Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 323A - Landscape Architecture

• Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Board: means the Kentucky Board of Landscape Architects. See Kentucky Statutes 323A.010
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Landscape architect: means a person who engages in the practice of landscape architecture as defined in subsection (3) of this section. See Kentucky Statutes 323A.010
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• practice of landscape architecture: means to render or offer to render any professional service in connection with the planning of outdoor space involving the relationships of people, flora and fauna, and facilities, with emphasis on the function, preservation, conservation, restoration, and enhancement of the physical environment, by arranging land and water and the elements thereon, including the alignment of roadways and the location of buildings, service areas, parking areas, walkways, steps, ramps, pools, and other structures, and the grading of the land, surface and sub-soil drainage, erosion control, planting, reforestation, and the preservation of the natural landscape ecology and environment, in accordance with the accepted professional standard of public health, welfare, and safety. See Kentucky Statutes 323A.010
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Professional services: means the providing of professional landscape architectural services for compensation. See Kentucky Statutes 323A.010
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Treatment: when used in a criminal justice context, means targeted interventions
  that focus on criminal risk factors in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal behavior. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010