Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 30 > Chapter 88 > Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• Basic telecommunications service: means that a customer has available at his or her location:

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Interactive: means that a communications medium is regularly used to transmit information in two directions. 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
• 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 :

• 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
• 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