Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 53G > Chapter 7 > Part 11 - Public School Membership in Associations

• 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.
• Appeals panel: means the appeals panel created in Section 53G-7-1106. See Utah Code 53G-7-1101
• Association: means an organization that governs or regulates a student's participation in an athletic interscholastic activity. See Utah Code 53G-7-1101
• Classification: means the designation of a school based on the size of the school's student enrollment population for purposes of interscholastic activities. See Utah Code 53G-7-1101
• Eligibility: means eligibility to participate in an interscholastic activity regulated or governed by an association. See Utah Code 53G-7-1101
• 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.
• Governing body: means a body within an association that:

  (a)

  is responsible for: (i)  adopting standards or policies that govern interscholastic activities or the administration of the association; (ii)  adopting or amending the association's governing document or bylaws; (iii)  enforcing the standards and policies of the association; and (iv)  adopting the association's budget; and

  (b)

  has oversight of other boards, committees, councils, or bodies within the association. See Utah Code 53G-7-1101 Interscholastic activity: means an activity within the state in which: (a)  a student that participates represents the student's school in the activity; and (b)  the participating student is enrolled in grade 9, 10, 11, or 12. See Utah Code 53G-7-1101 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 Public hearing: means a hearing at which members of the public are provided a reasonable opportunity to comment on the subject of the hearing. See Utah Code 53G-7-1101 realignment: means the initial or subsequent act, respectively, of assigning a public school a classification or region. See Utah Code 53G-7-1101 Region: means a grouping of schools of the same classification for purposes of interscholastic activities. See Utah Code 53G-7-1101 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