Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 4 > Article 5 - Secretary of State

• agency: refers to every officer, board, commission, department, division, bureau, committee, employee, and other instrumentality of the state, including: state hospitals, state penal institutions, and other state institution enterprises and activities wherever located, except, unless specifically included, the following:

  Indiana Code 4-13-2-1

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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
• approved laboratory: means a laboratory approved by the state department for making serological tests. See Indiana Code 16-41-15-1
• artificial insemination: means the introduction of semen into the vagina or cervix of a woman by means other than through the act of coitus. See Indiana Code 16-41-14-2
• 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
• autologous donation: means the removal and storage of blood from a donor or patient for an intended transfusion to the same donor or patient. See Indiana Code 16-41-12-1
• bank: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 16-41-12-2
• biologicals: means drugs and vaccines. See Indiana Code 16-41-19-1
• blood: means any of the following:

  Indiana Code 16-41-12-2.5

• blood center: includes a blood bank, a blood storage facility, a plasma center, a hospital, or other facility where blood is collected. See Indiana Code 16-41-12-3
• bureau: refers to the department of correction ombudsman bureau established by section 3 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-13-1.2-1
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• confirmatory test: means a laboratory test or a series of tests approved by the state department and used in conjunction with a screening test to confirm or refute the results of the screening test for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antigen or antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). See Indiana Code 16-41-12-4
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• distributed for use: refers to a blood center releasing or shipping blood for use in a blood inventory intended for or made available for transfusion or injection to a patient. See Indiana Code 16-41-12-5.5
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• donor insemination: means artificial insemination by a donor. See Indiana Code 16-41-14-3
• effective treatment: means treatment that meets the following conditions:

  Indiana Code 16-41-16-3

• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• hospital: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 16-41-12-6
• in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• infectious waste: means waste that epidemiologic evidence indicates is capable of transmitting a serious communicable disease (as set forth in the list published under IC 16-41-2-1). See Indiana Code 16-41-16-4
• 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}
• local health department: refers to :

  Indiana Code 16-41-7.5-1

• 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
• ombudsman: means an employee of the bureau or an individual approved by the bureau to investigate and resolve complaints that the department of correction endangered the health and safety of any person, or that the department of correction violated specific laws, rules, or written policies. See Indiana Code 4-13-1.2-2
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• physician: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 16-41-12-7
• Population: has the meaning set forth in Ind. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• post-organ transplant program: refers to a program established by the state department to pay recipients eligible under this chapter for costs of immunosuppressive drugs prescribed exclusively for the maintenance of individuals who undergo the transplant of an internal organ, including a heart, lung, liver, or kidney, if the costs of the drugs are not reimbursed from other sources. See Indiana Code 16-41-19.5-1
• practitioner: means a person who:

  Indiana Code 16-41-14-4

• 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.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• program: means a syringe exchange program operated under this chapter. See Indiana Code 16-41-7.5-2
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• qualified entity: means any of the following:

  Indiana Code 16-41-7.5-3

• screening test: means a laboratory screening test or a series of tests approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration and required by the state department to be performed on blood collected under this chapter, including the following:

  Indiana Code 16-41-12-8

• secure area: means an area that is designed and maintained to prevent the entry of unauthorized persons. See Indiana Code 16-41-16-6
• services: means any and all articles and things, and all services other than personal, used by, or furnished to, any agency, including printing, binding, publication of books and records, repairs and improvements, utility services, and any and all other services required for the maintenance, operation, or upkeep of buildings and offices. See Indiana Code 4-13-2-1
• standard licensed diagnostic test for HIV: means a test recognized by the state department as a standard licensed diagnostic test for the antibody or antigen to HIV. See Indiana Code 16-41-6-0.5
• standard serological test for syphilis: means a test recognized as a standard serological test for syphilis by the state department. See Indiana Code 16-41-15-2
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• storage facility: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 16-41-12-9
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• surgeon: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 16-41-12-10
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• waste blood specimen: means a blood sample or a solid, liquid, or semiliquid blood product that:

  Indiana Code 16-41-17-1

• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5