Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 18 > Chapter 1 > Subchapter 2 - Health Care Professions; Educational Assistance

• 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
• Bisphenols: means any member of a class of industrial chemicals that contain two hydroxyphenyl groups. See
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Department: means the Department of Health. See
• Department: means the Department of Health. See
• 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.
• 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.
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• food packaging: means a package or packaging component that is intended for direct food contact. See
• Intentionally added: means the addition of a chemical in a product that serves an intended function in the product component. See
• Intentionally added: means the addition of a chemical in a product that serves an intended function in the product component. See
• Manufacturer: means any person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, organization, joint venture, importer, or domestic distributor of firefighting agents or equipment. See
• Municipality: means any city, town, incorporated village, town fire district, or other political subdivision that provides firefighting services pursuant to general law or municipal charter. 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.
• Ortho-phthalates: means any member of the class of organic chemicals that are esters of phthalic acid containing two carbon chains located in the ortho position. See
• Package: means a container providing a means of marketing, protecting, or handling a product and shall include a unit package, an intermediate package, and a shipping container. See
• Packaging component: means an individual assembled part of a package, such as any interior or exterior blocking, bracing, cushioning, weatherproofing, exterior strapping, coatings, closures, inks, and labels, and disposable gloves used in commercial or institutional food service. See
• Person: means any individual, company, corporation, association, partnership, the U. See
• Personal protective equipment: means clothing designed, intended, or marketed to be worn by firefighting personnel in the performance of their duties, designed with the intent for use in fire and rescue activities, and includes jackets, pants, shoes, gloves, helmets, and respiratory equipment. See
• PFAS: means a class of fluorinated organic chemicals containing at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom. See
• 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
• Terminal: means an establishment primarily engaged in the wholesale distribution of crude petroleum and petroleum products, including liquefied petroleum gas from bulk liquid storage facilities. See