Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 53B > Chapter 15 - Collection of Student Loans from Public Employees

• Ballot: means the storage medium, including a paper, mechanical, or electronic storage medium, that records an individual voter's vote. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• Board: means the Utah Board of Higher Education described in Section 53B-1-402. See Utah Code 53B-1-101.5
• bound: means securing more than one piece of paper together using staples or another means in at least three places across the top of the paper in the blank space reserved for securing the paper. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• Candidates for elective office: means persons who file a declaration of candidacy under Section 20A-9-202 to run in a regular general election for a federal office, constitutional office, multicounty office, or county office. See Utah Code 20A-9-101
• Canvass: means the review of election returns and the official declaration of election results by the board of canvassers. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Continuing political party: means the same as that term is defined in Section 20A-8-101. See Utah Code 20A-9-101
• Convention: means the political party convention at which party officers and delegates are selected. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• 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.
• County office: means an elective office where the officeholder is selected by voters entirely within one county. See Utah Code 20A-9-101
• Disposable earnings: means the part of an employee's earnings remaining after the deduction of all amounts required by law to be withheld. See Utah Code 53B-15-101
• Election: means a regular general election, a municipal general election, a statewide special election, a local special election, a regular primary election, a municipal primary election, and a special district election. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
• Election officer: means :

  (a)	the lieutenant governor, for all statewide ballots and elections;

  (b)

  the county clerk for: (i)  a county ballot and election; and (ii)  a ballot and election as a provider election officer as provided in Section 20A-5-400. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Electronic candidate qualification process: means : (a)  as it relates to a registered political party that is not a qualified political party, the process for gathering signatures electronically to seek the nomination of a registered political party, described in: (i)  Section 20A-9-403; (ii)  Section 20A-9-405, except Subsections 20A-9-405(3) and (5); and (iii)  Section 20A-21-201; and (b)  as it relates to a qualified political party, the process, for gathering signatures electronically to seek the nomination of a registered political party, described in: (i)  Section 20A-9-405, except Subsections 20A-9-405(3) and (5); (ii)  Section 20A-9-408; and (iii)  Section 20A-21-201. See Utah Code 20A-9-101 Filing officer: means : (a)  the lieutenant governor, for: (i)  the office of United States Senator and United States Representative; and (ii)  all constitutional offices; (b)  for the office of a state senator, state representative, or the state school board, the lieutenant governor or the applicable clerk described in Subsection (7)(c) or (d); (c)  the county clerk, for county offices and local school district offices; (d)  the county clerk in the filer's county of residence, for multicounty offices; (e)  the city or town clerk, for municipal offices; or (f)  the special district clerk, for special district offices. See Utah Code 20A-9-101 Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt. Local political subdivision: means a county, a municipality, a local district, or a special school district. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Manual candidate qualification process: means the process for gathering signatures to seek the nomination of a registered political party, using paper signature packets that a signer physically signs. See Utah Code 20A-9-101 Municipal office: means an elective office in a municipality. See Utah Code 20A-9-101 Municipal primary election: means an election held to nominate candidates for municipal office. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Municipality: means a city, town, or metro township. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 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. Official ballot: means the ballots distributed by the election officer for voters to record their votes. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Political division: includes a county, a city, a town, a special district, a school district, a legislative district, and a county prosecution district. See Utah Code 20A-9-101 Political party: means an organization of registered voters that has qualified to participate in an election by meeting the requirements of Chapter 8, Political Party Formation and Procedures. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Polling place: means a building where voting is conducted. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Position: means a square, circle, rectangle, or other geometric shape on a ballot in which the voter marks the voter's choice. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents. Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Public employee: means any employee, officer, or servant of the state of Utah, or any office, department, agency, authority, commission, board, institution, hospital, college, university, or other instrumentality of the state, or of any county, city, town, school district, special improvement or taxing district, or any other political subdivision or public corporation of or within the state. See Utah Code 53B-15-101 qualified: means to take the oath of office and begin performing the duties of the position for which the individual was elected. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Registration form: means a form by which an individual may register to vote under this title. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Regular general election: means the election held throughout the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year for the purposes established in Section 20A-1-201. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Regular primary election: means the election, held on the date specified in Section 20A-1-201. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Resident: means a person who resides within a specific voting precinct in Utah. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Signature: includes a name, mark, or sign written with the intent to authenticate an instrument or writing. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision. Voter: means an individual who: (a)  meets the requirements for voting in an election; (b)  meets the requirements of election registration; (c)  is registered to vote; and (d)  is listed in the official register book. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 Voting precinct: means the smallest geographical voting unit, established under 3. See Utah Code 20A-1-102