Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 26B > Chapter 3 > Part 2 - Medicaid Waivers

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Blind: means an individual, or class of individuals, whose central acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses or whose visual acuity, if better than 20/200, is accompanied by a limit to the field of vision in the better eye to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an angle of no greater than 20 degrees. See Utah Code 55-5a-2
• City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• CMS: means the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. See Utah Code 26B-3-101
• Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Utah Code 54-2-1
• Consumer price index: means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items Less Food & Energy, as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. See Utah Code 54-23-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Crossing: means a telecommunications facility constructed under or across a railroad right-of-way:

  (i)	at an angle between 80 degrees and 100 degrees;

  (ii)	with a minimum depth of: (A)  10 feet below rail level for nonhorizontal directional drilling; or (B)  15 feet below rail for horizontal directional drilling; and

  (iii)

  within a county that is not a county of the first class. See Utah Code 54-23-102 Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries. Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another. Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another. Direct labor: means work required for preparation, processing and packing, other than supervision, administration, inspection, or shipping. See Utah Code 55-5a-2 Division: means the Division of Integrated Healthcare within the department, established under Section 26B-3-102. See Utah Code 26B-3-101 Electric cooperative: means an electrical corporation that is a: (a)  distribution electrical cooperative; or (b)  wholesale electrical cooperative. See Utah Code 54-24-102 Electrical power delivery quality: means the suitability of power delivered to customers as measured in comparison to accepted industry standards on voltage and power quality. See Utah Code 54-25-101 Electrical power delivery quality plan: means a plan submitted to the commission in accordance with the requirements of this chapter. See Utah Code 54-25-101 Fiber optic carrier: means a telecommunications corporation or a telecommunications corporation's contractor or agent. See Utah Code 54-23-102 Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006. Food service: includes restaurant, cafeteria, snack bar, vending machines for food and beverages, and goods and services customarily offered in connection with them. See Utah Code 55-5-6 Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another. Governing authority: means the same as that term is defined in Section 54-15-102. See Utah Code 54-24-102 Highway: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Interconnection request: means a request from a utility-scale energy generation system to a qualified utility's transmission line. See Utah Code 54-25-101 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. Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 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 Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt. Medicaid program: means the state program for medical assistance for persons who are eligible under the state plan adopted pursuant to Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act. See Utah Code 26B-3-101 Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money. Office: means the Utah State Office of Rehabilitation created in Section 35A-1-202. See Utah Code 55-5a-2 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 :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Personal property: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Personal property: All property that is not real property. PPACA: means the same as that term is defined in Section 31A-1-301. See Utah Code 26B-3-101 Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed. Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Public office building: means all county courthouses, all city or town halls, and all buildings used primarily for governmental offices of the state or any county, city, or town. See Utah Code 55-5-6 Qualified utility: means the same as that term is defined in Section 54-17-801. See Utah Code 54-24-102 Qualified utility: means the same as that term is defined in Section 54-17-801. See Utah Code 54-25-101 Railroad: includes every commercial, interurban, and other railway, other than a street railway, and each branch or extension of a railway, by any power operated, together with all tracks, bridges, trestles, rights-of-way, subways, tunnels, stations, depots, union depots, yards, grounds, terminals, terminal facilities, structures, and equipment, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property of every kind used in connection with a railway owned, controlled, operated, or managed for public service in the transportation of persons or property. See Utah Code 54-2-1 real property: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Recipient: means a person who has received medical assistance under the Medicaid program. See Utah Code 26B-3-101 Road: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 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 telecommunications facility: means fiber optics or related conduit installed in a crossing. See Utah Code 54-23-102 Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Utility-scale energy generation system: means an electric generation facility that has a generating capacity of more than two megawatts and is intermittent, non-dispatchable, or controlled by an inverter. See Utah Code 54-25-101 Wildland fire protection plan: means a plan submitted to the commission or governing authority in accordance with the requirements of this chapter. See Utah Code 54-24-102 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5