Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 4-2 - Commercial Feeds

• ADA: means the American with Disabilities Act, 42 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-107-4
• Advanced placement: means a college-level class taught at the high school level that provides students the opportunity to earn college credit upon passage of an exam that:

  (i)  Incorporates all topics specified by the College Board on its standards syllabus for a given subject area; and

  (ii)  Is authorized by the College Board. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-98-2

• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• 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.
• Brand name: means any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination identifying the commercial feed of a distributor or registrant and distinguishing it from that of others. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• Certificate of limited partnership: means the certificate required by § 7-13. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
• College Board: means and refers to the nonprofit organization that develops and administers standardized tests and curricula used by kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12) and postsecondary education institutions to promote college readiness. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-98-2
• Commercial feed: means all materials except whole seeds unmixed or physically altered entire unmixed seeds, when not adulterated within the meaning of § 4-2-7, which are distributed for use as feed or for mixing in feed. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• 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.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract feeder: means a person who as an independent contractor, feeds commercial feed to animals pursuant to a contract whereby that commercial feed is supplied, furnished, or otherwise provided to that person and whereby that person's remuneration is determined all or in part by feed consumption, mortality, profits, or amount or quality of product. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• 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 formula feed: means commercial feed which consists of a mixture of commercial feeds and/or ingredients each batch of which is manufactured according to the specific instructions of the final purchaser. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deliver: means either physically transferring a paper document to the secretary of state or transferring a document to the secretary of state by electronic transmission through a medium provided and authorized by the secretary of state. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
• Department: means the Rhode Island department of elementary and secondary education. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-98-2
• Distribute: means to offer for sale, sell, exchange, or barter, commercial feed; or to supply, furnish, or otherwise provide commercial feed to a contract feeder. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• Distribution: means a transfer of money or other property from a limited partnership to a person on account of a transferable interest or in the person's capacity as a partner. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
• Distributor: means any person who distributes. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Drug: means any article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in animals other than humans and articles other than feed intended to affect the structure or any function of the animal body. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• educational entities: means all Rhode Island school districts, including a single school district, regional school district, multiple school districts, any public or private school grades kindergarten through twelve (K-12), any charter public school, or any career and technical high school. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-111-1
• Eligible teacher: means a professional employee who is certified in the subject area of the advanced placement course that he or she will be teaching. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-98-2
• Entity: means the Rhode Island department of elementary and secondary education, its subagencies and state agency(s) and local municipalities from which it collects demographic data. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-108-2
• 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}
• 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.
• exam: means the test provided by the College Board to measure a student's mastery of the advanced placement subject matter. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-98-2
• FAFSA: means the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form;

  (3)  "Mandatory fees and tuition" are the costs that every student is required to pay in order to enroll in classes, and does not include room and board, textbooks, program fees that may exist in some majors, course fees that may exist for some specific courses, meal plans, or travel;

  (4)  "On track to graduate on time" means the standards determined by the community college of Rhode Island in establishing the expectation of a student to graduate with an associate's degree within two (2) years of enrollment (recognizing that some students, including students who require developmental education, are double majors, or are enrolled in certain professional programs may require an extended time period for degree completion);

  (5)  "Reasonable accommodations" means any necessary modifications or adjustment to a facility, equipment, program, or manner of operation as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-107-4

• Feed ingredient: means each of the constituent materials making up a commercial feed. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• 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.
• General partner: means a person that:

  (i)  Has become a general partner under § 7-13. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102

• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• 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
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• 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.
• Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon or affixed to the container in which a commercial feed is distributed, or on the invoice or delivery slip with which a commercial feed is distributed. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matter:

  (i)  Upon a commercial feed or any of its containers or wrapper; or

  (ii)  Accompanying that commercial feed. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3

• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Limited partner: means a person that:

  (i)  Has become a limited partner under § 7-13. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102

• Manufacture: means to grind, mix, or blend, or further process a commercial feed for distribution. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• 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 sample: means a sample of feed taken by the director or his or her agent in accordance with § 4-2-10(c), (e), or (f). See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Partner: means a limited partner or general partner. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
• 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.
• Partnership agreement: means the agreement, whether or not referred to as a partnership agreement and whether oral, implied, in a record, or in any combination thereof, of all the partners of a limited partnership concerning the matters described in § 7-13. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
• percentages: means percentages by weights. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• Person: means individual, partnership, corporation, and association. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• Person: means an individual, business corporation, nonprofit corporation, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, general cooperative association, limited cooperative association, unincorporated nonprofit association, cooperative housing corporation, workers' cooperative, producers' cooperative, consumer's cooperative, statutory trust, business trust, common-law business trust, estate, trust, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
• 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.
• Pet: means any domesticated animal normally maintained in or near the household(s) of the owner(s). See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• Poverty level: means students whose family income is at or below one hundred eighty-five percent (185%) of federal poverty guidelines. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-98-2
• Principal office: means the principal executive office of a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership, whether or not the office is located in this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
• Product name: means the name of the commercial feed which identifies it as to kind, class, or specific use. See Rhode Island General Laws 4-2-3
• Program: means furtherance of the advanced placement classes in the public schools and includes teacher training and increased student participation. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-98-2
• Property: means all property, whether real, personal, or mixed or tangible or intangible, or any right or interest therein. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
• 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
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Recipient student: means a student attending the community college of Rhode Island who qualifies to receive the Rhode Island promise scholarship pursuant to § 16-107-6;

  (7)  "Scholarship program" means the Rhode Island promise scholarship program that is established pursuant to § 16-107-3;

  (8)  "State" means the state of Rhode Island; and

  (9)  "Student with a disability" means any student otherwise eligible pursuant to § 16-107-6 who has a physical, developmental, or hidden disability or disabilities, as defined in § 42-87-1, that would create a hardship or other functional obstacles preventing participation in this program. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-107-4

• 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.
• Required information: means the information that a limited partnership is required to maintain under § 7-13. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
• right of contribution: means property or a benefit described in § 7-13. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
• School district: means any public school district, school unit, area-vocational-technical school, charter school, or mayoral academy that composes a school district; the term also encompasses a single high school or multiple high schools within a school district where applicable. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-98-2
• Sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:

  (i)  To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or

  (ii)  To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound, or process. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102

• Southeast Asian: means individuals who identify with one or more ethnic groups originating from the countries in the Southeast Asian region, including Cambodia, the Philippines, Laos, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-108-2
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Teacher training entities: means institutions of higher education, intermediate units or organizations approved/certified by the College Board to train teachers to teach advanced placement courses. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-98-2
• 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
• Transfer: includes :

  (i)  An assignment;

  (ii)  A conveyance;

  (iii)  A sale;

  (iv)  A lease;

  (v)  An encumbrance, including a mortgage or security interest;

  (vi)  A gift; and

  (vii)  A transfer by operation of law. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102

• Transferable interest: means the right, as initially owned by a person in the person's capacity as a partner, to receive distributions from a limited partnership, whether or not the person remains a partner or continues to own any part of the right. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
• Transferee: means a person to which all or part of a transferable interest has been transferred, whether or not the transferor is a partner. See Rhode Island General Laws 7-13.1-102
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8
• Virtual learning instruction: means providing academic courses to students via the Internet and/or the use of technology in providing instruction to students. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-98-2
• Waste audit: means an analysis of a facility's waste stream. See Rhode Island General Laws 16-111-1