Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 19 > Chapter 22 > Subchapter I > Part D - Related Provisions

• association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
• Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity.
• Commission: means any of the Commissions of the Organization that are established by the Convention. See 16 USC 3601
• Commission: means the Pacific Salmon Commission established by the Treaty. See 16 USC 3631
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Convention: means the Convention for the Conservation of Salmon in the North Atlantic Ocean, signed at Reykjavik, Iceland, on March 2, 1982. See 16 USC 3601
• 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.
• county: includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. See 1 USC 2
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• 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.
• individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
• 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.
• Organization: means the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization established under the Convention. See 16 USC 3601
• Panel: means any of the Panels established by the Treaty. See 16 USC 3631
• 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 (whether or not a citizen or national of the United States), any corporation, partnership, association, or other entity (whether or not organized or existing under the laws of any State). See 16 USC 3631
• 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.
• salmon: means all species of salmon which migrate in or into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean north of 36 degrees north latitude. See 16 USC 3601
• salmon: means any anadromous species of the family Salmonidae and genus Oncorhynchus, commonly known as Pacific salmon, including but not limited to:
  
  

  Popular names	Scientific name
  Chinook or King Salmon	Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
  Coho or Silver Salmon	Oncorhynchus kisutch
  Pink or Humpback Salmon	Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
  Chum or Dog Salmon	Oncorhynchus keta
  Sockeye or Red Salmon	Oncorhynchus nerka

  
  

  and shall also include Steelhead (Salmo gairdneri). See 16 USC 3631

• Secretary: means the Secretary of Commerce. See 16 USC 3631
• State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7
• Treaty: means the Treaty between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Canada Concerning Pacific Salmon, signed at Ottawa, January 28, 1985. See 16 USC 3631
• United States Section: means the four United States Commissioners appointed by the President pursuant to this chapter. See 16 USC 3631
• vessel: includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. See 1 USC 3
• writing: includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. See 1 USC 1