Terms Used In Alaska Statutes > Title 14 > Chapter 14 > Article 2 - Involvement of Young People in School Governance

• action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• attendance area: means the geographic area designated by the department to be served by a school. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• board: means the state Board of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• certificate of limited partnership: means the certificate referred to in Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
• commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce, community, and economic development. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
• commissioner: means the commissioner of corrections or the designee of the commissioner. See Alaska Statutes 33.05.080
• 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.
• contribution: means cash, property, services rendered, or a promissory note or other binding obligation to contribute cash or property or to perform services, that a partner contributes to a limited partnership as a partner. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
• 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.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• department: means the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
• department: means the Department of Education and Early Development. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• event of withdrawal of a general partner: means an event that causes a person to cease to be a general partner under Alaska Stat. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
• foreign limited partnership: means a partnership formed under the laws of a state other than this state and having as partners one or more general partners and one or more limited partners. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
• general partner: means a person who has been admitted to a limited partnership as a general partner in accordance with the partnership agreement and named in the certificate of limited partnership as a general partner. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
• governing body: means the school board of a borough or city school district or a regional educational attendance area. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• limited partner: means a person who has been admitted to a limited partnership as a limited partner in accordance with the partnership agreement. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
• month: means a calendar month unless otherwise expressed. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• 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.
• partner: means a limited or general partner. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
• 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.
• partnership agreement: means a valid agreement, written or oral, of the partners as to the affairs of a limited partnership and the conduct of its business. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
• person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association, organization, business trust, or society, as well as a natural person. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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 real and personal property. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• regional educational attendance area: means an educational service area in the unorganized borough which may or may not include a military reservation, and that contains one or more public schools of grade levels K-12 or any portion of those grade levels that are to be operated under the management and control of a single regional school board. See Alaska Statutes 14.60.010
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• state: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, District of Columbia, or Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Alaska Statutes 32.11.900
• state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• writing: includes printing. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060