Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 16 > Chapter 31 - Medical Inspection Generally; Health Services

• Accessibility: includes the provision of accommodations and modifications to ensure equal access to employment and participation in activities for people with disabilities, the reduction or elimination of physical and attitudinal barriers to equitable opportunities, a commitment to ensuring that people with disabilities can independently access every outward-facing and internal activity or electronic space, and the pursuit of best practices such as universal design. See
• Act: means the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, enacted by the Congress of the United States of America, and rules made thereunder, as amended at any time. See
• Adequate water: means a constant access to a supply of clean, fresh, potable water provided in a sanitary manner or provided at suitable intervals for the species and not to exceed 24 hours at any interval. See
• Adoptee: means a person who is adopted or is to be adopted. See
• Advanced standing: means a process for reviewing and granting credit for prior related work experience or related technical instruction for an incoming apprentice or career seeker that allows the individual to accelerate the completion of the registered apprenticeship program. See
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• 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.
• Animal shelter: means a facility that is used to house or contain animals and is owned, operated, or maintained by a duly incorporated humane society, animal welfare society, society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, or other nonprofit organization devoted to the welfare, protection, and humane treatment of animals. See
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Applicant: means a person applying for a license or for a renewal of a license under this chapter. See
• Apprentice: means an individual who is:

• Apprenticeable occupation: means an occupation approved by the federal Office of Apprenticeship or by the Department as an occupation that:

• Apprenticeship agreement: means a written agreement, on forms approved by the Department under section 1119, registered apprentices, of this title, between an apprentice and either the apprentice's program sponsor or an apprenticeship committee acting as agent for the program sponsor, that contains the terms and conditions of the employment and training of the apprentice. See
• 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
• Approved independent school: means an independent school that is approved under section 166 of this title. See
• Board: means the entity created in section 1114, Vermont Apprenticeship Advisory Board, of this title and described as a "State Apprenticeship Council" in 29 C. See
• Client company: means a person who enters into an agreement with an employee leasing company to lease any or all of its regular employees. See
• Coach: means a person who instructs or trains students on a school athletic team. See
• Collision sport: means football, hockey, lacrosse, or wrestling. See
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Labor or the Commissioner's designee. See
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Labor or the Commissioner's designee. See
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Labor. See
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Labor or designee. See
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Competency: means the attainment of knowledge, skills, and abilities in a subject area, as specified by an occupational skill standard and demonstrated by an appropriate written or hands-on proficiency measurement. See
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consumer: means an individual who purchases or receives an animal from any person permitted, licensed, or registered under this chapter. See
• Contact sport: means a sport, other than football, hockey, lacrosse, or wrestling, defined as a contact sport by the American Academy of Pediatrics. See
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Department for Children and Families. See
• Department: means the Vermont Department of Labor. See
• Department: means the Department of Labor. See
• Diversity: means the practice of including the many communities, identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, cultures, and beliefs of Vermonters, including underserved communities. 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
• employee: means an individual who has entered into the employment of, or works under contract of service or apprenticeship with, an employer. See
• Employee leasing agreement: means an agreement, executed between an employee leasing company and a client company, pursuant to which an employee leasing company provides one or more individuals to perform services for a client company on an ongoing basis. See
• Employer: includes any body of persons, corporate or unincorporated, public or private, and the legal representative of a deceased employer, and includes the owner or lessee of premises or other person who is virtually the proprietor or operator of the business there carried on, but who, by reason of there being an independent contractor or for any other reason, is not the direct employer of the workers there employed. See
• Employment: includes public employment, and, in the case of private employers, includes all employment in any trade or occupation notwithstanding that an employer may be a nonprofit corporation, institution, association, partnership, or proprietorship. See
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Equity: means the consistent and systemic fair, just, and impartial treatment of all individuals, including individuals who belong to underserved communities that have been denied such treatment. See
• Euthanasia: means the humane destruction of animals in accordance with this subdivision. 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.
• Fair: means any public or privately operated facility where animals are confined for the purpose of display or sale, or both, or for viewing. See
• Fees: shall mean earnings due for official services, aside from salaries or per diem compensation. See
• Financial responsibility: means the current and expected future condition of financial solvency sufficient to support a reasonable expectation that an employee leasing company can successfully conduct its business without jeopardizing the interests of the employees leased to the client company or the public. 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
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fringe benefits: means benefits, including health insurance, retirement benefits, paid vacations and holidays, sick leave, and similar benefits that are incidents of employment. See
• gender identity: means an individual's actual or perceived gender identity, or gender-related characteristics intrinsically related to an individual's gender or gender-identity, regardless of the individual's assigned sex at birth. See
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Health care provider: means an athletic trainer, or other health care provider, licensed pursuant to Title 26, who has within the preceding five years been specifically trained in the evaluation and management of concussions and other head injuries. See
• Inclusion: means the recognition, appreciation, and use of the talents and skills of employees of all backgrounds. See
• Independent school: means a school other than a public school, which provides a program of elementary or secondary education, or both. See
• Interim credential: means a credential issued by the Department, upon request of a sponsor, that certifies specific competency attainment by an apprentice. See
• Journey-worker: means a worker who has attained a level of skill, abilities, and competencies recognized within an industry as having mastered the skills and competencies required for the occupation. See
• 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.
• 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}
• leasing company: means a person engaged in the business of providing individuals to perform ongoing services for an indefinite time period for client companies pursuant to one or more employee leasing agreements executed between the leasing company and the client company. See
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensee: means an employee leasing company licensed under this chapter. See
• Minor: means a person who has not attained 18 years of age. 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
• National Guideline Standards: means a template of high-quality apprenticeship program standards submitted by a labor union, trade or industry association, employer, workforce intermediary, education provider, or other organizations with national scope, which standards may be certified by the federal Office of Apprenticeship. See
• 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.
• Occupational disease: means a disease that results from causes and conditions characteristic of and peculiar to a particular trade, occupation, process, or employment, and to which an employee is not ordinarily subjected or exposed outside or away from the employment and arises out of and in the course of the employment. See
• Office of Apprenticeship: means the part of the U. See
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• 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: means any individual, partnership, firm, joint stock company, corporation, association, trust, estate, or other legal entity. See
• Person: means a natural person, corporation, partnership, trust, society, club, association, or other organization, including municipalities and the State and its instrumentalities. See
• Pet dealer: means any person who sells or exchanges or who offers to sell or exchange cats, dogs, or wolf-hybrids, or any combination thereof, from three or more litters of cats, dogs, or wolf-hybrids in any 12-month period. See
• Pet shop: means a place of retail or wholesale business, including a flea market, that is not part of a private dwelling, where cats, dogs, wolf-hybrids, rabbits, rodents, birds, fish, reptiles, or other vertebrates are maintained or displayed for the purpose of sale or exchange to the general public. See
• Physical custody: means the physical care and supervision of a minor. See
• Pre-apprenticeship program: means a training model or program that prepares individuals for acceptance into an apprenticeship program and that is registered by the Department as provided in section 1123, pre-apprenticeship program, of this title or, as applicable, federal Office of Apprenticeship. See
• Premises: means land and the structures thereon which contains a place of employment as herein defined. See
• Primary enclosure: means any structure used to immediately restrict an animal or animals, excluding household pets, to a limited amount of space, such as a room, pen, cage, compartment, or hutch. See
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Public auction: means any place or establishment where dogs or cats are sold at auction to the highest bidder, whether individually, as a group, or by weight. See
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public school: means an elementary school or secondary school operated by a school district. See
• Records: means all documents, exhibits and data pertaining to an adoption, whether collected prior to or after the decree of adoption. See
• Registration agency: means the Vermont Department of Labor acting as the designated State Apprenticeship Agency, which may also be referred to as the "Vermont Registered Apprenticeship Program. See
• related instruction: means an organized and systematic form of instruction, concurrent with on-the-job training, designed to provide an apprentice with the knowledge of the theoretical and technical subjects related to the apprentice's occupation. See
• Relative: means a grandparent, great-grandparent, sibling, first cousin, aunt, uncle, great-aunt, great-uncle, niece, or nephew of a person, whether related to the person by the whole or the half blood, affinity, or adoption. See
• Relinquishment: means the voluntary surrender to an agency by a minor's parent or guardian, for purposes of the minor's adoption, of the rights of the parent or guardian with respect to the minor, including legal and physical custody of the minor. See
• 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.
• Rescue organization: means any organization that accepts more than five animals in a calendar year for the purpose of finding adoptive homes for the animals. See
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Review Board: means the Occupational Safety and Health Review Board. See
• Rule: means a rule or regulation. See
• School athletic team: means an interscholastic athletic team or club sponsored by a public or approved independent school for elementary or secondary students. See
• School board: means the board of school directors elected to manage the schools of a school district, the prudential committee of an incorporated school district, the supervisory union board of directors, and the supervisors of unorganized towns and gores. See
• School district: means town school districts, union school districts, interstate school districts, city school districts, unified union districts, and incorporated school districts, each of which is governed by a publicly elected board. See
• School year: means the year beginning July 1 and ending the next June 30. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Agriculture, Food and Markets. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Education. See
• sexual orientation: means female or male homosexuality, heterosexuality, or bisexuality. See
• Sponsor: means an employer, a joint labor-management organization, a trade association, a professional association, a labor organization, an education and training provider, or a qualified intermediary that is applying to register, administer, and operate an apprenticeship program. 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
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See
• State Apprenticeship Agency: means the Vermont Department of Labor as the federally designated apprenticeship agency and may also refer to the "Vermont Registered Apprenticeship Program. See
• State Board: means the State Board of Education established by chapter 3 of this title. See
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Stepparent: means a person who is the spouse or surviving spouse of a parent of a child but who is not a parent of the child. See
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Underserved communities: means the populations sharing a particular characteristic, as well as geographic communities, who have been systematically denied a full opportunity to participate in aspects of economic, social, and civic life. See
• Wages: includes bonuses and the market value of board, lodging, fuel, and other advantages that can be estimated in money and that the employee receives from the employer as a part of his or her remuneration; but does not include any sum paid by the employer to his or her employee to cover any special expenses entailed on the employee by the nature of his or her employment. See
• Youth Apprenticeship program: means a program registered by the Department as provided in section 1124, youth apprenticeship programs, of this title or, as applicable, by the federal Office of Apprenticeship. See
• Youth athlete: means an elementary or secondary student who is a member of a school athletic team. See