Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes > Chapter 199 - Citizens utility board

• 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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
• Board: means the board of directors of the corporation. See Wisconsin Statutes 199.03
• Campaign contribution: means a gift, subscription, loan, advance or deposit of money or anything of value, made for the purpose of electing a candidate to the board; or a contract, promise or agreement, express or implied, whether or not legally enforceable, to make any campaign contribution; but does not include the value of services provided without compensation by individuals who volunteer a portion or all of their time on behalf of a candidate or political committee, or the use of real or personal property and the cost of invitations, food, and beverages, voluntarily provided by an individual to a candidate in rendering voluntary personal services on the individual's residential premises for candidate-related activities if the cumulative value of the activities to the individual on behalf of any candidate does not exceed $100 for any election. See Wisconsin Statutes 199.03
• Campaign expenditure: means a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, or gift of money or anything of value, made for the purpose of electing a candidate to the board; or a contract, promise, or agreement, express or implied, whether or not legally enforceable, to make any campaign expenditure; but does not include the use of real or personal property and the cost of invitations, food, and beverages, voluntarily provided by an individual to a candidate in rendering voluntary personal services on the individual's residential premises for candidate-related activities if the cumulative value of the activities by the individual on behalf of any candidate does not exceed $100 for any election. See Wisconsin Statutes 199.03
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: means the citizens utility board. See Wisconsin Statutes 199.03
• 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.
• Director: means any member of the board. See Wisconsin Statutes 199.03
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• District: means a corporation district, the boundaries of which are congruent with the boundaries of the congressional districts in the state. See Wisconsin Statutes 199.03
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols or figures. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• Member: means any person who satisfies the requirements for membership under…. See Wisconsin Statutes 199.03
• Minor: means a person who has not attained the age of 18 years, except that for purposes of investigating or prosecuting a person who is alleged to have violated a state or federal criminal law or any civil law or municipal ordinance, "minor" does not include a person who has attained the age of 17 years. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
• 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.
• Officers: when applied to corporations include directors and trustees. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
• 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.
• Periodic customer billing: means a notice required by law or an invoice listing charges submitted to a residential utility customer on a monthly or other regular basis by a public utility to whom the corporation furnishes an enclosure under…. See Wisconsin Statutes 199.03
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, evidences of debt and energy. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Political committee: means any committee, club, association or other group of persons which makes campaign expenditures or receives campaign contributions during the year before an election of the board. See Wisconsin Statutes 199.03
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Preceding: when used by way of reference to any statute section, means the section next preceding that in which the reference is made. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
• Public utility: includes any person engaged in the transmission or delivery of natural gas for compensation within this state by means of pipes or mains. See Wisconsin Statutes 199.03
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Residential utility consumer: includes , but is not limited to, an individual engaged in farming as defined under…. See Wisconsin Statutes 199.03
• seal: includes the word "seal" the letters "L S" and a scroll or other device intended to represent a seal, if any is affixed in the proper place for a seal, as well as an impression of a seal on the instrument. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Town: may be construed to include cities, villages, wards or districts. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
• Utility service: means electricity, natural gas, water and telecommunications service supplied by a public utility. See Wisconsin Statutes 199.03
• Village: means incorporated village. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01