Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 225-A - Skiers, Ski Area and Passenger Tramway Safety

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Board: means the passenger tramway safety board. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 225-A:2
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conveyor: means a class of outdoor transportation wherein skiers or passengers are transported uphill on a flexible moving element such as a conveyor belt. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 225-A:2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of safety. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 225-A:2
• 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.
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
• Industry: means the activities of all those persons in the state who own or control the operation of ski areas. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 225-A:2
• 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 magistrate, shall mean a justice of a municipal court, or a justice of the peace having jurisdiction over the subject-matter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:12
• Nordic ski jump: means a facility constructed for the purpose of nordic ski jumping and built in accordance with appropriate standards and guidelines, and any facilities that are associated with the use or viewing of such a facility. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 225-A:2
• operator: shall include the state or any political subdivision. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 225-A:2
• Passenger: means any person, including skiers, while being transported or conveyed by a passenger tramway, or while waiting in the immediate vicinity for such transportation or conveyance, or while moving away from the disembarkation or unloading point of a passenger tramway to clear the way for the following passengers, or while in the act of boarding or embarking upon or disembarking from a passenger tramway. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 225-A:2
• Passenger tramway: means a device used to transport passengers uphill on skis or other winter sports devices, or in cars on tracks or suspended in the air, by the use of steel cables, chains or belts or by ropes, and usually supported by trestles or towers with one or more spans. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 225-A:2
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
• petition: when used in connection with the equity jurisdiction of the superior court, and referring to a document filed with the court, shall mean complaint, and "petitioner" shall mean plaintiff. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:51
• petitioner: shall mean plaintiff. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:51
• 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.
• registered mail: when used in connection with the requirement for notice by mail shall mean either registered mail or certified mail. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:32-a
• Ski area operator: means a person who owns or controls the operation of a ski area. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 225-A:2
• Ski areas: means all passenger tramways and all designated alpine and nordic trails, slopes, freestyle terrain, tubing terrain, and nordic ski jumps under the control of the alpine and nordic ski area operator and any other areas under the operator's control open to the public for winter sports recreation or competition. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 225-A:2
• Skier: means a person utilizing the ski area under the control of a ski area operator for ski, snowboard, and snow tube recreation and competition. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 225-A:2
• state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
• Tubing terrain: means areas designated for sliding on inflatable tubes or other similar devices down a prepared course or lanes at a ski area. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 225-A:2
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Winter sports: means the use of skis, snowboards, snow tubes, snowshoes, and any device being utilized by a disabled or adaptive participant for winter recreation or competition. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 225-A:2