Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 3 > Article 13 > Chapter 5 - Vacancies in Legislative Offices

• Adjournment sine die: The end of a legislative session "without day." These adjournments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual or the two-year session of legislature.
• 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
• archeological plan: means a plan for the systematic recovery, analysis, and disposition by scientific methods of material evidence and information about the life and culture in past ages. See Indiana Code 14-21-1-8
• artifact: means :

  Indiana Code 14-21-1-2

• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• burial ground: means ground in which human remains are buried, including the surrounding area that is either:

  Indiana Code 14-21-1-3

• burial object: means any item intentionally placed in a burial ground at or near the time of burial. See Indiana Code 14-21-1-4
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• Clerk: means the clerk of the court or a person authorized to perform the clerk's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• commission: refers to the Wendell L. See Indiana Code 14-20-11-1
• commission: refers to the Lewis and Clark expedition commission established by section 3 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-20-15-2
• 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.
• council: refers to the advisory council established by IC 14-9-6-1. See Indiana Code 14-21-1-5
• development plan: means :

  Indiana Code 14-21-1-8

• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• 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.
• 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.
• fund: refers to the Wendell L. See Indiana Code 14-20-11-2
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• grave memorial: refers to a gravestone, monument, grave marker, or any other type of similar item. See Indiana Code 14-21-2-2
• Highway: includes county bridges and state and county roads, unless otherwise expressly provided. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• human remains: means any part of the body of a human being in any:

  Indiana Code 14-21-1-7

• Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• plan: refers to :

  Indiana Code 14-21-1-8

• 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.
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• register: refers to the register of Indiana historic sites and historic structures established under this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-21-1-9
• 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.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• review board: refers to the historic preservation review board established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 14-21-1-10
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5