Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 20 > Chapter 72 > Subchapter II > Part 2

• 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 19 USC 2295
• 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.
• digital literacy skills: means the skills associated with--

  (A) using technology to enable users to find, evaluate, organize, create, and communicate information. See 20 USC 9101

• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 19 USC 2297
• library: includes --

  (A) a public library. See 20 USC 9122

• 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.
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Interior. See 16 USC 825m
• State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. See 21 USC 360eee-1
• State library administrative agency: means the official agency of a State charged by the law of the State with the extension and development of public library services throughout the State. See 20 USC 9122
• whoever: include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals. See 19 USC 2291