Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 31A > Chapter 8a > Part 1 - General Provisions

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• 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.
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Cigarette: means a roll made wholly or in part of tobacco:

  (a)	regardless of: (i)  the size of the roll; (ii)  the shape of the roll; (iii)  whether the tobacco is flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredient; or (iv)  whether the tobacco is heated or burned; and

  (b)

  if the roll has a wrapper or cover that is made of paper or any other substance or material except tobacco. See Utah Code 59-14-102 Cigarette rolling machine: means a device or machine that has the capability to produce at least 150 cigarettes in less than 30 minutes. See Utah Code 59-14-102 Cigarette rolling machine operator: means a person who: (a)  (i)  controls, leases, owns, possesses, or otherwise has available for use a cigarette rolling machine; and (ii)  makes the cigarette rolling machine available for use by another person to produce a cigarette; or (b)  offers for sale, at retail, a cigarette produced from the cigarette rolling machine. See Utah Code 59-14-102 Consumer: means a person that is not required: (a)  under Section 59-14-201 to obtain a license under Section 59-14-202; (b)  under Section 59-14-301 to obtain a license under Section 59-14-202; or (c)  to obtain a license under Section 59-14-803. See Utah Code 59-14-102 Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Electronic cigarette: means the same as that term is defined in Section 76-10-101. See Utah Code 59-14-102 Electronic cigarette product: means the same as that term is defined in Section 76-10-101. See Utah Code 59-14-102 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. Fee: means any periodic charge for use of a discount program. See Utah Code 31A-8a-102 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. Health care: means any of the following intended for use in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation, or prevention of a human ailment or impairment: (a)  a professional service; (b)  a personal service; (c)  a facility; (d)  equipment; (e)  a device; (f)  supplies; or (g)  medicine. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Health discount program: means a business arrangement or contract in which a person pays fees, dues, charges, or other consideration in exchange for a program that provides access to health care providers who agree to provide a discount for health care services. See Utah Code 31A-8a-102 Health discount program marketer: means a person, including a private label entity, that markets, promotes, sells, or distributes a health discount program but does not operate a health discount program. See Utah Code 31A-8a-102 Health discount program operator: means a person that provides a health discount program by entering into a contract or agreement, directly or indirectly, with a person or persons in this state who agree to provide discounts for health care services to enrollees of the health discount program and determines the charge to members. See Utah Code 31A-8a-102 Importer: means a person that imports into the United States, either directly or indirectly, a finished cigarette for sale or distribution. See Utah Code 59-14-102 Indian tribal entity: means a federally recognized Indian tribe, tribal entity, or any other person doing business as a distributor or retailer of cigarettes on tribal lands located in the state. See Utah Code 59-14-102 Insurance: includes : (i)  a risk distributing arrangement providing for compensation or replacement for damages or loss through the provision of a service or a benefit in kind; (ii)  a contract of guaranty or suretyship entered into by the guarantor or surety as a business and not as merely incidental to a business transaction; and (iii)  a plan in which the risk does not rest upon the person who makes an arrangement, but with a class of persons who have agreed to share the risk. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 License: includes a certificate of authority issued to an insurer. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Little cigar: means a roll for smoking that: (a)  is made wholly or in part of tobacco; (b)  uses an integrated cellulose acetate filter or other similar filter; and (c)  is wrapped in a substance: (i)  containing tobacco; and (ii)  that is not exclusively natural leaf tobacco. See Utah Code 59-14-102 manufacturer: means a person that: (i)  manufactures, fabricates, assembles, processes, or labels a finished cigarette; or (ii)  makes, modifies, mixes, manufactures, fabricates, assembles, processes, labels, repackages, relabels, or imports an electronic cigarette product or a nicotine product. See Utah Code 59-14-102 Marketing: means making or causing to be made any communication that contains information that relates to a product or contract regulated under this chapter. See Utah Code 31A-8a-102 Member: means a person having membership rights in an insurance corporation. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Moist snuff: means tobacco that: (a)  is finely cut, ground, or powdered; (b)  has at least 45% moisture content, as determined by the commission by rule made in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act; (c)  is not intended to be: (i)  smoked; or (ii)  placed in the nasal cavity; and (d)  except for single-use pouches of loose tobacco, is not packaged, produced, sold, or distributed in single-use units, including: (i)  tablets; (ii)  lozenges; (iii)  strips; (iv)  sticks; or (v)  packages containing multiple single-use units. See Utah Code 59-14-102 Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Nicotine: means the same as that term is defined in Section 76-10-101. See Utah Code 59-14-102 Nicotine product: means the same as that term is defined in Section 76-10-101. See Utah Code 59-14-102 Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 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 Rate: means : (i)  the cost of a given unit of insurance; or (ii)  for property or casualty insurance, that cost of insurance per exposure unit either expressed as: (A)  a single number; or (B)  a pure premium rate, adjusted before the application of individual risk variations based on loss or expense considerations to account for the treatment of: (I)  expenses; (II)  profit; and (III)  individual insurer variation in loss experience. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Retailer: means a person that: (a)  sells or distributes a cigarette, an electronic cigarette product, or a nicotine product to a consumer in the state; or (b)  intends to sell or distribute a cigarette, an electronic cigarette product, or a nicotine product to a consumer in the state. See Utah Code 59-14-102 Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims. Stamp: means the indicia required to be placed on a cigarette package that evidences payment of the tax on cigarettes required by Section 59-14-205. See Utah Code 59-14-102 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 Tobacco product: includes : (i)  a cigarette produced from a cigarette rolling machine; (ii)  a little cigar; or (iii)  moist snuff. See Utah Code 59-14-102 Tribal lands: means land held by the United States in trust for a federally recognized Indian tribe. See Utah Code 59-14-102 United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5