Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 163 > Visual Recording of Sexual Conduct of Children

• 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.
• Applicant: means an applicant for a loan to construct a small scale local energy project. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• City: includes any incorporated village or town. See Oregon Statutes 174.100
• Committee: means the Small Scale Local Energy Project Advisory Committee created under ORS § 470. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Director: means the Director of the State Department of Energy appointed under ORS § 469. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan: means a loan for a small scale local energy project that is repayable by means of:

  (a) A charge included with the participant's utility customer account billing; or

  (b) An alternative repayment method identified by the department and the borrower and specified in the loan agreement. See Oregon Statutes 470.050

• Energy Project Bond Loan Fund: means the fund established under ORS § 470. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Energy Project Supplemental Fund: means the fund established under ORS § 470. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Loan: includes the purchase or other acquisition of evidence of indebtedness and money used for the purchase or other acquisition of evidence of indebtedness. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• local government: means all cities, counties and local service districts located in this state, and all administrative subdivisions of those cities, counties and local service districts. See Oregon Statutes 174.116
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Public Purpose Fund Administrator: means the entity designated by the Public Utility Commission to administer moneys collected by a company through the public purpose charge described under ORS § 757. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Small scale local energy project: means any of the following:

  (a) A system, mechanism or series of mechanisms located primarily in Oregon that directly or indirectly uses or enables the use of, by the applicant or another person, renewable resources including, but not limited to, solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, waste heat or water resources to produce energy, including heat, electricity and substitute fuels, to meet a local community or regional energy need in this state. See Oregon Statutes 470.050

• Sustainable energy project manager: means the organization responsible for promoting the energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan program or the clean energy deployment program and related incentives for energy efficiency and renewable energy at the neighborhood and community level. See Oregon Statutes 470.050
• Utility service territory: means the allocated territory in which a utility subject to this chapter provides a utility service. See Oregon Statutes 470.050