Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 4-24 - Permit Program for Cats

• Acknowledged parent: means an individual who has established a parent-child relationship pursuant to article 3 of this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• Adjudicated parent: means an individual who has been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to be a parent of a child. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• 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.
• Agent: shall mean any person authorized by the state to purchase and affix tax stamps on packages of cigarettes. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Air contaminant: means soot, cinders, ashes, any dust, fumes, gas, mist, smoke, vapor, odor, toxic or radioactive material, particulate matter, or any combination of these. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23-3
• Air pollution: means presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in sufficient quantities that either alone or in connection with other emissions by reason of their concentration and duration, may be injurious to human, plant, or animal life or cause damage to property or unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life and property. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23-3
• Air pollution: means presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in sufficient quantities, which either alone or in connection with other emissions, by reason of their concentration and duration may be injurious to human, plant or animal life, or cause damage to property or which unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life and property. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23.1-3
• Air pollution episode: means the condition of an air pollution alert, an air pollution warning, or an air pollution emergency, and these conditions shall be deemed to exist whenever the director of environmental management determines that the accumulation of air contaminants in any area or place in the state is attaining or has attained levels which could, if those levels are sustained or exceeded, lead to a threat to the health of the public. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23.1-3
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Alleged genetic parent: means an individual who is alleged to be, or alleges that the individual is, a genetic parent or possible genetic parent of a child whose parentage has not been adjudicated. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• 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.
• 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.
• Area: means not only that portion or portions of the state as shall be described in the air pollution episode declaration of the governor, but also to any other portion or portions of the state where activities are carried on which contribute or may contribute to the air pollution episode in the portion or portions of the state described in the governor's declaration. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23.1-3
• Bar: means an establishment that is devoted to the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption by guests on the premises and in which the serving of food is only incidental to the consumption of those beverages, including, but not limited to, taverns, nightclubs, cocktail lounges, and cabarets. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Biodiesel fuel: means a fuel, designated B100, that meets the requirements of ASTM D6751, or the most recent specification and that meets the registration requirements for fuels and fuel additives established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under section 211 of the Clean Air Act, 42 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23.7-3
• Birth: includes stillbirth and fetal death. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• Business: means a sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, corporation, or other business entity formed for profit-making purposes, including retail establishments where goods or services are sold as well as professional corporations and other entities where legal, medical, dental, engineering, architectural, or other professional services are delivered. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Child: means an individual of any age whose parentage may be determined pursuant to this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• Cigarette: shall mean any roll for smoking whether made wholly or in part of tobacco or any other substance, irrespective of size or shape and whether or not such tobacco or substance is flavored, adulterated or mixed with any other ingredient, the wrapper or cover of which is made of paper or any other substance or material except tobacco, and that because of its size, appearance, the type of tobacco used in its filler, or its packaging or labeling, is likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as a cigarette or cigarette equivalent. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• 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.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-21-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: shall mean the director of the Rhode Island department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Director: means the director of health or his or her duly appointed agents. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.12-1
• Director: means the director of health or his or her duly appointed agents. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-21-1
• Director: means the director of environmental management or any subordinate or subordinates to whom he or she has delegated the powers and duties vested in him or her by this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23-3
• Director: means the director of environmental management or any subordinate or subordinates to whom the director has delegated the powers and duties vested in him or her by this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23.1-3
• Director: means the director of the department of environmental management. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23.7-3
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• distributor: means the person who holds the inventory position in the heating oil, as reflected on the records of the terminal operator. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23.7-3
• Domestic assault: shall include any offense as set forth in § 12-29-2. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• Electronic nicotine delivery system: means an electronic device that may be used to simulate smoking in the delivery of nicotine or other substance to a person inhaling from the device, and includes, but is not limited to, an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or electronic hookah and any related device and any cartridge or other component of that device. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Electronic nicotine-delivery system usage: means any vaping, inhaling, or use of any device defined in § 11-9-13. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.9-4
• Electronic smoking device establishment: means any business that sells food or alcohol and for which the principal or core business is selling electronic nicotine delivery system devices and where combustible substances are prohibited. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Eligible feedstock: means : soybean oil; canola oil; oil from annual cover crops; algal oil; biogenic waste oils, fats, and greases; camelina sativa oil; distillers corn oil; distillers sorghum oil; and commingled distillers corn and sorghum oil, provided that the commissioner may, by rules and regulations, modify the definition of feedstock based on EPA's potential future modifications of Table 1 of 40 C. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23.7-3
• Employee: means a person who is employed by an employer in consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages or profit and a person who volunteers his or her services for a nonprofit entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Employer: means a person, business, partnership, association, corporation, including a municipal corporation, trust, or nonprofit entity that employs the services of one or more individual persons. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Enclosed area: means all space between a floor and ceiling that is enclosed on all sides by solid walls or windows (exclusive of doorways) that extend from the floor to the ceiling. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• 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.
• Extremely toxic air contaminant: means any air contaminant that has been classified as a potential carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), or the National Toxicology Program (NTP); or any air contaminant that induces mutagenic or teratogenic effects; or any air contaminant that, when inhaled, has caused significant chronic adverse effects in test animals; or any air contaminant having an acute toxicity of:

  (i)  LD50 (oral) less than 500mg/kg;

  (ii)  LD50 (inhalation) less than 2000ppm; or

  (iii)  LD50 (dermal) less than 1000mg/kg;

  and/or has been adopted by the director pursuant to the provisions of chapter 35 of Title 42. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23-3

• Governing body: means the body, board, committee or individual, or its designated agent(s) or designee(s), responsible for, or who or that has control over, the administration of any elementary or secondary school, public or private, in the state. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.9-4
• 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.
• Healthcare facility: means an office or institution providing care or treatment of diseases, whether physical, mental, emotional, or other medical, physiological, or psychological conditions, including, but not limited to, hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals or other clinics, including weight control clinics, nursing homes, homes for the aging or chronically ill, laboratories, and offices of surgeons, chiropractors, physical therapists, physicians, dentists, and all specialists within these professions. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Heating oil: means petroleum oil refined for the purpose of use as fuel for combustion in a space and/or water heating system that meets the requirements of ASTM D396, or the most recent specification. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23.7-3
• in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Intended parent: means an individual, whether married or unmarried, who manifests an intent to be legally bound as a parent of a child conceived through assisted reproduction or a gestational carrier agreement. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• International: means American Society for Testing and Materials International. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23.7-3
• 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.
• Manufacturer: shall mean :

  (i)  Any entity which manufacturers or otherwise produces cigarettes or causes cigarettes to be manufactured or produced anywhere that such manufacturer intends to be sold in this state, including cigarettes intended to be sold in the United States through an importer; or

  (ii)  The first purchaser anywhere that intends to resell in the United States cigarettes manufactured anywhere that the original manufacturer or maker does not intend to be sold in the United States; or

  (iii)  Any entity that becomes a successor of an entity described in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subdivision. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3

• Marriage: means and includes civil union and any legal relationship that provides substantially the same rights, benefits, and responsibilities as marriage and is recognized as valid in the state or jurisdiction in which it was entered. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Motor vehicle: means every vehicle that is self-propelled and every vehicle that is propelled by electric power obtained from overhead trolley wires, but not operated upon rails, except vehicles moved exclusively by human power and motorized wheelchairs. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23-3
• 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.
• Open fire: means any fire from which the products of combustion are emitted directly into the open air without passing through a stack or chimney. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23-3
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Parent: means an individual who has established parentage that meets the requirements of this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• Parentage: means the legal relationship between a child and a parent as established under this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• 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.
• Person: means any person or persons including but not limited to contract or other workers on school property, school students, school administrators, school employees, school faculty, and school visitors. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.9-4
• Person: means any individual, firm, copartnership, association, or private or municipal corporation. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-21-1
• Person: as used in this chapter includes any partnership, association, corporation, city, or town. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-22-1
• Person: means an individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a quasi-governmental corporation), partnership, association, syndicate, municipality, municipal or state agency, fire district, club, non-profit agency or any subdivision, commission, department, bureau, agency, or department of state or federal government (including quasi-government corporation), or of any interstate body. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23-3
• Person: means any individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, corporation (including a quasi-governmental corporation), partnership, association, syndicate, municipality, municipal or state agency, fire district, club, non-profit agency, or any subdivision, commission, department, bureau, agency, or department of state or federal government (including quasi-government corporation), or any interstate body. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23.1-3
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Place of employment: means an area under the control of a public or private employer that employees normally frequent during the course of employment, including, but not limited to, work areas, employees lounges, restrooms, conference rooms, meeting rooms, classrooms, employee cafeterias, and hallways. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• 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.
• 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.
• Presumed parent: means a person who is presumed to be the parent of a child under § 15-8. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• Principal or core business: means a business whose majority of customers are utilizing electronic nicotine delivery systems during normal business hours. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• 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 place: means an enclosed area to which the public is invited or in which the public is permitted, including, but not limited to, banks, bars, educational facilities, healthcare facilities, laundromats, public transportation facilities, reception areas, restaurants, retail food production and marketing establishments, retail service establishments, retail stores, shopping malls, sports arenas, the state house, theaters, and waiting rooms. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Quality control and quality assurance program: shall mean the laboratory procedures implemented to ensure that operator bias, systematic and nonsystematic methodological errors, and equipment-related problems do not affect the results of the testing. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Quick service restaurant: means any food service establishment that delivers food through a drive-thru window. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.12-1
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• Recreation facility or use: includes , but is not limited to, hotels, motels, motor courts or inns, tourist cabin establishments, camping areas, amusement places, bathing beaches, mobile recreational vehicle facilities, and parks. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-21-1
• 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.
• Renewable hydrocarbon diesel: means a fuel derived from an eligible feedstock that meets the requirements of ASTM D975, or the most recent specification. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-23.7-3
• Repeatability: shall mean the range of values within which the repeat results of cigarette test trails from a single laboratory will fall ninety-five percent (95%) of the time. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Restaurant: means an eating establishment, including, but not limited to, coffee shops, cafeterias, and private and public school cafeterias, that gives or offers for sale food to the public, guests, or employees, as well as kitchens and catering facilities in which food is prepared on the premises for serving elsewhere. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Retail dealer: shall mean any person other than a manufacturer or wholesale dealer engaged in selling cigarettes or tobacco products. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Sale: shall mean any transfer of title or possession or both, exchange or barter, conditional or otherwise, in any manner or by any means whatever or any agreement therefor. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Sell: shall mean to sell, or to offer or agree to do the same. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Sexual assault: shall include sexual assault as provided in § 11-37-2, child molestation as provided in § 11-37-8. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• Sexual exploitation: shall include sexual exploitation of a minor as provided in § 11-9-1, sexual abuse of a vulnerable adult as provided in chapter 37 of Title 11, and similar offenses in other jurisdictions. See Rhode Island General Laws 15-8.1-102
• smoke: means inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted or heated cigar, cigarette, pipe, weed, plant, other tobacco product or plant product, or other combustible substance in any manner or in any form intended for inhalation in any manner or form. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Smoking bar: means an establishment whose business is primarily devoted to the serving of tobacco products for consumption on the premises, in which the annual revenues generated by tobacco sales are greater than fifty percent (50%) of the total revenue for the establishment and the serving of food or alcohol is only incidental to the consumption of the tobacco products. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Swimming pool: as used in this chapter , includes all swimming pools, wading pools, and therapeutic pools owned or maintained by any person, partnership, association, corporation, city, or town, or the state, except swimming pools maintained by an individual for the sole use of the individual's household and guests without charge for admission and not for the purpose of profit or in connection with any business operated for the purpose of profit, and except also swimming pools owned or maintained by the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-22-1
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tobacco product usage: means the smoking or use of any substance or item that contains tobacco, including, but not limited to: cigarettes, cigars, pipes, or other smoking tobacco, or the use of snuff or smokeless tobacco, or having in one's possession a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe, or other substance or item containing tobacco. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.9-4
• town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
• town council: include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Wholesale dealer: shall mean any person who sells cigarettes or tobacco products to retail dealers or other persons for purposes of resale, and any person who owns, operates or maintains one or more cigarette or tobacco product vending machines in, at or upon premises owned or occupied by any other person. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.