Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 67 > Chapter 1b - Transition to New Gubernatorial Administration

• 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.
• Board of canvassers: means the state board of canvassers created in Section 20A-4-306. See Utah Code 67-1b-102
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuing care: means furnishing or providing access to an individual, other than by an individual related to the individual by blood, marriage, or adoption, of lodging together with nursing services, medical services, or other related services pursuant to a contract requiring an entrance fee. See Utah Code 31A-44-102
• Continuing care contract: means a contract under which a provider provides continuing care to a resident. See Utah Code 31A-44-102
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Insurance Department. See Utah Code 31A-1-301
• Entrance fee: includes a monthly fee, assessed at a rate that is greater than the value of the provider's monthly services, that a resident agrees to pay in exchange for acceptance into a facility or a promise of future monthly fees assessed at a rate that is less than the value of the services rendered. See Utah Code 31A-44-102
• Executive branch: means :

  (i)	the governor, the governor's staff, and the governor's appointed advisors;

  (ii)	the lieutenant governor and lieutenant governor's staff;

  (iii)

  cabinet level officials;

  (iv)	except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), an agency, board, department, division, committee, commission, council, office, or other administrative subunit of the executive branch of state government;

  (v)

  except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), a cabinet officer, elected official, executive director, or board or commission vested with: (A)  policy making and oversight responsibility for a state executive branch agency; or (B)  authority to appoint and remove the director of a state executive branch agency;

  (vi)	executive ministerial officers;

  (vii)

  each gubernatorial appointee to a state board, committee, commission, council, or authority;

  (viii)

  each executive branch management position, as defined in Section 67-1-1. See Utah Code 67-1b-102 Facility: means a place in which a person provides continuing care pursuant to a continuing care contract. See Utah Code 31A-44-102 Filed: means that a filing is: (i)  submitted to the department as required by and in accordance with applicable statute, rule, or filing order; (ii)  received by the department within the time period provided in applicable statute, rule, or filing order; and (iii)  accompanied by the appropriate fee in accordance with: (A)  Section 31A-3-103; or (B)  rule. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Governor-elect: means , during a transition period, an individual whom the board of canvassers determines to be the successful candidate for governor after a general election for the office of governor, if that successful candidate is an individual other than the incumbent governor. See Utah Code 67-1b-102 Ground lease: means a lease to a provider of the land and infrastructure improvements to the land on which a facility is located. See Utah Code 31A-44-102 Ground lessor: means , for a facility subject to a ground lease, the owner and lessor of the land and infrastructure improvements to the land on which the facility is located. See Utah Code 31A-44-102 Incoming gubernatorial administration: means a governor-elect, a governor-elect's staff, a lieutenant governor-elect, and a lieutenant governor-elect's staff. See Utah Code 67-1b-102 Individual: means a natural person. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Insolvent: means : (a)  having generally ceased to pay debts in the ordinary course of business other than as a result of a bona fide dispute; (b)  being unable to pay debts as they become due; or (c)  being insolvent within the meaning of federal bankruptcy law. See Utah Code 31A-44-102 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 Lieutenant governor-elect: means , during a transition period, an individual whom the board of canvassers determines to be the successful candidate for lieutenant governor after a general election for the office of lieutenant governor, if that successful candidate is an individual other than the incumbent lieutenant governor. See Utah Code 67-1b-102 Office of the Legislative Fiscal Analyst: means the office created in Section 36-12-13. See Utah Code 67-1b-102 Order: means an order of the commissioner. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program. Person: includes : (a)  an individual; (b)  a partnership; (c)  a corporation; (d)  an incorporated or unincorporated association; (e)  a joint stock company; (f)  a trust; (g)  a limited liability company; (h)  a reciprocal; (i)  a syndicate; or (j)  another similar entity or combination of entities acting in concert. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Personal property: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Personal property: All property that is not real property. Proceeding: includes an action or special statutory proceeding. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Provider: means : (i)  the owner of a facility; (ii)  a person, other than a resident, that claims a possessory interest in a facility; or (iii)  a person who enters into a continuing care contract with a resident or potential resident. See Utah Code 31A-44-102 real property: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Record: means the same as that term is defined in Section 63G-2-103. See Utah Code 67-1b-102 Resident: means an individual entitled to receive continuing care in a facility pursuant to a continuing care contract. See Utah Code 31A-44-102 Sell: means to exchange a contract of insurance: (a)  by any means; (b)  for money or its equivalent; and (c)  on behalf of an insurance company. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Transition period: means the period of time beginning the day after the meeting of the board of canvassers under Section 20A-4-306 in a year in which the board of canvassers determines that the successful candidate for governor is an individual other than the incumbent governor, and ending on the first Monday of the next January. See Utah Code 67-1b-102