Utah Code > Title 53B > Chapter 13a – Utah Promise Program Act
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- 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.
- 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
- Ballot: means the storage medium, including a paper, mechanical, or electronic storage medium, that records an individual voter's vote. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
- Ballot proposition: means a question, issue, or proposal that is submitted to voters on the ballot for their approval or rejection including:
(a) an opinion question specifically authorized by the Legislature; (b) a constitutional amendment; (c) an initiative; (d) a referendum; (e) a bond proposition; (f) a judicial retention question; (g) an incorporation of a city or town; or (h) any other ballot question specifically authorized by the Legislature. See Utah Code 20A-1-102 - Board: means the Utah Board of Higher Education described in Section 53B-1-402. See Utah Code 53B-1-101.5
- City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Cost of attendance: includes costs payable to the institution, other direct educational expenses, transportation, and living expenses while attending the institution. See Utah Code 53B-13a-102
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Election: means a regular general election, a municipal general election, a statewide special election, a local special election, a regular primary election, a municipal primary election, and a special district election. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
- Election official: means any election officer, election judge, or poll worker. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
- Eligible student: means a financially needy student who is:
(i) unconditionally admitted to and enrolled at a Utah postsecondary institution on at least a half-time basis, as defined by the board, in an eligible postsecondary program leading to a defined education or training objective, as defined by the board; (ii) making satisfactory academic progress, as defined by the institution in published policies or rules, toward an education or training objective; and (iii) (A) a resident student under Section 53B-8-102 and rules of the board; or (B) exempt from paying the nonresident portion of total tuition under Section 53B-8-106. See Utah Code 53B-13a-102 - Financially needy student: means a student who demonstrates the financial inability to meet all or a portion of the cost of attendance at an institution for any period of attendance as defined by the board, after considering the student's expected family contribution. See Utah Code 53B-13a-102
- Initiative: means a new law proposed for adoption by the public as provided in this chapter. See Utah Code 20A-7-101
- institution: means :
(a) an institution of higher education listed in Section 53B-1-102; or (b) a Utah private, nonprofit postsecondary institution that is accredited by a regional accrediting organization recognized by the board. See Utah Code 53B-13a-102 - Measure: means a proposed constitutional amendment, an initiative, or referendum. See Utah Code 20A-7-101
- Partner award: means a financial award described in Section 53B-13a-106. See Utah Code 53B-13a-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 :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Position: means a square, circle, rectangle, or other geometric shape on a ballot in which the voter marks the voter's choice. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
- Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
- Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Program: means the Utah Promise Program. See Utah Code 53B-13a-102
- Promise partner: means an employer that participates in the program described in Section 53B-13a-106. See Utah Code 53B-13a-102
- Referendum: means a process by which a law passed by the Legislature or by a local legislative body is submitted or referred to the voters for their approval or rejection. See Utah Code 20A-7-101
- Referendum petition: means :
(a) as it relates to a statewide referendum, using the manual referendum process, the form described in Subsection 20A-7-303(2)(a), petitioning for submission of a law passed by the Legislature to legal voters for their approval or rejection; (b) as it relates to a statewide referendum, using the electronic referendum process, the form described in Subsection 20A-7-313(2), petitioning for submission of a law passed by the Legislature to legal voters for their approval or rejection; (c) as it relates to a local referendum, using the manual referendum process, the form described in Subsection 20A-7-603(2)(a), petitioning for submission of a local law to legal voters for their approval or rejection; or (d) as it relates to a local referendum, using the electronic referendum process, the form described in Subsection 20A-7-614(2), petitioning for submission of a local law to legal voters for their approval or rejection. See Utah Code 20A-7-101 - Regular general election: means the election held throughout the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year for the purposes established in Section 20A-1-201. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
- Sponsors: means the legal voters who support the initiative or referendum and who sign the initiative application or referendum application. See Utah Code 20A-7-101
- 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
- United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Voter: means an individual who:
(a) meets the requirements for voting in an election; (b) meets the requirements of election registration; (c) is registered to vote; and (d) is listed in the official register book. See Utah Code 20A-1-102