Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 15A > Chapter 3 > Part 3 - Statewide Amendments to International Plumbing Code

• Adjudicative proceeding: means :
       (2)(a) an action by a board, commission, department, officer, or other administrative unit of the state that determines the legal rights, duties, privileges, immunities, or other legal interests of one or more identifiable persons, including an action to grant, deny, revoke, suspend, modify, annul, withdraw, or amend an authority, right, or license; and
       (2)(b) judicial review of an action described in Subsection (2)(a). See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Agriculture water: means :
       (2)(a) water used by a farmer, rancher, or feed lot for the production of food, fiber, or fuel;
       (2)(b) return flows from irrigated agriculture; and
       (2)(c) agricultural storm water runoff. See Utah Code 19-5-102
• Board: means the Water Quality Board created in Section 19-1-106. See Utah Code 19-5-102
• Board: means the Drinking Water Board appointed under Section 19-4-103. See Utah Code 19-4-102
• Commission: means the Conservation Commission, created in Section 4-18-104. See Utah Code 19-5-102
• Community water system: means a public water system that serves residents year-round. See Utah Code 19-4-102
• Contaminant: means a physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance or matter in water. See Utah Code 19-5-102
• Contaminant: means a physical, chemical, biological, or radiological substance or matter in water. See Utah Code 19-4-102
• 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.
• County legislative body: means :
       (8)(a) the county commission, in the county commission or expanded county commission form of government established under Title 17, Chapter 52a, Changing Forms of County Government;
       (8)(b) the county council, in the county executive-council optional form of government authorized by Section 17-52a-203; and
       (8)(c) the county council, in the council-manager optional form of government authorized by Section 17-52a-204. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Utah Code 19-1-103
• Director: means the director of the Division of Water Quality or, for purposes of groundwater quality at a facility licensed by and under the jurisdiction of the Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control, the director of the Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control. See Utah Code 19-5-102
• Director: means the director of the Division of Drinking Water. See Utah Code 19-4-102
• Discharge: means the addition of a pollutant to waters of the state. See Utah Code 19-5-102
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Division: means the Division of Drinking Water, created in Subsection 19-1-105(1)(b). See Utah Code 19-4-102
• Division: means the Division of Professional Licensing created in Section 58-1-103, except as provided in:
       (2)(a) Part 4, State Fire Code Administration Act; and
       (2)(b) Chapter 5, State Fire Code Act. See Utah Code 15A-1-102
• Division: means the Division of Water Quality, created in Subsection 19-1-105(1)(e). See Utah Code 19-5-102
• Effluent limitations: means restrictions, requirements, or prohibitions, including schedules of compliance established under this chapter, that apply to discharges. See Utah Code 19-5-102
• Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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.
• Executive director: means the executive director of the department appointed pursuant to Section 19-1-104. See Utah Code 19-1-103
• Female: means the characteristic of an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that functions in a way that could produce ova. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Groundwater source: includes :
            (6)(b)(i) a well;
            (6)(b)(ii) a spring;
            (6)(b)(iii) a tunnel; or
            (6)(b)(iv) an adit. See Utah Code 19-4-102
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Land: includes :
       (18)(a) land;
       (18)(b) a tenement;
       (18)(c) a hereditament;
       (18)(d) a water right;
       (18)(e) a possessory right; and
       (18)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Male: means the characteristic of an individual whose biological reproductive system is of the general type that functions to fertilize the ova of a female. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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
• Person: means an individual, trust, firm, estate, company, corporation, partnership, association, state, state or federal agency or entity, municipality, commission, or political subdivision of a state. See Utah Code 19-1-103
• pollutant: means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt, and industrial, municipal, and agricultural waste discharged into water. See Utah Code 19-5-102
• Pollution: means a man-made or man-induced alteration of the chemical, physical, biological, or radiological integrity of waters of the state, unless the alteration is necessary for the public health and safety. See Utah Code 19-5-102
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public water system: includes :
            (8)(b)(i) a collection, treatment, storage, or distribution facility under the control of the operator and used primarily in connection with the system; and
            (8)(b)(ii) a collection, pretreatment, or storage facility used primarily in connection with the system but not under the operator's control. See Utah Code 19-4-102
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Retail water supplier: means a person that:
       (9)(a) supplies water for human consumption and other domestic uses to an end user; and
       (9)(b) has more than 500 service connections. See Utah Code 19-4-102
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Sewage sludge: means solid, semisolid, or liquid residue removed during the treatment of municipal wastewater or domestic sewage. See Utah Code 19-5-102
• Sewerage system: means pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and other constructions, devices, appurtenances, and facilities used for collecting or conducting wastes to a point of ultimate disposal. See Utah Code 19-5-102
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Supplier: means a person who owns or operates a public water system. See Utah Code 19-4-102
• Treatment works: means a plant, disposal field, lagoon, dam, pumping station, incinerator, or other works used for the purpose of treating, stabilizing, or holding wastes. See Utah Code 19-5-102
• Underground injection: means the subsurface emplacement of fluids by well injection. See Utah Code 19-5-102
• Utah Code: means the Utah Code Annotated (1953), as amended. See Utah Code 15A-1-102
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Vessel: when used with reference to shipping, includes a steamboat, canal boat, and every structure adapted to be navigated from place to place. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Wholesale water supplier: means a person that provides most of that person's water to a retail water supplier. See Utah Code 19-4-102