Idaho Code > Title 6 > Chapter 24 – Liability for Emergency Responses


6-2401	Liability for Emergency Responses
6-2402	Volunteer Fire Departments — Schedule of Charges — Conditions for Collection — Reports — Failure to Pay

Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 6 > Chapter 24 - Liability for Emergency Responses

Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
Authorized chartering entity: means any of the following:

Idaho Code 33-5202A

Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.

Career technical regional public charter school: means a public charter secondary school authorized under this chapter to provide programs in career technical education that meet the standards and qualifications established by the division of career technical education. See Idaho Code 33-5202A

Charter: means the grant of authority approved by the authorized chartering entity to the board of directors of the public charter school. See Idaho Code 33-5202A

Charter holder: means the public charter school’s board of directors to which a charter is granted pursuant to chapter 52, title 33, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 33-5202A

Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.

Contract for sale: includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. See Idaho Code 28-2-106

Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.

Course: means a course of instruction or a program of instruction. See Idaho Code 33-5102

Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.

Dual credit: means credit awarded to a student on his or her secondary and postsecondary transcript for the completion of a single course. See Idaho Code 33-5102

Educational services provider: means a nonprofit or for-profit entity that contracts with a public charter school for a fee to provide educational services and resources including administrative support and educational design, implementation or management. See Idaho Code 33-5202A

Eligible institution: means a public or private postsecondary educational institution accredited by an organization recognized by the state board of education. See Idaho Code 33-5102

Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}

Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.

Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.

Founder: means a person, including employees or staff of a public charter school, who makes a material contribution toward the establishment of a public charter school in accordance with criteria determined by the board of directors of the public charter school, and who is designated as such at the time the board of directors acknowledges and accepts such contribution. See Idaho Code 33-5202A

Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.

Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}

Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.

Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.

Performance certificate: means a fixed-term, renewable certificate between a public charter school and an authorized chartering entity that outlines the roles, powers, responsibilities and performance expectations for each party to the certificate. See Idaho Code 33-5202A

person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;

Idaho Code 73-114

Petition: means the document submitted by a person or persons to the authorized chartering entity to request the creation of a public charter school. See Idaho Code 33-5202A

Postsecondary credit: means credit awarded to a student on his or her postsecondary transcript for the completion of a course. See Idaho Code 33-5102

Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.

Property: includes both real and personal property. See Idaho Code 73-114

Public charter school: means a school that is authorized under this chapter to deliver public education in Idaho with equal access and authority to participate in all state and federal programs to the same extent as a traditional public school, irrespective of the instructional delivery method. See Idaho Code 33-5202A

Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.

Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.

Secondary credit: means credit awarded to a student on his or her secondary transcript for the completion of a course. See Idaho Code 33-5102

State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114

Testify: Answer questions in court.

Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.

Traditional public school: means any school existing or to be built that is operated and controlled by a school district in this state. See Idaho Code 33-5202A

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.

Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

Virtual school: means either a public charter school or a traditional public school that delivers a full-time, sequential program of synchronous and/or asynchronous instruction primarily through the use of technology via the internet in a distributed environment. See Idaho Code 33-5202A