Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes > Occupational Board Reform Act

• Action: shall include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• 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.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Government certification: means a nontransferable recognition granted to an individual by an occupational board through a voluntary program in which the individual meets personal qualifications established by the Legislature. See Nebraska Statutes 84-935
• 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.
• Lawful occupation: means a course of conduct, a pursuit, or a profession that includes the sale of goods or services that are not themselves illegal to sell irrespective of whether the individual selling them is subject to an occupational regulation. See Nebraska Statutes 84-936
• Least restrictive regulation: means one of the following types of regulation, listed from least restrictive to most restrictive, consistent with the health, safety, and welfare of the public:

  (1) Market competition. See Nebraska Statutes 84-937

• Occupational board: means a board, commission, department, or other entity created by state law which regulates providers through occupational regulations. See Nebraska Statutes 84-938
• Occupational license: means a nontransferable authorization in law (1) for an individual to perform exclusively a lawful occupation for compensation based on meeting personal qualifications established by the Legislature and (2) which is required in order to legally perform the lawful occupation for compensation. See Nebraska Statutes 84-939
• Occupational regulation: includes any government certification, registration, and occupational license. See Nebraska Statutes 84-940
• Occupational regulation does not: include (a) business licensure, facility licensure, building permit requirements, or zoning and land-use regulation except to the extent that the same state laws that require a business license, a facility license, a building permit, or zoning and land-use regulation also regulate an individual's personal qualifications to perform a lawful occupation or (b) an occupational license administered by the Supreme Court. See Nebraska Statutes 84-940
• Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Personal qualifications: means criteria related to an individual's personal background and characteristics, including completion of an approved educational program, satisfactory performance on an examination, work experience, other evidence of attainment of requisite skills or knowledge, moral standing, criminal history, and completion of continuing education. See Nebraska Statutes 84-941
• Private certification: means a nontransferable recognition granted to an individual by a private organization through a voluntary program in which the individual meets personal qualifications established by the private organization. See Nebraska Statutes 84-942
• Process: shall mean a summons, subpoena, or notice to appear issued out of a court in the course of judicial proceedings. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Provider: means an individual provider of goods or services engaged in a lawful occupation. See Nebraska Statutes 84-943
• Registration: means a nontransferable registration granted to an individual under which (a) the individual is required to give notice to the government that may include the individual's name and address, the individual's agent for service of process, the location of the activity to be performed, and a description of the service the individual provides, (b) upon receipt of the notice by the government, the individual may use the term registered as a designated title to engage in a lawful occupation, and (c) such notice is required to engage in the lawful occupation for compensation and is required in order to use the term registered as a designated title to engage in the lawful occupation. See Nebraska Statutes 84-944
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801