Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 63A > Chapter 17 > Part 1 - General Provisions

• Agency: means any department or unit of Utah state government with authority to employ personnel. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Career service: means positions under schedule B as defined in Section 63A-17-301. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Career service status: means status granted to employees who successfully complete probationary periods for competitive career service positions. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Classified service: means those positions subject to the classification and compensation provisions of Section 63A-17-307. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Controlled substance: means controlled substance as defined in Section 58-37-2. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Department: means the Department of Government Operations. See Utah Code 63A-1-103
• Director: means the director of the division. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Disability: means a physical or mental disability as defined and protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Division: means the Division of Human Resource Management, created in Section 63A-17-105. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Employee: means any individual in a paid status covered by the career service or classified service provisions of this chapter. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Executive director: means the executive director of the Department of Government Operations. See Utah Code 63A-1-103
• 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.
• Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Probationary period: means that period of time determined by the division that an employee serves in a career service position as part of the hiring process before career service status is granted to the employee. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.