Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 3 > Article 11 > Chapter 8 - Voting Procedures Generally

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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
• armed forces of the United States: means :

  Indiana Code 10-18-9-1

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• 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
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• board of public works: refers to the following:

  Indiana Code 10-18-4-1

• Byproduct material: means :

  Indiana Code 10-19-12-4

• Civil penalty: means any monetary penalty levied on a licensee or registrant because of violations of statutes, regulations, licenses, or registration certificates, but does not include criminal penalties. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Clerk: means the clerk of the court or a person authorized to perform the clerk's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• compelling public interest: means any condition in which there is a question of:

  Indiana Code 11-8-5-0.5

• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• correctional facility: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 11-8-8-1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decommissioning: means final operational activities at a facility to dismantle site structures, to decontaminate site surfaces and remaining structures, to stabilize and contain residual radioactive material, and to carry out any other activities to prepare the site for postoperational care. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Indiana department of homeland security established by IC 10-19-2-1. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• department: refers to the department of homeland security established by IC 10-19-2-1. See Indiana Code 10-21-1.5-1
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• died of wounds received in action: means a member, other than a member who is the victim of a terrorist activity, who after reaching a medical treatment facility dies of wounds or other injuries received in action. See Indiana Code 10-18-9-2
• Disposal of low-level radioactive waste: means the isolation of such waste from the biosphere by emplacement in a land burial facility. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• donation pool: refers to the stop the bleed donation pool established by section 4 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 10-19-2.2-2
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• electronic chat room username: means an identifier that allows a person to communicate over the Internet in real time using typed text. See Indiana Code 11-8-8-1.2
• electronic mail address: means a destination, commonly expressed as a string of characters, to which electronic mail may be sent or delivered. See Indiana Code 11-8-8-1.4
• emergency response system: means systems designed to improve technology and infrastructure on school property that may be used to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from a manmade or natural disaster or emergency occurring on school property. See Indiana Code 10-21-1.5-2
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• 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.
• fund: means the PFAS biomonitoring pilot fund established by section 13 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 10-19-13-1
• fusion center: means the Indiana intelligence fusion center established by IC 10-11-9-2. See Indiana Code 10-19-8.1-1
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• half-staff: means the position of a flag when the flag is one-half (1/2) the distance between the top and bottom of the staff. See Indiana Code 10-18-9-3
• High-level radioactive waste: means :

  Indiana Code 10-19-12-4

• in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• instant messaging username: means an identifier that allows a person to communicate over the Internet in real time using typed text. See Indiana Code 11-8-8-1.6
• Ionizing radiation: means gamma rays and x-rays, alpha and beta particles, high-speed electrons, neutrons, protons, and other nuclear particles; but not sound or radio waves, or visible, infrared, or ultraviolet light. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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.
• killed in action: means a member, other than a member who is the victim of a terrorist activity, who:

  Indiana Code 10-18-9-4

• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• local law enforcement authority: means the:

  Indiana Code 11-8-8-2

• Low-level radioactive waste: means radioactive waste not classified as high-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, or byproduct material. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• member: refers to a member of:

  Indiana Code 10-18-9-5

• minor: means a person less than eighteen (18) years of age. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• National Guard: means :

  Indiana Code 10-18-9-6

• Nonionizing radiation: means the following:

  Indiana Code 10-19-12-4

• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes "affirmation" and "to swear" includes to "affirm". See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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.
• 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 individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, state agency other than the department, political subdivision of this state, any other state or political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agent, or agency of the foregoing, but not including federal government agencies. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• personal information: has the meaning set out in IC 4-1-6-1. See Indiana Code 11-8-5-1
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes goods, chattels, evidences of debt, and things in action. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• pilot program: means the PFAS biomonitoring pilot program established under section 5 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 10-19-13-3
• Population: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Presentence report: A report prepared by a court's probation officer, after a person has been convicted of an offense, summarizing for the court the background information needed to determine the appropriate sentence. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• principal residence: means the residence where a sex or violent offender spends the most time. See Indiana Code 11-8-8-3
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision.
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• provider: means an officer or employee of the state, an officer or employee of a governmental unit, or a volunteer who is engaged in at least one (1) of the following activities:

  Indiana Code 10-19-9-2

• qualified medical personnel: has the meaning set out in IC 11-10-3-1. See Indiana Code 11-10-4-1
• Radiation: means ionizing radiation and nonionizing radiation. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Radiation generating equipment: means any manufactured product or device, or component part of such a product or device, or any machine or system that during operation can generate or emit radiation except those that emit radiation only from radioactive material. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Radioactive material: means material (solid, liquid, or gas) that emits ionizing radiation spontaneously. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: include lands, tenements, and hereditaments. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• register: means to report in person to a local law enforcement authority and provide the information required under section 8 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 11-8-8-4
• Registration: means registration with the department in accordance with rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• school property: means any property owned, rented, leased, or operated by:

  Indiana Code 10-21-1.5-3

• serum PFAS levels: means the level of PFAS chemicals in an individual's blood. See Indiana Code 10-19-13-4
• sex offender: means a person convicted of any of the following offenses:

  Indiana Code 11-8-8-4.5

• sex or violent offender: means a person convicted of any of the following offenses:

  Indiana Code 11-8-8-5

• sexually violent predator: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 11-8-8-6
• Sheriff: means the sheriff of the county or another person authorized to perform sheriff's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• site closure: means all activities performed at a waste disposal site, such as stabilization and contouring, to assure that the site is in a stable condition so that only minor custodial care, surveillance, and monitoring are necessary at the site following termination of a licensed operation. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• social networking web site username: means an identifier or profile that allows a person to create, use, or modify a social networking web site, as defined in Indiana Code 11-8-8-1.8
• Source material: means uranium or thorium, or any combination thereof, in any physical or chemical form, or ores which contain by weight one-twentieth of one percent (0. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Source material mill tailings: means the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for its source material content, including discrete surface wastes resulting from underground solution extraction processes, but not including underground ore bodies depleted by such solution extraction processes. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Sources of radiation: means collectively, radioactive material and radiation generating equipment. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Special nuclear material: means plutonium, uranium 233, and uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, but does not include source material; or any material artificially enriched by any of the foregoing, but does not include source material. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Specific license: means a license, issued to a named person upon application filed under the regulations promulgated under this chapter, to use, manufacture, produce, transfer, receive, acquire, or possess quantities of, or devices or equipment utilizing, radioactive material. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Spent nuclear fuel: means irradiated nuclear fuel that has undergone at least one (1) year's decay since being used as a source of energy in a power reactor. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transuranic waste: means radioactive waste containing alpha emitting transuranic elements, with radioactive half-lives greater than five (5) years, in excess of ten (10) nanocuries per gram. See Indiana Code 10-19-12-4
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• United States flag: refers to a United States flag flown on property owned or controlled by the state. See Indiana Code 10-18-9-7
• Verified: when applied to pleadings, means supported by oath or affirmation in writing. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• world war memorial: means :

  Indiana Code 10-18-2-1

• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5