Part 1 Intestate Succession 15-2-101 – 15-2-114
Part 2 Succession of Quasi-Community Property — Elective Share of Surviving Spouse 15-2-201 – 15-2-209
Part 3 Spouse and Children Unprovided for in Wills 15-2-301 – 15-2-302
Part 4 Exempt Property and Allowances 15-2-401 – 15-2-406
Part 5 Wills 15-2-501 – 15-2-513
Part 6 Rules of Construction 15-2-601 – 15-2-616
Part 7 Contractual Arrangements Relating to Death 15-2-701
Part 8 General Provisions 15-2-801 – 15-2-804
Part 9 Custody and Deposit of Wills 15-2-902
Part 10 Will Registry 15-2-1001
Part 11 Uniform Electronic Wills Act 15-2-1101 – 15-2-1111

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Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 15 > Chapter 2 - Intestate Succession — Wills

  • Acquisition: means the process of procuring property. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Administrator: means the administrator of the division of purchasing as created by section 67-9204, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Administrator: means the director of the Idaho department of finance or his designee. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • 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.
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • Affordable housing: means housing affordable to families whose incomes do not exceed eighty percent (80%) of the median income for the service area or areas within the jurisdiction of the governmental entity. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Agency: means all officers, departments, divisions, bureaus, boards, commissions and institutions of the state, including the public utilities commission, but excluding:
Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Agent: means an individual, other than a broker-dealer, who represents a broker-dealer in effecting or attempting to effect purchases or sales of securities or who represents an issuer in effecting or attempting to effect purchases or sales of the issuer's securities. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • 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.
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • 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.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • Appropriate: means to legally obligate by contract or otherwise commit to use by appropriation or other official act of a governmental entity. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • 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
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Authority: means the Idaho energy resources authority created pursuant to section 67-8904, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 67-8903
  • Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
  • Bailiff: a court officer who enforces the rules of behavior in courtrooms.
  • Bank: means :
  • Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • 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.
  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Bid: means a written offer to perform a contract to sell or otherwise supply property in response to a solicitation. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Bidder: means a vendor who has submitted a bid on property to be acquired by the state. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Board: means the board of directors of the authority. See Idaho Code 67-8903
  • bond bank authority: means the Idaho bond bank authority. See Idaho Code 67-8702
  • Bonds: means bonds, notes or other obligations of the authority issued under this chapter. See Idaho Code 67-8702
  • Bonds: means any bonds, notes, certificates or other obligations or evidences of indebtedness issued by the authority. See Idaho Code 67-8903
  • Broker-dealer: means a person engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities for the account of others or for the person's own account. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Capital improvements: means improvements with a useful life of ten (10) years or more, by new construction or other action, which increase the service capacity of a public facility. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Capital improvements plan: means a plan adopted pursuant to this chapter that identifies capital improvements for which development impact fees may be used as a funding source. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Clean energy: means energy derived from biogas, biomass, hydrogen, waste heat, manufacturing process byproducts, hydroelectric, geothermal, nuclear, solar, or wind resources, or any other noncarbon dioxide emitting source. See Idaho Code 67-8903
  • Clean energy generation project: means :
  • Idaho Code 67-8903
  • Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
  • Commission: means the Idaho public utilities commission created pursuant to section 61-201, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 67-8903
  • Common disaster: A sudden and extraordinary misfortune that brings about the simultaneous or near-simultaneous deaths of two or more associated persons, such as husband and wife.
  • Communication technology: means an electronic device or process that:
  • Idaho Code 15-2-1102
  • Community: means a group of people linked by common policy, common social interests and interaction with one another. See Idaho Code 67-9003
  • Compensatory mitigation: means the restoration, re-establishment or rehabilitation, establishment or creation, enhancement, and in certain circumstances preservation of aquatic resources for the purpose of offsetting unavoidable adverse impacts that remain after all appropriate and practicable avoidance and minimization have been achieved. See Idaho Code 67-9502
  • Compensatory mitigation project: means compensatory mitigation implemented by the permittee as a requirement of a corps of engineers section 404 wetland permit, i. See Idaho Code 67-9502
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: means an agreement for the acquisition of property, including a purchase order. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contractor: means a vendor who has been awarded a contract. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • 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.
  • Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • 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.
  • Depository institution: means :
  • Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Developer: means any person or legal entity undertaking development, including a party that undertakes the subdivision of property pursuant to sections 50-1301 through 50-1334, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Development: means any construction or installation of a building or structure, or any change in use of a building or structure, or any change in the use, character or appearance of land, which creates additional demand and need for public facilities or the subdivision of property that would permit any change in the use, character or appearance of land. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Development approval: means any written authorization from a governmental entity that authorizes the commencement of a development. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Development impact fee: means a payment of money imposed as a condition of development approval to pay for a proportionate share of the cost of system improvements needed to serve development. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Director: means the director of the department of administration as created by section 67-5701, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Donee: The recipient of a gift.
  • Effective date: means the date the rates of contributions based on the valuation become effective pursuant to subsection (1) of this section. See Idaho Code 1-2004A
  • Electric cooperative: means a cooperative corporation or association that is:
  • Idaho Code 67-8903
  • Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Idaho Code 15-2-1102
  • Electronic presence: means the relationship of two (2) or more individuals in different locations communicating in real time by means of communication technology. See Idaho Code 15-2-1102
  • Electronic will: means a will executed electronically in compliance with section 15-2-1105(1), Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 15-2-1102
  • EMS: means emergency medical services. See Idaho Code 67-8806
  • EMS provider: means an emergency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician, or paramedic licensed by the department of health and welfare pursuant to sections 56-1011 through 56-1018B, Idaho Code, and an ambulance-based clinician as defined in the rules governing emergency medical services as adopted by the department of health and welfare. See Idaho Code 67-8806
  • End date: means the date twenty-five (25) years after the valuation date. See Idaho Code 1-2004A
  • 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.
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Exceptional meritorious conduct: means an act of bravery and self-sacrifice, at the risk of serious injury or loss of one’s own life, which is so conspicuous as to clearly distinguish the individual above his comrades. See Idaho Code 67-8806
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Extraordinary impact: means an impact that is reasonably determined by the governmental entity to:
  • Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Facility: means any facility necessary, used or useful in connection with the generation, transmission or distribution of electric power and energy and any clean energy generation project, in each case including but not limited to all real and personal property, fuel supplies and transportation facilities, pollution control facilities, battery and other energy storage facilities, and all equipment and improvements necessary or desirable in connection with a facility. See Idaho Code 67-8903
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Federal covered investment adviser: means a person registered under the investment advisers act of 1940, as cited in section 30-14-103, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Federal covered security: means a security that is, or upon completion of a transaction will be, a covered security under section 18(b) of the securities act of 1933 (15 U. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. Source: OCC
  • Fee payer: means that person who pays or is required to pay a development impact fee. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Filing: means the receipt under this chapter of a record by the administrator or a designee of the administrator. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Firefighter: means a volunteer member or paid employee whose primary duty is preventing, extinguishing, or investigating fires and who prevents, extinguishes, or investigates fires as part of a fire district, fire department, or agency that is a part of or administered by the state or any political subdivision thereof. See Idaho Code 67-8806
  • 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.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Good cause: includes , but is not limited to:
  • Idaho Code 1-2001
  • Governmental entity: means any unit of local government that is empowered in this enabling legislation to adopt a development impact fee ordinance. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • 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
  • Guaranteed: means guaranteed as to payment of all principal and all interest. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
  • 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.
  • Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
  • Honorable conditions: means an honorable discharge or a general discharge "under honorable conditions. See Idaho Code 67-9403
  • impacts: means adverse effects. See Idaho Code 67-9502
  • Independent power producer: means any public or private corporation that is not itself a participating utility, but which may be an affiliate of a participating utility, that develops any clean energy generation project undertaken by the authority pursuant to this chapter. See Idaho Code 67-8903
  • Institutional investor: means any of the following, whether acting for itself or for others in a fiduciary capacity:
  • Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Insurance company: means a company organized as an insurance company whose primary business is writing insurance or reinsuring risks underwritten by insurance companies and which is subject to supervision by the insurance commissioner or a similar official or agency of a state. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Insured: means insured as to payment of all principal and all interest. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • International banking institution: means an international financial institution of which the United States is a member and whose securities are exempt from registration under the securities act of 1933. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Investment adviser: means a person that, for compensation, engages in the business of advising others, either directly or through publications or writings, as to the value of securities or the advisability of investing in, purchasing or selling securities or that, for compensation and as a part of a regular business, issues or promulgates analyses or reports concerning securities. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Issuer: means a person that issues or proposes to issue a security, subject to the following:
  • Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • 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.
  • Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
  • Land use assumptions: means a description of the service area and projections of land uses, densities, intensities, and population in the service area over at least a twenty (20) year period. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Law enforcement officer: means a volunteer member or a paid employee of a police or law enforcement agency that is a part of or administered by the state, a federally recognized Indian tribe, or any political subdivision of the state whose primary duties are the prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of the laws of this state or any of its political subdivisions. See Idaho Code 67-8806
  • 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
  • Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Level of service: means a measure of the relationship between service capacity and service demand for public facilities. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Licensing authority: means any agency, bureau, commission, department, division, or professional or occupational licensing board charged with granting, suspending, or revoking the license, certificate, registration, permit, or other authorization of any person to practice a profession or occupation, including but not limited to the professional and occupational licensing boards within the department of self-governing agencies. See Idaho Code 67-9403
  • Licensure: means a license, certificate, registration, permit, or other authorization of any person to practice a profession or occupation. See Idaho Code 67-9403
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Lowest responsible bidder: means the responsible bidder whose bid reflects the lowest acquisition price to be paid by the state, except that when specifications are valued or comparative performance evaluations are conducted, the results of such examinations and the relative score of valued specifications will be weighed, as set out in the specifications, in determining the lowest acquisition price. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Magistrate judges: Judicial officers who assist U.S. district judges in getting cases ready for trial, who may decide some criminal and civil trials when both parties agree to have the case heard by a magistrate judge instead of a judge.
  • Manufactured home: means a structure, constructed according to HUD/FHA mobile home construction and safety standards, transportable in one (1) or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight (8) feet or more in width or is forty (40) body feet or more in length, or when erected on site, is three hundred twenty (320) or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein, except that such term shall include any structure that meets all the requirements of this subsection except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the secretary of housing and urban development and complies with the standards established under 42 U. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Military: means the armed forces or reserves of the United States, including the army, navy, marine corps, coast guard, air force, and the reserve components thereof, the national guard of any state, the military reserves of any state, or the naval militia of any state. See Idaho Code 67-9403
  • Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
  • Modular building: is a s defined in section 39-4301, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Municipality: means any county, city, municipal corporation, school district, irrigation district, sewer district, water district, highway district or other special purpose district or political subdivision of the state established by law. See Idaho Code 67-8702
  • National rural development partnership: means the organization created by the national rural development partnership act (7 U. See Idaho Code 67-9003
  • nonissuer distribution: means a transaction or distribution not directly or indirectly for the benefit of the issuer. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • 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.
  • Offer to purchase: includes an attempt or offer to obtain, or solicitation of an offer to sell, a security or interest in a security for value. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Offer to sell: includes every attempt or offer to dispose of, or solicitation of an offer to purchase, a security or interest in a security for value. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Open contract: means a contract awarded by the state through the division of purchasing as a result of a competitive solicitation to one (1) or more vendors who have agreed to allow all agencies to procure specified property under the terms and conditions set forth in the contract. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Participating utility: means , with respect to any facilities undertaken by the authority pursuant to this chapter, any public or private corporation, electric cooperative or other cooperative corporation or association, municipal corporation, political subdivision of this state or another state, state or federal agency, joint operating entity or other entity that:
  • Idaho Code 67-8903
  • Partnership: means the Idaho rural development partnership established by section 67-9004, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 67-9003
  • 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.
  • Permittee: means any person making application for a federal clean water act section 404 permit from the United States army corps of engineers. See Idaho Code 67-9502
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, joint venture, proprietorship, club or any other legal entity. See Idaho Code 67-9101
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person;
  • Idaho Code 73-114
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, governmental subdivision or agency, or public or private organization or entity of any character. See Idaho Code 67-9502
  • Person: means an individual; corporation; business trust; estate; trust; partnership; limited liability company; association; joint venture; government; governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or any other legal or commercial entity. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, evidences of debt and general intangibles as defined in the uniform commercial code — secured transactions. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
  • Present value: means the total current monetary value of past, present, or future payments, contributions or dedications of goods, services, materials, construction or money. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
  • Price amendment: means the amendment to a registration statement filed under the securities act of 1933 or, if an amendment is not filed, the prospectus or prospectus supplement filed under the securities act of 1933 that includes a statement of the offering price, underwriting and selling discounts or commissions, amount of proceeds, conversion rates, call prices, and other matters dependent upon the offering price. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Procure: means to obtain property for state use in a manner other than by gift including, but not limited to, purchase, lease or rent. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Project: means a particular development on an identified parcel of land. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Project improvements: means site improvements and facilities that are planned and designed to provide service for a particular development project and that are necessary for the use and convenience of the occupants or users of the project. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Projected salaries: means the sum of the annual salaries of all justices and judges. See Idaho Code 1-2004A
  • Property: means goods, services, parts, supplies and equipment, both tangible and intangible, including, but not limited to, designs, plans, programs, systems, techniques and any rights or interests in such property. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Proportionate share: means that portion of the cost of system improvements determined pursuant to section 67-8207, Idaho Code, which reasonably relates to the service demands and needs of the project. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Public facilities: means :
  • Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • range: means an area owned by the state of Idaho or a state agency for the public use of rifles, shotguns, pistols, silhouettes, skeet, trap, black powder, archery or any other similar sport shooting. See Idaho Code 67-9101
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Idaho Code 15-2-1102
  • Recreational vehicle: means a vehicular type unit primarily designed as temporary quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use, which either has its own motive power or is mounted on or drawn by another vehicle. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Registered mail: includes certified mail. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • required debt service reserve: means , as of the date of computation, the amount required to be on deposit in the reserve fund as provided by resolution of the authority. See Idaho Code 67-8713
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • retirement board: as used in this chapter shall mean the retirement board created by section 59-1304, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 1-2001
  • Revenues: means all receipts, purchase payments, loan repayments, lease payments, rents, fees and charges, and all other income or receipts derived by the authority from a participating utility. See Idaho Code 67-8903
  • Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
  • Sale: includes every contract of sale, contract to sell, or disposition of, a security or interest in a security for value. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Scheduled amortization amount: means the actuarial present value of future contributions payable as amortization payment from the valuation date until the effective date. See Idaho Code 1-2004A
  • seal: includes an impression of such seal upon the paper, alone, as well as upon wax or a wafer affixed thereto; or, alternatively, the seal may be the mark of a rubber stamp providing substantially the same information as the impression. See Idaho Code 73-111
  • Securities and exchange commission: means the United States securities and exchange commission. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Security: means a note; stock; treasury stock; security future; bond; debenture; evidence of indebtedness; certificate of interest or participation in a profit-sharing agreement; collateral trust certificate; preorganization certificate or subscription; transferable share; investment contract; voting trust certificate; certificate of deposit for a security; fractional undivided interest in oil, gas or other mineral rights; put, call, straddle, option or privilege on a security, certificate of deposit, or group or index of securities, including an interest therein or based on the value thereof; put, call, straddle, option, or privilege entered into on a national securities exchange relating to foreign currency; or, in general, an interest or instrument commonly known as a "security"; or a certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • Serious injury: means any injury that causes great bodily harm and a probability of death, any injury that causes significant permanent disfigurement, or any injury that causes a significant permanent loss or impairment of the function of any body part or organ. See Idaho Code 67-8806
  • Service area: means any defined geographic area identified by a governmental entity or by intergovernmental agreement in which specific public facilities provide service to development within the area defined, on the basis of sound planning or engineering principles or both. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Service unit: means a standardized measure of consumption, use, generation or discharge attributable to an individual unit of development calculated in accordance with generally accepted engineering or planning standards for a particular category of capital improvements. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • 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.
  • Sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
  • Idaho Code 15-2-1102
  • Sole source: means the only vendor from whom specific property is available to procure. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Solicitation: means an invitation to bid, a request for proposal or a request for quote issued pursuant to this chapter for the purpose of procuring property. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Specifications: means the standards or requirements for property to be procured as explicitly stated in a solicitation or contract. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Idaho Code 30-14-102
  • State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Idaho Code 15-2-1102
  • State agency: means each state board, commission, department or officer, but does not include the legislative or judicial branches, executive officers listed in section 1, article IV, of the constitution of the state of Idaho, in the exercise of powers derived directly and exclusively from the constitution, the state militia, or the state board of correction. See Idaho Code 67-9502
  • State institution of higher education: means Boise state university, Idaho state university or Lewis-Clark state college. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • State sales tax account: means any fund or account in the state treasury in which state sales tax moneys are deposited, but only to the extent moneys in such fund or account are attributable to the state sales tax moneys. See Idaho Code 67-8702
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • System improvement costs: means costs incurred for construction or reconstruction of system improvements, including design, acquisition, engineering and other costs attributable thereto, and also including, without limitation, the type of costs described in section 50-1702(h), Idaho Code, to provide additional public facilities needed to serve new growth and development. See Idaho Code 67-8203
  • Tamper-evident: means a feature of an electronic record whereby evidence of any change to the electronic record is preserved. See Idaho Code 15-2-1102
  • Testate: To die leaving a will.
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Trustor: The person who makes or creates a trust. Also known as the grantor or settlor.
  • Unfunded actuarial liability: means the excess of the actuarial present value of (i) over the sum of the actuarial present values of (ii), (iii) and (iv) as follows, all determined by the valuation as of the valuation date:
  • Idaho Code 1-2004A
  • 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
  • User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
  • Valuation: means the most recent annual actuarial valuation. See Idaho Code 1-2004A
  • Valuation date: means the date of such valuation. See Idaho Code 1-2004A
  • Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
  • Vendor: means a person or entity capable of supplying property to the state. See Idaho Code 67-9203
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
  • Veteran: means any person who has been discharged or released from active duty in the armed forces under honorable conditions provided the person has served on active duty for a minimum of one hundred eighty (180) consecutive days. See Idaho Code 67-9403
  • Will: includes a codicil and any testamentary instrument that merely appoints an executor, revokes or revises another will, nominates a guardian, or expressly excludes or limits the right of an individual or class to succeed to property of the decedent passing by intestate succession. See Idaho Code 15-2-1102