Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 63J > Chapter 2 - Revenue Procedures and Control Act

• Accident and health insurance: means insurance to provide protection against economic losses resulting from:

  (i)	a medical condition including: (A)  a medical care expense; or (B)  the risk of disability;

  (ii)	accident; or

  (iii)

  sickness. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Affiliate: means a person who controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, another person. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Agency: means each department, commission, board, council, agency, institution, officer, corporation, fund, division, office, committee, authority, laboratory, library, unit, bureau, panel, or other administrative unit of the state. See Utah Code 63J-2-102 Agency: means : (a)  a person other than an individual, including a sole proprietorship by which an individual does business under an assumed name; and (b)  an insurance organization licensed or required to be licensed under Section 31A-23a-301, 31A-25-207, or 31A-26-209. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Application: means a document: (a)  (i)  completed by an applicant to provide information about the risk to be insured; and (ii)  that contains information that is used by the insurer to evaluate risk and decide whether to: (A)  insure the risk under: (I)  the coverage as originally offered; or (II)  a modification of the coverage as originally offered; or (B)  decline to insure the risk; or (b)  used by the insurer to gather information from the applicant before issuance of an annuity contract. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 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 business of insurance: includes : (a)  providing health care insurance by an organization that is or is required to be licensed under this title; (b)  providing a benefit to an employee in the event of a contingency not within the control of the employee, in which the employee is entitled to the benefit as a right, which benefit may be provided either: (i)  by a single employer or by multiple employer groups; or (ii)  through one or more trusts, associations, or other entities; (c)  providing an annuity: (i)  including an annuity issued in return for a gift; and (ii)  except an annuity provided by a person specified in Subsections 31A-22-1305(2) and (3); (d)  providing the characteristic services of a motor club; (e)  providing another person with insurance; (f)  making as insurer, guarantor, or surety, or proposing to make as insurer, guarantor, or surety, a contract or policy offering title insurance; (g)  transacting or proposing to transact any phase of title insurance, including: (i)  solicitation; (ii)  negotiation preliminary to execution; (iii)  execution of a contract of title insurance; (iv)  insuring; and (v)  transacting matters subsequent to the execution of the contract and arising out of the contract, including reinsurance; (h)  transacting or proposing a life settlement; and (i)  doing, or proposing to do, any business in substance equivalent to Subsections (95)(a) through (h) in a manner designed to evade this title. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. 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. Dedicated credits: means the same as that term is defined in Section 63J-1-102. See Utah Code 63J-2-102 Department: means the Insurance Department. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Director: means a member of the board of directors of a corporation. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Employee: means : (a)  an individual employed by an employer; or (b)  an individual who meets the requirements of Subsection (53)(b). See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Employee benefits: means one or more benefits or services provided to: (a)  an employee; or (b)  a dependent of an employee. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator. 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. Health care: means any of the following intended for use in the diagnosis, treatment, mitigation, or prevention of a human ailment or impairment: (a)  a professional service; (b)  a personal service; (c)  a facility; (d)  equipment; (e)  a device; (f)  supplies; or (g)  medicine. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 health insurance: means insurance providing: (i)  a health care benefit; or (ii)  payment of an incurred health care expense. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Independent agency: means the Utah State Retirement Office and the Utah Housing Corporation. See Utah Code 63J-2-102 Individual: means a natural person. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Insurance: includes : (i)  a risk distributing arrangement providing for compensation or replacement for damages or loss through the provision of a service or a benefit in kind; (ii)  a contract of guaranty or suretyship entered into by the guarantor or surety as a business and not as merely incidental to a business transaction; and (iii)  a plan in which the risk does not rest upon the person who makes an arrangement, but with a class of persons who have agreed to share the risk. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. License: includes a certificate of authority issued to an insurer. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. Person: includes : (a)  an individual; (b)  a partnership; (c)  a corporation; (d)  an incorporated or unincorporated association; (e)  a joint stock company; (f)  a trust; (g)  a limited liability company; (h)  a reciprocal; (i)  a syndicate; or (j)  another similar entity or combination of entities acting in concert. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 PPACA: means the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pub. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Premium: includes , however designated: (i)  an assessment; (ii)  a membership fee; (iii)  a required contribution; or (iv)  monetary consideration. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 producer: means a person licensed or required to be licensed under the laws of this state to sell, solicit, or negotiate insurance. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Program: means the same as that term is defined in Section 63J-1-102. See Utah Code 63J-2-102 Public programs: means the state Medicaid program in Title 26B, Chapter 3, Health Care - Administration and Assistance, and 9. See Utah Code 31A-23b-102 Reinsurance: means an insurance transaction where an insurer, for consideration, transfers any portion of the risk it has assumed to another insurer. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Revenue types: means the categories established by the Division of Finance under the authority of this chapter that classify revenue according to the purpose for which it is collected. See Utah Code 63J-2-102 Security: means a: (i)  note; (ii)  stock; (iii)  bond; (iv)  debenture; (v)  evidence of indebtedness; (vi)  certificate of interest or participation in a profit-sharing agreement; (vii)  collateral-trust certificate; (viii)  preorganization certificate or subscription; (ix)  transferable share; (x)  investment contract; (xi)  voting trust certificate; (xii)  certificate of deposit for a security; (xiii)  certificate of interest of participation in an oil, gas, or mining title or lease or in payments out of production under such a title or lease; (xiv)  commodity contract or commodity option; (xv)  certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase any of the items listed in Subsections (171)(a)(i) through (xiv); or (xvi)  another interest or instrument commonly known as a security. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Sell: means to exchange a contract of insurance: (a)  by any means; (b)  for money or its equivalent; and (c)  on behalf of an insurance company. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Small employer: means , in connection with a health benefit plan and with respect to a calendar year and to a plan year, an employer who: (i)  (A)  employed at least one but not more than 50 eligible employees on business days during the preceding calendar year; or (B)  if the employer did not exist for the entirety of the preceding calendar year, reasonably expects to employ an average of at least one but not more than 50 eligible employees on business days during the current calendar year; (ii)  employs at least one employee on the first day of the plan year; and (iii)  for an employer who has common ownership with one or more other employers, is treated as a single employer under 26 U. See Utah Code 31A-1-301 Solicit: means the same as that term is defined in Section 31A-23a-102. See Utah Code 31A-23b-102 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