Terms Used In Missouri Laws > Chapter 8 - State Buildings and Lands

• Abandoned property: any unattended motor vehicle, trailer, all-terrain vehicle, outboard motor or vessel removed or subject to removal from public or private property as provided in sections 304. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• Abortion facility: a clinic, physician's office, or any other place or facility in which abortions are performed or induced other than a hospital. See Missouri Laws 188.015
• accident: as used in this chapter shall mean an unexpected traumatic event or unusual strain identifiable by time and place of occurrence and producing at the time objective symptoms of an injury caused by a specific event during a single work shift. See Missouri Laws 287.020
• Acute pain: pain, whether resulting from disease, accidental or intentional trauma, or other causes, that the practitioner reasonably expects to last only a short period of time. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Adjusted operating levy: the sum of tax rates for the current year for teachers' and incidental funds for a school district as reported to the proper officer of each county pursuant to section 164. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• Administer: to apply a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, directly to the body of a patient or research subject by:

  (a) A practitioner (or, in his or her presence, by his or her authorized agent). See Missouri Laws 195.010

• Administrative segregation unit: a cell for the segregation of offenders from the general population of a facility for relatively extensive periods of time. See Missouri Laws 217.010
• Administrator: the department of health and senior services. See Missouri Laws 201.010
• Adult: means a person eighteen years of age or older. See Missouri Laws 211.021
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• 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.
• Aftercare supervision: treatment and control of children in the community under the jurisdiction of the division. See Missouri Laws 219.011
• Age: an age of forty or more years but less than seventy years, except that it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require the compulsory retirement of any person who has attained the age of sixty-five and who, for the two-year period immediately before retirement, is employed in a bona fide executive or high policy-making position, if such person is entitled to an immediate nonforfeitable annual retirement benefit from a pension, profit sharing, savings or deferred compensation plan, or any combination of such plans, of the employer, which equals, in the aggregate, at least forty-four thousand dollars. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Agent: an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Agricultural products: shall include horticultural, viticultural, dairy, bee, and any farm product. See Missouri Laws 265.010
• Agricultural products: includes horticultural, viticultural, forestry, dairy, livestock, poultry, bee or any farm products. See Missouri Laws 274.020
• Agricultural purposes: clearing, terracing or otherwise preparing the ground on a farm. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• air-gapped: a security measure in which equipment is physically and technically isolated from any network and is not directly connected to the internet nor is it connected to any other system that is connected to the internet. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Aircraft: any contrivance now known, or hereafter invented, used or designed for navigation of, or flight in, the air. See Missouri Laws 155.010
• Airline company: any person, firm, partnership, corporation, trustee, receiver or assignee, and all other persons, whether or not in a representative capacity, undertaking to engage in the carriage of persons or cargo for hire by commercial aircraft pursuant to certificates of convenience and necessity issued by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board, or successor thereof, or any noncertificated air carrier authorized to engage in irregular and infrequent air transportation by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board, or successor thereof. See Missouri Laws 155.010
• All-terrain vehicle: any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for off-highway use, with an unladen dry weight of one thousand five hundred pounds or less, traveling on three, four or more nonhighway tires, with either:

  (a) A seat designed to be straddled by the operator, and handlebars for steering control, but excluding an electric bicycle. See Missouri Laws 301.010

• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Alternative fuel: electricity, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG or LP gas), compressed natural gas product, or a combination of liquefied petroleum gas and a compressed natural gas or electricity product used in an internal combustion engine or motor to propel any form of vehicle, machine, or mechanical contrivance. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• 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: cattle, swine, sheep, horses, other domestic and exotic animals including birds, fish, and reptiles, and all other animals raised or produced for commercial purposes, and beginning July 1, 1995, the term shall include poultry and turkeys. See Missouri Laws 269.010
• 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.
• 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.
• Appeals tribunal: a referee or a body consisting of three referees appointed to conduct hearings and make decisions on appeals from administrative determinations, petitions for reassessment, and claims referred pursuant to subsection 2 of section 288. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• 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.
• Association: any corporation organized under this chapter. See Missouri Laws 274.020
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• authorized to acquire the deed: as used in this chapter shall mean the date chosen by the tax sale purchaser that is more than the minimum redemption period set forth in section 140. See Missouri Laws 140.405
• Autocycle: a three-wheeled motor vehicle which the drivers and passengers ride in a partially or completely enclosed nonstraddle seating area, that is designed to be controlled with a steering wheel and pedals, and that has met applicable Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration requirements or federal motorcycle safety standards. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Automatic tabulating equipment: the apparatus necessary to examine and automatically count votes, and the data processing machines which are used for counting votes and tabulating results and which are air-gapped and not physically able to be connected to a network. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Average daily attendance: the quotient or the sum of the quotients obtained by dividing the total number of hours attended in a term by resident pupils between the ages of five and twenty-one by the actual number of hours school was in session in that term. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• Aviation fuel: any motor fuel specifically compounded for use in reciprocating aircraft engines. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Aviation fuel: any fuel specifically compounded for use in reciprocating aircraft engines. See Missouri Laws 155.010
• 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.
• Balanced budget: A budget in which receipts equal outlays.
• Ballot: the paper ballot, or ballot designed for use with an electronic voting system on which each voter may cast all votes to which he or she is entitled at an election. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Ballot label: the card, paper, booklet, page, or other material containing the names of all offices and candidates and statements of all questions to be voted on. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• 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.
• Base period: the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of an individual's benefit year. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• 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.
• because of: as it relates to the adverse decision or action, the protected criterion was the motivating factor. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• 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}
• Benefit year: the one-year period beginning with the first day of the first week with respect to which an insured worker first files an initial claim for determination of such worker's insured status, and thereafter the one-year period beginning with the first day of the first week with respect to which the individual, providing the individual is then an insured worker, next files such an initial claim after the end of the individual's last preceding benefit year. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Benefits: the money payments payable to an insured worker, as provided in this chapter, with respect to such insured worker's unemployment. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Bequeath: To gift property by will.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Best management practices: forest management practices, as defined by the commission in consultation with the clean water commission, that ensure protection of water quality. See Missouri Laws 254.020
• Blend stock: any petroleum product component of motor fuel, such as naphtha, reformat, toluene or kerosene, that can be blended for use in a motor fuel without further processing. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Blended fuel: a mixture composed of motor fuel and another liquid including blend stock, other than a de minimis amount of a product such as carburetor detergent or oxidation inhibitor, that can be used as a fuel in a highway vehicle. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Blending: the mixing of one or more petroleum products, with or without another product, regardless of the original character of the product blended, if the product obtained by the blending is capable of use or otherwise sold for use in the generation of power for the propulsion of a motor vehicle, an airplane, or a motorboat. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Board: the parole board. See Missouri Laws 217.010
• Board: the state advisory board of youth services. See Missouri Laws 219.011
• Boat transporter: any vehicle combination capable of carrying cargo on the power unit and designed and used specifically to transport assembled boats and boat hulls. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Body parts: the blood, tissue, pieces of flesh and organs of the carcass. See Missouri Laws 269.010
• Body shop: a business that repairs physical damage on motor vehicles that are not owned by the shop or its officers or employees by mending, straightening, replacing body parts, or painting. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Bulk plant: a bulk motor fuel storage and distribution facility that is not a terminal within the bulk transfer system and from which motor fuel may be removed by truck. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Bulk transfer: any transfer of motor fuel from one location to another by pipeline tender or marine delivery within the bulk transfer/terminal system. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Bus: a motor vehicle primarily for the transportation of a driver and eight or more passengers but not including shuttle buses. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Bushel: as applied to apples, when sold by the volume shall be 2150. See Missouri Laws 265.010
• Calendar quarter: the period of three consecutive calendar months ending on March thirty-first, June thirtieth, September thirtieth, or December thirty-first. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Campaign committee: a committee, other than a candidate committee, which shall be formed by an individual or group of individuals to receive contributions or make expenditures and whose sole purpose is to support or oppose the qualification and passage of one or more particular ballot measures in an election or the retention of judges under the nonpartisan court plan, such committee shall be formed no later than thirty days prior to the election for which the committee receives contributions or makes expenditures, and which shall terminate the later of either thirty days after the general election or upon the satisfaction of all committee debt after the general election, except that no committee retiring debt shall engage in any other activities in support of a measure for which the committee was formed. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• candidate: includes an elected officeholder who is the subject of a recall election, an individual who seeks nomination by the individual's political party for election to public office, an individual standing for retention in an election to an office to which the individual was previously appointed, an individual who seeks nomination or election whether or not the specific elective public office to be sought has been finally determined by such individual at the time the individual meets the conditions described in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subdivision, and an individual who is a write-in candidate as defined in subdivision (28) of this section. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Candidate committee: a committee which shall be formed by a candidate to receive contributions or make expenditures in behalf of the person's candidacy and which shall continue in existence for use by an elected candidate or which shall terminate the later of either thirty days after the general election for a candidate who was not elected or upon the satisfaction of all committee debt after the election, except that no committee retiring debt shall engage in any other activities in support of the candidate for which the committee was formed. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Carcass: the body or body parts of any dead animal, large or small. See Missouri Laws 269.010
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• Cash: currency, coin, United States postage stamps, or any negotiable instrument which can be transferred from one person to another person without the signature or endorsement of the transferor. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• 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 clearance: means a permit prescribed by the council for the transportation or the delivery of oil or gas or product and issued or registered in accordance with the rule, regulation, or order requiring such permit. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• 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.
• Chauffeur: a person who is employed for the principal purpose of operating a motor vehicle or any person who drives a motor vehicle while in use as a public or common carrier of persons or property for hire. See Missouri Laws 303.020
• Check: a check drawn on a state or federal bank, or a draft on a negotiable order of withdrawal account in a savings and loan association or a share draft account in a credit union. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Chief administrative officer: the institutional head of any correctional facility or his or her designee. See Missouri Laws 217.010
• Child: a person under eighteen years of age. See Missouri Laws 219.011
• Child: an individual under sixteen years of age, unless otherwise specified. See Missouri Laws 294.011
• Child: any persons under twenty-one years of age. See Missouri Laws 201.010
• Child: means any person under eighteen years of age. See Missouri Laws 211.021
• Cigarette: an item manufactured of tobacco or any substitute therefor, wrapped in paper or any substitute therefor, weighing not to exceed three pounds per one thousand cigarettes and which is commonly classified, labeled or advertised as a cigarette. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• Circuit court: each circuit court in the state. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Circumstantial evidence: All evidence except eyewitness testimony.
• Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity.
• Claimant: an individual who has filed an initial claim for determination of such individual's status as an insured worker, a notice of unemployment, a certification for waiting week credit, or a claim for benefits. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Closing date: the date through which a statement or report is required to be complete. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Coal mine: any strip mine or underground excavation from which coal or lignite is extracted for commercial purposes and including the mining plant and all parts of the property of such mine, on the surface or underground. See Missouri Laws 293.010
• Commercial aircraft: aircraft fully equipped for flight and of more than three thousand pounds maximum certified gross take-off weight. See Missouri Laws 155.010
• Commercial motor vehicle: a motor vehicle designed or regularly used for carrying freight and merchandise, or more than fifteen passengers. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Commercial motor vehicle: a motor vehicle designed or regularly used for carrying freight and merchandise, or more than eight passengers but not including vanpools or shuttle buses. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Commercial vehicle enforcement officers: employees of the Missouri state highway patrol who are not members of the patrol but who are appointed by the superintendent of the highway patrol to enforce the laws, rules, and regulations pertaining to commercial vehicles, trailers, special mobile equipment and drivers of such vehicles. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• Commercial vehicle inspectors: employees of the Missouri state highway patrol who are not members of the patrol but who are appointed by the superintendent of the highway patrol to supervise or operate permanent or portable weigh stations in the enforcement of commercial vehicle laws. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• Commission: the Missouri commission on human rights. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Commission: the state highways and transportation commission. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• Commission: the conservation commission of Missouri being responsible for the control, management, restoration, conservation, and regulation of the bird, fish, game, forestry, and all wildlife resources of the state is^{Missouri Laws 254.020}
• Commission: the labor and industrial relations commission. See Missouri Laws 286.001
• Commission: the labor and industrial relations commission of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Commission: the labor and industrial relations commission. See Missouri Laws 294.011
• committee: includes , but is not limited to, each of the following committees: campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee and political party committee. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• Committee substitute: Short for committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.
• Common carrier: any person, association, company, or corporation engaged in the business of operating, for public use, an agency for the transportation of persons or property within the state. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• 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.
• Common paymaster: two or more related corporations in which one of the corporations has been designated to disburse remuneration to concurrently employed individuals of any of the related corporations. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Community based treatment: a treatment program which is locally or regionally based. See Missouri Laws 219.011
• Complainant: a person who has filed a complaint with the commission alleging that another person has engaged in a prohibited discriminatory practice. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• complete medical report: means the report of a physician giving the physician's qualifications and the patient's history, complaints, details of the findings of any and all laboratory, X-ray and all other technical examinations, diagnosis, prognosis, nature of disability, if any, and an estimate of the percentage of permanent partial disability, if any. See Missouri Laws 287.210
• Conception: the fertilization of the ovum of a female by a sperm of a male. See Missouri Laws 188.015
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Connected organization: any organization such as a corporation, a labor organization, a membership organization, a cooperative, or trade or professional association which expends funds or provides services or facilities to establish, administer or maintain a committee or to solicit contributions to a committee from its members, officers, directors, employees or security holders. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Conservation commission fund: only the moneys arising from the additional sales and use taxes provided for in Section 43(a) of Article IV of the Constitution of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 254.020
• Consumer: the user of the motor fuel. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Contingent beneficiary: Receiver of property or benefits if the first named beneficiary fails to receive any or all of the property or benefits in question before his (her) death.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Continuing committee: includes , but is not limited to, any committee organized or sponsored by a business entity, a labor organization, a professional association, a trade or business association, a club or other organization and whose primary purpose is to solicit, accept and use contributions from the members, employees or stockholders of such entity and any individual or group of individuals who accept and use contributions to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contribution: includes , but is not limited to:

  (a) A candidate's own money or property used in support of the person's candidacy other than expense of the candidate's food, lodging, travel, and payment of any fee necessary to the filing for public office. See Missouri Laws 130.011

• Contributions: the money payments to the unemployment compensation fund required by this chapter, exclusive of interest and penalties. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Controlled substance: a drug, substance, or immediate precursor in Schedules I through V listed in this chapter. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Conviction: any final conviction. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• 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.
• Correctional center: any premises or institution where incarceration, evaluation, care, treatment, or rehabilitation is provided to persons who are under the department's authority. See Missouri Laws 217.010
• Council: the state oil and gas council established by section 259. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Counting location: a location selected by the election authority for the automatic processing or counting, or both, of ballots. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• County: any county in this state or any city not within a county. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• County: means any one of the several counties of this state or the city of St. See Missouri Laws 116.010
• County: any one of the several counties of this state or the city of St. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• County or circuit attorney: means prosecuting attorney. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• County wage per job: the total county wage and salary disbursements divided by the total county wage and salary employment for each county and the City of St. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• Court: the circuit court wherein the petition for the organization of the district was filed and granted. See Missouri Laws 257.020
• Court reporter: A person who makes a word-for-word record of what is said in court and produces a transcript of the proceedings upon request.
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Criminal history check: a search of criminal records, including criminal history record information as defined in section 43. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dead animal: the carcass of an animal. See Missouri Laws 269.010
• Dealer: any person, firm, corporation, association, agent or subagent engaged in the sale or exchange of new, used or reconstructed motor vehicles or trailers. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Decision: a ruling made by an appeals tribunal or the commission after a hearing. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• 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.
• Delivery: the placing of motor fuel or any liquid or propulsion energy into the battery, fuel tank, or storage device of a motor vehicle or bulk storage facility. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• delivery: the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer from one person to another of drug paraphernalia or of a controlled substance, or an imitation controlled substance, whether or not there is an agency relationship, and includes a sale. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Dentist: a person authorized by law to practice dentistry in this state. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Department: the department of corrections of the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 217.010
• Department: the department of social services. See Missouri Laws 219.011
• Department: the state transportation department. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• Department: the department of natural resources. See Missouri Laws 253.010
• Department: the department of natural resources. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Department: the department of revenue. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Department: the department of labor and industrial relations. See Missouri Laws 286.001
• Department: the department of labor and industrial relations. See Missouri Laws 294.011
• Department: the department of health and senior services. See Missouri Laws 188.015
• Department director: the director of the department of labor and industrial relations. See Missouri Laws 294.011
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• dependent: as used in this chapter shall mean:

  (a) A wife upon a husband with whom she lives or who is legally liable for her support, and a husband upon a wife with whom he lives or who is legally liable for his support. See Missouri Laws 287.240

• 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.
• Deputy: a representative of the division designated to make investigations and administrative determinations on claims or matters of employer liability or to perform related work. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Destination state: the state, territory, or foreign country to which motor fuel is directed for delivery into a storage facility, a receptacle, a container, or a type of transportation equipment for the purpose of resale or use. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Determination: any administrative ruling made by the division without a hearing. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Diesel fuel: any liquid that is commonly or commercially known or sold as a fuel that is suitable for use in a diesel-powered highway vehicle. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Diesel-powered highway vehicle: a motor vehicle operated on a highway that is propelled by a diesel-powered engine. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Director: the director of revenue acting directly or through the director's authorized officers and agents. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Director: the director of the department of corrections or his or her designee. See Missouri Laws 217.010
• Director: director of revenue of the state of Missouri, acting directly or through his authorized officers and agents. See Missouri Laws 303.020
• Director: the director of the division of youth services. See Missouri Laws 219.011
• Director: means the director of the department of agriculture of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 265.010
• Director: the director of the department of agriculture or his designated representative. See Missouri Laws 269.010
• Director: the director of revenue. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Director: the director of the department of labor and industrial relations. See Missouri Laws 286.001
• Director: the administrative head of the division of employment security. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Director: the director of Missouri department of revenue. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• Director: the director of the division of mine inspection of the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 293.010
• Director: the director of the division of labor standards. See Missouri Laws 294.011
• director of revenue: the director of the department of revenue. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Disability: a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of a person's major life activities, being regarded as having such an impairment, or a record of having such an impairment, which with or without reasonable accommodation does not interfere with performing the job, utilizing the place of public accommodation, or occupying the dwelling in question. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Disciplinary segregation: a cell for the segregation of offenders from the general population of a correctional center because the offender has been found to have committed a violation of a division or facility rule and other available means are inadequate to regulate the offender's behavior. See Missouri Laws 217.010
• Disclosure report: an itemized report of receipts, expenditures and incurred indebtedness which is prepared on forms approved by the Missouri ethics commission and filed at the times and places prescribed. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Discrimination: conduct proscribed herein, taken because of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, or age as it relates to employment, disability, or familial status as it relates to housing. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Dispense: to deliver a narcotic or controlled dangerous drug to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner including the prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for such delivery. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Dispenser: means a practitioner who dispenses. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Disposal plant: or "plant" includes any plant and all the equipment thereof described or referred to in any section of this chapter, that is constructed and intended to be operated for the disposal of the bodies of dead animals by means either of cooking, or other method herein prescribed, or hereafter provided for by law and not otherwise defined. See Missouri Laws 269.010
• Disqualified: a determination made by a court of competent jurisdiction, the Missouri ethics commission, an election authority or any other body authorized by law to make such a determination that a candidate is ineligible to hold office or not entitled to be voted on for office. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Distribute: to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Distributor: a person who either produces, refines, blends, compounds or manufactures motor fuel, imports motor fuel into a state or exports motor fuel out of a state, or who is engaged in distribution of motor fuel. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Distributor: a person who distributes. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• District: an area within the state or within a political subdivision of the state from which a person is elected to represent the area on a policy-making body with representatives of other areas in the state or political subdivision. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Division: a statutorily created agency within the department or an agency created by the departmental organizational plan. See Missouri Laws 217.010
• Division: the division of youth services (DYS). See Missouri Laws 219.011
• Division: the divisions of employment security, labor standards and workers' compensation. See Missouri Laws 286.001
• division: as used in this chapter means the division of workers' compensation of the department of labor and industrial relations of the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 287.020
• Division: the division of employment security which administers this chapter. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Division: the division of labor standards. See Missouri Laws 294.011
• Division director: the director of a division of the department or his or her designee. See Missouri Laws 217.010
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Dower: A widow
• Down Syndrome: the same meaning as defined in section 191. See Missouri Laws 188.015
• Dromedary: a box, deck, or plate mounted behind the cab and forward of the fifth wheel on the frame of the power unit of a truck tractor-semitrailer combination. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Drug paraphernalia: all equipment, products, substances and materials of any kind which are used, intended for use, or designed for use, in planting, propagating, cultivating, growing, harvesting, manufacturing, compounding, converting, producing, processing, preparing, storing, containing, concealing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance in violation of this chapter or chapter 579. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Dwelling: any building, structure or portion thereof which is occupied as, or designed or intended for occupancy as, a residence by one or more families, and any vacant land which is offered for sale or lease for the construction or location thereon of any such building, structure or portion thereof. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Dyed fuel: diesel fuel or kerosene that is required to be dyed pursuant to United States Environmental Protection Agency rules or is dyed pursuant to Internal Revenue Service rules or pursuant to any other requirements subsequently set by the United States Environmental Protection Agency or Internal Revenue Service including any invisible marker requirements. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Election: any primary, general or special election held to nominate or elect an individual to public office, to retain or recall an elected officeholder or to submit a ballot measure to the voters, and any caucus or other meeting of a political party or a political party committee at which that party's candidate or candidates for public office are officially selected. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Election authority: means a county clerk or board of election commissioners, as established by section 115. See Missouri Laws 116.010
• election costs: as used in this chapter, are defined as those costs that require additional out-of-pocket expense by the election authority in conducting an election. See Missouri Laws 115.065
• Electric bicycle: a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals, a saddle or seat for the rider, and an electric motor of less than 750 watts that meets the requirements of one of the following three classes:

  (a) "Class 1 electric bicycle", an electric bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of twenty miles per hour. See Missouri Laws 301.010

• 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}
• Electronic voting machine: any part of an air-gapped electronic voting system on which a voter is able to cast a ballot under this chapter. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Electronic voting system: a system of casting votes by use of marking devices, and counting votes by use of automatic air-gapped tabulating or air-gapped data processing equipment, including computerized voting systems that mark or tabulate ballots. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Eligible purchaser: a distributor who has been authorized by the director to purchase motor fuel on a tax-deferred basis. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Employ: engage a child in gainful employment for wages or other remuneration. See Missouri Laws 294.011
• employee: as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean every person in the service of any employer, as defined in this chapter, under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, or under any appointment or election, including executive officers of corporations. See Missouri Laws 287.020
• Employer: a person engaged in an industry affecting commerce who has six or more employees for each working day in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year, and shall include the state, or any political or civil subdivision thereof, or any person employing six or more persons within the state but does not include corporations and associations owned or operated by religious or sectarian organizations. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• employer: as used in this chapter shall be construed to mean:

  (1) Every person, partnership, association, corporation, limited liability partnership or company, trustee, receiver, the legal representatives of a deceased employer, and every other person, including any person or corporation operating a railroad and any public service corporation, using the service of another for pay. See Missouri Laws 287.030

• Employing unit: any individual, organization, partnership, corporation, common paymaster, or other legal entity, including the legal representatives thereof, which has or, subsequent to June 17, 1937, had in its employ one or more individuals performing services for it within this state. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Employment agency: includes any person or agency, public or private, regularly undertaking with or without compensation to procure employees for an employer or to procure for employees opportunities to work for an employer. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Employment office: a free public employment office operated by this or any other state as a part of a state controlled system of public employment offices including any location designated by the state as being a part of the one-stop career system. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• En banc: In the bench or "full bench." Refers to court sessions with the entire membership of a court participating rather than the usual quorum. U.S. courts of appeals usually sit in panels of three judges, but may expand to a larger number in certain cases. They are then said to be sitting en banc.
• 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.
• Equipment: a motor vehicle, straight truck, tractor, semitrailer, full trailer, any combination of these and any other type of equipment used by authorized carriers in the transportation of property for hire. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• 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.
• 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 director: the executive director of the Missouri commission on human rights. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Executor: includes administrator where the subject matter applies to an administrator. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• Expenditure: includes , but is not limited to:

  (a) Payment by anyone other than a committee for services of another person rendered to such committee. See Missouri Laws 130.011

• Exploratory committees: a committee which shall be formed by an individual to receive contributions and make expenditures on behalf of this individual in determining whether or not the individual seeks elective office. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Export: to obtain motor fuel in this state for sale or other distribution outside of this state. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Exporter: any person, other than a supplier, who purchases motor fuel in this state for the purpose of transporting or delivering the fuel outside of this state. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Familial status: one or more individuals who have not attained the age of eighteen years being domiciled with:

  (a) A parent or another person having legal custody of such individual. See Missouri Laws 213.010

• Farm tractor: every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• 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 office: the office of presidential elector, United States senator, or representative in Congress. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• 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}
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Field: the general area underlaid by one or more pools. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• financial interest: as used in this chapter is defined to mean all interest, legal or beneficial, direct or indirect, in the capital devoted to the licensed enterprise and all such interest in the net profits of the enterprise, after the payment of reasonable and necessary operating business expenses and taxes, including interest in dividends, preferred dividends, interest and profits, directly or indirectly paid as compensation for, or in consideration of interest in, or for use of, the capital devoted to the enterprise, or for property or money advanced, loaned or otherwise made available to the enterprise, except by way of ordinary commercial credit or bona fide bank credit not in excess of credit customarily granted by banking institutions, whether paid as dividends, interest or profits, or in the guise of royalties, commissions, salaries, or any other form whatsoever. See Missouri Laws 311.060
• First sale within the state: the first sale of a tobacco product by a manufacturer, wholesaler or other person to a person who intends to sell such tobacco products at retail or to a person at retail within the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• 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.
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• Fleet: any group of ten or more motor vehicles owned by the same owner. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Fleet vehicle: a motor vehicle which is included as part of a fleet. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of the statutes, mean the section next preceding or next following that in which the reference is made, unless some other section is expressly designated in the reference. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• 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}
• Forest croplands: those lands devoted exclusively to growing wood and timber, except for such other uses as shall be approved by the commission by regulations and which are tendered to the commission by any person and accepted and classified by the commission as such. See Missouri Laws 254.020
• 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.
• Free and reduced price lunch pupil count: for school districts not eligible for and those that do not choose the USDA Community Eligibility Option, the number of pupils eligible for free and reduced price lunch on the last Wednesday in January for the preceding school year who were enrolled as students of the district, as approved by the department in accordance with applicable federal regulations. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Freeway: a divided state highway with four or more lanes, with no access to the throughways except the established interchanges and with no at-grade crossings. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• Fuel grade alcohol: a methanol or ethanol with a proof of not less than one hundred ninety degrees (determined without regard to denaturants) and products derived from such alcohol for blending with motor fuel. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Fuel transportation vehicle: any vehicle designed for highway use which is also designed or used to transport motor fuels and includes transport trucks and tank wagons. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Fund: the unemployment compensation fund established by this chapter. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Fund-raising event: an event such as a dinner, luncheon, reception, coffee, testimonial, rally, auction or similar affair through which contributions are solicited or received by such means as the purchase of tickets, payment of attendance fees, donations for prizes or through the purchase of goods, services or political merchandise. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• 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
• Gas: all natural gas and all other fluid hydrocarbons which are produced at the wellhead and not hereinbelow defined as oil. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Gasoline: all products commonly or commercially known or sold as gasoline that are suitable for use as a motor fuel. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• General election: means the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in even-numbered years. See Missouri Laws 116.010
• General election: means the election required to be held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, biennially. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Gestational age: length of pregnancy as measured from the first day of the woman's last menstrual period. See Missouri Laws 188.015
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governmental entity: the state, any political subdivision thereof, any instrumentality of any one or more of the foregoing which is wholly owned by this state and one or more other states or political subdivisions and any instrumentality of this state or any political subdivision thereof and one or more other states or political subdivisions. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• 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.
• Gross estate: The total fair market value of all property and property interests, real and personal, tangible and intangible, of which a decedent had beneficial ownership at the time of death before subtractions for deductions, debts, administrative expenses, and casualty losses suffered during estate administration.
• Gross gallons: the total measured motor fuel, exclusive of any temperature or pressure adjustments, in U. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Gross weight: the weight of vehicle and/or vehicle combination without load, plus the weight of any load thereon. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Group home: a child care facility which approximates a family setting, provides access to community activities and resources, and provides care to no more than twelve children. See Missouri Laws 211.021
• Grower: as applied to apples, any person owning or operating an orchard and engaged in the production in Missouri of apples for sale. See Missouri Laws 265.010
• 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: if used in a section in a context relating to property rights or obligations, means conservator of the estate as defined in chapter 475. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• Guardianship: if used in a section in a context relating to rights and obligations other than property rights or obligations, means guardian of the person as defined in chapter 475. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• 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.
• Handicap: means a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, whether the impairment is congenital or acquired by accident, injury, or disease, and where the impairment is verified by medical findings. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• 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.
• Heating oil: a motor fuel that is burned in a boiler, furnace, or stove for heating or industrial processing purposes. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• hereafter: means the time after the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• Heretofore: means any time previous to the day when the statute containing it takes effect. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• Highway: any public thoroughfare for vehicles, including state roads, county roads and public streets, avenues, boulevards, parkways, or alleys in any municipality. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• highway: the entire width between property lines of every way or place of whatever nature when any part thereof is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, for purposes of vehicular traffic. See Missouri Laws 303.020
• Highway: any public thoroughfare for vehicles, including state roads, county roads and public streets, avenues, boulevards, parkways or alleys in any municipality. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Hospital: a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment or care, for not less than twenty-four hours in any week, of three or more nonrelated individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity or other abnormal physical conditions. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Human rights fund: a fund established to receive civil penalties as required by federal regulations and as set forth by subdivision (2) of subsection 11 of section 213. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Illegal gas: means gas which has been produced from any well within this state in excess of the quantity permitted by any rule, regulation, or order of the council. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Illegal oil: means oil which has been produced from any well within the state in excess of the quantity permitted by any rule, regulation, or order of the council. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Illegal product: means any product derived in whole or in part from illegal oil or illegal gas. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Imitation controlled substance: a substance that is not a controlled substance, which by dosage unit appearance (including color, shape, size and markings), or by representations made, would lead a reasonable person to believe that the substance is a controlled substance. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• immediate family: means a husband, wife, parent, child, sibling, stepparent, stepchild, stepbrother, stepsister, grandparent, or grandchild. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Immediate precursor: a substance which:

  (a) The state department of health and senior services has found to be and by rule designates as being the principal compound commonly used or produced primarily for use in the manufacture of a controlled substance. See Missouri Laws 195.010

• 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.
• implements of husbandry: means all self-propelled machinery operated at speeds of less than thirty miles per hour, specifically designed for, or especially adapted to be capable of, incidental over-the-road and primary offroad usage and used exclusively for the application of commercial plant food materials or agricultural chemicals, and not specifically designed or intended for transportation of such chemicals and materials. See Missouri Laws 304.170
• Import: to bring motor fuel into this state by any means of conveyance other than in the fuel supply tank of a motor vehicle. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Import verification number: the number assigned by the director with respect to a single transport truck delivery into this state from another state upon request for an assigned number by an importer or the transporter carrying motor fuel into this state for the account of an importer. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Importer: includes any person who is the importer of record, pursuant to federal customs law, with respect to motor fuel. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• In vacation: includes any adjournment of court for more than one day whenever any act is authorized to be done by or any power given to a court, or judge thereof in vacation, or whenever any act is authorized to be done by or any power given to a clerk of any court in vacation. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• in-kind expenditure: a contribution or expenditure in a form other than money. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Incompetent: if used in a section in a context relating to actual occupational ability without reference to a court adjudication of incompetency, means the actual ability of a person to perform in that occupation. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• 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}
• Independent: a candidate who is not a candidate of any political party and who is running for an office for which political party candidates may run. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• 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.
• Initial claim: an application, in a form prescribed by the division, made by an individual for the determination of the individual's status as an insured worker. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Initial prescription: a prescription issued to a patient who has never previously been issued a prescription for the drug or its pharmaceutical equivalent or who was previously issued a prescription for the drug or its pharmaceutical equivalent, but the date on which the current prescription is being issued is more than five months after the date the patient last used or was administered the drug or its equivalent. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Insured work: employment in the service of an employer. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• insured worker: a worker who has been paid wages for insured work in the amount of one thousand dollars or more in at least one calendar quarter of such worker's base period and total wages in the worker's base period equal to at least one and one-half times the insured wages in that calendar quarter of the base period in which the worker's insured wages were the highest, or in the alternative, a worker who has been paid wages in at least two calendar quarters of such worker's base period and whose total base period wages are at least one and one-half times the maximum taxable wage base, taxable to any one employer, in accordance with subsection 2 of section 288. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• 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}
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Interstate highway: a state highway included in the national system of interstate highways located within the boundaries of Missouri, as officially designated or as may be hereafter designated by the state highways and transportation commission with the approval of the Secretary of Transportation, pursuant to Title 23, U. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• Interstate motor fuel user: any person who operates a motor fuel-powered motor vehicle with a licensed gross weight exceeding twenty-six thousand pounds that travels from this state into another state or from another state into this state. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• intoxicating liquor: as used in this chapter shall mean and include alcohol for beverage purposes, alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, fermented, malt, or other liquors, or combination of liquors, a part of which is spirituous, vinous, or fermented, and all preparations or mixtures for beverage purposes, containing in excess of one-half of one percent by volume. See Missouri Laws 311.020
• Invoiced gallons: the gallons actually billed on an invoice for payment to a supplier which shall be either gross or net gallons on the original manifest or bill of lading. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• 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 meeting: An occasion, often ceremonial, when the House and Senate each adopt a unanimous consent agreement
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Joint session: When both chambers of a legislature adopt a concurrent resolution to meet together.
• Judgment: a final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction of any state or of the United States, upon a claim for relief for damages, including damages for care and loss of services, because of bodily injury to or death of any person, or for damages because of injury to or destruction of property, including the loss of use thereof, or upon a claim for relief on any agreement or settlement for such damages arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of any motor vehicle. See Missouri Laws 303.020
• Junk vehicle: a vehicle which:

  (a) Is incapable of operation or use upon the highways and has no resale value except as a source of parts or scrap. See Missouri Laws 301.010

• 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.
• Jury instructions: A judge's directions to the jury before it begins deliberations regarding the factual questions it must answer and the legal rules that it must apply. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Juvenile court: means the juvenile division or divisions of the circuit court of the county, or judges while hearing juvenile cases assigned to them. See Missouri Laws 211.021
• Kerosene: the petroleum fraction containing hydrocarbons that are slightly heavier than those found in gasoline and naphtha, with a boiling range of one hundred forty-nine to three hundred degrees Celsius. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Kit vehicle: a motor vehicle assembled by a person other than a generally recognized manufacturer of motor vehicles by the use of a glider kit or replica purchased from an authorized manufacturer and accompanied by a manufacturer's statement of origin. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Labor organization: includes any organization which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or for other mutual aid or protection in relation to employment. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Labor organization: any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Laboratory: a laboratory approved by the department of health and senior services as proper to be entrusted with the custody of controlled substances but does not include a pharmacist who compounds controlled substances to be sold or dispensed on prescriptions. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Land: upland, land under water, the water itself and every estate, interest and right, legal or equitable in land or water. See Missouri Laws 253.010
• 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: 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}
• Legal custody: means the right to the care, custody and control of a child and the duty to provide food, clothing, shelter, ordinary medical care, education, treatment and discipline of a child. See Missouri Laws 211.021
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: a license issued by a state to a person which authorizes a person to operate a motor vehicle. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• License: an operator's or driver's license, temporary instruction permit, chauffeur's or registered operator's license issued under the laws of this state. See Missouri Laws 303.020
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
• Liquid: any substance that is liquid in excess of sixty degrees Fahrenheit and at a pressure of fourteen and seven-tenths pounds per square inch absolute. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Livestock: cattle, swine, sheep, ratite birds including but not limited to ostrich and emu, aquatic products as defined in section 277. See Missouri Laws 277.020
• Livestock market: a place of business or place where livestock is concentrated for the purpose of sale, exchange or trade made at regular or irregular intervals, whether at auction or not, except this definition shall not apply to any public farm sale or purebred livestock sale, or to any sale, transfer, or exchange of livestock from one person to another person for movement or transfer to other farm premises or directly to a licensed market. See Missouri Laws 277.020
• Livestock sale: the business of mediating, for a commission, or otherwise, sale, purchase, or exchange transactions in livestock, whether or not at a livestock market. See Missouri Laws 277.020
• Loan: a transfer of money, property or anything of ascertainable monetary value in exchange for an obligation, conditional or not, to repay in whole or in part and which was contracted, used, or intended for use in an election campaign, or which was made or received by a committee or which was contracted, used, or intended to pay previously incurred campaign debts or obligations of a candidate or the debts or obligations of a committee. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Local commercial motor vehicle: a commercial motor vehicle whose operations are confined to a municipality and that area extending not more than fifty miles therefrom, or a commercial motor vehicle whose property-carrying operations are confined solely to the transportation of property owned by any person who is the owner or operator of such vehicle to or from a farm owned by such person or under the person's control by virtue of a landlord and tenant lease. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Local commissions: any commission or agency established prior to August 13, 1986, by an ordinance or order adopted by the governing body of any city, constitutional charter city, town, village, or county. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Local log truck: a commercial motor vehicle which is registered pursuant to this chapter to operate as a motor vehicle on the public highways of this state. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Local log truck tractor: a commercial motor vehicle which is registered under this chapter to operate as a motor vehicle on the public highways of this state. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Log truck: a vehicle which is not a local log truck or local log truck tractor and is used exclusively to transport harvested forest products to and from forested sites which is registered pursuant to this chapter to operate as a motor vehicle on the public highways of this state for the transportation of harvested forest products. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Major component parts: the rear clip, cowl, frame, body, cab, front-end assembly, and front clip, as those terms are defined by the director of revenue pursuant to rules and regulations or by illustrations. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Major political party: the political party whose candidates received the highest or second highest number of votes at the last general election. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• Mandatory spending: Spending (budget authority and outlays) controlled by laws other than annual appropriations acts.
• Manufacture: the production, preparation, propagation, compounding or processing of drug paraphernalia or of a controlled substance, or an imitation controlled substance, either directly or by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Manufacturer: any person engaged in the manufacture or production of cigarettes. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• Manufacturer: any person, firm, corporation or association engaged in the business of manufacturing or assembling motor vehicles, trailers or vessels for sale. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• manufacturing: as applied to apples, the commercial drying, dehydrating, canning, pressing, powdering, extracting or use in producing or manufacturing a by-product or manufactured article. See Missouri Laws 265.010
• Marijuana: all parts of the plant genus Cannabis in any species or form thereof, including, but not limited to Cannabis Sativa L. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Marking device: any device approved by the secretary of state under section 115. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• maximum medical improvement: shall mean the point at which the injured employee's medical condition has stabilized and can no longer reasonably improve with additional medical care, as determined within a reasonable degree of medical certainty. See Missouri Laws 287.020
• measure: any proposal submitted or intended to be submitted to qualified voters for their approval or rejection, including any proposal submitted by initiative petition, referendum petition, or by the general assembly or any local governmental body having authority to refer proposals to the voter. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Medical emergency: a condition which, based on reasonable medical judgment, so complicates the medical condition of a pregnant woman as to necessitate the immediate abortion of her pregnancy to avert the death of the pregnant woman or for which a delay will create a serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman. See Missouri Laws 188.015
• Member: includes actual members of associations without capital stock. See Missouri Laws 274.020
• Members of the patrol: the superintendent, lieutenant colonel, majors, captains, director of radio, lieutenants, sergeants, corporals and patrolmen of the Missouri state highway patrol. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• Meter machine: a type of device manufactured for the use of printing or imprinting an inked impression indicating that the cigarette tax has been paid on an individual package of cigarettes. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• Mine inspectors: those persons employed by the division of mine inspection, including the director, who are charged with the inspection of coal and noncoal mines in this state. See Missouri Laws 293.010
• Mineral: any metalliferous element or ore, coal or lignite, or any nonmetalliferous element or ore, except barite, marble, limestone, and sand and gravel. See Missouri Laws 293.010
• minor: means a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years. See Missouri Laws 287.020
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Misconduct: only as the term is used in this chapter, conduct or failure to act in a manner that is connected with work, regardless of whether such conduct or failure to act occurs at the workplace or during work hours, which shall include:

  (a) Conduct or a failure to act demonstrating knowing disregard of the employer's interest or a knowing violation of the standards which the employer expects of his or her employee. See Missouri Laws 288.030

• Month: means a calendar month, and "year" means a calendar year unless otherwise expressed, and is equivalent to the words year of our Lord. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• motivating factor: the employee's protected classification actually played a role in the adverse action or decision and had a determinative influence on the adverse decision or action. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Motor change vehicle: a vehicle manufactured prior to August, 1957, which receives a new, rebuilt or used engine, and which used the number stamped on the original engine as the vehicle identification number. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Motor fuel: gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene and blended fuel. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Motor vehicle: any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon tracks except motorized bicycles, as defined in section 307. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Motor vehicle: a self-propelled vehicle which is designed for use upon a highway, except trailers designed for use with such vehicles, traction engines, road rollers, farm tractors, tractor cranes, power shovels, well drillers, motorized bicycles as defined in section 307. See Missouri Laws 303.020
• Motor vehicle: any automobile, truck, truck-tractor or any motor bus or self-propelled vehicle not exclusively operated or driven upon fixed rails or tracks. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Motor vehicle: any self-propelled vehicle not operated exclusively upon tracks, except farm tractors and electric bicycles. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Motorboat: any vessel propelled by machinery, whether or not such machinery is a principal source of propulsion. See Missouri Laws 306.010
• Motorcycle: a motor vehicle operated on two wheels. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Motorcycle: a motor vehicle operated on two wheels. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Motortricycle: a motor vehicle operated on three wheels, including a motorcycle operated with any conveyance, temporary or otherwise, requiring the use of a third wheel, but excluding an electric bicycle as defined in section 301. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Motortricycle: a motor vehicle upon which the operator straddles or sits astride that is designed to be controlled by handle bars and is operated on three wheels, including a motorcycle while operated with any conveyance, temporary or otherwise, requiring the use of a third wheel, but excluding an electric bicycle. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Moving violation: that character of traffic violation where at the time of violation the motor vehicle involved is in motion, except that the term does not include the driving of a motor vehicle without a valid motor vehicle registration license, or violations of sections 304. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• municipality: a city, village, or incorporated town of this state. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Municipality: any city, town or village, whether incorporated or not. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Narcotic drug: any of the following, whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical analysis:

  (a) Opium, opiate, and any derivative, of opium or opiate, including their isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, esters, and ethers, whenever the existence of the isomers, esters, ethers, and salts is possible within the specific chemical designation. See Missouri Laws 195.010

• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Net gallons: the motor fuel, measured in U. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• New party: any political group which has filed a valid petition and is entitled to place its list of candidates on the ballot at the next general or special election. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Noncoal mine: any open pit or underground excavation from which minerals, as defined in this section, except coal are extracted for commercial purposes, including the mining plant and all parts of the property of such mine, on the surface or underground. See Missouri Laws 293.010
• Noncommercial gas well: a gas well drilled for the sole purpose of furnishing gas for private domestic consumption by the owner and not for resale or trade. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Nonpartisan: a candidate who is not a candidate of any political party and who is running for an office for which party candidates may not run. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Nonresident: every person who is not a resident of this state. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Nonresident: a person not a resident of the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 303.020
• Nonresident: a resident of a state or country other than the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Nonviolent offender: any offender who is convicted of a crime other than murder in the first or second degree, involuntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter in the first or second degree, kidnapping, kidnapping in the first degree, rape in the first degree, forcible rape, sodomy in the first degree, forcible sodomy, robbery in the first degree or assault in the first degree. See Missouri Laws 217.010
• Nuisance: as otherwise defined by applicable Missouri common or statutory law. See Missouri Laws 269.010
• 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.
• Off-road vehicle: any vehicle designed for or capable of cross-country travel on or immediately over land, water, ice, snow, marsh, swampland, or other natural terrain without benefit of a road or trail:

  (a) Including, without limitation, the following:

  a. See Missouri Laws 304.001

• Offender: a person under supervision or an inmate in the custody of the department. See Missouri Laws 217.010
• office: any state, judicial, county, municipal, school or other district, ward, township, or other political subdivision office or any political party office which is filled by a vote of registered voters. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Official ballot title: means the summary statement and fiscal note summary prepared for all statewide ballot measures in accordance with the provisions of this chapter which shall be placed on the ballot and, when applicable, shall be the petition title for initiative or referendum petitions. See Missouri Laws 116.010
• Official written order: an order written on a form provided for that purpose by the United States Commissioner of Narcotics, under any laws of the United States making provision therefor, if such order forms are authorized and required by federal law, and if no such order form is provided, then on an official form provided for that purpose by the department of health and senior services. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Oil: crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons regardless of gravity which are produced at the wellhead in liquid form and the liquid hydrocarbons known as distillate or condensate recovered or extracted from gas, other than gas produced in association with oil and commonly known as casinghead gas. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Operate: to navigate or otherwise use a motorboat or a vessel. See Missouri Laws 306.010
• Operating levy for school purposes: the sum of tax rates levied for teachers' and incidental funds plus the operating levy or sales tax equivalent pursuant to section 162. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• Operator: every person who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle upon a highway. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Operator: a person who is in actual physical control of a motor vehicle. See Missouri Laws 303.020
• Operator: the person who operates or has charge of the navigation or use of a vessel. See Missouri Laws 306.010
• Operator: the person, firm, or body corporate who or which is the immediate proprietor, as owner or lessee, of the mine and, as such, responsible for the condition and management thereof. See Missouri Laws 293.010
• Operator: any person who operates or drives a motor vehicle. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• opioid: any substance having an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Opium poppy: the plant of the species Papaver somniferum L. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: a person who holds the legal title of a vehicle or in the event a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or in the event a mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then such conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of sections 302. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Owner: a person who holds the legal title to a motor vehicle. See Missouri Laws 303.020
• owner: shall mean the owner of the freehold estate, as appears by the deed record, and it shall not include reversioners, remaindermen, trustees or mortgagees, who shall not be counted and need not be notified by publication, or served by process, but shall be represented by the present owners of the freehold estate in any proceeding under this chapter. See Missouri Laws 243.010
• Owner: a person other than a lienholder, having the property in or title to a motorboat. See Missouri Laws 306.010
• Owner: the person who has the right to drill into and produce from a pool and to appropriate the oil or gas he produced therefrom either for himself or others or for himself and others. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Owner: any person, firm, corporation or association, who holds the legal title to a vehicle or who has executed a buyer's order or retail installment sales contract with a motor vehicle dealer licensed under sections 301. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Package of cigarettes: a container of any type composition in which is normally contained twenty individual cigarettes, except as in special instances when the number may be more or less than twenty. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• Packer: as applied to apples, any person who packs apples for shipment or sale. See Missouri Laws 265.010
• Parasailing: the towing of any person equipped with a parachute or kite equipment by any watercraft operating on the waters of this state. See Missouri Laws 306.010
• Parent: a child's parent, legal custodian or guardian. See Missouri Laws 294.011
• parent: means the mother. See Missouri Laws 211.021
• Park: any land, site or object primarily of recreational value or of cultural value because of its scenic, historic, prehistoric, archeologic, scientific, or other distinctive characteristics or natural features. See Missouri Laws 253.010
• Parkway: an elongated area of parkland, usually contiguous to a pleasure driveway and often containing recreational areas. See Missouri Laws 253.010
• 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.
• Performance district: any district that has met performance standards and indicators as established by the department of elementary and secondary education for purposes of accreditation under section 161. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• Performance levy: three dollars and forty-three cents. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• Permissive supplier: an out-of-state supplier that elects, but is not required, to have a supplier's license pursuant to this chapter. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Person: includes one or more individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, organizations, labor organizations, legal representatives, mutual companies, joint stock companies, trusts, trustees, trustees in bankruptcy, receivers, fiduciaries, or other organized groups of persons. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Person: any natural person, corporation, or other legal entity. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• Person: any individual, male or female, singular or plural, of whatever age. See Missouri Laws 254.020
• Person: person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation. See Missouri Laws 257.020
• person: as used in this chapter shall mean and include any individual, association, joint stock company, syndicate, copartnership, corporation, receiver, trustee, conservator, or other officer appointed by any state or federal court. See Missouri Laws 311.030
• Person: an individual, group of individuals, corporation, partnership, committee, proprietorship, joint venture, any department, agency, board, institution or other entity of the state or any of its political subdivisions, union, labor organization, trade or professional or business association, association, political party or any executive committee thereof, or any other club or organization however constituted or any officer or employee of such entity acting in the person's official capacity. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Person: includes all persons, firms, copartnerships, associations, joint ventures and corporations, of all kinds and places of residence, or any other group or combination acting in concert. See Missouri Laws 269.010
• Person: individuals, partnerships, corporations and associations. See Missouri Laws 277.020
• Person: natural persons, individuals, partnerships, firms, associations, corporations, estates, trustees, business trusts, syndicates, this state, any county, city, municipality, school district or other political subdivision of the state, federally recognized Indian tribe, or any corporation or combination acting as a unit or any receiver appointed by any state or federal court. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Person: any individual, corporation, firm, partnership, incorporated or unincorporated association, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• Person: an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, joint venture, association, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• personal injuries: shall mean violence to the physical structure of the body and to the personal property which is used to make up the physical structure of the body, such as artificial dentures, artificial limbs, glass eyes, eyeglasses, and other prostheses which are placed in or on the body to replace the physical structure and such disease or infection as naturally results therefrom. See Missouri Laws 287.020
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• Personal watercraft: a class of vessel, which is less than sixteen feet in length, propelled by machinery which is designed to be operated by a person sitting, standing or kneeling on the vessel, rather than being operated by a person sitting or standing inside the vessel. See Missouri Laws 306.010
• Pharmacist: a licensed pharmacist as defined by the laws of this state, and where the context so requires, the owner of a store or other place of business where controlled substances are compounded or dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Physician: any person licensed to practice medicine in this state by the state board of registration for the healing arts. See Missouri Laws 188.015
• Place of residence: means the place where the family of any person permanently resides in this state, and the place where any person having no family generally lodges. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• Places of public accommodation: all places or businesses offering or holding out to the general public, goods, services, privileges, facilities, advantages or accommodations for the peace, comfort, health, welfare and safety of the general public or such public places providing food, shelter, recreation and amusement, including, but not limited to:

  (a) Any inn, hotel, motel, or other establishment which provides lodging to transient guests, other than an establishment located within a building which contains not more than five rooms for rent or hire and which is actually occupied by the proprietor of such establishment as his residence. See Missouri Laws 213.010

• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• plant: includes any plant and all the equipment thereof described or referred to in any section of this chapter, that is constructed and intended to be operated for the disposal of the bodies of dead animals by means either of cooking, or other method herein prescribed, or hereafter provided for by law and not otherwise defined. See Missouri Laws 269.010
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. ^Source:
• 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.
• Political merchandise: goods such as bumper stickers, pins, hats, ties, jewelry, literature, or other items sold or distributed at a fund-raising event or to the general public for publicity or for the purpose of raising funds to be used in supporting or opposing a candidate for nomination or election or in supporting or opposing the qualification, passage or defeat of a ballot measure. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Political party: any established political party and any new party. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Political party: a political party which has the right under law to have the names of its candidates listed on the ballot in a general election. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Political party committee: a state, district, county, city, or area committee of a political party, as defined in section 115. See Missouri Laws 130.011
• Political subdivision: a county, city, town, village, or township of a township organization county. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Polling place: the voting place designated for all voters residing in one or more precincts for any election. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Pool: an underground reservoir containing a common accumulation of oil or gas or both. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Poppy straw: all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy, after mowing. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Position holder: the person who holds the inventory position in motor fuel in a terminal, as reflected on the records of the terminal operator. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• 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}
• Practitioner: a physician, dentist, optometrist, podiatrist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, pharmacy, hospital or other person licensed, registered or otherwise permitted by this state to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer or to use in teaching or chemical analysis, a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state, or a pharmacy, hospital or other institution licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• 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.
• Precincts: the geographical areas into which the election authority divides its jurisdiction for the purpose of conducting elections. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Precommercial forestry activities: proper forest management activities, as defined by the commission, that do not generate an immediate profit for the landowner. See Missouri Laws 254.020
• Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
• Presentence report: A report prepared by a court's probation officer, after a person has been convicted of an offense, summarizing for the court the background information needed to determine the appropriate sentence. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 procedure under which a defendant found guilty of a crime upon verdict or plea is released by the court without imprisonment, subject to conditions imposed by the court and subject to the supervision of the division of probation and parole. See Missouri Laws 217.010
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Product: any commodity made from oil or gas and includes refined crude oil, crude tops, topped crude, processed crude, processed crude petroleum, residue from crude petroleum, cracking stock, uncracked fuel oil, fuel oil, treated crude oil, residuum, gas oil, casinghead gasoline, natural-gas gasoline, kerosene, benzene, wash oil, waste oil, blended gasoline, lubricating oil, blends or mixtures of oil with one or more liquid products or by-products derived from oil or gas, and blends or mixtures of two or more liquid products or by-products derived from oil or gas whether herein enumerated or not. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Production: includes the manufacture, planting, cultivation, growing, or harvesting of drug paraphernalia or of a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Proof of financial responsibility: proof of ability to respond in damages for liability, on account of accidents occurring subsequent to the effective date of said proof, arising out of the ownership, maintenance or use of a motor vehicle, in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of one person in any one accident, and, subject to said limit for one person, in the amount of fifty thousand dollars because of bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in any one accident, and in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars because of injury to or destruction of property of others in any one accident. See Missouri Laws 303.020
• Propel: the operation of a motor vehicle, whether it is in motion or at rest. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Property: includes real and personal property. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
• Public corporation: counties, townships, cities, towns, villages, all special districts, and all other governmental agencies. See Missouri Laws 257.020
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Public garage: a place of business where motor vehicles are housed, stored, repaired, reconstructed or repainted for persons other than the owners or operators of such place of business. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Public highway: every road, toll road, highway, street, way or place generally open to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purposes of vehicular travel, including streets and alleys of any town or city notwithstanding that the same may be temporarily closed for construction, reconstruction, maintenance or repair. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public office: any office established by constitution, statute or charter and any employment under the United States, the state of Missouri, or any political subdivision or special district thereof, but does not include any office in the Missouri state defense force or the National Guard or the office of notary public or city attorney in cities of the third classification or cities of the fourth classification. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Qualified terminal: a terminal which has been assigned a terminal control number ("tcn") by the Internal Revenue Service. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Question: any measure on the ballot which can be voted "YES" or "NO". See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Rack: a mechanism for delivering motor fuel from a refinery or terminal into a railroad tank car, a transport truck or other means of bulk transfer outside of the bulk transfer/terminal system. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Ranking minority member: The highest ranking (and usually longest serving) minority member of a committee or subcommittee.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Reasonable market demand: means the demand for oil or gas for reasonable current requirements for consumption and use within and without the state, together with such quantities as are reasonably necessary for building up or maintaining reasonable working stocks and reasonable reserves of oil or gas or product. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Reasonable medical judgment: a medical judgment that would be made by a reasonably prudent physician, knowledgeable about the case and the treatment possibilities with respect to the medical conditions involved. See Missouri Laws 188.015
• Rebuilder: a business that repairs or rebuilds motor vehicles owned by the rebuilder, but does not include certificated common or contract carriers of persons or property. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Reconstructed motor vehicle: a vehicle that is altered from its original construction by the addition or substitution of two or more new or used major component parts, excluding motor vehicles made from all new parts, and new multistage manufactured vehicles. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Record: includes , but is not limited to, papers, documents, facsimile information, microphotographic process, electronically generated or electronically recorded information, digitized images, deposited or filed with the department of revenue. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• 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}
• Recreational motor vehicle: any motor vehicle designed, constructed or substantially modified so that it may be used and is used for the purposes of temporary housing quarters, including therein sleeping and eating facilities which are either permanently attached to the motor vehicle or attached to a unit which is securely attached to the motor vehicle. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Referee: a representative of the division designated to serve on an appeals tribunal. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Refiner: any person that owns, operates, or otherwise controls a refinery. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Refinery: a facility used to produce motor fuel from crude oil, unfinished oils, natural gas liquids, or other hydrocarbons and from which motor fuel may be removed by pipeline, by boat or barge, or at a rack. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Regional wage ratio: the ratio of the regional wage per job divided by the state median wage per job. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• Registration: registration certificate or certificates and registration plates issued under the laws of this state pertaining to the registration of motor vehicles. See Missouri Laws 303.020
• Registry number: the number assigned to each person registered under the federal controlled substances laws. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Relative within the second degree by consanguinity or affinity: a spouse, parent, child, grandparent, brother, sister, grandchild, mother-in-law, father-in-law, daughter-in-law, or son-in-law. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• 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.
• Removal: any physical transfer of motor fuel from a terminal, manufacturing plant, customs custody, pipeline, boat or barge, refinery or any facility that stores motor fuel. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Rent: includes to lease, to sublease, to let and otherwise to grant for consideration the right to occupy premises not owned by the occupant. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• 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.
• Residence address: "residence", or "resident address" shall be the location at which a person has been physically present, and that the person regards as home. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• resident pupil: shall include all children between the ages of five and twenty-one who are residents of the school district and who are attending kindergarten through grade twelve in such district. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• Respondent: a person who is alleged to have engaged in a prohibited discriminatory practice in a complaint filed with the commission. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Restricted driving privilege: a sixty-day driving privilege issued by the director of revenue following a suspension of driving privileges for the limited purpose of driving in connection with the driver's business, occupation, employment, formal program of secondary, postsecondary or higher education, or for an alcohol education or treatment program or certified ignition interlock provider, or a ninety-day interlock restricted privilege issued by the director of revenue for the limited purpose of driving in connection with the driver's business, occupation, employment, seeking medical treatment for such driver or a dependent family member, attending school or other institution of higher education, attending alcohol- or drug-treatment programs, seeking the required services of a certified ignition interlock provider, fulfilling court obligations, including required appearances and probation and parole obligations, religious services, the care of a child or children, including scheduled visitation or custodial obligations pursuant to a court order, fueling requirements for any vehicle utilized, and seeking basic nutritional requirements. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Retailer: a person that engages in the business of selling or dispensing to the consumer within this state. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Retailer: any person who sells to a consumer or to any person for any purpose other than resale. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
• Right-of-way: the entire width of land between the boundary lines of a state highway, including any roadway. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• Roadway: that portion of a state highway ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the berm or shoulder. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• Rollback or car carrier: any vehicle specifically designed to transport wrecked, disabled or otherwise inoperable vehicles, when the transportation is directly connected to a wrecker or towing service. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• rules and regulations: shall mean those made by the commission pursuant thereto. See Missouri Laws 254.020
• saddle: is a mechanism that connects the front axle of the towed vehicle to the frame or fifth wheel of the vehicle in front and functions like a fifth wheel kingpin connection. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Saddlemount combination: a combination of vehicles in which a truck or truck tractor tows one or more trucks or truck tractors, each connected by a saddle to the frame or fifth wheel of the vehicle in front of it. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• safety bumper: means any device which may be fitted on an existing bumper or which replaces the bumper and is so constructed, treated, or manufactured that it absorbs energy upon impact. See Missouri Laws 304.170
• Sale: includes barter, exchange, or gift, or offer therefor, and each such transaction made by any person, whether as principal, proprietor, agent, servant or employee. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Salvage dealer and dismantler: a business that dismantles used motor vehicles for the sale of the parts thereof, and buys and sells used motor vehicle parts and accessories. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Salvage vehicle: a motor vehicle, semitrailer, or house trailer which:

  (a) Was damaged during a year that is no more than six years after the manufacturer's model year designation for such vehicle to the extent that the total cost of repairs to rebuild or reconstruct the vehicle to its condition immediately before it was damaged for legal operation on the roads or highways exceeds eighty percent of the fair market value of the vehicle immediately preceding the time it was damaged. See Missouri Laws 301.010

• School bus: when used in sections 302. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• School bus operator: an operator who operates a school bus as defined in subdivision (21) of this section in the transportation of any schoolchildren and who receives compensation for such service. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Scrap processor: a business that, through the use of fixed or mobile equipment, flattens, crushes, or otherwise accepts motor vehicles and vehicle parts for processing or transportation to a shredder or scrap metal operator for recycling. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Service: the children's special health care needs service. See Missouri Laws 201.010
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Services: medical, surgical, corrective, diagnostic, hospitalization, and related services, including after care, and all things reasonably incident and necessary to make the service available to the child. See Missouri Laws 201.010
• 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.
• Shaft: any vertical or near-vertical opening through the strata which is to be used for ventilation or escapement, or for the hoisting and lowering of men, ore or material in connection with the mining of minerals. See Missouri Laws 293.010
• Shelter care: means the temporary care of juveniles in physically unrestricting facilities pending final court disposition. See Missouri Laws 211.021
• shipped: as applied to apples, shall be deemed to take place when the apples are loaded in the railroad car, motor vehicle, boat, wagon, or other conveyance to be transported. See Missouri Laws 265.010
• Signature: any method determined by the director of revenue for the signing, subscribing or verifying of a record, report, application, driver's license, or other related document that shall have the same validity and consequences as the actual signing by the person providing the record, report, application, driver's license or related document. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Skiing: any activity that involves a person or persons being towed by a vessel, including but not limited to waterskiing, wake boarding, wake surfing, knee boarding, and tubing. See Missouri Laws 306.010
• Slope: any inclined shaft or way in or to a mineral deposit to be used for the same purposes as a shaft. See Missouri Laws 293.010
• Smokeless tobacco: chewing tobacco, including, but not limited to, twist, moist plug, loose leaf and firm plug, and all types of snuff, including, but not limited to, moist and dry. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• Special district: any school district, water district, fire protection district, hospital district, health center, nursing district, or other districts with taxing authority, or other district formed pursuant to the laws of Missouri to provide limited, specific services. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Special education pupil count: the number of public school students with a current individualized education program or services plan and receiving services from the resident district as of December first of the preceding school year, except for special education services provided through a school district established under sections 162. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• Special election: elections called by any school district, water district, fire protection district, or other district formed pursuant to the laws of Missouri to provide limited, specific services. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Special mobile equipment: every self-propelled vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and incidentally operated or moved over the highways, including farm equipment, implements of husbandry, road construction or maintenance machinery, ditch-digging apparatus, stone crushers, air compressors, power shovels, cranes, graders, rollers, well-drillers and wood-sawing equipment used for hire, asphalt spreaders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, ditchers, leveling graders, finished machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth-moving carryalls, scrapers, drag lines, concrete pump trucks, rock-drilling and earth-moving equipment. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Specially constructed motor vehicle: a motor vehicle which shall not have been originally constructed under a distinctive name, make, model or type by a manufacturer of motor vehicles. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Stamped cigarettes: an individual package, containing twenty individual cigarettes, more or less, on which appears or is affixed or imprinted thereon a Missouri state cigarette tax stamp or Missouri state meter machine impression. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• State: any state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or any province of the Dominion of Canada. See Missouri Laws 303.020
• State: includes , in addition to the states of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Dominion of Canada. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession thereof, and any area subject to the legal authority of the United States of America. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• State adequacy target: the sum of the current operating expenditures of every performance district that falls entirely above the bottom five percent and entirely below the top five percent of average daily attendance, when such districts are rank-ordered based on their current operating expenditures per average daily attendance, divided by the total average daily attendance of all included performance districts. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• State forester: the administrative head of the state forestry program. See Missouri Laws 254.020
• State highway: a highway constructed or maintained by the state highways and transportation commission with the aid of state funds or United States government funds, or any highway included by authority of law in the state highway system, including all right-of-way. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• State median wage per job: the fifty-eighth highest county wage per job. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• State veterinarian: a state veterinarian of Missouri or his authorized representative. See Missouri Laws 269.010
• State veterinarian: the state veterinarian of the Missouri state department of agriculture. See Missouri Laws 277.020
• Statewide ballot measure: means a constitutional amendment submitted by initiative petition, the general assembly or a constitutional convention. See Missouri Laws 116.010
• 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.
• Statutes at large: A chronological listing of the laws enacted each Congress. They are published in volumes numbered by Congress.
• Stinger-steered combination: a truck tractor-semitrailer wherein the fifth wheel is located on a drop frame located behind and below the rearmost axle of the power unit. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Strip mine: any excavation in which the superincumbent strata are removed, exposing the mineral so that it may be extracted and loaded by hand or mechanical equipment in open working. See Missouri Laws 293.010
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Substance abuse traffic offender program: a program certified by the division of alcohol and drug abuse of the department of mental health to provide education or rehabilitation services pursuant to a professional assessment screening to identify the individual needs of the person who has been referred to the program as the result of an alcohol- or drug-related traffic offense. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Substation: a building, container, or other area where dead animals are brought, gathered, or held awaiting transportation to a disposal site. See Missouri Laws 269.010
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supplemental appropriation: Budget authority provided in an appropriations act in addition to regular or continuing appropriations already provided. Supplemental appropriations generally are made to cover emergencies, such as disaster relief, or other needs deemed too urgent to be postponed until the enactment of next year's regular appropriations act.
• Supplier: includes a permissive supplier unless specifically provided otherwise. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Sustainable forestry principles: forest management activities, as defined by the commission, that ensure efficient use and continued availability of forest resources. See Missouri Laws 254.020
• Tandem axle: a group of two or more axles, arranged one behind another, the distance between the extremes of which is more than forty inches and not more than ninety-six inches apart. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Tank wagon: a straight truck having multiple compartments designed or used to carry motor fuel. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Tax stamp: an item manufactured of a paper product or substitute thereof on which is printed, imprinted, or engraved lettering, numerals or symbols indicating that the cigarette tax has been paid on each individual package of cigarettes. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• Teacher: any teacher, teacher-secretary, substitute teacher, supervisor, principal, supervising principal, superintendent or assistant superintendent, school nurse, social worker, counselor or librarian who shall, regularly, teach or be employed for no higher than grade twelve more than one-half time in the public schools and who is certified under the laws governing the certification of teachers in Missouri. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• Temporary employee: an employee assigned to work for the clients of a temporary help firm. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Temporary help firm: a firm that hires its own employees and assigns them to clients to support or supplement the clients' workforce in work situations such as employee absences, temporary skill shortages, seasonal workloads, and special assignments and projects. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Terminal: a bulk storage and distribution facility which includes:

  (a) For the purposes of motor fuel, is a qualified terminal. See Missouri Laws 142.800

• Terminal bulk transfers: include but are not limited to the following:

  (a) Boat or barge movement of motor fuel from a refinery or terminal to a terminal. See Missouri Laws 142.800

• Terminal operator: any person that owns, operates, or otherwise controls a terminal. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• 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.
• Tobacco product: cigarettes, cigarette papers, clove cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, smoking tobacco, or other form of tobacco products or products made with tobacco substitute containing nicotine. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• 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.
• total disability: as used in this chapter shall mean inability to return to any employment and not merely mean inability to return to the employment in which the employee was engaged at the time of the accident. See Missouri Laws 287.020
• tow truck: any emergency commercial vehicle equipped, designed and used to assist or render aid and transport or tow disabled or wrecked vehicles from a highway, road, street or highway rights-of-way to a point of storage or repair, including towing a replacement vehicle to replace a disabled or wrecked vehicle. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Towaway trailer transporter combination: a combination of vehicles consisting of a trailer transporter towing unit and two trailers or semitrailers, with a total weight that does not exceed twenty-six thousand pounds. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Towing company: any person or entity which tows, removes or stores abandoned property. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• Tractor: "truck tractor" or "truck-tractor", a self-propelled motor vehicle designed for drawing other vehicles, but not for the carriage of any load when operating independently. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Trailer: any vehicle without motive power designed for carrying property or passengers on its own structure and for being drawn by a self-propelled vehicle, except those running exclusively on tracks, including a semitrailer or vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a self-propelled vehicle that a considerable part of its own weight rests upon and is carried by the towing vehicle. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Trailer transporter towing unit: a power unit that is not used to carry property when operating in a towaway trailer transporter combination. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• 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.
• Transport truck: a semitrailer combination rig designed or used to transport motor fuel over the highways. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Transporter: any operator of a pipeline, barge, railroad or transport truck engaged in the business of transporting motor fuels. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Truck: a motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained for the transportation of property. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Truck-tractor semitrailer-semitrailer: a combination vehicle in which the two trailing units are connected with a B-train assembly which is a rigid frame extension attached to the rear frame of a first semitrailer which allows for a fifth-wheel connection point for the second semitrailer and has one less articulation point than the conventional A-dolly connected truck-tractor semitrailer-trailer combination. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Truck-trailer boat transporter combination: a boat transporter combination consisting of a straight truck towing a trailer using typically a ball and socket connection with the trailer axle located substantially at the trailer center of gravity rather than the rear of the trailer but so as to maintain a downward force on the trailer tongue. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Two-party exchange: a transaction in which the motor fuel is transferred from one licensed supplier or licensed permissive supplier to another licensed supplier or licensed permissive supplier and:

  (a) Which transaction includes a transfer from the person that holds the original inventory position for motor fuel in the terminal as reflected on the records of the terminal operator. See Missouri Laws 142.800

• Ultimate user: a person who lawfully possesses a controlled substance or an imitation controlled substance for his or her own use or for the use of a member of his or her household or immediate family, regardless of whether they live in the same household, or for administering to an animal owned by him or by a member of his or her household. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• Ultimate vendor: a person that sells motor fuel to the consumer. See Missouri Laws 142.800
• Unborn child: the offspring of human beings from the moment of conception until birth and at every stage of its biological development, including the human conceptus, zygote, morula, blastocyst, embryo, and fetus. See Missouri Laws 188.015
• 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}
• United States: includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• Unlawful discriminatory practice: any act that is unlawful under this chapter. See Missouri Laws 213.010
• Unstamped cigarettes: an individual package containing cigarettes on which does not appear a Missouri state cigarette tax stamp or Missouri state meter machine impression. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• Urbanized area: an area with a population of fifty thousand or more designated by the Bureau of the Census, within boundaries to be fixed by the state highways and transportation commission and local officials in cooperation with each other and approved by the Secretary of Transportation. See Missouri Laws 304.001
• Used parts dealer: a business that buys and sells used motor vehicle parts or accessories, but not including a business that sells only new, remanufactured or rebuilt parts. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• 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.
• Utility vehicle: any motorized vehicle manufactured and used exclusively for off-highway use which is more than fifty inches but no more than eighty inches in width, measured from outside of tire rim to outside of tire rim, with an unladen dry weight of three thousand five hundred pounds or less, traveling on four or six wheels, to be used primarily for landscaping, lawn care, or maintenance purposes. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Vanpool: any van or other motor vehicle used or maintained by any person, group, firm, corporation, association, city, county or state agency, or any member thereof, for the transportation of not less than eight nor more than forty-eight employees, per motor vehicle, to and from their place of employment. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• 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.
• Vehicle: any mechanical device on wheels, designed primarily for use, or used, on highways, except motorized bicycles, electric bicycles, vehicles propelled or drawn by horses or human power, or vehicles used exclusively on fixed rails or tracks, or cotton trailers or motorized wheelchairs operated by handicapped persons. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Vehicle: any mechanical device on wheels, designed primarily for use, or used on highways, except motorized bicycles, electric bicycles, vehicles propelled or drawn by horses or human power, or vehicles used exclusively on fixed rails or tracks, or cotton trailers or motorized wheelchairs operated by handicapped persons. See Missouri Laws 302.010
• Vehicle: any truck or other motor vehicle, including any detachable trailer or container in which dead animals are transported. See Missouri Laws 269.010
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Vessel: every motorboat and every description of motorized watercraft, and any watercraft more than twelve feet in length which is powered by sail alone or by a combination of sail and machinery, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water, but not any watercraft having as the only means of propulsion a paddle or oars. See Missouri Laws 306.010
• 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.
• viable: that stage of fetal development when the life of the unborn child may be continued indefinitely outside the womb by natural or artificial life-supportive systems. See Missouri Laws 188.015
• viable intrauterine pregnancy: in the first trimester of pregnancy, an intrauterine pregnancy that can potentially result in a liveborn baby. See Missouri Laws 188.015
• Victim Impact Statement: A written or spoken statement by the victim or his or her representative about the physical, emotional, and financial impact of a crime on the victim. The statement is given to the court before sentencing.
• Volunteer: any person who, of his or her own free will, performs any assigned duties for the department or its divisions with no monetary or material compensation. See Missouri Laws 217.010
• Voter: means a person registered to vote in accordance with section 115. See Missouri Laws 116.010
• voter: is used in the laws of this state it shall mean registered voter, or legal voter. See Missouri Laws 1.035
• Voting district: the one or more precincts within which all voters vote at a single polling place for any election. See Missouri Laws 115.013
• Waiting week: the first week of unemployment for which a claim is allowed in a benefit year or if no waiting week has occurred in a benefit year in effect on the effective date of a shared work plan, the first week of participation in a shared work unemployment compensation program pursuant to section 288. See Missouri Laws 288.030
• Ward: if used in a section in a context relating to the property rights and obligations of a person, means a protectee as defined in chapter 475. See Missouri Laws 1.020
• Waste: means and includes:

  (a) Physical waste, as that term is generally understood in the oil and gas industry, but not including unavoidable or accidental waste. See Missouri Laws 259.050

• water patrol division: the division responsible for enforcing the provisions of this chapter on the waters of this state. See Missouri Laws 306.010
• Watercraft: any boat or craft, including a vessel, used or capable of being used as a means of transport on waters. See Missouri Laws 306.010
• Waters of this state: any waters within the territorial limits of this state and lakes constructed or maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers except bodies of water owned by a person, corporation, association, partnership, municipality or other political subdivision, public water supply impoundments, and except drainage ditches constructed by a drainage district, but the term does include any body of water which has been leased to or owned by the state department of conservation. See Missouri Laws 306.010
• Weighted average daily attendance: the average daily attendance plus the product of twenty-five hundredths multiplied by the free and reduced price lunch pupil count that exceeds the free and reduced price lunch threshold, plus the product of seventy-five hundredths multiplied by the number of special education pupil count that exceeds the special education threshold, plus the product of six-tenths multiplied by the number of limited English proficiency pupil count that exceeds the limited English proficiency threshold. See Missouri Laws 163.011
• Well: any hole drilled in the earth for or in connection with the exploration, discovery, or recovery of oil or gas, or for or in connection with the underground storage of gas in natural formation, or for or in connection with the disposal of salt water, nonusable gas or other waste accompanying the production of oil or gas. See Missouri Laws 259.050
• Wholesaler: any person, firm or corporation organized and existing, or doing business, primarily to sell cigarettes or tobacco products to, and render service to, retailers in the territory the person, firm or corporation chooses to serve. See Missouri Laws 149.011
• Wholesaler: a person who supplies drug paraphernalia or controlled substances or imitation controlled substances that he himself has not produced or prepared, on official written orders, but not on prescriptions. See Missouri Laws 195.010
• wine manufacturer: as used in this chapter shall mean any person, partnership, association of persons, or corporation who has procured a license under subdivision (2) of subsection 1 of section 311. See Missouri Laws 311.192
• Working place: any room, face, crosscut, or pillar where a mineral is being mined or extracted and where one or more miners per working shift of the mine are regularly employed until the place is stopped. See Missouri Laws 293.010
• Wrecker or towing service: the act of transporting, towing or recovering with a wrecker, tow truck, rollback or car carrier any vehicle not owned by the operator of the wrecker, tow truck, rollback or car carrier for which the operator directly or indirectly receives compensation or other personal gain. See Missouri Laws 301.010
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Youth: a person under twenty-one years of age committed to the custody of the division of youth services. See Missouri Laws 219.011
• youth sporting event: means an event where all players are under the age of eighteen and the event is sponsored and supervised by a public body or a not-for-profit entity. See Missouri Laws 294.011