Connecticut General Statutes 12-242ff – Definitions
(a) As used in sections 12-242ee to 12-242yy, inclusive:
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 12-242ff
- 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.
- company: means any person, partnership, association, company, limited liability company or corporation, except an incorporated municipality. See Connecticut General Statutes 12-1
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, partnership, company, limited liability company, public or private corporation, society, association, trustee, executor, administrator or other fiduciary or custodian. See Connecticut General Statutes 12-1
(1) “Affected state obligation” means a state obligation from or with respect to which certain rights are taken pursuant to section 12-242gg;
(2) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management or his designee;
(3) “Owner” means any person who had or has a beneficial interest in an affected state obligation at any time on or after the application date. The owner shall be the record owner of the affected state obligation or the person who had or has a beneficial interest in an affected state obligation if the record owner is a nominee or custodian provided, if the record owner holds title solely for the purposes of perfecting a security interest in such obligation, the owner is the person who granted the security interest. Owner shall include a regulated investment company, partnership, grantor trust, unit investment trust or other pass-through entity that had or has a beneficial interest in an affected state obligation. Owner shall not include shareholders, partners, beneficiaries or other persons owning an interest in such entities;
(4) “State obligation” means a bond, note or any other evidence of indebtedness issued by or on behalf of the state, its agencies, authorities, commissions or other instrumentalities, or by or on behalf of any political subdivision of the state, its agencies or instrumentalities; and
(5) “Application date” means the date established pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.
(b) The application date, as used in sections 12-242ee to 12-242yy, inclusive, shall be January 1, 1992. If the provisions of said sections or any portion thereof are found to be unconstitutional by reason of such application date in a final judgment of any court of competent jurisdiction and no appeal is taken from such judgment, then the application date shall be January 1, 1993, or each successive January first until such date no longer causes the provisions of section 4-186, 10a-236, 12-39l, 12-213, 12-225, 12-233 or 12-242ee to 12-242yy, inclusive, or any portion thereof to be found to be unconstitutional.