Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 6A-4 > Part 2 - Collection of Items: Depositary and Collecting Banks

• Account: means any deposit or credit account with a bank, including a demand, time, savings, passbook, share draft, or like account, other than an account evidenced by a certificate of deposit;

  (2)  "Afternoon" means the period of a day between noon and midnight;

  (3)  "Banking day" means the part of a day on which a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions;

  (4)  "Clearing house" means an association of banks or other payors regularly clearing items;

  (5)  "Customer" means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items, including a bank that maintains an account at another bank;

  (6)  "Documentary draft" means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities (§ 6A-8-102) or instructions for uncertificated securities (§ 6A-8-102), or other certificates, statements, or the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before acceptance or payment of the draft;

  (7)  "Draft" means a draft as defined in § 6A-3-104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order;

  (8)  "Drawee" means a person ordered in a draft to make payment;

  (9)  "Item" means an instrument or a promise or order to pay money handled by a bank for collection or payment. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-4-104

• Agent: means any person under the partial or full control of a nursery worker, dealer or other agent, who sells or solicits orders for nursery stock, not from a supply at hand, at a place other than a nursery worker's or a dealer's place of business. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
• Collected plants: means plants and plant parts defined as nursery stock, which are dug or otherwise removed from fields, woodlots, or forest lands for sale or distribution which have not been grown under cultivation in a nursery for one year. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dealer: means any person, not a grower or an original producer of nursery stock in this state, and who is independent of the control of any nursery worker or other dealer, who sells, offers to sell, solicits orders for or otherwise traffics in nursery stock from a supply at hand or which is obtained from a nursery or another dealer. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
• Department: means the department of environmental management of the state of Rhode Island. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
• Director: means the director of environmental management of the state of Rhode Island, and his or her authorized agents. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• 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.
• 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
• Insect: means invertebrate animals belonging to the arthropod class, Insecta (Hexapoda), and also members of other arthropod classes, mollusca, nematodes, and other invertebrate animals, in any state of development. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
• Nursery: means any grounds or premises on or in which nursery stock is propagated, grown, or cultivated, or from which nursery stock is collected for sale purposes. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
• Nursery stock: means all hardy, deciduous and evergreen trees, shrubs, vines and other plants having a persistent woody stem, whether wild or cultivated, and plant parts, for and capable of propagation. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
• Nursery worker: means the person who owns, leases, manages, or is in charge of a nursery. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
• 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.
• Person: means a corporation, company, society, association, partnership, governmental agency, and any individual or combination of individuals. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
• 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 business: means each separate store, stand, sales ground, lot, truck, railway car, or other vehicle or any other place at or from which nursery stock is being sold or offered for sale where one or more sales persons are in attendance. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
• Plant disease: means an injurious physiological activity of plants caused by the continued action of a chief causal factor and exhibited through abnormal cellular activity expressed in characteristic conditions, called symptoms, which symptoms are of three (3) types, nocrosis, hyperplasia, and hypoplasia. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-18.1-2
• 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.
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8