Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 10 > Chapter 15 > Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• Board: means the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board established by this chapter. See
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Eligible activity: means any activity which will carry out either or both of the dual purposes of creating affordable housing and conserving and protecting important Vermont lands, including activities which will encourage or assist:

• Eligible applicant: means any:

• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fund: means the Vermont Housing and Conservation Trust Fund established by this chapter. See
• Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (§ 2A—309), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See
• Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See
• 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}
• Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this article and any other applicable rules of law. See
• Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See
• Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See
• Lower income: means less than or equal to the median income based on statistics from State or federal sources. See
• Municipality: shall include a city, town, town school district, incorporated school or fire district or incorporated village, and all other governmental incorporated units. See
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See