Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 16 > Article 41 > Chapter 11 - Communicable Disease: Training in Health Precautions for Communicable Diseases

• 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.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• employer: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 16-41-11-1
• facility: means a building where an individual handles blood or other body fluids in the regular course of the individual's employment. See Indiana Code 16-41-11-2
• in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• universal precautions: means procedures specified by rule adopted by the state department under IC 4-22-2 that are used to prevent the transmission of serious communicable diseases through blood or other body fluids. See Indiana Code 16-41-11-3