Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 3 > Article 9 > Chapter 4 - Administration by Election Division and County Election Boards

• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• authority: refers to the Indiana finance authority. See Indiana Code 8-14-15.2-1
• authority: refers to the Indiana finance authority established by Indiana Code 8-14-17-1
• authority: refers to the Indiana finance authority or its successor. See Indiana Code 8-14.5-7-1
• authority: refers to the Indiana finance authority established by Indiana Code 8-15-3-0.5
• 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.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• department: refers to the Indiana department of transportation. See Indiana Code 8-14-17-2
• department: refers to the Indiana department of transportation. See Indiana Code 8-15-3-2
• 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}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• federal highway revenues: means :

  Indiana Code 8-14.5-7-2

• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• financial institutions: means and includes any bank or trust company, credit union, bank of discount and deposit, savings bank, loan and trust and safe deposit company, trust company, savings association, mortgage guaranty company, and small loan company organized under any law of the state of Indiana. See Indiana Code 8-15-1-2
• 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 a local major moves construction fund established under section 4 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 8-14-16-2
• fund: refers to the alternative transportation construction fund established by section 4 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 8-14-17-3
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Highway: includes county bridges and state and county roads, unless otherwise expressly provided. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• highway improvement project: means a highway project for which the department may use federal highway revenues. See Indiana Code 8-14.5-7-4
• in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• insurance company: means and includes any stock, mutual, reciprocal, assessment or fraternal benefit company or society writing any life, fire, livestock, casualty, health, hospital, accident or bonding insurance or reinsurance, which company or society is organized under the laws of the state of Indiana. See Indiana Code 8-15-1-2
• 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}
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• 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.
• Personal property: includes goods, chattels, evidences of debt, and things in action. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Population: has the meaning set forth in Ind. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• principal of the trust: means an amount equal to two hundred fifty million dollars ($250,000,000). See Indiana Code 8-14-15.2-2
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• public road: includes any public highway, road, and street in the state (including any toll road or tollway), whether maintained by the state, a county, a city, a town, or any other political subdivision or body corporate and politic separate from the state but exercising powers constituting essential government functions. See Indiana Code 8-15-3-4
• real property: include lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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.
• revenue: means any toll, rental, gift, grant, appropriation, money, or other funds or property coming into the possession or under the control of the department under this chapter. See Indiana Code 8-15-3-5
• 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.
• state highway: means a public road for which the department is responsible under Indiana Code 8-15-3-6
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• tollway: includes :

  Indiana Code 8-15-3-7

• 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.
• trust: refers to the next generation trust fund established under this chapter. See Indiana Code 8-14-15.2-3
• trustee: refers to the trustee of the trust designated under section 8 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 8-14-15.2-4
• 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
• 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.
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5