Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 272A - Kentucky Uniform Limited Cooperative Association Act

• Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Administrative body: means each state board, bureau, cabinet, commission, department, authority, officer, or other entity, except the General Assembly and the Court of Justice, authorized by law to promulgate administrative regulations. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Administrative regulation: means each statement of general applicability promulgated by an administrative body that implements, interprets, or prescribes law or policy, or describes the organization, procedure, or practice requirements of any administrative body. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Adopted: means that an administrative regulation has become effective in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• 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.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Afternoon: means the period of a day between noon and midnight. See Kentucky Statutes 355.4-104
• agency: means each state board, bureau, cabinet, commission, department, authority, officer, or other entity in the executive branch of state government authorized by law to conduct administrative hearings. See Kentucky Statutes 13B.010
• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Animal: includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• any other state: includes any state, territory, outlying possession, the District of Columbia, and any foreign government or country. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriate court: means the Circuit Court for the county of the Commonwealth in which the limited cooperative association's principal office is located or, if none, the county in which the registered office is or was last located. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• 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
• Appropriation: means an authorization by the General Assembly to expend, from public funds, a sum of money not in excess of the sum specified, for the purposes specified in the authorization and under the procedure prescribed in KRS Chapter 48. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Articles of association: means the articles of association of a limited cooperative association required by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• 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: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Authority: means the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority, consisting of a committee as set forth in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 154.1-010
• Authority: means a local parking authority as created by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 67A.912
• Authorizing signature: means the signature of the head of the administrative body authorized by statute to promulgate administrative regulations. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bailee: means a person that by a warehouse receipt, bill of lading, or other document of title acknowledges possession of goods and contracts to deliver them. See Kentucky Statutes 355.7-102
• Bailiff: a court officer who enforces the rules of behavior in courtrooms.
• Banking day: means the part of a day on which a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions. See Kentucky Statutes 355.4-104
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• 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}
• Beneficiary: means a person that:
  (a) Has a present or future beneficial interest in a trust, vested or contingent. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Biennium: means the two (2) year period commencing on July 1 in each even- numbered year and ending on June 30 in the ensuing even-numbered year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Bonds: means bonds, notes, commercial paper, and other instruments in writing, authorized by or issued pursuant to or in accordance with this chapter, to evidence an obligation to repay or guarantee the repayment of money borrowed, or to pay interest by, or to pay at any future time other money obligations. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• branch budget: means an enactment by the General Assembly which provides appropriations and establishes fiscal policies and conditions for the biennial financial plan for the judicial branch, the legislative branch, and the executive branch, which shall include a separate budget bill for the Transportation Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Business: includes every trade, occupation, and profession. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• Business trust: includes , except when utilized in KRS Chapter 386, a "statutory trust" as organized under KRS Chapter 386A. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Buyer: means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2-103
• Bylaws: means the bylaws of a limited cooperative association. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Cabinet: means the Cabinet for Economic Development as established under KRS
  12. See Kentucky Statutes 154.1-010
• Capitalized interest: means all or a portion of the interest payable on bonds from their date to a date stated or provided for in the proceedings, which interest is to be paid from the proceeds of the bonds. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Carrier: means a person that issues a bill of lading. See Kentucky Statutes 355.7-102
• 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.
• Certificate of limited partnership: means the certificate required by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Certified mail: means any method of governmental, commercial, or electronic delivery that allows a document or package to have proof of:
  (a) Sending the document or package. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Chairman: means the chairman of the board of a consolidated emergency services district organized under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Charitable trust: means a trust, or part of a trust, established for a charitable purpose as described in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Chief: means the chief of the consolidated emergency services district organized under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Clearing house: means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items. See Kentucky Statutes 355.4-104
• Codicil: An addition, change, or supplement to a will executed with the same formalities required for the will itself.
• Commercial unit: means such a unit of goods as by commercial usage is a single whole for purposes of lease and division of which materially impairs its character or value on the market or in use. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Commission: means the Legislative Research Commission. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Commissioner: means a person appointed to serve on the governing body of a local parking authority. See Kentucky Statutes 67A.912
• Committee substitute: Short for committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Commonwealth: means the Commonwealth of Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 154.1-010
• Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conference committee: A temporary, ad hoc panel composed of conferees from both chamber of a legislature which is formed for the purpose of reconciling differences in legislation that has passed both chambers. Conference committees are usually convened to resolve bicameral differences on major and controversial legislation.
• Conservator: means a person appointed by the court to administer the estate of a minor or adult individual. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• Consignee: means a person named in a bill of lading to which or to whose order the bill promises delivery. See Kentucky Statutes 355.7-102
• Consignor: means a person named in a bill of lading as the person from which the goods have been received for shipment. See Kentucky Statutes 355.7-102
• Consolidated emergency services district: means districts organized under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Consolidated local government: means a local government established pursuant to
  KRS Chapter 67C. See Kentucky Statutes 67B.020
• Constituent entity: means an entity that is a party to a merger. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.16-010
• Consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a lessee who is an individual and who takes under the lease primarily for a personal, family, or household purpose. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract for sale: includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2-106
• Contribution: means any benefit provided by a person to a limited partnership in
  order to become a partner or in the person's capacity as a partner. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Converting entity: means a foreign entity that converts into a limited cooperative association pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.16-010
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cooperative: means a limited cooperative association or an entity organized under any cooperative law of any jurisdiction. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• 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.
• Corporation: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• County: means any county, consolidated local government, urban-county government, unified local government, or charter county. See Kentucky Statutes 65A.010
• Credit enhancement facilities: means letters of credit. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Customer: means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items including a bank that maintains an account at another bank. See Kentucky Statutes 355.4-104
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Debt charges: means the principal, including any mandatory sinking fund deposits, interest, and any redemption premium, payable on bonds as the payments come due and are payable and any charges related to credit enhancement facilities. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means a metropolitan correctional services department created or maintained by a consolidated local government or the fiscal court of a county containing a city of the first class, where the constitutional offices of sheriff and jailer have been consolidated, pursuant to this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 67B.020
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Designated office: means :
  (a) With respect to a limited partnership, the office that a limited partnership is required to designate and maintain under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means a director of a limited cooperative association. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Directors: when applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Discretionary spending: Spending (budget authority and outlays)controlled in annual appropriations acts.
• Dismissal: means the discharge of an employee by lawful authority. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Distribution: means a transfer of money or other property from a partnership to a partner in the partner's capacity as a partner or to the transferee of all or a part of a partner's transferable interest. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• District: means an area designated by the ordinance creating, under the supervision of the local parking authority, a local parking district that is deemed to be specially benefited. See Kentucky Statutes 67A.912
• Division: means the Division of Administrative Hearings in the Office of the
  Attorney General created pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 13B.010
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Documentary draft: means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities (KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 355.4-104
• Domestic: when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Dower: A widow
• Draft: means a draft as defined in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 355.4-104
• Drawee: means a person ordered in a draft to make payment. See Kentucky Statutes 355.4-104
• 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}
• Employees: means all persons employed, and paid wages, salary, or other compensation for emergency services performed, by the board of trustees of a consolidated emergency services district organized under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Enrolled bill: The final copy of a bill or joint resolution which has passed both chambers in identical form. It is printed on parchment paper, signed by appropriate officials, and submitted to the President/Governor for signature.
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Entity: means a corporation, foreign corporation, not-for-profit corporation, profit or not-for-profit unincorporated association, business or statutory trust, estate, partnership, limited partnership, trust, two (2) or more persons having a joint or common economic interest, and a state, national, or foreign government. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• Entity: means a corporation, foreign corporation, not-for-profit corporation, profit and not-for-profit unincorporated associations, business or statutory trust, estate, partnership, limited partnership, trust, two (2) or more persons having a joint or common economic interest, and a state, national, or foreign government. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Entity: means an entity or a foreign entity, both as defined in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• 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}
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Establishing entity: means the city or county, or any combination of cities and counties, that established a special purpose governmental entity and that has not subsequently withdrawn its affiliation with the special purpose governmental entity by ordinance or other official action. See Kentucky Statutes 65A.010
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fault: means wrongful act, omission, breach, or default. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal mandate: means any federal constitutional, legislative, or executive law or order that requires or permits any administrative body to engage in regulatory activities that impose compliance standards, reporting requirements, recordkeeping, or similar responsibilities upon entities in the Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federally regulated municipal utility: means a municipal utility governed by the provisions of KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 65A.010
• Fee: means any user charge, levy, assessment, fee, schedule of rates, or tax, other than an ad valorem tax, imposed by a special purpose governmental entity. See Kentucky Statutes 65A.010
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Final order: means the whole or part of the final disposition of an administrative hearing, whenever made effective by an agency head, whether affirmative, negative, injunctive, declaratory, agreed, or imperative in form. See Kentucky Statutes 13B.010
• Finance lease: means a lease with respect to which:
  1. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Financial rights: means the right to participate in allocations and distributions as provided in Subchapters 10 and 12 of this chapter, but does not include rights or obligations under a marketing contract governed by Subchapter 7 of this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Financing costs: means all costs and expenses relating to the issuance and carrying costs of bonds including charges related to credit enhancement facilities which are not debt charges. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Fiscal court: means the county judge/executive and justices of the peace of a county, or the county judge/executive and three (3) county commissioners elected pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 67B.020
• 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.
• Floating indebtedness: means the amount by which the total of all expenditures by an issuer in any fiscal year exceeds the total of all funds and receipts of the issuer for that fiscal year which are available to the issuer for the purpose of funding those expenditures, but only to the extent that the governing body of the issuer made good-faith estimates of expenditures and funds and receipts available to fund those expenditures and the short-fall in available funds and receipts was due to unforeseeable circumstances or events. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Foreign: when applied to a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, statutory trust, or limited liability company, includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Foreign cooperative: means an entity organized in a jurisdiction other than this
  Commonwealth under a law similar to this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Foreign entity: has the meaning set forth in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.16-010
• Foreign limited liability limited partnership: means a foreign limited partnership whose general partners have limited liability for the obligations of the foreign limited partnership under a provision similar to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Foreign limited liability partnership: means a partnership that:
  (a) Is formed under laws other than the laws of this Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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
• General partner: means :
  (a) With respect to a limited partnership, a person that:
  1. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Genetic tests: means testing for genetic markers for cardiac arrhythmogenic syndromes. See Kentucky Statutes 72.405
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Goods: means all things that are treated as movable for the purposes of a contract for storage or transportation. See Kentucky Statutes 355.7-102
• Governance rights: means the right to participate in governance of a limited cooperative association. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Governing body: means the legislative authority of the issuer. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Guardian: means a person appointed by the court, a parent, or a spouse to make decisions regarding the support, care, education, health, and welfare of a minor or adult individual. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• Habeas corpus: A writ that is usually used to bring a prisoner before the court to determine the legality of his imprisonment. It may also be used to bring a person in custody before the court to give testimony, or to be prosecuted.
• hearing: means any type of formal adjudicatory proceeding conducted by an agency as required or permitted by statute or regulation to adjudicate the legal rights, duties, privileges, or immunities of a named person. See Kentucky Statutes 13B.010
• Hearing officer: means the individual, duly qualified and employed pursuant to this chapter, assigned by an agency head as presiding officer for an administrative hearing or the presiding member of the agency head. See Kentucky Statutes 13B.010
• Hearsay: Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court.
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• 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}
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Inquest: means an examination ordered by the coroner, or in his or her absence, ordered by a deputy coroner, into the causes and circumstances of any death which is a coroner's case by a jury of six (6) residents of the county impaneled and selected by the coroner to assist him or her in ascertaining the cause and manner of death. See Kentucky Statutes 72.405
• Installment lease contract: means a lease contract that authorizes or requires the delivery of goods in separate lots to be separately accepted, even though the lease contract contains a clause "each delivery is a separate lease" or its equivalent. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• interest equivalent: means those payments or portions of payments, however denominated, that constitute or represent consideration for forbearing the collection of money, or for deferring the receipt or payment of money to a future time. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• 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}
• Interests of the beneficiaries: means the beneficial interests provided in the terms of the trust. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• Investor member: means a member that has made a contribution to a limited cooperative association and:
  (a) Is not required by the organic rules to conduct patronage with the association in the member's capacity as an investor member in order to receive the member's interest. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• Issuer: means a bailee that issues a document of title or, in the case of an unaccepted delivery order, the person that orders the possessor of goods to deliver. See Kentucky Statutes 355.7-102
• Issuer: means a county, city, urban-county, charter county, or other taxing district, and for purposes of making any determinations required under this chapter, may include an authorized representative of the issuer. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Item: means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See Kentucky Statutes 355.4-104
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
• 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.
• Last effective date: means the latter of:
  (a) The most recent date an ordinary administrative regulation became
  effective, without including the date a technical amendment was made pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• 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}
• Lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances including course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance as provided in this article. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this article and any other applicable rules of law. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Leasehold interest: means the interest of the lessor or the lessee under a lease contract. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Legislation: means an ordinance or resolution passed by a governing body. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Legislative committee: means an interim joint committee, a House or Senate standing committee, a statutory committee, or a subcommittee of the Legislative Research Commission. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Lien: means a charge against or interest in goods to secure payment of a debt or performance of an obligation, but the term does not include a security interest. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Limited liability partnership: means a partnership that has filed a statement of qualification under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• Limited partner: means :
  (a) With respect to a limited partnership, a person that:
  1. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Livestock: means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, alpacas, llamas, buffaloes, or any other animals of the bovine, ovine, porcine, caprine, equine, or camelid species. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Local government: means and includes a city, county, urban-county, charter county, consolidated local government, special district, or a quasi-governmental body authorized by the Kentucky Revised Statutes or a local ordinance. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Local legislative body: means the governing body of any urban-county government whether it be designated as a city commission, city council or any other similar designation. See Kentucky Statutes 67A.912
• Lot: means a parcel or a single article that is the subject matter of a separate lease or delivery, whether or not it is sufficient to perform the lease contract. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Major economic impact: means an overall negative or adverse economic impact from an administrative regulation of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) or more on state or local government or regulated entities, in aggregate, as determined by the promulgating administrative bodies. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Mandatory sinking fund redemption requirements: means amounts required by proceedings to be deposited in a sinking fund for the purpose of paying, by mandatory redemption prior to stated maturity, the principal of bonds that is due and payable in a subsequent year or fiscal year. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Marital deduction: The deduction(s) that can be taken in the determination of gift and estate tax liabilities because of the existence of a marriage or marital relationship.
• marketing contract: means a contract between a limited cooperative association and another person that need not be a patron member:
  (1) Requiring the other person to sell, or deliver for sale or marketing on the person's behalf, a specified part of the person's products, commodities, or goods exclusively to or through the association or any facilities furnished by the association. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.7-010
• Member: shall include the chief and all officers. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Member: means a person that is admitted as a patron member or investor member, or both, in a limited cooperative association. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Members meeting: means an annual members meeting or special meeting of members. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Merchant lessee: means a lessee that is a merchant with respect to goods of the kind subject to the lease. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Month: means calendar month. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Net indebtedness: means the principal amount of outstanding bonds of an issuer as determined in accordance with KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Notes: means bonds that mature no later than five (5) years from the date they are issued. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• Obligation: means instruments in writing, which are not bonds within the meaning of this chapter, that evidence an obligation to repay money borrowed, or to pay interest by, or to pay at any future time other money obligations, including, without limitation, installment sale, lease, lease purchase, or similar agreements, which obligations bear interest or an interest equivalent. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Organic law: means the statute providing for the creation of an entity or principally governing its internal affairs. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Organizer: means an individual who signs the initial articles of association. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Partner: means a limited partner or general partner. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Partnership: means an association of two (2) or more persons to carry on as co- owners a business for profit formed under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• 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.
• Partnership: includes both general and limited partnerships. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Partnership agreement: means the agreement, whether written, oral, or implied, among the partners concerning the partnership, including amendments to the partnership agreement. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• Partnership agreement: means the partners' agreement, oral, implied, in record form, or in any combination, concerning the limited partnership. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Partnership at will: means a partnership in which the partners have not agreed to remain partners until the expiration of a definite term or the completion of a particular undertaking. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• Party: means :
  (a) The named person whose legal rights, duties, privileges, or immunities are being adjudicated in the administrative hearing. See Kentucky Statutes 13B.010
• Patron member: means a member that has made a contribution to a limited cooperative association and:
  (a) Is required by the organic rules to conduct patronage with the association in the member's capacity as a patron member in order to receive the member's interest. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Patronage: means business transactions between a limited cooperative association and a person which entitle the person to receive financial rights based on the value or quantity of business done between the association and the person. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Person: means an individual, an entity, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Person: means any individual or entity as defined in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• Person: means an individual, partnership, joint venture, military facility operated by a department or agency of the United States, profit or nonprofit corporation including a public or private college or university, limited liability company, or other entity or association of persons organized for agricultural, commercial, health care, or industrial purposes. See Kentucky Statutes 154.1-010
• Personal liability: means personal liability for a debt, liability, or other obligation of an entity imposed, by operation of law or otherwise, on a person that co-owns or has an interest in the entity:
  (a) By the entity's organic law solely because of the person co-owning or having an interest in the entity. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.16-010
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Post-mortem examination: means a physical examination of the body by a medical examiner or by a coroner or deputy coroner who has been certified by the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet and may include an autopsy performed by a pathologist. See Kentucky Statutes 72.405
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Power of withdrawal: means a presently exercisable general power of appointment other than a power:
  (a) Exercisable by a trustee and limited by an ascertainable standard. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• 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.
• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• Present value: means the amount as of a date certain of one (1) or more sums payable in the future, discounted to the date certain. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Principal office: means the office where the principal executive office of a limited partnership or foreign limited partnership is located, whether or not the office is located in this Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Principal office: means the principal executive office of a limited cooperative association or foreign cooperative, whether or not in this state. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Private sector: means any source other than the authority, a state or federal entity,
  or an agency thereof. See Kentucky Statutes 154.1-010
• Pro se: A Latin term meaning "on one's own behalf"; in courts, it refers to persons who present their own cases without lawyers.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Professional partnership: means a partnership organized under this subchapter or the laws of another state or foreign country for purposes that include, but are not limited to, the providing of one (1) or more professional services. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• Project: includes but is not limited to agribusiness, agricultural or forestry production, harvesting, storage, or processing facilities or equipment. See Kentucky Statutes 154.1-010
• Project: means any undertaking within or near a local parking district. See Kentucky Statutes 67A.912
• promulgated: means that an administrative regulation, or other document required to be filed by this chapter, has been submitted to the Commission in accordance with this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Property: means all property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership, whether legal or equitable, or any interest therein. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• Proposed administrative regulation: means an administrative regulation that: (a) Has been filed by an administrative body. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• public funds: means sums actually received in cash or negotiable instruments from all sources unless otherwise described by any state agency, state- owned corporation, university, department, cabinet, fiduciary for the benefit of any form of state organization, authority, board, bureau, interstate compact, commission, committee, conference, council, office, or any other form of organization whether or not the money has ever been paid into the Treasury and whether or not the money is still in the Treasury if the money is controlled by any form of state organization, except for those funds the management of which is to be reported to the Legislative Research Commission pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Public funds: means any funds derived from the levy of a tax, fee, assessment, or charge, or the issuance of bonds by the state or a city, county, or special purpose governmental entity. See Kentucky Statutes 65A.010
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Purchase: includes taking by sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, pledge, gift, or any other voluntary transaction creating an interest in goods. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• real estate: includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interest therein, other than a chattel interest. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recommended order: means the whole or part of a preliminary hearing report to an agency head for the disposition of an administrative hearing. See Kentucky Statutes 13B.010
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Refund: means to provide for the payment of debt charges and expenses related to that payment at or prior to retirement by purchase, call for redemption, payment at maturity, or otherwise, outstanding obligations of an issuer or its instrumentality, including, without limitation, bonds. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Register: means the books kept and maintained for registration, exchange, and transfer of registered bonds. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Registered mail: means any governmental, commercial, or electronic method of delivery that allows a document or package to have:
  (a) Its chain of custody recorded in a register to enable its location to be tracked. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Regular election: means the election in even-numbered years at which members of Congress are elected and the election in odd-numbered years at which state officers are elected. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Regulatory board: means the agency that is charged by law with the licensing and regulation of the practice of the profession which the professional partnership is organized to provide. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• 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.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Required information: means the information that a limited partnership is required to maintain under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Required information: means the information a limited cooperative association is required to maintain under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).
• Secretary: means the officer designated pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Self-supporting obligations: means obligations issued for the purpose of paying costs of public projects to the extent that receipts of the issuer, other than the proceeds of taxes levied by that issuer, derived from or with respect to that public project or the operation of the public project being financed, or the enterprise, system, or category of public project of which the public project being financed is part, are estimated by the governing body or a representative of the governing body to be sufficient to pay the current expenses of that operation or of that public project, enterprise, or system and the debt charges payable from those receipts on obligations issued for that public project. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Seller: means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2-103
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Settlor: means a person, including a testator, who creates or contributes property to a trust. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• Sheriff: means the sheriff of a county or the sheriff in a county containing a consolidated local government who has been duly elected by the qualified voters as provided in Section 99 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 67B.020
• Shipper: means a person that enters into a contract of transportation with a carrier. See Kentucky Statutes 355.7-102
• Sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
  (a) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• signature: includes any manual, facsimile, or conformed or electronic signature. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Sinking fund: means a fund established for the management of moneys to be used for the retirement of outstanding bonds. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Small business: means a business entity, including its affiliates, that: (a) Is independently owned and operated. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Special purpose governmental entity: shall include entities meeting the requirements established by paragraph (a) of this subsection, whether the entity is formed as a nonprofit corporation under KRS Chapter 273, pursuant to an interlocal cooperation agreement under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 65A.010
• Spendthrift provision: means a term of a trust which restrains both voluntary and involuntary transfer of a beneficiary's interest. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• State: means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• State: means the Commonwealth of Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 154.1-010
• State local debt officer: as used in this chapter and other provisions of law, means the commissioner, Department for Local Government or the commissioner's agent designated in writing. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• state local finance officer: shall mean the commissioner of the Department for Local Government, or his agent designated in writing with the approval of the Governor. See Kentucky Statutes 68.001
• Statement: means a statement of partnership authority under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• Statement of consideration: means the document required by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Subcommittee: means the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee of the Legislative Research Commission. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Subdistrict: means a part of a district having a different degree of benefit from the remainder of the district. See Kentucky Statutes 67A.912
• Sublease: means a lease of goods the right to possession and use of which was acquired by the lessor as a lessee under an existing lease. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Supply contract: means a contract under which a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased. See Kentucky Statutes 355.2A-103
• Surviving entity: means an entity into which one (1) or more other entities are merged, whether the entity existed before the merger or is created by the merger. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.16-010
• Suspension: means the separation of an employee from the service for a
  temporary or fixed period of time, by his appointing authority, as a disciplinary measure. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Sworn: includes "affirmed" in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Taxing district: means an issuer, other than a county, city, urban-county, or charter county authorized to levy ad valorem taxes within the meaning of Section 157 of the Constitution of Kentucky which is not a school district. See Kentucky Statutes 66.011
• Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
• Terms of a trust: means the manifestation of the settlor's intent regarding a trust's provisions as expressed in the trust instrument or as may be established by other evidence that would be admissible in a judicial proceeding. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tiering: means the tailoring of regulatory requirements to fit the particular circumstances surrounding regulated entities. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• 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.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transfer: includes an assignment, conveyance, lease, mortgage, deed, and encumbrance. See Kentucky Statutes 362.1-101
• Transfer: includes an assignment, conveyance, deed, bill of sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, encumbrance, gift, and transfer by operation of law. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Transfer: includes an assignment, conveyance, deed, bill of sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, encumbrance, gift, and transfer by operation of law. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Transferable interest: means the partner's right to receive distributions. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Transferee: means a person to which all or part of a transferable interest has been transferred, whether or not the transferor is a partner. See Kentucky Statutes 362.2-102
• Treatment: when used in a criminal justice context, means targeted interventions
  that focus on criminal risk factors in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal behavior. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust: means an express trust established by a trust instrument, including a will, whereby a trustee has the duty to administer a trust asset for the benefit of a named or otherwise described income or principal beneficiary, or both. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trust instrument: means an instrument signed by the settlor that contains terms of the trust, including any amendments thereto. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Trustee: includes an original, additional, and successor trustee, and a cotrustee. See Kentucky Statutes 386B.1-010
• Trustees: means the board of trustees of a consolidated emergency services district organized under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• 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.
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime.
• Violate: includes failure to comply with. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Volunteer: means any person who is a member of a consolidated emergency services district organized under this chapter who volunteers to provide services for the district, if the individual receives no salary, wages, or other compensation for services performed, or if the individual is paid expenses, reasonable benefits, or a nominal fee to perform the services for which the individual volunteered, and the services are not the same type of services which the individual is employed to perform for the consolidated emergency services district organized under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Voting group: means any combination of one (1) or more voting members in one (1) or more districts or classes that under the organic rules or under this chapter are entitled to vote and can be counted together collectively on a matter at a members meeting. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Voting power: means the total current power of members to vote on a particular matter for which a vote may or is to be taken. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Warehouse: means a person engaged in the business of storing goods for hire. See Kentucky Statutes 355.7-102
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Written comments: means comments submitted to the administrative body's contact person identified pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010