Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 5-34 - Nurses

• Abandoned utility facilities: means any known underground or submerged utility line or facility that has been permanently taken out of service. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1.2-1
• Abandoned vehicle: means (i) A vehicle that is inoperable and more than eight (8) years old and is left unattended on public property for more than forty-eight (48) hours; or (ii) A vehicle that has remained illegally on public property for a period of more than three (3) days; or (iii) A vehicle that has remained on private property without the consent of the owner or person in control of the property for more than three (3) days. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12.1-2
• Abandoned vehicle of no value: means (i) a motor vehicle that is inoperable and more than ten (10) years old and is left unattended on public property for more than forty-eight (48) hours; or (ii) A vehicle that has remained illegally on public property for a period of more than three (3) days; or (iii) A vehicle that has remained on private property without the consent of the owner or person in control of the property for more than three (3) days, and meets the following criteria:

  (A)  The vehicle has no evidence of current registration in or upon the vehicle; and

  (B)  The vehicle has a fair market value of five hundred dollars ($500) or less; and

  (C)  The vehicle does not have a valid inspection sticker. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12.1-2

• Administrator: means the administrator of the division of public utilities and carriers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1.2-1
• Administrator: means the public utilities administrator. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Administrator: means the administrator of the division of public utilities and carriers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Advanced practice registered nursing: means an independent and expanded scope of nursing in a role and population focus approved by the board of nurse registration and nursing education that includes the registered nurse scope of practice and may include, but is not limited to, performing acts of advanced assessment, diagnosing, prescribing, and ordering. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-34-3
• 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.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Agent for the state: means and includes the department of transportation as agent for the state as that term is used in 49 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-6.1-1
• Airports and landing fields: means all airports and landing fields other than those owned by the state. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-11-1
• Alternative compliance payment: means a payment to the renewable energy development fund of fifty dollars ($50. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Annual target: means the target for total renewable energy nameplate capacity of new distributed-generation standard contracts set out in § 39-26. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.2-3
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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 a person who has filed a written application for assistance for herself or himself and her or his dependent child(ren). See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• 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
• Approval: means the process where the board of nursing evaluates and grants official recognition to basic nursing education programs meeting established criteria and standards. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-34-3
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• assessment: means the special assessment placed on a PACE property owner's property tax or other municipal assessment bill in accordance with this chapter, to be collected by or on behalf of the PACE municipality in which that PACE property is located and remitted to the Rhode Island infrastructure bank or to the lender that has financed that PACE project. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.5-2
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Assistance: means cash and any other benefits provided pursuant to this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Assistance unit: means the assistance-filing unit consisting of the group of persons, including the dependent child(ren), living together in a single household who must be included in the application for assistance and in the assistance payment if eligibility is established. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Association: means the group of public utilities formed pursuant to § 39-1. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1.2-1
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Authority: means a city, town, or any other state or municipal government subdivision, agency, or entity that is authorized by law to regulate or control the use of the public rights-of-way or the construction or installation of poles or wireless facilities or that owns or controls property suitable for collocating small wireless facilities. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Authority: means the corporation created by § 39-16-3. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-16-1
• Authority: means the Rhode Island public transit authority created by § 39-18-2, or, if the authority shall be abolished, the board, body, or commission succeeding to the principal functions thereof, or upon whom the powers of the authority given by this chapter shall be given by law. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-18-1
• Authority pole: means a pole owned or controlled by an authority and includes metal, composite, concrete, or wood poles, as well as decorative poles. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Authority structure: means a building, water tower, or other structure owned or controlled by an authority, but not an authority pole. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Automatic commercial icemaker: means a factory-made assembly that is shipped in one or more packages that consists of a condensing unit and ice-making section operating as an integrated unit, that makes and harvests ice cubes, and that may store and dispense ice. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Ballast: means a device used with an electric discharge lamp to obtain necessary circuit conditions (voltage, current and waveform) for starting and operating the lamp. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Benefits: shall mean assistance received pursuant to this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Board: shall mean the distributed-generation board as established pursuant to the provisions of § 39-26. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Board: means the members of the authority. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-16-1
• Board: shall mean the distributed generation standard contract board established pursuant to the provisions of § 39-26. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.2-3
• Boiler: means a self-contained, low-pressure appliance for supplying steam or hot water primarily designed for space heating. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Bonds: means the bonds, notes, or other obligations issued by the authority pursuant to this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-16-1
• Bonds: means bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness, including temporary notes of the authority issued in anticipation of revenues to be received by the authority or in anticipation of the receipt of federal, state, or local grants or other aid. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-18-1
• Bottle-type water dispenser: means a water dispenser that uses a bottle or reservoir as the source of potable water. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• CATV: as used in this chapter shall mean and include the ownership or operation of a cable television system that receives video or audio signals, electrical impulses, or currents at a central antenna or electronic control center within this state and from which it distributes or transmits such signals, impulses, or currents by a cable or wire system to electronic equipment at a customer's terminal point within this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-19-1
• Ceiling price: means the bidding price cap applicable to an enrollment for a given distributed-generation class, that shall be approved annually for each renewable energy class pursuant to the procedure established in this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Certificate: means a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued under this chapter or by any corresponding provisions of earlier laws to a common carrier by motor vehicle. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Certificate: means a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued to a common carrier. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14-1
• Certificate: means a certificate of operating authority issued to a public motor vehicle. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14.1-1
• Certificated tower: means a carrier possessing a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the public utilities administrator for the purpose of transporting vehicles by tow-away method. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12.1-2
• Certified clinical nurse specialist: is a n advanced practice registered nurse who independently provides care to clients; facilitates attainment of health goals; and provides innovation in nursing practice, based on clinical expertise, evidence-based decision-making, and leadership skills. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-34-3
• Certified nurse practitioner: is a n advanced practice nurse utilizing independent knowledge of physical assessment, diagnosis, and management of health care and illnesses. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-34-3
• Certified registered nurse anesthetist: is a s defined in chapter 34. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-34-3
• Charter carrier: means and includes all carriers for hire or compensation by air within this state not included in the definition of the term common carrier. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-11-1
• Charter carrier: means a provider of transportation services to groups such as: lodges, bands, athletic teams, schools, or other travel groups, assembled by someone other than the carrier who or that collectively contracts for the exclusive use of certain equipment for the duration of a particular trip or tour. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14.1-1
• Chief of Energy and Community Services: means the head official of the Rhode Island state energy office. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Collocate: means to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate, or replace wireless facilities on a pole, including an authority pole, or on a building, water tower, or other structure, including an authority structure. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Commercial clothes washer: means a soft-mount horizontal or vertical-axis clothes washer that:

  (i)  Has a clothes container compartment no greater than three and one-half cubic feet (3. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3

• Commercial hot food holding cabinet: means an appliance that is a heated, fully-enclosed compartment with one or more solid doors, and that is designed to maintain the temperature of hot food that has been cooked in a separate appliance. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Commercial pre-rinse spray valve: means a hand-held device designed and marketed for use with commercial dishwashing and ware washing equipment and that sprays water on dishes, flatware, and other food service items for the purpose of removing food residue prior to their cleaning. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Commercial property: means a property operated for commercial purposes, or a residential property that contains five (5) or more housing units. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.5-2
• commercially reasonable: means terms and pricing that are reasonably consistent with what an experienced power market analyst would expect to see in transactions involving regional energy resources and regional energy infrastructure. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-31-3
• Commercially reasonable: means terms and pricing that are reasonably consistent with what an experienced power market analyst would expect to see in transactions involving newly developed renewable energy resources. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.1-2
• Commission: means the Rhode Island public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Commission: means the Rhode Island public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.7-3
• Commission: means the Rhode Island public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Commission: means the public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Commission: means the public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-20-2
• Commission: means the Rhode Island public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Commission: means the Rhode Island public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.1-2
• Commission: means the Rhode Island public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.2-3
• Commissioner: means a member of the public utilities commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Common carrier: means and includes all carriers for hire or compensation by air that operate, or seek to operate, over fixed routes or between fixed termini within the state. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-11-1
• Common carrier: means any person who or that undertakes, whether directly or by any other arrangements, to transport property, or any class or classes of property, by motor vehicle between points within this state, for the general public for compensation, over the publicly used highways of this state, whether over regular or irregular routes. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Common carrier: means any person who holds himself, herself, or itself out to the general public as engaging in the transportation by motor vehicle of passengers for compensation in a taxicab or in a limited public motor vehicle. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14-1
• Common carrier: as used in this chapter , means any person engaging in the business of providing transportation services for compensation to passengers through the use of a public motor vehicle as defined in this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14.1-1
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Communications services: means the transmission of sounds, messages, data, information, codes, or signals between a point or points of origin and a point or points of reception. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-21.1-3
• Community remote distributed-generation system: means a distributed-generation facility greater than two hundred fifty kilowatt (250 KW) nameplate direct current that allocates bill credits for each kilowatt hour (KWh) generated to a minimum of three (3), eligible recipient-customer accounts, provided that no more than fifty percent (50%) of the credits produced by the system are allocated to one eligible recipient-customer account, and provided further that at least fifty percent (50%) of the credits produced by the system are allocated to eligible recipients in an amount not to exceed that which is produced annually by twenty-five kilowatt (25 KW) AC capacity. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Community remote net-metering system: means a facility generating electricity using an eligible net-metering resource that allocates net-metering credits to a minimum of one account for a system associated with low- or moderate-income housing eligible credit recipients, or three (3) eligible credit-recipient customer accounts, provided that no more than fifty percent (50%) of the credits produced by the system are allocated to one eligible credit recipient, and provided further at least fifty percent (50%) of the credits produced by the system are allocated to the remaining eligible credit recipients in an amount not to exceed that which is produced annually by twenty-five kilowatt (25 KW) AC capacity. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Community service programs: means structured programs and activities in which cash assistance recipients perform work for the direct benefit of the community under the auspices of public or nonprofit organizations. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Company: means and includes a person, firm, partnership, corporation, quasi-municipal corporation, association, joint-stock association or company, and his, her, its, or their lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Compensation: means money or any other valuable thing, regardless of form, received, or to be received, by a person for services rendered. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Compliance year: means a calendar year beginning January 1 and ending December 31, for which an obligated entity must demonstrate that it has met the requirements of this statute. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract carrier: means any person who or that engages in transportation by motor vehicle of property in intrastate commerce, for compensation (other than transportation referred to in the preceding paragraph), under continuing contracts with one person or an unlimited number of persons for the furnishing of transportation services of a special and individual nature required by the shipper and not generally provided by common carriers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Customer: means a person who, for primarily personal, family, or household purposes:

  (i)  Purchases a residential solar energy system under a system purchase agreement;

  (ii)  Leases a residential solar energy system under a system lease agreement; or

  (iii)  Purchases electricity under a power purchase agreement. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.8-2

• Customer: means a company taking service from an electric distribution company at a single point of delivery or meter location. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Customer-sited generation facility: means a generation unit that is interconnected on the end-use customer's side of the retail electricity meter in such a manner that it displaces all or part of the metered consumption of the end-use customer. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Damage: means and includes, but is not limited to, the substantial weakening of structural or lateral support of a utility line; penetration or destruction of any utility line protective coating, housing, or other protective device; or the severance, partial or complete, of any utility line. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1.2-1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Demolition: means the wrecking, razing, rending, moving, or removing of any structure. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1.2-1
• Department: means the department of human services. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Department: means the department of transportation or other appropriate state agency of this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-6.1-1
• Department: means the department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-34-3
• Department of transportation: means the department created by chapter 13 of Title 42. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-18.1-3
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dependent child: means an individual, other than an individual with respect to whom foster care maintenance payments are made, who is: (i) Under the age of eighteen (18); or (ii) Under the age of nineteen (19) and a full-time student in a secondary school (or in the equivalent level of vocational or educational training). See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director of the department of human services. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Director: means the director of the Rhode Island department of transportation. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-18.1-3
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• displaced homemaker: means a person who:

  (1)  Worked in the home for a substantial number of years providing unpaid household services for family members;

  (2)  Who is not gainfully employed;

  (3)  Has or would have difficulty in securing employment; and

  (4)  Was dependent on the income of another family member but is no longer supported by the income, or was dependent on assistance from the state or federal government but is no longer eligible for assistance for reasons other than willful failure to comply with rules and regulations. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-1-12

• Distributed-generation contract capacity: means ten percent (10%) of an electric distribution company's minimum long-term contract capacity under the long-term contracting standard for renewable energy in § 39-26. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.2-3
• Distributed-generation facility: means an electrical-generation facility located in the electric distribution company's load zone with a nameplate capacity no greater than five megawatts (5 MW), using eligible renewable energy resources as defined by § 39-26-5, including biogas created as a result of anaerobic digestion, but, specifically excluding all other listed eligible biomass fuels, and connected to an electrical power system owned, controlled, or operated by the electric distribution company. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Distributed-generation facility: means an electrical-generation facility that is a newly developed renewable energy resource as defined in § 39-26. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.2-3
• Distributed-generation project: means a distinct installation of a distributed-generation facility. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Distributed-generation project: means a distinct installation of a distributed-generation facility. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.2-3
• Distributed-generation system: means an electrical-generation facility located in the electric distribution company's load zone with a nameplate capacity no greater than five megawatts (5 MW), using eligible renewable energy resources as defined by § 39-26-5, including biogas created as a result of anaerobic digestion, but, specifically excluding all other listed eligible biomass fuels, and connected to an electrical power system owned, controlled, or operated by the electric distribution company. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.5-2
• Distribution facility: means plant or equipment used for the distribution of electricity and that is not a transmission facility. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• District: means the Kent County water district. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-16-1
• Division: means the division of public utilities and carriers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.7-3
• Division: means the division of public utilities and carriers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.8-2
• Division: means the division of public utilities and carriers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14.1-1
• Division: means the division of public utilities and carriers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Division: means the division of public utilities and carriers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-20-2
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Domestic electric utility: means an electric utility organized under the laws of, or having its principal place of business in, this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-20-2
• Driver: means any person operating a motor vehicle used for the transportation of property, that he or she owns or is operating with the express or implied consent of its owner. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Driver: means any person operating a motor vehicle used for the transportation of passengers which he or she owns or is operating with the expressed or implied consent of the owner. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14-1
• Earned income: means income in cash or the equivalent received by a person through the receipt of wages, salary, commissions, or profit from activities in which the person is self-employed or as an employee and before any deductions for taxes. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Earned income tax credit: means the credit against federal personal income tax liability under § 32 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Education directly related to employment: means education, in the case of a participant who has not received a high school diploma or a certificate of high school equivalency, related to a specific occupation, job, or job offer. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Educational institutions: means public and private schools at the primary, secondary, and postsecondary levels. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Electric distribution company: means a company defined in § 39-1-2(a)(12), supplying standard-offer service, last-resort service, or any successor service to end-use customers, but not including the Block Island Power Company or the Pascoag Utility District. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Electric distribution company: means a company defined in § 39-1-2(a)(12), supplying standard-offer service, last-resort service, or any successor service to end-use customers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-30-2
• Electric distribution company: means a company engaging in the distribution of electricity or owning, operating, or controlling distribution facilities and shall be a public utility pursuant to subsection (20) of this section. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Electric distribution company: means a company defined in § 39-1-2, supplying standard-offer service, last-resort service, or any successor service to end-use customers, but not including the Block Island Power Company or the Pascoag Utility District. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.1-2
• Electric distribution company: means a company defined in § 39-1-2(a)(12), supplying standard-offer service, last-resort service, or any successor service to end-use customers, but not including the Block Island Power Company or the Pascoag Utility District. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.2-3
• Electric utility: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or entity, or subdivision thereof, private, governmental, or other, wherever resident or organized, primarily engaged in the generation and sale or purchase and sale of electricity, or the transmission thereof, for ultimate consumption by the public. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-20-2
• Electric-generating facilities: means electric-generating units rated five hundred megawatts (500 MW) or above, and generating stations in commercial generation on or before January 1, 1990, that are subsequently altered or modified to increase the rating of these stations by at least two hundred megawatts (200 MW), and related facilities including those for the transmission of the capacity and related energy from these units or stations. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-20-2
• Electrical energy product: means an electrical energy offering, including, but not limited to, last-resort and standard-offer service, that can be distinguished by its generation attributes or other characteristics, and that is offered for sale by an obligated entity to end-use customers. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Electronic communication service: means any service that provides to its users the ability to send or receive wire or electronic communications. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-2-20.1
• Eligible credit recipient: means one of the following eligible recipients in the electric distribution company's service territory whose electric service account or accounts may receive net-metering credits from a community remote net-metering system. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Eligible net-metering resource: means eligible renewable energy resource, as defined in §?39-26-5 including biogas created as a result of anaerobic digestion, but, specifically excluding all other listed eligible biomass fuels. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Eligible net-metering system: means a facility generating electricity using an eligible net-metering resource that is reasonably designed and sized to annually produce electricity in an amount that is equal to, or less than, the renewable self-generator's usage at the eligible net-metering system site measured by the three-year (3) average annual consumption of energy over the previous three (3) years at the electric distribution account(s) located at the eligible net-metering system site. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Eligible net-metering system site: means the site where the eligible net-metering system or community remote net-metering system is located or is part of the same campus or complex of sites contiguous to one another and the site where the eligible net-metering system or community remote net-metering system is located or a farm in which the eligible net-metering system or community remote net-metering system is located. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Eligible renewable energy resource: means resources as defined in § 39-26-5. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Eligible renewable energy resource: means resources as defined in § 39-26-5 and any references therein. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.1-2
• Eligible renewable energy resources: means resources as defined in § 39-26-5. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.5-2
• End-use customer: means a person or entity in Rhode Island that purchases electrical energy at retail from an obligated entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• 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}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Excavation: means an operation for the purpose of movement or removal of earth, rock, or other materials in or on the ground, or otherwise disturbing the subsurface of the earth, by the use of powered or mechanized equipment, including, but not limited to: digging, blasting, auguring, back filling, test boring, drilling, pile driving, grading, plowing in, hammering, pulling in, trenching, and tunneling; excluding the movement of earth by tools manipulated only by human or animal power and the tilling of soil for agricultural purposes. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1.2-1
• Excess renewable net-metering credit: means a credit that applies to an eligible net-metering system or community remote net-metering system for that portion of the production of electrical energy beyond one hundred percent (100%) and no greater than one hundred twenty-five percent (125%) of the renewable self-generator's own consumption at the eligible net-metering system site or the sum of the usage of the eligible credit recipient accounts associated with the community remote net-metering system during the applicable billing period. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Existing renewable energy resources: means generation units using eligible renewable energy resources and first going into commercial operation before December 31, 1997. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Family: means : (i) A pregnant woman from and including the seventh month of her pregnancy; or (ii) A child and the following eligible persons living in the same household as the child: (iii) Each biological, adoptive or stepparent of the child, or in the absence of a parent, any adult relative who is responsible, in fact, for the care of such child; and (iv) The child's minor siblings (whether of the whole or half blood); provided, however, that the term "family" shall not include any person receiving benefits under Title XVI of the Social Security Act, 42 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Foreign electric utility: means any electric utility other than a domestic electric utility. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-20-2
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Generation attributes: means the nonprice characteristics of the electrical energy output of a generation unit including, but not limited to, the unit's fuel type, emissions, vintage, and policy eligibility. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Generation unit: means a facility that converts a fuel or an energy resource into electrical energy. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• grant diversion: means the use of all or a portion of a participant's cash assistance grant and food stamp grant as a wage supplement to an employer. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Gross earnings: means earnings from employment and self-employment further described in the department of human services rules and regulations. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• 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.
• Health: means optimum well-being. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-34-3
• Health care: means those services provided to promote the optimum well-being of individuals. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-34-3
• High-intensity discharge lamp: means a lamp in which light is produced by the passage of an electric current through a vapor or gas, and in which the light-producing arc is stabilized by bulb wall temperature and the arc tube has a bulb wall loading in excess of three watts (3 W) per square centimeter. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Highway maintenance: means the upkeep, maintenance, and repair of the state's highways, roads, and bridges, including repaving or resurfacing the same. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-18.1-3
• Hospital: means and shall be defined and established as set forth in chapter 17 of Title 23. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Illuminated exit sign: means an internally-illuminated sign that is designed to be permanently fixed in place to identify a building exit and consists of an electrically powered integral light source that illuminates the legend "EXIT" and any directional indicators and provides contrast between the legend, any directional indicators and the background. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Immediate danger to life and health: means likely to cause death or immediate or delayed permanent adverse health effects or prevent escape from such an environment. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1.2-1
• in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Individual employment plan: means a written, individualized plan for employment developed jointly by the applicant and the department of human services that specifies the steps the participant shall take toward long-term economic independence developed in accordance with § 40-5. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Institution: means a private entity or quasi-state agency. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.5-2
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Internet service provider: means an entity offering the transmission, routing, or providing of connections of digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user's choosing, without modification to the content of the material as sent or received and includes a provider of online services or network access, including entities that provide an electronic communication service or remote computing service, but does not mean the offering on a common carrier basis of telecommunication facilities or of telecommunications. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-2-20.1
• Interstate carrier: means any person who or that operates motor vehicles for the transportation of property of others for compensation over the publicly used highways of this state in interstate commerce authorized or certified by the Interstate Commerce Commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Interstate commerce: means commerce between any place in this state and any place in another state or between places in this state through another state. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Interstate permit: means an interstate carrier permit issued by the administrator to an interstate common or contract carrier by motor vehicle operating for compensation over the publicly used highways of this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Intrastate commerce: means any commerce wholly within this state by motor vehicle between points having a point of origin and a point of destination within this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• ISO-NE: means Independent System Operator-New England, the Regional Transmission Organization for New England designated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Job skills training directly related to employment: means training or education for job skills required by an employer to provide an individual with the ability to obtain employment or to advance or adapt to the changing demands of the workplace. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• 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.
• Large packaged air-conditioning equipment: means electronically-operated, air-cooled air-conditioning and air-conditioning heat pump equipment having cooling capacity greater than, or equal to, two hundred forty thousand (240,000) Btu/hour but less than seven hundred sixty thousand (760,000) Btu/hour that is built as a package and shipped as a whole to end-user sites. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• 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}
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Legal owner: means the person who has obtained ownership of a vehicle by any legal means but has not caused the vehicle to be registered with the division of motor vehicles. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12.1-2
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensed: means the status of qualified individuals who have completed a designated process by which the board of nursing grants permission to individuals accountable and/or responsible for the practice of nursing and to engage in that practice, prohibiting all others from legally doing so. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-34-3
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lighting equipment: means all equipment used to light streets in the municipality, the operation and maintenance of which is currently charged to the municipality, including lighting ballasts, fixtures, and other equipment necessary for the conversion of electric energy into streetlighting service, but excluding the utility poles upon which the lighting equipment is fixed. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-30-2
• Limited public motor vehicle: means and includes every motor vehicle for hire, other than a jitney, as defined in § 39-13-1, or a taxicab, as defined in this chapter, equipped with a taximeter used for transporting members of the general public for compensation only from a designated location on private property to such points as may be directed by the passenger. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14-1
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Long-term contract: means a contract of not less than ten (10) years. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.1-2
• Low- or moderate-income housing eligible credit recipient: means an electric service account or accounts in good standing associated with any housing development or developments owned or operated by a public agency, nonprofit organization, limited-equity housing cooperative, or private developer that receives assistance under any federal, state, or municipal government program to assist the construction or rehabilitation of housing affordable to low- or moderate-income households, as defined in the applicable federal or state statute, or local ordinance, encumbered by a deed restriction or other covenant recorded in the land records of the municipality in which the housing is located, that:

  (A)  Restricts occupancy of no less than fifty percent (50%) of the housing to households with a gross, annual income that does not exceed eighty percent (80%) of the area median income as defined annually by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD);

  (B)  Restricts the monthly rent, including a utility allowance, that may be charged to residents, to an amount that does not exceed thirty percent (30%) of the gross, monthly income of a household earning eighty percent (80%) of the area median income as defined annually by HUD;

  (C)  Has an original term of not less than thirty (30) years from initial occupancy. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2

• Low-voltage dry-type distribution transformer: means a transformer that:

  (i)  Has an input voltage of six hundred volts (600 V) or less;

  (ii)  Is air-cooled;

  (iii)  Does not use oil as a coolant; and

  (iv)  Is rated for operation at a frequency of sixty hertz (60 Hz). See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3

• magistrate: may be construed to mean a justice, or a clerk acting as a justice, of a district court. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
• material investment: shall mean investment necessary to allow the project to qualify as a new, renewable energy resource under § 39-26-2. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Medium-scale solar project: means a solar distributed-generation project with the nameplate capacity specified in § 39-26. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Metal-halide lamp: means a high-intensity discharge lamp in which the major portion of the light is produced by radiation of metal halides and their products of dissociation, possibly in combination with metallic vapors. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Minimum long-term contract capacity: means ninety megawatts (90 MW) of which three megawatts (3 MW) must be solar or photovoltaic projects located in the state of Rhode Island. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.1-2
• Minor parent: means a parent under the age of eighteen (18). See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Motor carrier: means a common carrier by motor vehicle, a contract carrier by motor vehicle, or an interstate carrier by motor vehicle. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Motor carrier: means a contract carrier, a common carrier, or a private carrier of property or passengers by motor vehicle. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-13.1-1
• Motor carrier: means a common carrier by motor vehicle. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14-1
• Motor carrier transportation contract: means a contract, agreement, or understanding covering:

  (i)  The transportation of property for compensation by a motor carrier or a service incidental thereof;

  (ii)  Entrance on property by a motor carrier for the purposes of loading, unloading, or transporting property for compensation or a service incidental thereof; or

  (iii)  A service incidental to an activity described in subsections (2)(i) and (2)(ii). See Rhode Island General Laws 39-13.1-1

• Motor carriers: means any carrier regulated by the administrator pursuant to chapters 3, 11, 12, 13, and 14 of this title. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Motor vehicle: means any vehicle, machine, truck, tractor-trailer, or semi-trailer propelled or drawn by any mechanical power and used upon the highways in the transportation of property, but does not include any vehicle or car operated on a rail or rails whether on or off the publicly used highways. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Multi-municipal collaborative: means a group of towns and/or cities that enter into an agreement for the purpose of co-owning a renewable-generation facility or entering into a financing arrangement pursuant to subsection (14). See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Municipality: means any Rhode Island town or city, including any agency or instrumentality thereof, with the powers set forth in title 45. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Municipality: means any town, city, or subdivision thereof. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-18-1
• Natural gas: means the combustible, gaseous mixture of low-molecular-weight, paraffin hydrocarbons, generated below the surface of the earth, containing mostly methane and ethane with small amounts of propane, butane, and hydrocarbons, and sometimes nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and helium. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Natural subdivision: means a group of persons engaged in the motor trucking industry that, by the nature and similarity of the service performed, has operating interests peculiar to the groups and that by reason thereof requires distinct and separate regulations. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• NE-GIS: means the generation information system operated by NEPOOL, its designee or successor entity, that includes a generation information database and certificate system, and that accounts for the generation attributes of electrical energy consumed within NEPOOL. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• NE-GIS certificate: means an electronic record produced by the NE-GIS that identifies the relevant generation attributes of each megawatt-hour accounted for in the NE-GIS. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• NEPOOL: means the New England Power Pool or its successor. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Net income: means the total gross income of the assistance unit less allowable disregards and deductions as described in § 40-5. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Net metering: means using electrical energy generated by an eligible net-metering system for the purpose of self-supplying electrical energy and power at the eligible net-metering system site, or with respect to a community remote net-metering system, for the purpose of generating net-metering credits to be applied to the electric bills of the eligible credit recipients associated with the community net-metering system. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Net-metering customer: means a customer of the electric distribution company receiving and being billed for distribution service whose distribution account(s) are being net metered. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Net-metering financing arrangement: means arrangements entered into by a public entity, educational institution, hospital, nonprofit, or multi-municipal collaborative with a private entity to facilitate the financing and operation of a net-metering resource, in which the private entity owns and operates an eligible net-metering resource on behalf of a public entity, educational institution, hospital, nonprofit, or multi-municipal collaborative, where: (i) The eligible net-metering resource is located on property owned or controlled by the public entity, educational institution, hospital, or one of the municipalities, as applicable; and (ii) The production from the eligible net-metering resource and primary compensation paid by the public entity, educational institution, hospital, nonprofit, or multi-municipal collaborative to the private entity for such production is directly tied to the consumption of electricity occurring at the designated net-metered accounts. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• New renewable energy resources: means generation units using eligible renewable energy resources and first going into commercial operation after December 31, 1997; or the incremental output of generation units using eligible renewable energy resources that have demonstrably increased generation in excess of ten percent (10%) using eligible renewable energy resources through capital investments made after December 31, 1997; but in no case involve any new impoundment or diversion of water with an average salinity of twenty (20) parts per thousand or less. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• Newly developed renewable energy resources: means electrical generation units that use exclusively an eligible renewable energy resource, and that have neither begun operation, nor have the developers of the units implemented investment or lending agreements necessary to finance the construction of the unit; provided, however, that any projects using eligible renewable energy resources and located within the state of Rhode Island that obtain project financing on or after January 1, 2009, shall qualify as newly developed renewable energy resources for purposes of the first solicitation under this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.1-2
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Nonprofit: means a nonprofit corporation as defined and established through chapter 6 of Title 7, and shall include religious organizations that are tax exempt pursuant to 26 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Nonprofit housing development corporation: means a nonprofit corporation that has been approved as a 26 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Nonregulated power producer: means a company engaging in the business of producing, manufacturing, generating, buying, aggregating, marketing, or brokering electricity for sale at wholesale or for retail sale to the public; provided however, that companies that negotiate the purchase of electric generation services on behalf of customers and do not engage in the purchase and resale of electric generation services shall be excluded from this definition. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Nursing: means the provision of services that are essential to the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health throughout the continuum of life. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-34-3
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• oath: includes affirmation; the word "sworn" includes affirmed; and the word "engaged" includes either sworn or affirmed. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-11
• Obligated entity: means a person or entity who or that sells electrical energy to end-use customers in Rhode Island, including, but not limited to: nonregulated power producers and electric utility distribution companies, as defined in § 39-1-2, supplying standard-offer service, last-resort service, or any successor service to end-use customers, including Narragansett Electric, but not to include Block Island Power Company as described in § 39-26-7 or Pascoag Utility District. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26-2
• 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.
• Office: means the Rhode Island office of energy resources. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Office: means the office of energy resources. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-30-2
• Office: means the Rhode Island office of energy resources. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.2-3
• On-the-job training: means training in the public or private sector that is given to a paid employee while he or she is engaged in productive work and that provides knowledge and skills essential to the full and adequate performance of the job. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• PACE: is a voluntary financing mechanism that allows both residential and commercial property owners to access affordable, long-term financing for energy upgrades, and other eligible environmental health and environmental safety upgrades on their property. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.5-2
• PACE lien: means the non-accelerating lien placed on a PACE property in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the Rhode Island infrastructure bank pursuant to this chapter, in order to secure the repayment of a PACE assessment made in connection with that PACE property and to secure the repayment of each PACE assessment to be made by that PACE property owner as each assessment comes due. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.5-2
• PACE municipality: means a municipality voluntarily designated by its city or town council as a property-assessed clean energy municipality. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.5-2
• Participant: means a person who has been found eligible for assistance in accordance with this chapter and who must comply with all requirements of this chapter, and has entered into an individual employment plan. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Past-due balances: means the sum of the due and unpaid assessments on a PACE property as of the time the ownership of that PACE property is transferred. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.5-2
• Permit: means a permit issued under this chapter or corresponding provisions of earlier laws to a contract carrier by motor vehicle. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Person: means an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, farm, town or city of the state of Rhode Island, multi-municipal collaborative, or the state of Rhode Island or any department of the state government, governmental agency, or public instrumentality of the state. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Person: means an individual, corporation, limited-liability company, partnership, association, trust, or other entity or organization, including an authority. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or a public utility, including a person engaged as a contractor by a public agency and including a public agency. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1.2-1
• Person: means and includes any individual, co-partnership, association, corporation, or other form of organization and their lessees, trustees, or receivers, appointed by any court. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-11-1
• Person: means any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof; and, where the context requires shall include "driver" as defined in this section. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Person: means and includes any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or company, and his, her, or its lessee, trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative, and, where the context requires, "driver" as defined in this section. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14-1
• Person: means and includes any individual, partnership, corporation, or other association of individuals. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14.1-1
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Persons: means individuals, corporations, partnerships, or foreign and domestic associations. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-6.1-1
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Pole: means a utility pole, light pole, light standard, or similar structure that is used, in whole or in part, for telephone service, wireless service, cable television service, information service, electric service, lighting, traffic control, signage, or similar function. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Police department: means the police department of a city or town or the Rhode Island state department. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12.1-2
• Population foci: means focus of the patient population. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-34-3
• Possessory lien: means the right to retain possession of a vehicle and motor vehicle registration plates against all claims of the owner and/or security lien or until all charges are paid for recovery, towing, storage in accordance with the certificated tower's tariff. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12.1-2
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Power purchase agreement: means an agreement:

  (i)  Between a customer and a solar retailer;

  (ii)  For the customer's purchase of electricity generated by a residential solar energy system owned by the solar retailer; and

  (iii)  That provides for the customer to make payments over a term of at least five (5) years. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.8-2

• Private carrier: means any person, other than a common carrier or a contract carrier or an interstate carrier who or that transports in intrastate or interstate commerce by motor vehicle, property of which the person is the owner, lessee, or bailee, when the transportation is for the purpose of sale, lease, rent, or bailment, or in the furtherance of any commercial enterprise. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Program year: means a year beginning April 1 and ending March 31, except for the first program year, that may commence after April 1, 2015, subject to commission approval. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Program year: means a calendar year beginning January 1 and ending December 31. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.2-3
• Project: means a distinct installation of an eligible net-metering system or a community remote net-metering system. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• project: means a distinct installation of an eligible energy-efficiency system, renewable energy net-metering system, distributed-generation system, alternative fuel infrastructure upgrade, and/or other eligible environmental health and environmental safety upgrades. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.5-2
• Promisee: means the promisee and any agents, employees, servants, or independent contractors who are directly responsible to the promisee except for motor carriers party to a motor carrier transportation contract with the promisee, and the motor carrier's agents, employees, servants, or independent contractors directly responsible to the motor carrier. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-13.1-1
• Proper service: means the delivery of a search warrant or an administrative subpoena by hand, by United States mail, by commercial delivery service, by facsimile, or by any other manner to any officer of a corporation or its general manager in the state of Rhode Island to any natural person designated by the entity as its agent for service of process, or if the corporation has designated a corporate agent. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-2-20.1
• property: means any residential property or commercial property that is the subject of an approved application for a PACE project filed pursuant to this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.5-2
• Property: means any or all of the properties of any water supply and distribution system or part thereof, including plants, works, and instrumentalities, and all properties used or useful in connection therewith, and all parts thereof and all appurtenances thereto, including lands, easements, rights in land and water rights, rights-of-way, contract rights, franchises, approaches, connections, dams, reservoirs, water mains and pipelines, pumping stations and equipment, or any other property incidental to and included in the system or part thereof situated within or without the district. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-16-1
• Public agency: means the state or any political subdivision thereof, including any governmental agency. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1.2-1
• Public agency: means the state government and any unit of local government or special purpose district located in whole or in part within the state that provides, or has authority to provide, firefighting, law enforcement, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-21.1-3
• Public crossings: shall mean and refer to those crossings of railroad tracks at grade that have been laid out or built with the consent of the commission expressed in writing as provided in § 39-8-3, or have been designated as public crossings by order of a court of competent jurisdiction. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-8-1.2
• Public entity: means the federal government, the state of Rhode Island, municipalities, wastewater treatment facilities, public transit agencies, or any water distributing plant or system employed for the distribution of water to the consuming public within this state including the water supply board of the city of Providence. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public motor vehicle: means and includes every motor vehicle for hire, other than a jitney, as defined in § 39-13-1, or a taxicab or limited public motor vehicle, as defined in § 39-14-1, used for transporting members of the general public for compensation in unmarked vehicles at a predetermined or prearranged charge to such points as may be directed by the passenger. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14.1-1
• Public safety agency: means a functional division of a public agency that provides firefighting, law enforcement, ambulance, medical, or other emergency services. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-21.1-3
• Public utility: means the owner or operator of underground facilities for furnishing electric, gas, telephone, or water service as defined in § 39-1-2(a)(20); and also means and includes, for the purposes of this chapter only, electric transmission companies and nonregulated power producers, as defined in § 39-1-2(a)(13) and (19); any cable television service; and any water company that voluntarily becomes a member of the association provided for under § 39-1. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1.2-1
• Public utility: means and includes every company that is an electric distribution company and every company operating or doing business in intrastate commerce and in this state as a railroad, street railway, common carrier, gas, liquefied natural gas, water, telephone, telegraph, and pipeline company, and every company owning, leasing, maintaining, managing, or controlling any plant or equipment, or any part of any plant or equipment, within this state for manufacturing, producing, transmitting, distributing, delivering, or furnishing natural or manufactured gas, directly or indirectly, to or for the public, or any cars or equipment employed on, or in connection with, any railroad or street railway for public or general use within this state, or any pipes, mains, poles, wires, conduits, fixtures, through, over, across, under, or along any public highways, parkways, or streets, public lands, waters, or parks for the transmission, transportation, or distribution of gas for sale to the public for light, heat, cooling, or power for providing audio or visual telephonic or telegraphic communication service within this state, or any pond, lake, reservoir, stream, well, or distributing plant or system employed for the distribution of water to the consuming public within this state, including the water supply board of the city of Providence; provided, that, except as provided in § 39-16-9 and in P. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Public utility facilities: means the underground plant and equipment owned and operated by a public utility for the purpose of furnishing electricity, gas, water, cable television, or telephone service; including the underground plant and equipment owned and operated by any water company, not subject to regulation by the administrator of the division of the public utilities, that voluntarily joins the association provided for under § 39-1. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1.2-1
• Publicly used highways: means all public ways, roads, highways, streets, avenues, alleys, boulevards, parks, squares, and bridges and approaches thereto, within this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12-2
• Purchasing cooperatives: shall mean any association of electricity consumers that join for the purpose of negotiating the purchase of power from a nonregulated power producer, provided however, that purchasing cooperatives shall not be required to be legal entities and are prohibited from being engaged in the re-sale of electric power. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Rail properties: means assets or rights, both real and personal, owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by a railroad that are used or useful in providing rail transportation service. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-6.1-1
• Rail service: means both freight and passenger service. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-6.1-1
• Railroad: means and includes every railroad other than a street railway, by whatsoever power, operated for public use in the conveyance in this state of persons or property for compensation, with all bridges, ferries, tunnels, switches, spurs, tracks, stations, wharves, and terminal facilities of every kind, used, operated, controlled, leased, or owned by or in connection with any railroad. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• real estate: may be construed to include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and rights thereto and interests therein. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-10
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recipient: means a person who has been found eligible and receives cash assistance in accordance with this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Registered owner: means the person recorded in the division of motor vehicles as being the one to whom the registration of the vehicle was issued. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12.1-2
• Relative: means a parent, stepparent, grandparent, great grandparent, great-great grandparent, aunt, great-aunt, great-great aunt, uncle, great-uncle, great-great uncle, sister, brother, stepbrother, stepsister, half-brother, half-sister, first cousin, first cousin once removed, niece, great-niece, great-great niece, nephew, great-nephew, or great-great nephew. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Relay method: means the method of responding to a telephone request for emergency service whereby a public safety answering point notes pertinent information and relays it by telephone to the appropriate public safety agency or other provider of emergency services for dispatch of an emergency service unit. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-21.1-3
• 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.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Remote computing service: means the provision to the public of computer storage or processing services by means of an electronic communication system. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-2-20.1
• Renewable energy certificate: means a New England Generation Information System renewable energy certificate as defined in § 39-26-2(14). See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Renewable energy classes: means categories for different renewable energy technologies using eligible renewable energy resources as defined by § 39-26-5, including biogas created as a result of anaerobic digestion, but, specifically excluding all other listed eligible biomass fuels specified in § 39-26-2(6). See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Renewable energy classes: means categories for different renewable energy technologies using eligible renewable energy resources as defined by § 39-26-5. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.2-3
• Renewable energy credit: means a New England Generation Information System renewable energy certificate as defined in § 39-26-2(14);

  (13)  "Small distributed-generation project" means a distributed-generation, renewable energy project that has a nameplate capacity within the following: Solar: fifty kilowatts (50 KW) to five hundred kilowatts (500 KW); Wind: fifty kilowatts (50 KW) to one and one-half megawatts (1. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.2-3

• Renewable net-metering credit: means a credit that applies to an eligible net-metering system or a community remote net-metering system up to one hundred percent (100%) of either the renewable self-generator's usage at the eligible net-metering system site or the sum of the usage of the eligible credit-recipient accounts associated with the community remote net-metering system over the applicable billing period. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Renewable self-generator: means an electric distribution service customer of record for the eligible net-metering system or community remote net-metering system at the eligible net-metering system site which system is primarily designed to produce electrical energy for consumption by that same customer at its distribution service account(s), and/or, with respect to community remote net-metering systems, electrical energy which generates net-metering credits to be applied to offset the eligible credit-recipient account usage. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Resident: means a person who maintains residence by his or her continuous physical presence in the state. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Residential furnace: means a self-contained space heater designed to supply heated air through ducts of more than ten inches (10") length and utilizes only single-phase electric current, or single-phase electric current or DC current in conjunction with natural gas, propane, or home-heating oil, and that:

  (i)  Is designed to be the principal heating source for the living space of one or more residences;

  (ii)  Is not contained within the same cabinet with a central air conditioner whose rated cooling capacity is above sixty-five thousand (65,000) Btu per hour; and

  (iii)  Has a heat input rate of less than two hundred twenty-five thousand (225,000) Btu per hour. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3

• Residential solar energy system: means a solar energy system that:

  (i)  Is installed in the state;

  (ii)  Generates electricity primarily for on-site consumption for personal, family, or household purposes;

  (iii)  Is situated on no more than four (4) units of residential real property;

  (iv)  Has an electricity delivery capacity that exceeds one kilowatt; and

  (v)  Does not include a generator that:

  (A)  Produces electricity; and

  (B)  Is intended for occasional use. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.8-2

• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Rhode Island infrastructure bank: means the Rhode Island infrastructure bank ("RIIB"). See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.5-2
• seal: shall be construed to include an impression of the seal made with or without the use of wax or wafer on the paper. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-15
• Selective call routing: means a feature that routes a 911 call from a central office to the designated public safety answering point based upon the telephone number of the calling party. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-21.1-3
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Shared solar facility: means a single small-scale or medium-scale solar facility that must allocate bill credits to at least two (2), and no more than fifty (50), accounts in the same customer class and on the same or adjacent parcels of land. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Small distributed-generation project: means a distributed-generation renewable energy project that has a nameplate capacity within the following: Wind: fifty kilowatts (50 KW) to one and one-half megawatts (1. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.6-3
• Small wireless facility: means a wireless facility with an antenna of no more than six cubic feet (6 cu. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Solar agreement: means a system purchase agreement, a system lease agreement, or a power purchase agreement. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.8-2
• Solar energy system: means a system or configuration of solar energy devices that collects and uses solar energy to generate electricity. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.8-2
• Solar retailer: means a person who:

  (i)  Sells or proposes to sell a residential solar energy system to a customer under a system purchase agreement;

  (ii)  Owns the residential solar energy system that is the subject of a system lease agreement or proposed system lease agreement; or

  (iii)  Sells or proposes to sell electricity to a customer under a power purchase agreement. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.8-2

• Standard contract: means a contract with a term of fifteen (15) years at a fixed rate for the purchase of all capacity, energy, and attributes generated by a distributed-generation facility. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.2-3
• State: means the state of Rhode Island. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• State planning council: means the state planning council within the division of planning of the department of administration, as established by § 42-11-10. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-18.1-3
• State-regulated incandescent reflector lamp: means a lamp, not colored or designed for rough or vibration service applications, with an inner reflective coating on the outer bulb to direct the light, an E26 medium screw base, a rated voltage or voltage range that lies at least partially within one hundred fifteen to one hundred thirty volts (115 V to 130 V), and that falls into either of the following categories: a blown PAR (BPAR), bulged reflector (BR), or elliptical reflector (ER) bulb shape or similar bulb shape with a diameter equal to or greater than two and one-quarter inches (2. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Street railway: means and includes every railway by whatsoever power operated or any extension or extensions, branch, or branches thereof, for public use in the conveyance in this state of persons or property for compensation, being mainly upon, along, above, or below any street, avenue, road, highway, bridge, or public place in any city or town, and including all switches, spurs, tracks, rights of trackage, subways, tunnels, stations, terminals, and terminal facilities of every kind, used, operated, controlled, or owned by or in connection with any street railway. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• System lease agreement: means an agreement:

  (i)  Under which a customer leases a residential solar energy system from a solar retailer; and

  (ii)  That provides for the customer to make payments over a term of at least five (5) years for the lease of the residential solar energy system. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.8-2

• System purchase agreement: means an agreement under which a customer purchases a residential solar energy system from a solar retailer. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.8-2
• Taxicab: means and includes every motor vehicle for hire, other than a jitney as defined in § 39-13-1, equipped with a taximeter, used for transporting members of the general public for compensation to any place within this state as may be directed by a passenger on a call-and-demand basis, when the solicitation or acceptance of the passenger occurs within the location named in the certificate; provided, that the vehicle's driver may, if and when solicited on a public highway at any location at which he or she is discharging a passenger, which location is not shown in the certificate, provide transportation from the location only to a place named in the certificate. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14-1
• Taximeter: means any instrument or device by which the charge for transportation in any taxicab or limited public motor vehicle is mechanically calculated and indicated by means of figures, either for distances traveled or for waiting time, or for both. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14-1
• Telephone common carrier: means any person, party, or entity that provides communications services for profit between a point of origin and a point of reception by way of a land-line wire connection between the two (2) points. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-21.1-3
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Third party: means and includes any person or entity, other than the renewable self-generator, who or that owns or operates the eligible net-metering system or community remote net-metering system on the eligible net-metering system site for the benefit of the renewable self-generator. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-26.4-2
• Torchiere: means a portable electric lighting fixture with a reflective bowl that directs light upward onto a ceiling so as to produce indirect illumination on the surfaces below. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Tow truck: means any motor vehicle designed and/or ordinarily used for the purpose of towing or removing vehicles or assisting disabled motor vehicles. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12.1-2
• town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
• town council: include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
• Traffic signal module: means a standard eight-inch (8) (two hundred millimeter (200 mm)) or twelve-inch (12) (three hundred millimeter (300 mm)) traffic signal indication, consisting of a light source, a lens, and all other parts necessary for operation. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• 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.
• Transformer: means a device consisting of two (2) or more coils of insulated wire and that is designed to transfer alternating current by electromagnetic induction from one coil to another to change the original voltage or current value. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• Transit property: means and includes any property, whether real or personal, and any apparatus and equipment used or useful in the operation of a motor bus, water, or rail passenger transportation line or system, and includes any rights or franchises to operate any passenger transportation line or system, but it does not include other property or assets. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-18-1
• Transmission facility: means plant or equipment used for the transmission of electricity as determined by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission pursuant to federal law as of the date of the property transfers pursuant to § 39-1-27(c). See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Transportation improvement program: means the transportation improvement program that is created and amended from time to time by the state planning council. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-18.1-3
• Treasurer: means the treasurer of the authority. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-16-1
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Unattended vehicle: means any vehicle other than an "abandoned vehicle" or "abandoned vehicle of no value" that meets the following criteria:

  (i)  Left unoccupied in a place or for a time period prohibited by law or municipal ordinance or so as to cause traffic congestion or hazard; or

  (ii)  From which the operator or owner thereof has been removed by any member of a police department in the performance of his or her official duties; or

  (iii)  Left on public or private property without the consent of the owner or person in control thereof, or one having the exclusive right to the use thereof. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12.1-2

• Unit heater: means a self-contained, vented, fan-type commercial space heater that uses natural gas or propane, and that is designed to be installed without ducts within a heated space, except that such term does not include any products covered by federal standards established pursuant to 42 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8
• Unmarked vehicles: means motor vehicles that do not display the transportation company's name, address, or telephone number, or any advertisements or commercial information beyond that included by the vehicle's manufacturer on the vehicle's exterior surfaces; provided, however, that public motor vehicles that display markings identifying them as service or courtesy vehicles used by licensed healthcare facilities, assisted-living residences, and adult daycare programs, licensed by the Rhode Island department of health, pursuant to chapters 17 and 17. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-14.1-1
• Unsubsidized employment: means full- or part-time employment in the public or private sector that is not subsidized by TANF or any other public program. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Vehicle: means any motor vehicle as defined in § 39-12-2. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-12.1-2
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Vocational educational training: means organized educational programs, not to exceed twelve (12) months with respect to any participant, that are directly related to the preparation of participants for employment in current or emerging occupations. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Water dispenser: means a factory-made assembly that mechanically cools and heats potable water and that dispenses the cooled or heated water by integral or remote means. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-27-3
• wireless facilities: includes small wireless facilities but does not include the structure or improvements on, under, or within which the equipment is collocated; wireline backhaul facilities; coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is between wireless support structures or poles; or coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is otherwise not immediately adjacent to, or directly associated with, an antenna. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Wireless service: means any services using licensed or unlicensed wireless spectrum, whether at a fixed location or mobile, provided using wireless facilities. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Wireless service: means communication services provided over spectrum licensed by or subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-1-2
• Wireless service provider: means a person who provides wireless service, as well as a person who builds, installs, or maintains wireless communications transmission equipment, wireless facilities, or wireless support structures. See Rhode Island General Laws 39-32-1
• Work experience: means a work activity that provides a participant with an opportunity to acquire the general skills, training, knowledge, and work habits necessary to obtain employment. See Rhode Island General Laws 40-5.2-8
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.