Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 42 > Chapter 91 > Subchapter II - Residential Energy Conservation

• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• Congressional Record: The substantially verbatim account of daily proceedings in Congress. It is printed for each day Congress is in session. At the back of each daily issue is the "Daily Digest," which summarizes the day's floor and committee activities.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• 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}
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Parliamentarian: The Parliamentarian is an advisor on the interpretation of legislative rules and procedures.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• residential building: means any building used as a residence which is not a new building to which final standards under sections 6833(a) and 6834 ¹ of this title apply and which has a system for heating, cooling, or both. See 42 USC 8235
• subscription: includes a mark when the person making the same intended it as such. See 1 USC 1
• writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1