Virginia Code > Title 32.1 > Chapter 12 – State/Local Hospitalization Program
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- Board: means the Board of Medical Assistance Services. See Virginia Code 32.1-343
- Department: means the State Department of Health. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
- Department: means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Virginia Code 10.1-1182
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Director: means the Director of the Department of Medical Assistance Services. See Virginia Code 32.1-343
- Director: means the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality. See Virginia Code 10.1-1182
- Environment: means the natural, scenic, and historic attributes of the Commonwealth. See Virginia Code 10.1-1182
- 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.
- Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
- 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 an individual, corporation, partnership, or association or any other legal entity. See Virginia Code 32.1-3
- Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
- 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.
- Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
- 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.