Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 20-10 - Aquaculture

• 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.
• Aquaculture: refers to the cultivation, rearing, or propagation of aquatic plants or animals under either natural or artificial conditions;

  (2)  "CRMC" means the coastal resources management council;

  (3)  "Director" or "department" means the director of or the department of environmental management;

  (4)  "MFC" means the marine fisheries council;

  (5)  "Water column" means the vertical extent of water, including the surface thereof, above a designated area of submerged bottom land. See Rhode Island General Laws 20-10-2

• 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.
• Commercial fishing: means to take, harvest, hold, transport, load, or off-load, marine species for sale or for intended sale;

  (3)  "Hinge width" means the distance between the convex apex of the right shell and the convex apex of the left shell;

  (4)  "Land or landing" means to off-load seafood products, including, but not limited to, finfish, shellfish, and crustaceans, for sale or intended sale, or to secure a vessel with the seafood products on board to a shoreside facility where the products may be off-loaded for sale or intended sale;

  (5)  "Nonresident landowner" means a nonresident citizen of the United States and owner of real estate in Rhode Island as evidenced by deed filed in the recorder of deeds office in a Rhode Island town or city hall;

  (6)  "Peck" means one fourth (¼) of a bushel;

  (7)  "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity;

  (8)  "Possession" means the exercise of dominion or control over the resource commencing at the time at which a decision is made not to return the resource to the immediate vicinity from which it was taken. See Rhode Island General Laws 20-1-3

• 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.
• CRMC: means the coastal resources management council;

  (3)  "Director" or "department" means the director of or the department of environmental management;

  (4)  "MFC" means the marine fisheries council;

  (5)  "Water column" means the vertical extent of water, including the surface thereof, above a designated area of submerged bottom land. See Rhode Island General Laws 20-10-2

• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• possession: means the exercise of dominion or control over cultured crops commencing at the time that a decision is made not to return the crops to the lease or facility from which they were taken. See Rhode Island General Laws 20-1-3
• 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.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.