Terms Used In CFR > Title 31 > Subtitle B > Chapter V > Part 592 > Subpart F - Penalties

• Act: refers to the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. See 47 CFR 54.5
• 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.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• broadband internet access service: has the meaning given such term in 47 CFR 8. See 47 CFR 54.1600
• broadband provider: means a provider of broadband internet access service. See 47 CFR 54.1600
• Commission: means the Federal Communications Commission. See 47 CFR 54.1600
• community anchor institutions: refers to schools, libraries, health care providers, community colleges, other institutions of higher education, and other community support organizations and entities. See 47 CFR 54.5
• connected device: means a laptop or desktop computer or a tablet. See 47 CFR 54.1600
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• economic unit: consists of all adult individuals contributing to and sharing in the income and expenses of a household. See 47 CFR 54.1600
• eligible household: means , regardless of whether the household or any member of the household receives support under subpart E of 47 CFR part 54 (or any successor regulation), and regardless of whether any member of the household has any past or present arrearages with a broadband provider, a household in which—

  (1) At least one member of the household meets the qualifications 47 CFR 54. See 47 CFR 54.1600

• Eligible telecommunications carrier: means a carrier designated as such under subpart C of this part. See 47 CFR 54.5
• emergency broadband benefit: means a monthly discount for an eligible household applied to the actual amount charged to such household, which shall be no more than the standard rate for an internet service offering and associated equipment, in an amount equal to such amount charged, but not more than $50, or, if an internet service offering is provided to an eligible household on Tribal land, not more than $75. See 47 CFR 54.1600
• emergency period: means the period that—

  (1) Begins on the date of the enactment of the Consolidated Appropriations Act; and

  (2) Ends on the date that is 6 months after the date on which the determination by the Secretary of Health and Human Services pursuant to section 319 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U. See 47 CFR 54.1600

• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• High-cost support: refers to those support mechanisms provided pursuant to subparts D, J, K, L, M, and O of this part. See 47 CFR 54.5
• household: is a ny individual or group of individuals who are living together at the same address as one economic unit. See 47 CFR 54.1600
• Income: means gross income as defined under section 61 of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U. See 47 CFR 54.1600
• Internet access: includes the following elements:

  (1) The transmission of information as common carriage; and

  (2) The transmission of information as part of a gateway to an information service, when that transmission does not involve the generation or alteration of the content of information, but may include data transmission, address translation, protocol conversion, billing management, introductory information content, and navigational systems that enable users to access information services, and that do not affect the presentation of such information to users. See 47 CFR 54.5

• internet service offering: means , with respect to a broadband provider, broadband internet access service provided by such provider to a household, offered in the same manner, and on the same terms, as described in any of such provider's offerings for broadband internet access service to such household, as on December 1, 2020. See 47 CFR 54.1600
• 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.
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• National Lifeline Accountability Database: is a n electronic system, with associated functions, processes, policies and procedures, to facilitate the detection and elimination of duplicative support, as directed by the Commission. See 47 CFR 54.1600
• National Verifier: is a n electronic and manual system with associated functions, processes, policies and procedures, to facilitate the determination of consumer eligibility for the Lifeline program and Emergency Broadband Benefit Program, as directed by the Commission. See 47 CFR 54.1600
• 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.
• participating provider: means a broadband provider that—

  (1)(i) Is designated as an eligible telecommunications carrier; or

  (ii) Meets requirements established by the Commission for participation in the Emergency Broadband Benefit Program and is approved by the Commission under 47 CFR 54. See 47 CFR 54.1600

• 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.
• 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.
• Rural incumbent local exchange carrier: is a carrier that meets the definitions of "rural telephone company" and "incumbent local exchange carrier" as those terms are defined in § 51. See 47 CFR 54.5
• 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.
• standard rate: means the monthly retail rate for the applicable tier of broadband internet access service as of December 1, 2020, excluding any taxes or other governmental fees. See 47 CFR 54.1600
• Technically feasible: means capable of accomplishment as evidenced by prior success under similar circumstances. See 47 CFR 54.5
• telecommunications carrier: is a ny provider of telecommunications services, except that such term does not include aggregators of telecommunications services as defined in section 226 of the Act. See 47 CFR 54.5
• Tribal lands: include any federally recognized Indian tribe's reservation, pueblo or colony, including former reservations in Oklahoma, Alaska Native regions established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. See 47 CFR 54.5
• Tribal lands: include any Federally recognized Indian tribe's reservation, pueblo, or colony, including former reservations in Oklahoma; Alaska Native regions established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. See 47 CFR 54.1600