Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 31 > Chapter 23 - Games of Chance

• Act: means the Federal Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989, Pub. 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.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appraisal: means an analysis, opinion, or conclusion relating to the value of specified interests in or aspects of identified real estate or identified real property. See
• AQB: means the Appraisal Qualifications Board of the Appraisal Foundation as referenced in the Act. See
• ASC: means the Appraisal Subcommittee of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council created pursuant to the Act. See
• Audiology: means the application of principles, methods, and procedures related to hearing and the disorders of hearing, and to related language and speech disorders, which includes all conditions that impede the normal process of human communication, including disorders of auditory sensitivity, acuity, function, or processing. See
• Break-open ticket: means a lottery utilizing a card or ticket of the so-called pickle card, jar ticket, or break-open variety commonly bearing the name "Lucky 7" "Nevada Club" "Victory Bar" "Texas Poker" "Triple Bingo" or any other name. See
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Liquor and Lottery. See
• 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.
• Director: means the Director of the Office of Professional Regulation. See
• Distributor: means a person that purchases break-open tickets from a manufacturer and sells or distributes break-open tickets at wholesale in Vermont. See
• Fees: shall mean earnings due for official services, aside from salaries or per diem compensation. See
• 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.
• Hearing aid: means an amplifying device to be worn by a person who is hard of hearing to improve hearing, including any accessories specifically used in connection with such a device, but excluding theater- or auditorium-wide-area listening devices, telephone amplifiers, or other devices designed to replace a hearing aid for restricted situations. See
• Manufacturer: means a person that designs, assembles, fabricates, produces, constructs, or otherwise prepares a break-open ticket for sale to a distributor. See
• Nonprofit organization: means a nonprofit corporation that is qualified for tax exempt status under I. See
• Office: means the Office of Professional Regulation. 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
• Practice of audiology: includes the following services, which may be provided to persons of all ages:

• real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein, and pews or slips in places of public worship shall be treated as real estate. See
• real estate appraiser: means a person licensed under this chapter. See
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.