Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 1 > Chapter 25 - Truth and Reconciliation Commission [Repealed Effective July 1, 2026]

• Aeronautics: means the science, art, and practice of flight, including transportation by aircraft and matters relating to air commerce; the operation, construction, repair, or maintenance of aircraft, aircraft power plants, and aircraft accessories, including the repair, packing, and maintenance of parachutes; the design, establishment, construction, extension, operation, improvement, repair, or maintenance of airports, restricted landing areas, or other air navigation facilities; and air instruction. See
• Aeronautics instructor: means an individual engaged in giving instruction, or offering to give instruction, in aeronautics, either in flying or ground subjects, or both, for hire or reward, without advertising his or her occupation; without calling his or her facilities an "air school" or anything equivalent; and without employing or using other instructors. See
• Agency: means the Agency of Transportation. See
• Agency: means the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. See
• Agency: means the Agency of Natural Resources. See
• Agency: means the Agency of Natural Resources. See
• Agency: means the Agency of Natural Resources. See
• Air commerce: means the transportation by aircraft of persons or property or any class or classes, including express for compensation or hire, or flights that are certified wholly within the State of Vermont and that are made in serving as a local feeder route or are made by a carrier that does not operate a connecting air route to or from a point outside the State, or to provide excursion or sight-seeing trips. See
• Air instruction: means the imparting of aeronautical information by an aeronautics instructor or by an air school or flying club. See
• Air navigation: means the operation of aircraft in the air space over this State, or upon any airport or restricted landing area within this State. See
• Air navigation facility: means any facility other than one owned or controlled by the federal government, used in, available for use in, or designed for use in, aid or convenience of air navigation, including airports and restricted landing areas. See
• Air school: means a person engaged in giving, or offering to give, instruction in aeronautics, either in flying or ground subjects, or both, for or without hire or reward, and advertising, representing, or the holding out as giving or offering to give this instruction. See
• Aircraft: means a contrivance used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air and specifically includes ultralight aircraft. See
• Airport: means any area of land or water set aside by the Agency, any political subdivision, or person, except a restricted landing area, that is designed for the landing and take-off of aircraft, and used or to be used in the interest of the general public whether or not facilities are provided for the shelter, servicing, or repair of aircraft, or for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo, and all appurtenant areas used or suitable for airport buildings or other airport facilities, including all appurtenant rights-of-way. See
• Airport hazard: means a structure, object of natural growth, or use of land that obstructs the air space required for the flight of aircraft in landing or taking off at an airport or restricted landing area or is otherwise hazardous to landing or taking off. 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• 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
• articles: include amended and restated articles of incorporation and articles of merger. See
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• biennially: shall mean the year in which a regular session of the General Assembly is held. See
• Board: means the Transportation Board. See
• Board: means the Board established under chapter 151 of this title. 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
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Class: refers to a group of memberships which have the same rights with respect to voting, dissolution, redemption, and transfer. See
• Closed-loop recycling: means a system in which a product made from one type of material is reclaimed and reused in the production process or the manufacturing of a new or separate product. 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:

• Commercial hauler: means any person that transports:

• Commission: means the Vermont Truth and Reconciliation Commission, including its commissioners, committees, and staff. See
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Compost: means a stable humus-like material produced by the controlled biological decomposition of organic matter through active management but shall not mean sewage, septage, or materials derived from sewage or septage. See
• Computer: means a laptop computer, desktop computer, tablet computer, or central processing unit that conveys electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high-speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions. See
• Computer monitor: means a display device without a tuner that can display pictures and sound and is used with a computer. See
• Computer peripheral: means a keyboard or any other device sold exclusively for external use with a computer that provides input or output into or from a computer. See
• Consultation: means a meaningful and timely process of seeking, discussing, and considering carefully the views of others in a manner that is cognizant of all parties' cultural values. See
• Consumer product: means any product that is regularly used or purchased to be used for personal, family, or household purposes. 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.
• Corporation: means public benefit and mutual benefit corporation. See
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Covered electronic device: means a computer, computer monitor, device containing a cathode ray tube, printer, or television from a covered entity. See
• Covered entity: means any person who presents to a collection facility that is included in an approved plan:

• Covered entity: means any person who presents to a collection facility or event that is included in an approved collection plan any number of covered household hazardous products, with the exception of large quantity generators or small quantity generators as those terms are defined in the Agency of Natural Resources' Vermont Hazardous Waste Regulations. See
• Covered entity: means any household, charity, or school district in the State or a business in the State that employs 10 or fewer individuals. See
• Covered household hazardous product: means a consumer product offered for retail sale that is contained in the receptacle in which the product is offered for retail sale, if the product has any of the following characteristics:

• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Development soils: means unconsolidated mineral and organic matter overlying bedrock that contains PAHs, arsenic, or lead in concentrations that:

• 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
• Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, emitting, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such solid waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any ground or surface waters. 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
• District Commission: means a District Environmental Commission established under chapter 151 of this title. See
• District coordinator: means a district environmental coordinator attached to a District Commission established under chapter 151 of this title. 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
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Electronic waste: means a computer, computer monitor, computer peripheral, device containing a cathode ray tube, printer, or television from a covered entity. See
• Elemental mercury: means the chemical symbol Hg. See
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Environmental Division: means the Environmental Division of the Superior Court established by 4 V. 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}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Fabricated mercury-added product: means a product that consists of a combination of individual components that combine to make a single unit, including mercury-added measuring devices, lamps, and switches. See
• Facility: means all contiguous land, structures, other appurtenances, and improvements on the land, used for treating, storing, or disposing of waste. See
• Fees: shall mean earnings due for official services, aside from salaries or per diem compensation. See
• filing: means filed in the Office of the Secretary of State. 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.
• Flying club: means a person, other than an individual, that neither for profit nor reward owns, leases, or uses one or more aircraft for the purpose of instruction or pleasure, or both. See
• 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
• Formulated mercury-added product: means a product that is sold as a consistent mixture of chemicals to which mercury or a mercury compound has been intentionally added in order to provide a specific characteristic, appearance, or quality, or to perform a specific function, or for any other reason. See
• Four-foot linear fluorescent lamp: means a general purpose, low-pressure, mercury-containing, electric-discharge light source in which a fluorescing coating transforms some of the ultraviolet energy generated by the mercury discharge into visible light, and includes all of the following characteristics:

• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gas cylinder: means :

• Generator: means any person, by site, whose act or process produces hazardous waste or whose act first causes a hazardous waste to become subject to regulation. See
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Hazardous material: means all petroleum and toxic, corrosive, or other chemicals and related sludge included in any of the following:

• Hazardous waste: means any waste or combination of wastes of a solid, liquid, contained gaseous, or semi-solid form, including those that are toxic, corrosive, ignitable, reactive, strong sensitizers, or that generate pressure through decomposition, heat, or other means, that in the judgment of the Secretary may cause or contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness, taking into account the toxicity of such waste, its persistence and degradability in nature, and its potential for assimilation, or concentration in tissue, and other factors that may otherwise cause or contribute to adverse acute or chronic effects on the health of persons or other living organisms, or any matter that may have an unusually destructive effect on water quality if discharged to ground or surface waters of the State. See
• Household hazardous waste: means any waste from households that would be subject to regulation as hazardous wastes if it were not from households. See
• Implementation plan: means that plan that is adopted to be consistent with the State solid waste management plan. 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}
• Individual: includes the estate of an individual who is incompetent. See
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Justice: when applied to a person, other than a Justice of the Supreme Court, shall mean a justice of the peace for the county for which he or she is elected or appointed. See
• Lamp: means an electric lamp, including mercury-containing lamps, incandescent lamps, halogen lamps, and light-emitting diode lamps. See
• Large appliance: includes the following items: refrigerators, washing machines, clothes dryers, ranges, water heaters, dishwashers, freezers, microwave ovens, air conditioners, portable heaters, and other similar domestic and commercial appliances as may be identified by the Agency by rule. 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Local feeder route: means an air route branching laterally from an intermediate point along an interstate route, which branch route is confined to points within the State of Vermont. See
• Manufacturer: means any person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, governmental entity, organization, combination, or joint venture that:

• Manufacturer: means a person who:

• Manufacturer: means a person who:

• 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
• Mercury fever thermometer: means a mercury-added product that is used for measuring body temperature. See
• Mercury-added component: means a mercury-added product that is incorporated into another product to form a fabricated mercury-added product, including electrical switches, relays, and lamps. See
• Mercury-added novelty: means a mercury-added product intended mainly for personal or household enjoyment or adornment. See
• Mercury-added product: means a product, a commodity, a chemical, a product with one or more components, or a product that cannot function without the use of that component, that contains mercury or a mercury compound intentionally added to the product, commodity, chemical, or component in order to provide a specific characteristic, appearance, or quality, or to perform a specific function, or for any other reason. See
• Mercury-added vehicle switch: means a capsule, commonly known as a bullet, containing mercury, that is part of a convenience light switch assembly for motor vehicle trunks and hoods or is part of the anti-lock brake system. See
• Mercury-containing lamp: means a general purpose lamp to which mercury is intentionally added during the manufacturing process. See
• Mercury-containing thermostat: includes thermostats used to sense and control room temperature in residential, commercial, industrial, and other buildings but does not include a thermostat used to sense and control temperature as part of a manufacturing process. See
• Motor vehicle: means a vehicle propelled by an internal combustion engine or an electric motor, such as an automobile, van, truck, motorized construction equipment, motorized recreational vehicle, motorcycle, or forklift. See
• Motor vehicle recycler: means an individual or entity engaged in the business of acquiring, dismantling, parts recycling, or destroying six or more end-of-life motor vehicles in a year. See
• Municipal solid waste: means combined household, commercial, and industrial waste materials generated in a given area. 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
• Municipality: means a county, city, village, town, or any other political subdivision of this State and any public corporation, authority, or district of this State that is or may be authorized by law to acquire, establish, construct, maintain, improve, or operate transportation facilities or services. See
• Mutual benefit corporation: means a domestic corporation which is required to be a mutual benefit corporation pursuant to section 17. 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.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• PAHs: means polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. See
• Panel: means the Selection Panel established pursuant to section 904 of this chapter. 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.
• Party by right: means the following:

• 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 an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, joint stock association, or body politic, including a trustee, receiver, assignee, or other similar representative. See
• Person: means any individual; partnership; company; corporation; association; unincorporated association; joint venture; trust; municipality; the State of Vermont or any agency, department, or subdivision of the State; federal agency; or any other legal or commercial entity. See
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, cooperative, association, firm, sole proprietorship, governmental agency, or other entity. See
• Person: means any individual; partnership; company; corporation; association; joint venture; trust; municipality; the State of Vermont or any agency, department, or subdivision of the State; any federal agency; or any other legal or commercial entity. See
• Person: includes any individual or entity. See
• Person aggrieved: means a person who alleges an injury to a particularized interest protected by the provisions of law listed in section 8503 of this title, attributable to an act or decision by a district coordinator, District Commission, the Secretary, or the Environmental Division that can be redressed by the Environmental Division or the Supreme Court. See
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Political subdivision: means any county, city, town, or other municipality. See
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Principal office: means the office (in or outside this State) so designated in the biennial report filed pursuant to section 16. See
• Printer: means desktop printers, multifunction printer copiers, and printer fax combinations taken out of service that are designed to reside on a work surface and include various print technologies, including without limitation laser and LED (electrographic), ink jet, dot matrix, thermal, and digital sublimation, and "multi-function" or "all-in-one" devices that perform different tasks, including copying, scanning, faxing, and printing. See
• Proceeding: includes civil suit and criminal, administrative, and investigatory action. See
• Program year: means the period from July 1 through June 30. See
• Program year: means the period from January 1 through December 31. 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
• Public aircraft: means aircraft used exclusively in the service of any government, or any political subdivision, but not including any government-owned aircraft engaged in carrying persons or property for commercial purposes. See
• Public benefit corporation: means a domestic corporation which is required to be a public benefit corporation pursuant to section 17. See
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Record: means any written or recorded information, regardless of physical form or characteristics. 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
• Release: means any intentional or unintentional action or omission resulting in the spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, dumping, or disposing of hazardous materials into the surface or groundwaters, or onto the lands in the State, or into waters outside the jurisdiction of the State when damage may result to the public health, lands, waters, or natural resources within the jurisdiction of the State. See
• Restricted landing area: means an area of land or water, or both, that is used or is made available for the landing and take-off of aircraft, the use of which, except in case of emergency, shall be only as provided from time to time by the Board. See
• Retailer: means a person who sells a mercury-containing lamp to a person in the State through any means, including a sales outlet, a catalogue, the telephone, the Internet, or any electronic means. See
• Retailer: means a person who sells a covered household hazardous product in the State through any means, including a sales outlet, a catalogue, the telephone, the Internet, or any electronic means. 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
• road: shall include bridges thereon and their approaches. See
• sale: means any transfer for consideration of title or of the right to use by lease or sales contract a mercury-containing lamp to a person in the State of Vermont. See
• sale: means any transfer for consideration of title or of the right to use by lease or sales contract a covered household hazardous product to a person in the State of Vermont. 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
• Scrap metal recycling facility: means a facility at a fixed location that uses equipment to process and refabricate scrap metal into prepared grades and principally produces scrap iron, steel, or nonferrous metallic scrap for sale. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Transportation. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources or his or her duly authorized representative. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources or the Secretary's duly authorized representative. See
• Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility under subsection 8. See
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Solid waste: means any discarded garbage; refuse; septage; sludge from a waste treatment plant, water supply plant, or pollution control facility; and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous materials resulting from industrial, commercial, mining, or agricultural operations and from community activities but does not include animal manure and absorbent bedding used for soil enrichment; high carbon bulking agents used in composting; or solid or dissolved materials in industrial discharges that are point sources subject to permits under the Water Pollution Control Act, chapter 47 of this title. See
• source separation: means the separation of compostable and recyclable materials from noncompostable, nonrecyclable materials at the point of generation. 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Stewardship organization: means an organization, association, or entity that has developed a system, method, or other mechanism which assumes the responsibilities, obligations, and liabilities under this chapter of multiple manufacturers of mercury-containing lamps. See
• Stewardship organization: means a legal entity such as an organization, association, or entity that has developed a system, method, or other mechanism that assumes the responsibilities, obligations, and liabilities under this chapter of multiple manufacturers of covered household hazardous products and that is:

• Storage: means the actual or intended containment of wastes, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such wastes. See
• Structure: means any object constructed or installed by man, including buildings, towers, smokestacks, and overhead transmission lines. See
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Television: means any telecommunications system or device containing a cathode ray tube or other type of display system with a viewable area of greater than four inches when measured diagonally that can broadcast or receive moving pictures and sound over a distance and includes a television tuner or a display device peripheral to a computer that contains a television tuner. See
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Thermostat retailer: means a person who sells thermostats of any kind directly to homeowners or other nonprofessionals through any selling or distribution mechanism, including sales using the Internet or catalogues. See
• Thermostat wholesaler: means a person that is engaged in the distribution and wholesale sale of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning components to contractors who install heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning components. See
• Town: shall include city and wards or precincts therein; "selectboard members" and "board of civil authority" shall extend to and include the mayor and aldermen of cities; "trustees" shall extend to and include bailiffs of incorporated villages; and the laws applicable to the inhabitants and officers of towns shall be applicable to the inhabitants and similar officers of all municipal corporations. See
• transportation: means the movement of wastes by air, rail, highway, or water. See
• Transporter: means a person that moves electronic waste from a collector to either another collector or to a recycler. See
• Treatment: means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any hazardous or solid waste, so as to neutralize such waste, or so as to recover energy or material resources from the waste, or so as to render such waste safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume, or for hazardous wastes, so as to render such waste nonhazardous. See
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Village: shall mean an incorporated village. See
• Vote: includes authorization by written ballot and written consent. See
• Voting power: means the total number of votes entitled to be cast for the election of directors at the time the determination of voting power is made, excluding a vote which is contingent upon the happening of a condition or event that has not occurred at the time. See
• Waste: means a material that is discarded or is being accumulated, stored, or physically, chemically, or biologically treated prior to being discarded or has served its original intended use and is normally discarded or is a manufacturing or mining by-product and is normally discarded. See