Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 36 > Article 9 > Chapter 39.1 - Alternative Assessment Financing for Municipal Sewage Works

• 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
• board: means the following:

  Indiana Code 36-9-39.1-2

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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 a sewer improvement and extension fund established under section 5 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 36-9-39.1-3
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.