Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 26B > Chapter 2 > Part 5 - Certifications

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Avoided costs: means the incremental costs to an electrical corporation of electric energy or capacity or both that, due to the purchase of electric energy or capacity or both from small power production or cogeneration facilities, the electrical corporation would not have to generate itself or purchase from another electrical corporation. See Utah Code 54-2-1
• Capacity building: means strengthening an individual's or a community's ability to participate in shared decision making. See Utah Code 26B-2-501
• Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Utah Code 54-2-1
• Community health worker: means an individual who:

  (a)	works to improve a social determinant of health;

  (b)	acts as an intermediary between a community and health services or social services to: (i)  facilitate access to services; or (ii)  improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery; and

  (c)

  increases health knowledge and self-sufficiency of an individual or a community through outreach, capacity building, community education, informal counseling, social support, and other similar activities. See Utah Code 26B-2-501 Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant. Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. Core-skill training: means : (a)  90 hours of competency-based education; and (b)  300 hours of community involvement as determined by the department through rule. See Utah Code 26B-2-501 Department: means the Department of Transportation created in Section 72-1-201. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Devise: To gift property by will. 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. Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government. Public utility: includes every railroad corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, distribution electrical cooperative, wholesale electrical cooperative, telephone corporation, telegraph corporation, water corporation, sewerage corporation, heat corporation, and independent energy producer not described in Section 54-2-201 where the service is performed for, or the commodity delivered to, the public generally, or in the case of a gas corporation or electrical corporation where the gas or electricity is sold or furnished to any member or consumers within the state for domestic, commercial, or industrial use. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Purchasing utility: means any electrical corporation that is required to purchase electricity from small power production or cogeneration facilities pursuant to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act, 16 U. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Qualifying power producer: means a corporation, cooperative association, or person, or the lessee, trustee, and receiver of the corporation, cooperative association, or person, who owns, controls, operates, or manages any qualifying power production facility or cogeneration facility. See Utah Code 54-2-1 Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business. State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 State certified: means that an individual has obtained the state certification described in Subsection 26B-2-504(1). See Utah Code 26B-2-501 Statute: A law passed by a legislature.