local authority having control of the school system has customarily included in the school system schedule.G. "Instructional, research or principal administrative capacity for an educational institution" are employees employed in a professional or professional capacity. This means instructional including adjunct faculty, research, or principal administrative capacity employees.12-172 C.M.R. ch. 14, § 1