Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 10 > Chapter 18 > Part 3 - Operational Requirements and Limitations

• 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.
• Cable television service: means :
       (1)(a) the one-way transmission to subscribers of:

            (1)(a)(i) video programming; or

            (1)(a)(ii) other programming service; and
       (1)(b) subscriber interaction, if any, that is required for the selection or use of:

            (1)(b)(i) the video programming; or

            (1)(b)(ii) other programming service. See Utah Code 10-18-102
• Capital costs: means all costs of providing a service that are capitalized in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. See Utah Code 10-18-102
• City: means a municipality that is classified by population as a city of the first class, a city of the second class, a city of the third class, a city of the fourth class, or a city of the fifth class, under Section 10-2-301. See Utah Code 10-1-104
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consumer: means a purchaser of health spa services for consideration. See Utah Code 13-23-2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Cross subsidize: means to pay a cost included in the direct costs or indirect costs of providing a service that is not accounted for in the full cost of accounting of providing the service. See Utah Code 10-18-102
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Direct costs: means those expenses of a municipality that:
       (4)(a) are directly attributable to providing:

            (4)(a)(i) a cable television service; or

            (4)(a)(ii) a public telecommunications service; and
       (4)(b) would be eliminated if the service described in Subsection (4)(a) were not provided by the municipality. See Utah Code 10-18-102
• Division: means the Division of Consumer Protection. See Utah Code 13-23-2
• Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Health spa: means a business enterprise that provides access to a facility:
            (4)(a)(i) for a charge or a fee; and
            (4)(a)(ii) for the development or preservation of physical fitness or well-being, through exercise, weight control, or athletics. See Utah Code 13-23-2
• Health spa facility: means a facility to which a business entity provides access:
       (5)(a) for a charge or a fee; and
       (5)(b) for the development or preservation of physical fitness or well-being, through exercise, weight control, or athletics. See Utah Code 13-23-2
• Health spa service: includes a personal training service. See Utah Code 13-23-2
• Indirect costs: means any costs:
            (7)(a)(i) identified with two or more services or other functions; and
            (7)(a)(ii) that are not directly identified with a single service or function. See Utah Code 10-18-102
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Municipal: means of or relating to a municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104
• Municipality: means :
       (5)(a) a city of the first class, city of the second class, city of the third class, city of the fourth class, city of the fifth class;
       (5)(b) a town, as classified in Section 10-2-301; or
       (5)(c) a preliminary municipality incorporated under Chapter 2a, Part 5, Incorporation of a Preliminary Municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104
• 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.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, organization, association, trust, governmental agency, or any other legal entity. See Utah Code 10-1-104
• Person: means :
       (24)(a) an individual;
       (24)(b) an association;
       (24)(c) an institution;
       (24)(d) a corporation;
       (24)(e) a company;
       (24)(f) a trust;
       (24)(g) a limited liability company;
       (24)(h) a partnership;
       (24)(i) a political subdivision;
       (24)(j) a government office, department, division, bureau, or other body of government; and
       (24)(k) any other organization or entity. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Primary location: means the health spa facility that a health spa designates in a contract for health spa services as the health spa facility the consumer in the contract will primarily use for health spa services. See Utah Code 13-23-2
• Private provider: means a person that:
       (8)(a) provides:

            (8)(a)(i) cable television services; or

            (8)(a)(ii) public telecommunications services; and
       (8)(b) is a private entity. See Utah Code 10-18-102
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Public telecommunications service: means the two-way transmission of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, messages, data, or other information of any nature by wire, radio, lightwaves, or other electromagnetic means offered to the public generally. See Utah Code 10-18-102
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Subscribers: means a person that lawfully receives:
       (11)(a) cable television services; or
       (11)(b) public telecommunications services. See Utah Code 10-18-102
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Town: means a municipality classified by population as a town under Section 10-2-301. See Utah Code 10-1-104
• Utah Code: means the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code, as amended, unless the text expressly references a portion of the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code as it existed:
       (42)(a) on the day on which the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code was enacted; or
       (42)(b)

            (42)(b)(i) after the day described in Subsection (42)(a); and

            (42)(b)(ii) before the most recent amendment to the referenced portion of the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Writing: includes :
       (48)(a) printing;
       (48)(b) handwriting; and
       (48)(c) information stored in an electronic or other medium if the information is retrievable in a perceivable format. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5