Maine Revised Statutes Title 5. Administrative Procedures and Services § 3360. Definitions

1. Board. “Board” means the Victims' Compensation Board as established in section 12004-J, subsection 11.

2. Repealed. Laws 1999, c. 360, § 1.

2-A. Catastrophic injury. “Catastrophic injury” means an extremely serious injury that may result in permanent disability or a long-lasting medical condition.

3. Crime. “Crime” means one of the following:

4. Eligible expenses and losses. “Eligible expenses and losses” means expenses and losses resulting from a personal injury sustained by an individual as a direct result of a crime specified in subsection 3 and may include medical and medically related expenses, psychological or mental health counseling expenses, lost wages, funeral, burial and other homicide-related expenses and travel expenses and loss of income of a claimant or family member for providing or obtaining care for the personal injury of a minor or incapacitated victim. “Eligible expenses and losses” may include costs of eyeglasses, hearing aids, dentures or other prosthetic devices taken, lost, destroyed or damaged as a result of the crime, costs to repair, replace or install locks or security devices, costs of crime scene cleanup and relocation expenses. Expenses and losses claimed under this subsection must be expenses or losses actually and reasonably incurred.

5. Family or household member. “Family or household member” means: the parent, stepparent, sibling, grandparent, spouse, child or stepchild of a victim or a person who bears an equally significant relationship to the victim; or a person who at the time or discovery of the crime was living in the household of the victim or who previously had lived in the household of the victim for a period of not less than 2 years.

5-A. Mass violence crime. “Mass violence crime” means an intentional violent crime that results in physical, emotional or psychological injury to a large number of individuals and significantly increases the burdens on victim support and the crime victims' compensation program.

6. Personal injury. “Personal injury” means bodily injury as defined in Title 17-A, section 2, subsection 5 or psychological injury incurred by a victim who has sustained the threat of bodily injury.