Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 11B > Chapter 16 - Records and Reports

• Agency: means the Agency of Natural Resources. See
• 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.
• articles: include amended and restated articles of incorporation and articles of merger. See
• board of directors: means the board of directors except that no person or group of persons are the board of directors because of powers delegated to that person or group pursuant to section 8. See
• Bylaws: means the code or codes of rules (other than the articles) adopted pursuant to this title for the regulation or management of the affairs of the corporation, stored or depicted in any tangible or electronic medium, and irrespective of the name or names by which such rules are designated. See
• Class: refers to a group of memberships which have the same rights with respect to voting, dissolution, redemption, and transfer. See
• Collection: means the aggregation of electronic waste from covered entities and includes all the activities up to the time the electronic waste is delivered to a recycler. See
• Collector: means a public or private entity that receives electronic waste from covered entities or from another collector and that performs any of the following:

• 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.
• Corporation: means public benefit and mutual benefit corporation. See
• Covered electronic device: means a computer, computer monitor, device containing a cathode ray tube, printer, or television from a covered entity. See
• Directors: means individuals, designated in the articles or bylaws or elected by the incorporators, and their successors and individuals elected or appointed by any other name or title to act as members of the board. See
• Distribution: means the payment of a dividend or any part of the income or profit of a corporation to its members, directors, or officers. See
• Domestic: when applied to a corporation, company, association, or copartnership shall mean organized under the laws of this State; "foreign" when so applied, shall mean organized under the laws of another state, government, or country. See
• Domestic corporation: means a corporation. See
• Electronic waste: means a computer, computer monitor, computer peripheral, device containing a cathode ray tube, printer, or television from a covered entity. See
• 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.
• Fees: shall mean earnings due for official services, aside from salaries or per diem compensation. See
• 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.
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Foreign corporation: means a corporation organized under a law other than the law of this State which would be a nonprofit corporation if formed under the laws of this State. See
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• 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.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Manufacturer: means a person who:

• Market share: means a "manufacturer's market share" that shall be the manufacturer's percentage share of the total weight of covered electronic devices sold in the State as determined by an estimate of the aggregate total weight of the manufacturer's covered electronic devices sold in the State during the previous program year based on national sales data unless the Secretary approves a manufacturer to use actual sales data. See
• Meeting: means any structured communications conducted by participants in person or through the use of an electronic or telecommunications medium permitting simultaneous or sequentially structured communications. See
• Member: means (without regard to what a person is called in the articles or bylaws) any person or persons who on more than one occasion, pursuant to a provision of a corporation's articles or bylaws, have the right to vote for the election of a director or directors. See
• Membership: refers to the rights and obligations a member or members have pursuant to a corporation's articles, bylaws, and this title. See
• Person: shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. See
• Person: includes any individual or entity. See
• Principal office: means the office (in or outside this State) so designated in the biennial report filed pursuant to section 16. See
• Proceeding: includes civil suit and criminal, administrative, and investigatory action. See
• Program year: means the period established by the Secretary as the program year in the Plan required by section 7552 of this title. See
• Recycler: means a person who accepts electronic waste from covered entities and collectors for the purpose of recycling. See
• Recycling: means the process of collecting and preparing electronic wastes for use in manufacturing processes or for recovery of useable materials followed by delivery of such materials for use. See
• Retailer: means a person who sells, rents, or leases covered electronic devices to a person in the State, through any means, including sales outlets, catalogues, the telephone, the Internet, or any electronic means. See
• sale: means any transfer for consideration of title or of the right to use by lease or sales contract of a covered electronic device to a person in the State. See
• Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility under subsection 8. See
• 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
• Transporter: means a person that moves electronic waste from a collector to either another collector or to a recycler. See
• Vote: includes authorization by written ballot and written consent. See