Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 2 > Article 4 - Legislative Investigations

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attorney: includes a counselor or other person authorized to appear and represent a party in an action or special proceeding. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• challenge: means notice that:

  Indiana Code 4-4-38.5-1.6

• deployed: means , with respect to the availability of minimum broadband Internet at a location, that an eligible broadband service provider:

  Indiana Code 4-4-38.5-1.7

• division: refers to the division of historic preservation and archeology of the department of natural resources established by IC 14-9-4-1. See Indiana Code 4-4-37-1.3
• eligible broadband project: means a project for the deployment of terrestrial broadband infrastructure for the provision of eligible broadband service, regardless of the delivery technology:

  Indiana Code 4-4-38.5-2

• eligible broadband service: means a connection to the Internet that provides an actual speed of at least:

  Indiana Code 4-4-38.5-3

• eligible broadband service provider: means any company, firm, corporation, partnership, or association that:

  Indiana Code 4-4-38.5-4

• eligible student: means a student who is:

  Indiana Code 4-4-38.5-4.5

• 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.
• 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.
• fund: refers to the rural broadband fund established by Indiana Code 4-4-38-0.3
• fund: refers to the rural broadband fund established by section 11 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-4-38.5-5
• minimum broadband Internet: means a terrestrial connection to the Internet that provides an actual speed of at least one hundred (100) megabits per second downstream and at least twenty (20) megabits per second upstream, regardless of the technology or medium used to provide the connection. See Indiana Code 4-4-38.5-5.6
• office: refers to the office of community and rural affairs established by Indiana Code 4-4-37-2
• office: refers to the office of community and rural affairs established by Indiana Code 4-4-38.5-6
• office: refers to the office of community and rural affairs established by Indiana Code 4-4-38-1
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• person: means any of the following:

  Indiana Code 4-4-37-3

• Population: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• preservation: means the application of measures to sustain the form, integrity, and material of:

  Indiana Code 4-4-37-4

• qualified broadband project: means a project for the deployment of broadband infrastructure for the provision of qualified broadband service, regardless of the delivery technology, in unserved areas in Indiana. See Indiana Code 4-4-38-2
• qualified broadband provider: means any company, firm, corporation, partnership, or association that, at the time of submission of a grant application under this chapter:

  Indiana Code 4-4-38-4

• qualified broadband service: means a connection to the Internet that provides capacity for transmission at an actual speed of at least ten (10) megabits per second downstream and at least one (1) megabit per second upstream, regardless of the technology or medium used to provide the connection. See Indiana Code 4-4-38-5
• qualified expenditures: means expenditures for preservation or rehabilitation that are chargeable to a capital account and limited for a project to the exterior of a building. See Indiana Code 4-4-37-5
• rehabilitation: means the process of returning a property to a state of utility through repair or alteration that makes possible an efficient contemporary use while preserving the parts or features of the property that are significant to the historical or architectural values of the property. See Indiana Code 4-4-37-6
• rural area: means :

  Indiana Code 4-4-38.5-7

• rural health clinic: means a building that is:

  Indiana Code 4-4-38.5-7.1

• state agency: means an authority, a board, a branch, a commission, a committee, a department, a division, or another instrumentality of the executive, including the administrative, department of state government. See Indiana Code 4-4-38.5-8
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• unserved area: means a geographic area of Indiana, identified at the census block level, in which there is not at least one (1) provider of terrestrial broadband service offering a connection to the Internet that provides capacity for transmission at an actual speed of at least ten (10) megabits per second downstream and at least one (1) megabit per second upstream. See Indiana Code 4-4-38-6