Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 5-18 - Outdoor Advertising

• 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
• Clinically appropriate: means care that is delivered in the appropriate medical setting. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• Department: means the department of labor and training. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-29-2
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of labor and training or his or her designee unless specifically stated otherwise. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-29-2
• Distant site: means a site at which a healthcare provider is located while providing healthcare services by means of telemedicine. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Employee: means any person who has entered into the employment of or works under contract of service or apprenticeship with any employer, except that in the case of a city or town other than the city of Providence it shall only mean that class or those classes of employees as may be designated by a city, town, or regional school district in a manner provided in this chapter to receive compensation under chapters 29 — 38 of this title. See Rhode Island General Laws 28-29-2
• 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.
• 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.
• Health insurer: means any person, firm, or corporation offering and/or insuring healthcare services on a prepaid basis, including, but not limited to, a nonprofit service corporation, a health maintenance organization, the Rhode Island Medicaid program, including its contracted managed care entities, or an entity offering a policy of accident and sickness insurance. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Health maintenance organization: means a health maintenance organization as defined in chapter 41 of this title. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Healthcare facility: means an institution providing healthcare services or a healthcare setting, including, but not limited to: hospitals and other licensed, inpatient centers; ambulatory surgical or treatment centers; skilled nursing centers; residential treatment centers; diagnostic, laboratory and imaging centers; and rehabilitation and other therapeutic health settings. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Healthcare professional: means a physician or other healthcare practitioner licensed, accredited, or certified to perform specified healthcare services consistent with state law. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Healthcare provider: means a healthcare professional or a healthcare facility. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Healthcare services: means any services included in the furnishing to any individual of medical, podiatric, or dental care, or hospitalization, or incident to the furnishing of that care or hospitalization, and the furnishing to any person of any and all other services for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or healing human illness, injury, or physical disability. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• 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
• 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.
• Medically necessary: means medical, surgical, or other services required for the prevention, diagnosis, cure, or treatment of a health-related condition, including services necessary to prevent a decremental change in either medical or mental health status. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Nonprofit service corporation: means a nonprofit hospital service corporation as defined in chapter 19 of this title, or a nonprofit medical service corporation as defined in chapter 20 of this title. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Originating site: means a site at which a patient is located at the time healthcare services are provided to them by means of telemedicine, which can include a patient's home where medically necessary and clinically appropriate. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• outdoor advertising: as used in this chapter , applies only to all advertising displayed to attract the attention of persons on any public highway, or while in the vehicle of any common carrier, or in any station of a common carrier, or while in any public building, public park, public grounds, or other public places, whether the advertising by means of printing, writing, picture, or a combination of those, and whatever may be the means of display, except that it does not include advertising located upon private property and relating exclusively to the business conducted on that property or the sale or rental of the property, or advertising in or upon the cars and stations of any common carrier. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-18-1
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Policy of accident and sickness insurance: means a policy of accident and sickness insurance as defined in chapter 18 of this title. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• 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.
• Rhode Island Medicaid program: means a state-administered, medical assistance program that is funded by the state and federal governments under Title XIX and Title XXI of the U. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Store-and-forward technology: means the technology used to enable the transmission of a patient's medical information from an originating site to the healthcare provider at the distant site without the patient being present. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• Telemedicine: means the delivery of clinical healthcare services by use of real time, two-way synchronous audio, video, telephone-audio-only communications or electronic media or other telecommunications technology including, but not limited to: online adaptive interviews, remote patient monitoring devices, audiovisual communications, including the application of secure video conferencing or store-and-forward technology to provide or support healthcare delivery, which facilitate the assessment, diagnosis, counseling and prescribing treatment, and care management of a patient's health care while such patient is at an originating site and the healthcare provider is at a distant site, consistent with applicable federal laws and regulations. See Rhode Island General Laws 27-81-3
• 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