Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes > Joint Airport Authorities Act

• ABET: means an entity incorporated as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3403.01
• Acquire: when used in connection with a grant of power or property right to any person shall include the purchase, grant, gift, devise, bequest, and obtaining by eminent domain. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Action: shall include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Action shall: include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• 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.
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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
• Architect: means a person who is licensed by the board to practice architecture. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3404
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney: shall mean attorney at law. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Board: means the Board of Engineers and Architects. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3405
• Board: means the Board of Geologists. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3504
• Building: means any structure used, or intended to be used, to support, shelter, or enclose any use or occupancy. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3405.02
• Building official: means a person appointed by the state or a political subdivision having responsibility for the public safety and welfare and the enforcement of building codes with regard to buildings and other structures within such person's jurisdiction. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3405.01
• Commission: means the Nebraska Tourism Commission. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3704
• Company: shall include any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint-stock company, joint venture, or association. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consulting geologist: means a professional geologist whose principal occupation is the independent practice of geology. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3505
• Continuing education: means the process of training and developing knowledge related to a profession after licensure is attained. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3506
• Continuing education: means lifelong learning and training relevant to a licensee's professional practice. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3407
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Coordinating professional: means a licensee who coordinates, as appropriate, the work of all licensees involved in a project. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3408
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dangerous sex offender: means (a) a person who suffers from a mental illness which makes the person likely to engage in repeat acts of sexual violence, who has been convicted of one or more sex offenses, and who is substantially unable to control his or her criminal behavior or (b) a person with a personality disorder which makes the person likely to engage in repeat acts of sexual violence, who has been convicted of two or more sex offenses, and who is substantially unable to control his or her criminal behavior. See Nebraska Statutes 83-174.01
• Department: shall mean the Division of Developmental Disabilities of the Department of Health and Human Services. See Nebraska Statutes 83-1204
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Design: means the preparation of schematics, layouts, plans, drawings, specifications, calculations, and other diagnostic documents which show the features of an architectural or engineering project. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3409
• Developmental disability: shall mean a severe, chronic disability, including an intellectual disability, other than mental illness, which:

  (1) Is attributable to a mental or physical impairment unless the impairment is solely attributable to a severe emotional disturbance or persistent mental illness. See Nebraska Statutes 83-1205

• Direct supervision: means the degree of supervision by a person overseeing the work of another person by which the supervisor has control over and detailed professional knowledge of the work being done. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3507
• Direct supervision: means having full professional knowledge and control over work that constitutes the practice of architecture or engineering. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3411
• Director: shall mean the Director of Developmental Disabilities of the Division of Developmental Disabilities. See Nebraska Statutes 83-1206
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Domestic: when applied to corporations shall mean all those created by authority of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Emeritus: means an architect or professional engineer who has relinquished his or her license and who is approved by the board to use the honorary title emeritus. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3412
• Engineer-intern: means a person who has been duly enrolled as an engineer-intern by the board. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3414
• 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.
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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.
• Foreign: when applied to corporations shall include all those created by authority other than that of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Geologist: means a person who is qualified to practice geology by reason of special knowledge and use of the earth sciences and the principles of geology and geologic data collection and analysis acquired by geologic education and geologic experience as provided in section 81-3539. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3509
• Geologist-intern: means a person who has passed an examination in the fundamentals of geology as provided in section 81-3540. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3509.01
• Geology: means the science which includes treatment of the earth and its origin and history, in general. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3510
• Geology means the science which: includes treatment of the earth and its origin and history, in general. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3510
• Good character: means such character as will enable a person to discharge the fiduciary duties of a geologist to his or her client and to the public for the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3512
• Good ethical character: means such character as will enable a person to discharge the fiduciary duties of an architect or professional engineer to his or her client and to the public for the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3416
• Grantee: shall include every person to whom any estate or interest passes in or by any conveyance. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Grantee shall: include every person to whom any estate or interest passes in or by any conveyance. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• 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.
• Highway tourism marker: means a marker of a particular style authorized by the commission to designate tourism attractions. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3706.01
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Intellectual disability: means significant subaverage general intellectual functioning which is associated with significant impairments in adaptive functioning manifested before the age of twenty-two years. See Nebraska Statutes 83-1206.01
• 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.
• 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.
• Licensee: means a licensed architect or professional engineer. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3416.02
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Likely to engage in repeat acts of sexual violence: means the person's propensity to commit sex offenses resulting in serious harm to others is of such a degree as to pose a menace to the health and safety of the public. See Nebraska Statutes 83-174.01
• Month: shall mean calendar month. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• 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.
• Organization: includes a partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or other form of business entity. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3514
• Organization: means a business entity created by law, including, but not limited to, a partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or joint venture. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3418
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• 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.
• Peace officer: shall include sheriffs, coroners, jailers, marshals, police officers, state highway patrol officers, members of the National Guard on active service by direction of the Governor during periods of emergency, and all other persons with similar authority to make arrests. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• person: shall be construed to practice architecture, within the meaning and intent of the Engineers and Architects Regulation Act, if he or she:

  (a) Practices the profession of architecture or holds himself or herself out as able and entitled to practice architecture. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3420

• Person shall: include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Person who suffers from a mental illness: means an individual who has a mental illness as defined in section 71-907 . See Nebraska Statutes 83-174.01
• Person with a personality disorder: means an individual diagnosed with a personality disorder. See Nebraska Statutes 83-174.01
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Practice of architecture: means providing or offering to provide design services in connection with the construction, enlargement, or alteration of a building or group of buildings and the space within and surrounding the buildings. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3420
• Practice of engineering: means any service or creative work that requires engineering education, training, and experience in the application of special knowledge of the mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3421
• Practice of geology: means any service or creative work if the adequate performance of the service or work requires geologic education, training, and experience to include such services or creative work as geological consultation, investigation, planning, surveying, mapping, and inspection of geological work, and the responsible supervision thereof, the performance of which is related to public welfare or the safeguarding of life, health, property, and the environment, and teaching, including research and service, of advanced geological subjects. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3515
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Process: shall mean a summons, subpoena, or notice to appear issued out of a court in the course of judicial proceedings. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Professional engineer: means a person who is licensed by the board to practice engineering. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3422
• Professional geologist: means a geologist who has a current certificate of licensure issued by the board. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3516
• Project: means one or more related activities that require the practice of architecture or engineering for completion. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3422.01
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public service provider: means any political subdivision which employs or appoints an architect or a professional engineer to be in responsible charge of the political subdivision's architectural or engineering work. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3423
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Responsible charge: means direct control, direction, and personal supervision by use of initiative and independent judgment for geological work. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3518
• Responsible charge: means the management of the technical and financial aspects of engineering or architectural work through an organization. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3425
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Rules and regulations: means rules and regulations adopted and promulgated under the Engineers and Architects Regulation Act by the board. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3426
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Sex offense: means any of the offenses listed in section 29-4003 for which registration as a sex offender is required. See Nebraska Statutes 83-174.01
• Specialized program: shall mean an agency, organization, association, or other entity which provides specialized services. See Nebraska Statutes 83-1207
• Specialized service: shall mean a service provided specifically for persons with developmental disabilities. See Nebraska Statutes 83-1208
• State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Substantially unable to control his or her criminal behavior: means having serious difficulty in controlling or resisting the desire or urge to commit sex offenses. See Nebraska Statutes 83-174.01
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Technical submissions: means designs, drawings, specifications, studies, and other technical reports. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3519
• Technical submissions: means designs, drawings, specifications, studies, and other technical reports that constitute, or may be prepared in conjunction with, a project. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3427
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Tourism industry: includes any person or other entity, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, that promotes an activity, an event, or a site which attracts both instate and out-of-state visitors, including, but not limited to, a chamber of commerce, a convention and visitors bureau, the hospitality industry, the food and beverage industry, the hotel industry, a passenger transportation provider, any business or organization engaged in recreational, historical, cultural, artistic, or entertainment pursuits, and any person who owns or operates any such activity, event, or site. See Nebraska Statutes 81-3709.01
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• United States: shall include territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Violate: shall include failure to comply with. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801