Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 123 - Prohibition On Release and Use of Certain Personal Information From State Motor Vehicle Records

• agency: includes any department, independent establishment, commission, administration, authority, board or bureau of the United States or any corporation in which the United States has a proprietary interest, unless the context shows that such term was intended to be used in a more limited sense. See 16 USC 7144
• Archivist: means the Archivist of the United States. See 44 USC 2901
• association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families, as established under section 12311 of this title. See 42 USC 12302
• community referral services: means services to assist families in obtaining community resources, including health care, mental health care, employability development and job training, and other social services. See 42 USC 12332
• department: means one of the executive departments enumerated in section 1 of Title 5, unless the context shows that such term was intended to describe the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of the government. See 16 USC 7144
• family resource and support programs: means community-based services that offer sustained assistance to families at various stages in their development. See 42 USC 12352
• follow up services: means services provided to ensure that necessary services are received by families and are effective in meeting their needs. See 42 USC 12332
• independent State body: means the entity established under section 12336 of this title. See 42 USC 12332
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• oath: includes affirmation, and "sworn" includes affirmed. See 1 USC 1
• officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
• organization: means a person other than an individual. See 16 USC 7644
• outreach services: means services provided to ensure (through home visits or other methods) that parents are aware of and able to participate in family resource and support program activities. See 42 USC 12332
• recorded information: includes all traditional forms of records, regardless of physical form or characteristics, including information created, manipulated, communicated, or stored in digital or electronic form. See 44 USC 3301
• records: has the meaning given it by section 3301 of this title. See 44 USC 2901
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Health and Human Services. See 42 USC 12302
• State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
• State: includes the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. See 42 USC 12302
• student: means an individual who is enrolled in an institution of higher education on a full- or part-time basis. See 42 USC 12561
• United States: as used in this title in a territorial sense, includes all places and waters, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, except the Canal Zone. See 16 USC 7143a
• vehicle: includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land. See 1 USC 4
• writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1