Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 53G > Chapter 11 - Employees

• Administrator: means an individual who supervises educators and holds an appropriate license issued by the state board. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Authorized entity: means an LEA, qualifying private school, or the state board that is authorized to request a background check and ongoing monitoring under this part. See Utah Code 53G-11-401
• Bureau: means the Bureau of Criminal Identification within the Department of Public Safety created in Section 53-10-201. See Utah Code 53G-11-401
• Career educator: means a licensed employee who has a reasonable expectation of continued employment under the policies of a local school board. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• Career employee: means an employee of a school district who has obtained a reasonable expectation of continued employment based upon Section 53G-11-503 and an agreement with the employee or the employee's association, district practice, or policy. See Utah Code 53G-11-501
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contract employee: means an employee of a staffing service or other entity who works at a public or private school under a contract. See Utah Code 53G-11-401
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• district: means :

  (a)	a public school district; or

  (b)

  the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. See Utah Code 53G-11-501 educator: means the same as that term is defined in Section 53E-6-102. See Utah Code 53G-11-301 Educator: means an individual employed by a school district who is required to hold a professional license issued by the state board, except: (a)  a superintendent; or (b)  an individual who works less than three hours per day or is hired for less than half of a school year. See Utah Code 53G-11-501 Employee: means a career or provisional employee of a school district, except as provided in Subsection (7)(b). See Utah Code 53G-11-501 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. Executive director: means the executive director of the department appointed under Section 26B-1-203. See Utah Code 26B-1-102 FBI: means the Federal Bureau of Investigation. See Utah Code 53G-11-401 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. Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation. 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. Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. License applicant: includes an applicant for reinstatement of an expired, lapsed, suspended, or revoked license. See Utah Code 53G-11-401 Non-licensed employee: means an employee of an LEA or qualifying private school that does not hold a current Utah educator license issued by the state board under Title 53E, Chapter 6, Education Professional Licensure. See Utah Code 53G-11-401 Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program. Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Personal identifying information: means : (a)  current name, former names, nicknames, and aliases; (b)  date of birth; (c)  address; (d)  telephone number; (e)  driver license number or other government-issued identification number; (f)  social security number; and (g)  fingerprints. See Utah Code 53G-11-401 Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court. 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 Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government. Provisional educator: means an educator employed by a school district who has not achieved status as a career educator within the school district. See Utah Code 53G-11-501 Provisional employee: means an individual, other than a career employee or a temporary employee, who is employed by a school district. See Utah Code 53G-11-501 Qualifying private school: means a private school that: (a)  enrolls students under 3; and (b)  is authorized to conduct fingerprint-based background checks of national crime information databases under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, Pub. See Utah Code 53G-11-401 Rap back system: means a system that enables authorized entities to receive ongoing status notifications of any criminal history reported on individuals whose fingerprints are registered in the system. See Utah Code 53G-11-401 School board: means a local school board or, for the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, the state board. See Utah Code 53G-11-501 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 Summative evaluation: means the annual evaluation that summarizes an educator's performance during a school year and that is used to make decisions related to the educator's employment. See Utah Code 53G-11-501 Temporary employee: means an individual who is employed on a temporary basis as defined by policies adopted by the school board. See Utah Code 53G-11-501 term of employment: means the period of time during which an employee is engaged by the school district under a contract of employment, whether oral or written. See Utah Code 53G-11-501 termination: means : (a)  termination of the status of employment of an employee; (b)  failure to renew or continue the employment contract of a career employee beyond the then-current school year; (c)  reduction in salary of an employee not generally applied to all employees of the same category employed by the school district during the employee's contract term; or (d)  change of assignment of an employee with an accompanying reduction in pay, unless the assignment change and salary reduction are agreed to in writing. See Utah Code 53G-11-501 Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries. Unsatisfactory performance: means a deficiency in performing work tasks that may be: (i)  due to insufficient or undeveloped skills or a lack of knowledge or aptitude; and (ii)  remediated through training, study, mentoring, or practice. See Utah Code 53G-11-501 WIN Database: means the Western Identification Network Database that consists of eight western states sharing one electronic fingerprint database. See Utah Code 53G-11-401 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5