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Subchapter 1 General Provisions 7501 – 7504
Subchapter 2 Distribution 7511 – 7516
Subchapter 3 Collection 7521 – 7525

Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 30 > Chapter 88 - Universal Telecommunications Service

  • Bailiff: a court officer who enforces the rules of behavior in courtrooms.
  • Basic telecommunications service: means that a customer has available at his or her location:

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • 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
  • Interactive: means that a communications medium is regularly used to transmit information in two directions. 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
  • Line in service: means a circuit or channel connecting a customer to the public switched network or to the Internet. See
  • Month: shall mean a calendar month and "year" shall mean a calendar year and be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. 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
  • Private network: means a telecommunications system entirely owned and operated by a single corporate or individual person other than a telecommunications service provider and not available to the general public. See
  • Public switched network: means the communications network owned and operated by telecommunications service providers, some of whom are common carriers. 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.
  • Service area: means :

  • Service location: means a business or residential geographic point of contact of a telecommunications service for purposes of the Enhanced 911 network. 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
  • sworn: shall include affirmed. See
  • Telecommunications service: means the transmission of any interactive electromagnetic communications that passes through the public switched network. See
  • Telecommunications service provider: means a company required by law to hold a certificate of public good from the Public Utility Commission to offer telecommunications service for intrastate service, or is authorized by the Federal Communications Commission to offer interstate telecommunications service. See