Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 3 > Article 7 > Chapter 27 - County Voter Registration; Offices and Records Generally

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• 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.
• 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.
• Beverage: includes , but is not limited to, any alcoholic beverage. See Indiana Code 6-9-12-1
• board of managers: means the special funds board of managers created under section 2 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 6-9-1-1
• charges for mobile telecommunications service: means any charge for or associated with the provision of commercial mobile radio service, as defined in Section 20. See Indiana Code 6-8.1-15-1
• Clerk: means the clerk of the court or a person authorized to perform the clerk's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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.
• customer: means :

  Indiana Code 6-8.1-15-2

• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• designated data base provider: means a corporation, an association, or other entity representing the state and political subdivisions of the state that is responsible for providing an electronic data base under section 15 of this chapter and approved by the department. See Indiana Code 6-8.1-15-3
• enhanced ZIP code: means a United States postal ZIP code of nine (9) or more digits. See Indiana Code 6-8.1-15-4
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Food: includes , but is not limited to, any food product. See Indiana Code 6-9-12-1
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• home service provider: means the facilities based carrier or reseller with which the customer contracts for the provision of mobile telecommunications service. See Indiana Code 6-8.1-15-5
• in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• income tax return: means any of the following:

  Indiana Code 6-8.1-17-1

• income tax return preparer: means any of the following:

  Indiana Code 6-8.1-17-2

• 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
• 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.
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• licensed service area: means the geographic area in which the home service provider is authorized by law or contract to provide commercial mobile radio service to the customer. See Indiana Code 6-8.1-15-6
• mobile telecommunications service: means commercial mobile radio service, as defined in Section 20. See Indiana Code 6-8.1-15-7
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• 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.
• payroll service provider: means a third party service provider that is authorized to prepare and file returns, withdraw funds and hold the funds in the payroll service provider's bank account, remit payment, and take other similar reporting and compliance actions on behalf of a business client with regard to that client's tax withholding and remittance duties under IC 6-3-4-8. See Indiana Code 6-8.1-18-1
• place of primary use: means the street address representative of where the customer's use of the mobile telecommunications service primarily occurs, which must be:

  Indiana Code 6-8.1-15-8

• Population: has the meaning set forth in Ind. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• prepaid telephone calling service: means the right to purchase exclusively telecommunications service that must be paid for in advance that enables the origination of calls using an access number or authorization code, or both, whether manually or electronically dialed, if the remaining amount of units of service that has been prepaid is known by the provider of the prepaid service on a continuous basis. See Indiana Code 6-8.1-15-9
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• PTIN: means the preparer tax identification number that the Internal Revenue Service issues to identify tax return preparers under 26 U. See Indiana Code 6-8.1-17-3
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• 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.
• reseller: means a provider who purchases telecommunications service from another telecommunications service provider and then resells, uses as a component part of, or integrates the purchased service into a mobile telecommunications service. See Indiana Code 6-8.1-15-10
• responsible person: means an officer or director of a payroll service provider, or an employee or any other person affiliated with a payroll service provider, who is responsible for collecting, accounting for, and paying withholding taxes on behalf of a business client of the payroll service provider. See Indiana Code 6-8.1-18-2
• serving carrier: means a facilities based carrier providing mobile telecommunications service to a customer outside a home service provider's or reseller's licensed service area. See Indiana Code 6-8.1-15-11
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5