Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 386A > Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Authority: means a local parking authority as created by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 67A.912
• 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}
• 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.
• City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Consolidated local government: means a local government established pursuant to
  KRS Chapter 67C. See Kentucky Statutes 67B.020
• 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.
• Corporation: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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
• 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
• 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}
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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
• Project: means any undertaking within or near a local parking district. See Kentucky Statutes 67A.912
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• 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
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010