Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 14A > Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Business: includes every trade, occupation, and profession. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Business trust: means a business trust governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter 386 or a statutory trust governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter
  386A. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Certified mail: means any method of governmental, commercial, or electronic delivery that allows a document or package to have proof of:
  (a) Sending the document or package. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Corporation: means a business corporation governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter 271B, a cooperative or association governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter 272, a nonprofit corporation governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter 273, and a rural electric or rural telephone cooperative corporation governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter 279. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Directors: when applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Domestic: when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• electronically transmitted: means any process of communication not directly involving the physical transfer of paper that is suitable for the retention, retrieval, and reproduction of information by the recipient. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Entity: means a corporation, business or statutory trust, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, limited cooperative association, or unincorporated nonprofit association, governed as to its internal affairs by the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• 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.
• Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Foreign: when applied to a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, statutory trust, or limited liability company, includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Foreign limited cooperative association: means a limited cooperative association that is not:
  (a) Organized pursuant to the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Foreign limited liability partnership: means a partnership that:
  (a) Is formed under laws other than the laws of this Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Foreign rural electric cooperative: means a rural electric cooperative organized otherwise than under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• 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.
• Limited cooperative association: means a limited cooperative association governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter 272A. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Limited liability partnership: means a partnership that has filed a statement of qualification under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• Organizational filing: means a filing made with the Secretary of State as a precondition to the formation, organization, or incorporation of an entity, including articles of incorporation, articles of organization, articles of association, certificates of trust, and certificates of limited partnership. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Organized: means organized, incorporated, or formed. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• 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: means an association of two (2) or more persons to carry on as co- owners a business for profit formed under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Partnership agreement: means the agreement, whether written, oral, or implied, among the partners concerning the partnership, including amendments to the partnership agreement. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Person: means an individual, an entity, a foreign entity, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Principal office: means the address required by this chapter or the organic act to be of record with the Secretary of State as the principal office, the principal place of business address, the designated office of a limited partnership, or the chief executive office of a limited liability partnership. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Property: means all property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Registered agent: means a registered agent appointed in accordance with KRS
  14A. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Registered office: means the registered office identified in accordance with and
  satisfying the requirements of KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Regulatory board: means the agency that is charged by law with the licensing and regulation of the practice of the profession which the entity is organized to provide. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Rural electric cooperative: means a rural electric cooperative governed as to its internal affairs by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Rural telephone cooperative: means a rural telephone cooperative governed as to its internal affairs by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Series entity: means an entity or a foreign entity authorized and enabled by its organic act and organizational filing to create series having separate rights, powers, or duties with respect to specific property or obligations of the series entity, or the profits and losses associated with specific property or obligations. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statutory trust: means a trust governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter
  386A. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Veteran-owned business: means a business:
  (a) That is at least fifty-one percent (51%) unconditionally owned by one (1) or more veterans. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010