Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 26 > Chapter 103 > Subchapter 2 - Administration

• 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.
• Communication technology: means an electronic device or process operating in accordance with section 5380 of this chapter and any standards adopted by the Office pursuant to section 5323 of this chapter that:

• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the 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.
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See
• Fees: shall mean earnings due for official services, aside from salaries or per diem compensation. See
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Identity proofing: means a process or service operating in accordance with section 5380 of this chapter and any standards adopted by the Office pursuant to section 5323 of this chapter by which a third person provides a notary public with a means to verify the identity of a remotely located individual by a review of personal information from public or private data sources. See
• Month: shall mean a calendar month and "year" shall mean a calendar year and be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. See
• Notarial act: means an act, whether performed with respect to a tangible or an electronic record, that a notary public may perform under the law of this State. See
• Notary public: means an individual commissioned to perform a notarial act by the Office. See
• Office: means the Office of Professional Regulation within the Office of the Secretary of State. See
• Person: shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. See
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See
• Remotely located individual: means an individual who is not in the physical presence of the notary public who performs a notarial act under section 5379 of this chapter. See
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U. See