Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 3 > Article 5 > Chapter 9 - Government Employees and Volunteer Firefighters Holding Office

• account: refers to the retirement medical benefits account established by section 11 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 5-10-8.5-2
• administrator: means :

  Indiana Code 5-10-8.1-1

• Americans with Disabilities Act: refers to the Americans with Disabilities Act (42 U. See Indiana Code 5-10-5.5-1
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Attorney: includes a counselor or other person authorized to appear and represent a party in an action or special proceeding. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Autism: means a neurological condition as described in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Average annual salary: means the average annual salary of an officer during the five (5) years of highest annual salary in the ten (10) years immediately preceding an officer's retirement date, determined without regard to any salary reduction agreement established under Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Indiana Code 5-10-5.5-1
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• 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}
• Board: refers to the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system established by Indiana Code 5-10-5.5-1
• clean claim: means a claim submitted by a provider for payment under a health benefit plan that has no defect, impropriety, or particular circumstance requiring special treatment preventing payment. See Indiana Code 5-10-8.1-2
• Commission: means the alcohol and tobacco commission. See Indiana Code 5-10-5.5-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Department: means the Indiana department of natural resources. See Indiana Code 5-10-5.5-1
• department: refers to the state personnel department established under Indiana Code 5-10-8.5-4
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dies in the line of duty: means death that occurs as a direct result of personal injury or illness caused by incident, accident, or violence that results from any action that the participant, in the participant's capacity as an officer:

  Indiana Code 5-10-5.5-1

• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• employer: means the following:

  Indiana Code 5-10-8.5-5

• 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 public employees' retirement fund established under Indiana Code 5-10-8.5-6
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• government employee: refers to an employee of a unit. See Indiana Code 3-5-9-2
• 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.
• health benefit plan: means a self-insurance program established to provide group health coverage as described in IC 5-10-8-7(b), or a contract for health services as described in IC 5-10-8-7(c). See Indiana Code 5-10-8.1-4
• in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Interest: means the rate of interest specified by rule by the board of trustees of the Indiana public retirement system established by Indiana Code 5-10-5.5-1
• 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}
• 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
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• medical record: means written or printed information possessed by a provider (as defined in Ind. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Officer: means any Indiana state excise police officer, any Indiana state conservation enforcement officer, any gaming agent, or any gaming control officer. See Indiana Code 5-10-5.5-1
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Participant: means any officer who has elected to participate in the retirement plan created by this chapter. See Indiana Code 5-10-5.5-1
• participant: means an individual for whom a subaccount is established under section 14 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 5-10-8.5-8
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• 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
• provider: has the meaning set forth in IC 27-8-11-1. See Indiana Code 5-10-8.1-5
• 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.
• retired participant: means the following:

  Indiana Code 5-10-8.5-9

• Salary: means the total compensation, exclusive of expense allowances, paid to any officer by the department or the commission, determined without regard to any salary reduction agreement established under Section 125 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Indiana Code 5-10-5.5-1
• Sheriff: means the sheriff of the county or another person authorized to perform sheriff's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• subaccount: means a participant's allocable share of the account. See Indiana Code 5-10-8.5-10
• 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.
• unit: means a county, city, town, or township. See Indiana Code 3-5-9-3
• 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