Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 73 > Chapter 10c - Water Development Coordinating Council

• Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Award: means a final order of the commission as to the amount of compensation due:

  (i)	an injured employee; or

  (ii)

  a dependent of a deceased employee. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Board: means the Board of Water Resources created in Section 73-10-1. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Brother or sister: includes a half brother or sister. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Certified mail: means a method of mailing by any carrier that is accompanied by proof of delivery. See Utah Code 34A-1-102 Child: includes : (i)  a posthumous child; or (ii)  a child legally adopted prior to an injury. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Commissioner: means the commissioner of the commission appointed under Section 34A-1-201. See Utah Code 34A-1-102 Compensation: means the payments and benefits provided for in this chapter or Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 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. Council: means the Water Development Coordinating Council created by Sections 79-2-201 and 73-10c-3. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Credit enhancement agreement: means an agreement entered into according to this chapter between the Drinking Water Board or the Water Quality Board, on behalf of the state, and a political subdivision, for the purpose of providing methods and assistance to political subdivisions to improve the security for and marketability of drinking water project obligations and wastewater project obligations. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Decision: includes : (A)  an award or denial of a medical, disability, death, or other related benefit under this chapter or Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act; or (B)  another adjudicative ruling in accordance with this chapter or Chapter 3, Utah Occupational Disease Act. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another. Disability: means an administrative determination that may result in an entitlement to compensation as a consequence of becoming medically impaired as to function. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Division: means the Division of Industrial Accidents. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings. Drinking Water Board: means the Drinking Water Board appointed according to Section 19-4-103. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Drinking water or wastewater project obligation: means , as appropriate, any bond, note, or other obligation of a political subdivision issued to finance all or part of the cost of acquiring, constructing, expanding, upgrading, or improving a drinking water project or wastewater project. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Drinking water project: includes : (i)  collection, treatment, storage, and distribution facilities under the control of the operator and used primarily with the system; (ii)  collection pretreatment or storage facilities used primarily in connection with the system but not under operator's control; and (iii)  studies, planning, education activities, and design work that will promote protecting the public from waterborne health risks. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 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. Financial assistance programs: means the various programs administered by the state whereby loans, grants, and other forms of financial assistance are made available to political subdivisions of this state to finance the costs of water and wastewater projects. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Hardship Grant Assessment: means the charge the Water Quality Board or Drinking Water Board assesses to recipients of loans made from the subaccount created in Subsection 73-10c-5(2)(b) or 73-10c-5(3)(b) in lieu of or in addition to interest charged on these loans. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC 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. Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt. Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors. Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Nonpoint source project: means a facility, system, practice, study, activity, or mechanism that abates, prevents, or reduces the pollution of waters of this state by a nonpoint source. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 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. Order: means an action of the commission that determines the legal rights, duties, privileges, immunities, or other interests of one or more specific persons, but not a class of persons. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of employment: includes an injury caused by the willful act of a third person directed against an employee because of the employee's employment. See Utah Code 34A-2-102 Political subdivision: means a county, city, town, improvement district, water conservancy district, special service district, drainage district, metropolitan water district, irrigation district, separate legal or administrative entity created under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act, or any other entity constituting a political subdivision under the laws of this state. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 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. Security fund: means the Water Development Security Fund created in Section 73-10c-5. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 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. 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 Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate. Wastewater project: means : (a)  a sewer, storm or sanitary sewage system, sewage treatment facility, lagoon, sewage collection facility and system, and related pipelines, and all similar systems, works, and facilities necessary or desirable to collect, hold, cleanse, or purify any sewage or other polluted waters of this state; and (b)  a study, pollution prevention activity, or pollution education activity that will protect the waters of this state. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Water Quality Board: means the Water Quality Board appointed according to Section 19-5-103. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Waters of this state: means any stream, lake, pond, marsh, watercourse, waterway, well, spring, irrigation system, drainage system, or other body or accumulation of water whether surface, underground, natural, artificial, public, private, or other water resource of the state which is contained within or flows in or through the state. See Utah Code 73-10c-2 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5