Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 1 > Chapter 17 - Vermont Coordinate System

• Accepted silvicultural practices: means the accepted silvicultural practices defined by the Commissioner of Forests, Parks and Recreation, including the Acceptable Management Practices for Maintaining Water Quality on Logging Jobs in Vermont adopted by the Commissioner of Forests, Parks and Recreation. See
• Agency: means the Agency of Natural Resources. See
• Annual meeting: when applied to towns shall mean the annual town meeting in March or an adjournment thereof. See
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• Articles of incorporation: include amended and restated articles of incorporation, articles of merger, and special charters. See
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• 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
• Bona fide educational or scientific institution: means an institution that establishes through documentation that it is a tax-exempt institution under the Internal Revenue Service's educational or scientific tax exemption. 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
• Class: refers to a group of memberships which have the same rights with respect to voting, dissolution, redemption, and transfer. See
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Fish and Wildlife. See
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Housing and Community Development. See
• Corporation: means public benefit and mutual benefit corporation. See
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Covered animal: means any species of:

• Covered animal part or product: means any item that contains, or is wholly or partially made from, a covered animal, including the meat or flesh of a covered animal sold as food. See
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Delegates: means those persons elected or appointed to vote in a representative assembly for the election of a director or directors or on other matters. See
• delivery: means any method of delivery used in conventional commercial practice, including delivery by hand, mail, commercial delivery, and electronic transmission. See
• Department: means the Department of Housing and Community Development. See
• Destroy or adversely impact: means , with respect to critical habitat, a direct or indirect activity that negatively affects the value of critical habitat for the survival, conservation, or recovery of a listed threatened or endangered species. See
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• 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
• Distribution: means a direct or indirect transfer of money or other property (except its own shares) or incurrence of indebtedness by a corporation to or for the benefit of its shareholders in respect of any of its shares. 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
• domestic corporation: means a corporation for profit, which is not a foreign corporation, incorporated under or subject to the provisions of this title. See
• Domestic corporation: means a corporation. See
• electronically transmitted: means a process of communication not directly involving the physical transfer of paper that is suitable for the retention, retrieval, and reproduction of information by the recipient. See
• Employee: includes an officer but not a director. See
• Endangered species: means a species listed as endangered under this chapter or under the federal Endangered Species Act. 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.
• Entity: includes corporation and foreign corporation; not-for-profit corporation; profit and not-for-profit unincorporated association; business trust, estate, partnership, trust, and two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest; and state, United States, and foreign government. See
• Entity: includes corporation and foreign corporation; business corporation and foreign business corporation; profit and nonprofit unincorporated association; business trust, estate, partnership, trust, and two or more persons having a joint or common economic interest; and state, United States; and foreign government. 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}
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• federal Endangered Species Act: means the Endangered Species Act of 1973, Public Law 93-205, as amended. See
• filing: means filed in the Office of the Secretary of State. See
• Foreign corporation: means a corporation for profit incorporated under a law other than the law of this State. 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
• Forestry operations: include the primary processing of forest products of commercial value on a parcel where the timber harvest occurs. See
• Habitat: means the physical and biological environment in which a particular species of plant or animal lives. 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 or deceased. See
• Individual: includes the estate of an individual who is incompetent. See
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• 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}
• Leaseholder: means a resident lawfully occupying a mobile home owned by the park owner or the owner of a mobile home sited on a mobile home lot in a mobile home park regardless of whether the leaseholder has actual possession of a written lease. See
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lot rent: means a charge assessed on a mobile home park resident for the occupancy of a mobile home lot, but does not include charges permitted under section 6238 of this title. See
• Meeting: means any structured communications conducted by participants in person or through the use of electronic or telecommunications medium permitting simultaneous or sequentially structured communications for the purpose of reaching a collective agreement. 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
• Mobile home: means :

• Mobile home park: means any parcel of land under single or common ownership or control that contains, or is designed, laid out, or adapted to accommodate, more than two mobile homes. 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
• 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.
• park owner: means the owners, operators, officers, or managing agents of a mobile home park as well as any person acting through any corporate or other device who has the practical authority to establish rules, policies, or other requirements for the operation of the mobile home park. See
• Person: includes individual and entity. See
• Person: includes any individual or entity. See
• Plant: means any member of the plant kingdom, including seeds, roots, and other parts thereof. See
• Possession: means holding, controlling, exporting, importing, processing, selling, offering to sell, delivering, carrying, transporting, or shipping by any means a member of a species. See
• premises: means a mobile home lot and any part of a mobile home park. See
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Principal office: means the office (in or outside this State) so designated in the annual report where the principal executive offices of a domestic or foreign corporation are located. See
• Principal office: means the office (in or outside this State) so designated in the biennial report filed pursuant to section 16. See
• procedures: means all activities associated with natural resources management, including scientific research, census, law enforcement, habitat acquisition and maintenance, propagation, live trapping, and transplanting. See
• Proceeding: includes civil suit and criminal, administrative, and investigatory action. See
• Proceeding: includes civil suit and criminal, administrative, and investigatory action. See
• Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
• Public benefit corporation: means a domestic corporation which is required to be a public benefit corporation pursuant to section 17. See
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• radioactive waste: means waste material:

• Record date: means the date established under chapter 6 or 7 of this title on which a corporation determines the identity of its members for the purposes of this title. See
• resident: means an individual, individuals, or family who occupies a mobile home on a permanent or temporary basis in a mobile home park as that term is defined in subdivision (2) of this section. See
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• road: shall include bridges thereon and their approaches. See
• said: when used by way of reference to a person or thing shall apply to the same person or thing last mentioned. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources. See
• Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility under subsection 8. See
• Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility under subsection 8. See
• sell: means any act of selling, trading, or bartering for monetary or nonmonetary consideration and includes any transfer of ownership that occurs in the course of a commercial transaction. See
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Shareholder: means the person in whose name shares are registered in the records of a corporation or upon presentation for registration are entitled to be registered in the records of a corporation. See
• signature: includes any manual, facsimile, conformed, or electronic signature. See
• Species: means wildlife or wild plants and any subspecies or other group of wildlife or wild plants of the same species, the members of which may interbreed when mature. See
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• taking:

• Threatened species: means a species listed as a threatened species under this chapter or determined to be a "threatened species" under the federal Endangered Species Act. See
• United States: includes district, authority, bureau, commission, department, and any other agency of the United States. See
• Vote: includes authorization by written ballot and written consent. See
• Voting group: means all shares of one or more classes or series that under the articles of incorporation or this title are entitled to vote and be counted together collectively on a matter at a meeting of shareholders. 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
• Wildlife: means any member of a nondomesticated species of the animal kingdom, whether reared in captivity or not, including any mammal, fish, bird, amphibian, reptile, mollusk, crustacean, arthropod, or other invertebrate and also including any part, product, egg, offspring, dead body, or part of the dead body of any such wildlife. See