Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 2 > Chapter 9 - Uniform Legislation

• Administratively complete application: means an application for a permit for which all initially required documentation has been submitted, and any required permit fee, and the information submitted initially addresses all application requirements but has not yet been subjected to a complete technical review. See
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Aircraft: means a contrivance used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air and specifically includes ultralight aircraft. See
• Articles of incorporation: include amended and restated articles of incorporation, articles of merger, and special charters. See
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• bulletin: means the website and e-mail notification system required by 3 V. See
• Clean Air Act: means the federal statutes on air pollution prevention and control, 42 U. See
• Clean Water Act: means the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U. See
• Constituent corporation: means a constituent organization that is a corporation. See
• Constituent organization: means an organization that is a party to a conversion, merger, share exchange, or domestication pursuant to this chapter. See
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Conversion: means a transaction authorized by sections 11. See
• Converted organization: means the converting organization as it continues in existence after a conversion. See
• Converting organization: means the domestic organization that approves a plan of conversion pursuant to section 11. See
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Department of Environmental Conservation. 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
• 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 organization: means an organization whose internal affairs are governed by the law of this State. See
• Domesticated corporation: means the corporation that exists after a domesticating corporation effects a domestication pursuant to sections 11. See
• Domesticating corporation: means the corporation that effects a domestication pursuant to sections 11. See
• Domestication: means a transaction authorized by sections 11. See
• 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
• Fact sheet: means a document that briefly sets forth the principal facts and the significant factual, legal, methodological, and policy questions considered in preparing a draft decision. See
• Foreign corporation: means a corporation for profit incorporated under a law other than the law of this State. See
• General permit: means a permit that applies to a class or category of discharges, emissions, disposal, facilities, or activities within a common geographic area, including the entire State or a region of the State. See
• Governing statute: means the statute that governs an organization's internal affairs. See
• Governmental subdivision: includes authority, county, district, and municipality. See
• Individual: includes the estate of an individual who is incompetent or deceased. See
• Individual permit: means a permit that authorizes a specific discharge, emission, disposal, facility, or activity that contains terms and conditions that are specific to the discharge, emission, disposal, facility, or activity. See
• Interest holder: means :

• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• 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
• Merger: means a merger authorized by sections 11. See
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Notice of intent under a general permit: means an authorization issued by the Secretary to undertake an action authorized by a general permit. See
• Organization:

• Organizational documents: means the organizational documents for a domestic or foreign organization that create the organization, govern the internal affairs of the organization, and govern relations between or among its interest holders, including:

• Permit: includes any permit, certification, license, registration, determination, or similar form of permission required from the Department by law. See
• Person: includes individual and entity. See
• Person to whom notice is federally required: means a person to whom notice of an application or draft decision must be given under federal regulations adopted pursuant to the Clean Air Act or Clean Water Act. See
• Personal estate: shall include all property other than real estate. See
• Personal liability: means :

• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Private organizational documents: means organizational documents or portions thereof for a domestic or foreign organization that are not part of the organization's public record, if any, and includes:

• Proceeding: includes civil suit and criminal, administrative, and investigatory action. See
• Protected agreement: means :

• Public meeting: means a meeting that is open to the public and recorded or transcribed, at which the Department shall provide basic information about the draft permit decision, an opportunity for questions to the applicant and the Department, and an opportunity for members of the public to submit oral and written comments. See
• Public organizational documents: means the record of organizational documents required to be filed with the Secretary of State to form an organization, and any amendment to or restatement of that record, and includes:

• real estate: as used in this chapter shall mean such lands, tenements, rights, and estates as are made liable to execution by section 2781 of this title. See
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility under subsection 8. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources or designee. See
• Share exchange: means a share exchange authorized by sections 11. See
• 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
• Surviving organization: means an organization into which one or more other organizations are merged whether the organization preexisted the merger or was created by the merger. See
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• 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