Utah Code > Title 53G > Chapter 5 – Charter Schools
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- 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.
- 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.
- Asset: means property of all kinds, real and personal, tangible and intangible, and includes:
(a) cash; (b) stock or other investments; (c) real property; (d) equipment and supplies; (e) an ownership interest; (f) a license; (g) a cause of action; and (h) any similar property. See Utah Code 53G-5-102 - Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Authority: means the Utah Charter School Finance Authority created by this part. See Utah Code 53G-5-601
- authorizer: means an entity listed in Section 53G-5-205 that authorizes a charter school. See Utah Code 53G-5-102
- Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
- Bequest: Property gifted by will.
- Board: means the Wildlife Board. See Utah Code 23-27-102
- Board: means the governing board of the authority described in Section 53G-5-602. See Utah Code 53G-5-601
- Board: means a local board of health established under Section 26A-1-109. See Utah Code 26A-1-102
- board of trustees: means :
(b) a technical college board of trustees described in Section 53B-2a-108. See Utah Code 53G-5-102 - Charter school: means a school created under this chapter. See Utah Code 53G-5-601
- Conveyance: includes a motor vehicle, a vessel, a motorboat, a sailboat, a personal watercraft, a container, a trailer, a live well, or a bilge area. See Utah Code 23-27-102
- 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.
- Credit enhancement program: means the Charter School Credit Enhancement Program established in Section 53G-5-606. See Utah Code 53G-5-601
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Debt service reserve fund: means the reserve fund created or established by, or for the benefit of, a qualifying charter school for the purpose of paying principal of and interest on bonds issued under the credit enhancement program as the payments become due and other money of the qualifying charter school is not available to make the payments. See Utah Code 53G-5-601
- Debt service reserve fund requirement: means , as of a particular date of computation, and with respect to a particular issue of bonds, the amount required to be on deposit in the debt service reserve fund, which amount:
(a) may be a sum certain or as set forth in a formula; and (b) may not be less than the maximum annual debt service requirement for the related bonds. See Utah Code 53G-5-601 - Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services created in Section 26B-1-201. See Utah Code 26A-1-102
- Devise: To gift property by will.
- Division: means the Division of Wildlife Resources. See Utah Code 23-27-102
- Donor: The person who makes a gift.
- Dreissena mussel: means a mussel of the genus Dreissena at any life stage, including a zebra mussel, a quagga mussel, and Conrad's false mussel. See Utah Code 23-27-102
- Equipment: means an article, tool, implement, or device capable of carrying or containing:
(a) water; or (b) a Dreissena mussel. See Utah Code 23-27-102 - Facility: means a structure that is located within or adjacent to a water body. See Utah Code 23-27-102
- Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
- 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.
- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
- Highway: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- 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
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Local health department: means :
(a) a single county local health department; (b) a multicounty local health department; (c) a united local health department; or (d) a multicounty united local health department. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 - Mental health authority: means a local mental health authority created in Section 17-43-301. See Utah Code 26A-1-102
- Multicounty local health department: means a local health department that is formed under Section 26A-1-105 and that serves two or more contiguous counties and municipalities within those counties. See Utah Code 26A-1-102
- Multicounty united local health department: means a united local health department that is formed under Section 26A-1-105. See Utah Code 26A-1-102
- Order of constraint: includes a stay-at-home order. See Utah Code 26A-1-102
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Project: means :
(a) any building, structure, or property owned, to be acquired, or used by a charter school for any of its educational purposes and the related appurtenances, easements, rights-of-way, improvements, paving, utilities, landscaping, parking facilities, and lands; or (b) any capital equipment owned, to be acquired, or used by a charter school for any of its educational purposes, interests in land, and grounds, together with the personal property necessary, convenient, or appurtenant to them. See Utah Code 53G-5-601 - Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Public health emergency: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-7-301. See Utah Code 26A-1-102
- Qualifying charter school: means a charter school that:
(a) meets standards adopted by the authority for participation in the credit enhancement program; and (b) is designated by the authority as a qualifying charter school for purposes of participation in the credit enhancement program. See Utah Code 53G-5-601 - Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
- Reserve account: means the Charter School Reserve Account created in Section 53F-9-303. See Utah Code 53G-5-601
- Single county local health department: means a local health department that is created by the governing body of one county to provide services to the county and the municipalities within that county. See Utah Code 26A-1-102
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Stay-at-home order: means an order of constraint that:
(a) restricts movement of the general population to suppress or mitigate an epidemic or pandemic disease by directing individuals within a defined geographic area to remain in their respective residences; and (b) may include exceptions for certain essential tasks. See Utah Code 26A-1-102 - Substance abuse authority: means a local substance abuse authority created in Section 17-43-201. See Utah Code 26A-1-102
- Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
- 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
- Water body: means natural or impounded surface water, including a stream, river, spring, lake, reservoir, pond, wetland, tank, and fountain. See Utah Code 23-27-102
- Water supply system: includes a pump, canal, ditch, or pipeline. See Utah Code 23-27-102
- Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5