Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 11B > Chapter 16 > Subchapter 2 - Reports

• Agency: means the Agency of Natural Resources. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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}
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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