Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes > Chapter 32 - Treasurer

• Accuser: means a person who signs and swears to charges, any person who directs that charges nominally be signed and sworn to by another, and any person who has an interest other than an official interest in the prosecution of the accused. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• Acquired entity: means the entity, all of one or more classes or series of interests of which are acquired in an interest exchange. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Acquiring entity: means the entity that acquires all of one or more classes or series of interests of the acquired entity in an interest exchange. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Address: means location as described by the full street number, if any, street, city or town, state or country and not a mailing address such as a post office box. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Administrative law judge: means the administrative law judge who has jurisdiction in the matter referred to in the context. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Administrator: means the Labor Commissioner. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222
• Adulterated: means any milk, milk product, retail raw milk or cheese: (A) Which bears or contains any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health, provided if the substance is not an added substance, such milk, milk product, retail raw milk or cheese shall not be considered adulterated if the quantity of such substance in such milk, milk product, retail raw milk or cheese would not ordinarily render it injurious to health, (B) which bears or contains any added poisonous or added deleterious substance which is unsafe, (C) which consists in whole or in part of any diseased, contaminated, filthy, putrid or decomposed substance or is otherwise unfit for food, (D) which has been produced, prepared, packed or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth or may have been rendered diseased, unwholesome or injurious to health, or (E) whose packaging or container is composed in whole or in part of any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the contents injurious to health. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Advanced technology center: means a cooperative research center in a specified field of science and technology established and funded, subject to the requirements in sections 32-40a, 32-40b and 32-40c, through an academic, industrial and governmental partnership for purposes of technological research with a direct relationship to economic development in the state. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affiliate: means any person that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls or is controlled by or is under common control with, another person, including, but not limited to, any corporation, general or limited partnership or limited liability company controlled, directly or indirectly, by such other person or the corporation, provided, in addition to other means of being controlled, a general or limited partnership or limited liability company shall be deemed to be controlled by the corporation if the corporation or one of its affiliates acts as a general partner or a manager of such general or limited partnership or limited liability company. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• agent: means any person buying or soliciting or negotiating the sale for a fee, resale or exchange of livestock for or on behalf of any dealer or broker. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-381
• Agent: means the representative of the board who handles all investigations of complaints and violations of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-101
• agricultural labor: means any service performed prior to January 1, 1978, which was agricultural labor prior to such date, and remunerated service performed after December 31, 1977: (I) On a farm, in the employ of any person, in connection with cultivating the soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training and management of livestock, bees, poultry and fur-bearing animals and wildlife. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222
• Agriculture: as used in this chapter , includes horticulture, viticulture, forestry, dairying, the raising of livestock or poultry and any other farming activity or business, unless another meaning is clearly apparent from the language or context. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-194
• Air pollution: means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air pollutants or any combination thereof in such quantities and of such characteristics and duration as to be, or be likely to be, injurious to public welfare, to the health of human, plant or animal life, or to property, or as unreasonably to interfere with the enjoyment of life and property. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-170
• Alien insurer: means any insurer that has been chartered by or organized or constituted within or under the laws of any jurisdiction or country without the United States. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Animal: means any brute creature, including, but not limited to, dogs, cats, monkeys, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, birds and reptiles. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-327
• Animal: includes birds, quadrupeds, reptiles and amphibians. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• animal: as used in this chapter and in sections 53-247, 53-252 and 53-253, shall include all brute creatures and birds. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-108a
• Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Annuities: means all agreements to make periodical payments where the making or continuance of all or some of the series of the payments, or the amount of the payment, is dependent upon the continuance of human life or is for a specified term of years. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• another: may extend and be applied to communities, companies, corporations, public or private, limited liability companies, societies and associations. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Appeals division: means the Employment Security Appeals Division consisting of the board members, the referees employed in the referee section and all other supporting staff members employed in that division for discharge of its responsibilities as set forth in this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-237a
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• applicant: includes the person filing an application for registration of a mark under this chapter, and the legal representatives, successors or assigns of such person. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-18a
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• apprentice: means a person who is not licensed under this chapter, who has filed an application for a license with the board and whose employer has registered him or her with the board to learn crane operations or hoisting equipment operations under the direct supervision of a licensed operator in accordance with section 29-224c. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-221
• 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
• Approve: means , in the case of an entity, for its governors and interest holders to take whatever steps are necessary under its organic rules, organic law and other law to (A) propose a transaction subject to this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• aquaculture: means the farming of the waters of the state and tidal wetlands and the production of protein food, including fish, oysters, clams, mussels and other molluscan shellfish, on leased, franchised and public underwater farm lands. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Arising out of and in the course of his employment: means an accidental injury happening to an employee or an occupational disease of an employee originating while the employee has been engaged in the line of the employee's duty in the business or affairs of the employer upon the employer's premises, or while engaged elsewhere upon the employer's business or affairs by the direction, express or implied, of the employer, provided:

  (A) (i) For a police officer or firefighter, "in the course of his employment" encompasses such individual's departure from such individual's place of abode to duty, such individual's duty, and the return to such individual's place of abode after duty. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275

• Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Asset forfeiture: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Attack: means any attack or series of attacks by an enemy of the United States causing, or which may cause, substantial damage or injury to civilian property or persons in the United States in any manner by sabotage or by the use of bombs, shellfire or atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological or biological means or other weapons or processes. See Connecticut General Statutes 28-1
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
• Authority: means the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority created and established pursuant to this chapter or any board, body, commission, department, officer, agency or other successor thereto. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Authority: means the Capital Region Development Authority created pursuant to section 32-601. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-600
• Automated teller machine: means a stationary or mobile device that is unattended or equipped with a telephone or televideo device that allows contact with bank personnel, including a satellite device but excluding a point of sale terminal, at which banking transactions, including, but not limited to, deposits, withdrawals, advances, payments or transfers, may be conducted. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
• Bait species: means all species of fish, frogs, crustaceans and insects listed as bait in the regulations issued by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Bank: means a Connecticut bank or a federal bank. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Bank and trust company: means an institution chartered or organized under the laws of this state as a bank and trust company. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• banks: shall include all incorporated banks. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Benefit charges: means the amount of benefit payments charged to an employer's experience account under this section. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-225a
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Black bass: means smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) and largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides). See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Board: means the Examining Board for Crane Operators established under section 29-222. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-221
• Board: means the labor relations board provided for in section 31-102. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-101
• Board: means the Employment Security Board of Review. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-237a
• Bona fide prospective purchaser: means a person who acquires ownership of a property after July 1, 2011, and establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that:

  (A) All disposal of regulated substances at the property occurred before such person acquired the property. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760

• Bonds: means bonds of the authority issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and the authorizing resolutions of said authority. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• broker: means any person, copartnership, association, limited liability company or corporation engaged in the business of buying, receiving, selling or exchanging or negotiating or soliciting the sale, resale, exchange, transporting for a fee, transfer or shipment of any livestock. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-381
• Brownfield: means any abandoned or underutilized site where redevelopment, reuse or expansion has not occurred due to the presence or potential presence of pollution in the buildings, soil or groundwater that requires investigation or remediation before or in conjunction with the redevelopment, reuse or expansion of the property. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• Business corporation: means a corporation whose internal affairs are governed by chapter 601 or a professional service corporation governed by chapter 594a. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Calendar quarters: means the quarter years ending on the last day of March, June, September and December, respectively, or the equivalent thereof as the administrator may by regulation prescribe. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222
• Capital city economic development district: means the area bounded and described as follows: The northerly side of Masseek Street from the intersection of Van Dyke Avenue proceeding westerly to the intersection of Van Block Avenue, proceeding northerly along Van Block to the intersection of Nepaquash Street, proceeding easterly to the intersection of Huyshope Avenue, proceeding northerly along Huyshope Avenue to the intersection of Charter Oak Avenue, proceeding westerly along Charter Oak Avenue to Wyllys Street, proceeding along Wyllys Street to Popieluszko Court, north on Popieluszko Court to Charter Oak Avenue proceeding westerly to Main Street, proceeding south along Main Street to Park Street, thence west along Park Street to the intersection of Laurel Street, proceeding north on Laurel Street to the intersection of Capitol Avenue, proceeding west on Capitol Avenue to the intersection of Forest Street, proceeding north on Forest Street to the intersection of Farmington Avenue, proceeding east on Farmington Avenue to the intersection of Asylum Avenue, proceeding east on Asylum Avenue, thence northwesterly along the Exit 48 on ramp to Interstate 84 northward to the railroad, now proceeding northeasterly along the railroad to its intersection with the southerly railroad spur, thence proceeding southeasterly along the railroad R. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-600
• Capital city project: means any or all of the following: (A) A convention center project as defined in subdivision (3) of this section. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-600
• Capital initiative: means providing financial aid through one or more affiliates and raising the capital for such affiliates, in whole or in part, from sources other than the state. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Capital region: means the towns contiguous to the city of Hartford, including the town of East Hartford. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-600
• Capital stock: when used in conjunction with any bank or out-of-state bank means a bank or out-of-state bank that is authorized to accumulate funds through the issuance of its capital stock. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• Certificate of incorporation: means a certificate of incorporation, as defined in section 33-1002, or any predecessor statute thereto. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-182aa
• Certificate of limited partnership: means the certificate referred to in section 34-10 and the certificate as amended or restated. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• certification mark: means a mark used upon or in connection with the products or services of one or more persons other than the owner of the mark to certify regional or other origin, material, mode of manufacture, quality, accuracy or other characteristics of such goods or services or that the work or labor on the goods or services was performed by members of a union or other organization. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-18a
• certified check: shall be construed to include any bank treasurer's or cashier's check. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1b
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Cheese manufacturer: means any person, firm, corporation or cooperative association engaged in the production, receiving or handling of milk or milk products, which milk products, in whole or in part, are intended to be manufactured into cheese for distribution or sale in or outside this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• chief executive officer: means the chief executive officer of Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated appointed pursuant to section 32-38. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-61
• Chief referee: means the chief referee of the referee section. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-237a
• Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity.
• Civil preparedness: means all those activities and measures designed or undertaken (A) to minimize or control the effects upon the civilian population of major disaster or emergency, (B) to minimize the effects upon the civilian population caused or which would be caused by an attack upon the United States, (C) to deal with the immediate emergency conditions which would be created by any such attack, major disaster or emergency, and (D) to effectuate emergency repairs to, or the emergency restoration of, vital utilities and facilities destroyed or damaged by any such attack, major disaster or emergency. See Connecticut General Statutes 28-1
• Civil preparedness forces: means any organized personnel engaged in carrying out civil preparedness functions in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or any regulation or order adopted pursuant to this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 28-1
• Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
• Client: means a beneficiary of a trust for whom the Connecticut bank acts as trustee, a person for whom the Connecticut bank acts as agent, custodian or bailee, or other person to whom a Connecticut bank owes a duty or obligation under a trust or other account administered by such Connecticut bank, regardless of whether such Connecticut bank owes a fiduciary duty to the person. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Closed season: means that period of time during which hunting, trapping or fishing is prohibited for any species of wildlife. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Club deposit: means deposits to be received at regular intervals, the whole amount deposited to be withdrawn by the owner or repaid by the bank in not more than fifteen months from the date of the first deposit, and upon which no interest or dividends need to be paid. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Code: means this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• collective mark: means a trademark or service mark used by the members of a cooperative, an association or other collective group or organization and includes marks used to indicate membership in a union, an association or other organization. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-18a
• Commanding officer: includes only commissioned officers. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• Commercial fisherman: means any person, firm or corporation engaged in commercial fishing. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Commercial fishing: means taking or attempting to take any regulated species for commercial purposes or by the use of any commercial fishing gear. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Commercial fishing gear: means any equipment commonly used to take regulated species for commercial purposes including, but not limited to, lobster pots, otter trawls, beam trawls, balloon trawls, midwater trawls, sea scallop dredges, scoop nets, scap nets, seines, trap nets, fyke nets, crab traps, gill nets, trammel nets, set lines, long lines, hook and line if such fishing is conducted for commercial purposes, minnow seines, minnow traps, eel pots, fish pots, pound nets, throw nets or similar devices and any equipment listed as commercial fishing gear in regulations adopted by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Commercial hatchery: means an institution or place where legally acquired fish are held, hatched and reared for sale or where fish so acquired or hatched are reared or held for sale in waters which are under complete control of the owner. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Commercial kennel: means a place maintained for boarding or grooming dogs or cats, and includes, but is not limited to, any veterinary hospital which boards or grooms dogs or cats for nonmedical purposes. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-327
• Commission: means the Workers' Compensation Commission. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Commission: means the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission established under this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-367
• Commissioned officer: includes a commissioned warrant officer. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• Commissioner: means the Banking Commissioner and, with respect to any function of the commissioner, includes any person authorized or designated by the commissioner to carry out that function. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Commissioner: means the Insurance Commissioner. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-327
• commissioner: means the Commissioner of Agriculture. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-381
• commissioner: means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection or his or her designated agent. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-2
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection or his designated agent as defined in subsection (a) of section 22a-2. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-68
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• commissioner: means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection or any member of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection or any local air pollution control official or agency authorized by him, acting singly or jointly, to whom he assigns any function arising under the provisions of this chapter or of any regulations adopted hereunder. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-170
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection or his designated agent. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 28-1
• commissioner: means the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection and "mixed martial arts" means unarmed combat involving the use of a combination of techniques from different disciplines of the martial arts and includes grappling, kicking, jujitsu and striking. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-143j
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-152u
• commissioner: means the Commissioner of Administrative Services. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-191
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Administrative Services. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-201
• commissioner: means the Commissioner of Administrative Services. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-221
• Commissioner: means the Labor Commissioner or any representative designated by him. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-101
• Commissioner: means the Labor Commissioner or his designated agent. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-367
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• Commissioners: means the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development and the Labor Commissioner. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-386
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• community pollution problem: means the existence of pollution which, in the sole discretion of the commissioner, can best be abated by the action of a municipality. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Community Reinvestment Act: The Act is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the credit needs of the communities in which they operate, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. It was enacted by the Congress in 1977. ^{Source: OCC}
• Company: means any corporation, joint stock company, trust, association, partnership, limited partnership, unincorporated organization, limited liability company or similar organization, but does not include (A) any corporation the majority of the shares of which are owned by the United States or by any state, or (B) any trust which by its terms shall terminate within twenty-five years or not later than twenty-one years and ten months after the death of beneficiaries living on the effective date of the trust. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Company union: means any committee, employee representation plan or association of employees which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances or terms and conditions of employment which the employer has initiated or created or whose initiation or creation he has suggested or participated in or the formulation of whose governing rules or policies or the conduct of whose management, policies or elections the employer participates in or supervises or which the employer manages, finances, controls, dominates or assists in maintaining or financing, whether by compensation to anyone for service performed in its behalf or by donating free service, equipment, materials, office or meeting space or anything else of value or by any other means. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-101
• Compensation: means benefits or payments mandated by the provisions of this chapter, including, but not limited to, indemnity, medical and surgical aid or hospital and nursing service required under section 31-294d and any type of payment for disability, whether for total or partial disability of a permanent or temporary nature, death benefit, funeral expense, payments made under the provisions of section 31-284b, 31-293a or 31-310, or any adjustment in benefits or payments required by this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Composting: means a process of accelerated biological decomposition of organic material under controlled conditions. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-207a
• Computation date: means June thirtieth of the year preceding the tax year for which the contribution rates are computed. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-225a
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Connecticut bank: means a bank and trust company, savings bank or savings and loan association chartered or organized under the laws of this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Connecticut brownfield land bank: means a Connecticut nonstock corporation, certified by the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development pursuant to section 32-771, established for the purposes of (A) acquiring, retaining, remediating and selling brownfields in the state for the benefit of municipalities, (B) educating government officials, community leaders, economic development agencies and nonprofit organizations on best practices for redeveloping brownfields, and (C) engaging in all other activities in accordance with sections 32-771 to 32-775, inclusive. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• Connecticut credit union: means a cooperative, nonprofit financial institution that (A) is organized under chapter 667 and the membership of which is limited as provided in section 36a-438a, (B) operates for the benefit and general welfare of its members with the earnings, benefits or services offered being distributed to or retained for its members, and (C) is governed by a volunteer board of directors elected by and from its membership. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Connecticut credit union service organization: means a credit union service organization that is (A) incorporated under the laws of this state, located in this state and established by at least one Connecticut credit union, or (B) wholly owned by a credit union that converted into a Connecticut credit union pursuant to section 36a-469b. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• conservation zone: means the zone described in section 25-102c. See Connecticut General Statutes 25-102b
• conservation zone: means the zone described in section 25-102cc. See Connecticut General Statutes 25-102bb
• Consolidation: means a combination of two or more institutions into a new institution. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Consolidation: means a business combination pursuant to section 34-33b. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Contiguous property owner: means a person who owns real property contiguous to or otherwise similarly situated with respect to, and that is or may be contaminated by a release or threatened release of a regulated substance from, real property that is not owned by that person, provided:

  (A) With respect to the property owned by such person, such person takes reasonable steps to (i) stop any continuing release of any regulated substance released on or from the property, (ii) prevent any threatened future release of any regulated substance released on or from the property, and (iii) prevent or limit human, environmental or natural resource exposure to any regulated substance released on or from the property. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760

• Contingent beneficiary: Receiver of property or benefits if the first named beneficiary fails to receive any or all of the property or benefits in question before his (her) death.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contributing employer: means an employer who is assigned a percentage rate of contribution under the provisions of this section. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-225a
• Contribution: means any cash, property, services rendered, or a promissory note or other binding obligation to contribute cash or property or to perform services, which a partner contributes to a limited partnership in his capacity as a partner. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Control: has the meaning given to that term in 12 USC Section 1841(a), as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Convening authority: includes , in addition to the person who convened the court, a commissioned officer commanding for the time being, or a successor in command. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• Convention center: means a convention facility constructed and operated in the capital city economic development district, including parking for such facility, in conjunction with a privately developed hotel, including ancillary facilities and infrastructure improvements as more particularly described in the master development plan. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-600
• Convention center facilities: means (A) the convention center and the related parking facilities, as defined in section 32-651, to the extent such related parking facilities are developed, owned or operated by the authority, (B) the on-site related private development, as defined in section 32-651, to the extent any such on-site related private development is developed, owned or operated by the authority pursuant to a determination by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and the authority that such development, ownership or operation by the authority is necessary and in the public interest, and (C) a central heating and cooling plant serving the convention center, the related parking facilities, the related private development and, to the extent of any surplus capacity, other users. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-600
• Convention center hotel: means the privately developed hotel required to be constructed and operated in conjunction with the convention center, as more particularly described in the master development plan, as defined in section 32-651, including the second phase of the convention center hotel as therein described. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-600
• Convention center project: means the development, design, construction, finishing, furnishing and equipping of the convention center facilities and related site acquisition and site preparation. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-600
• Conversion: means a transaction authorized by part IV of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Converted entity: means the converting entity as it continues in existence after a conversion. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Converting entity: means the domestic entity that approves a plan of conversion pursuant to section 34-633 or the foreign entity that approves a conversion pursuant to the law of its jurisdiction of organization. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Corporation: means Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated as created under section 32-35. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• corporation: means Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated created under subsection (a) of section 32-35. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-61
• Costs: means the cost or fair market value, as determined by the authority, of construction, lands, property rights, utility extensions, disposal facilities, access roads, easements, franchises, financing charges, interest, engineering and legal services, plans, specifications, surveys, cost estimates, studies, transportation and other expenses necessary or incidental to the design, development, construction, financing, management and operation and maintenance of a waste management project, and such other costs or expenses of the authority, including administrative and operating costs, research and development, and operating capital, including fees, charges, loans, insurances, and the expense of purchasing real and personal property, including waste management projects. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Council: means the Connecticut Siting Council established under section 16-50j. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• crane: means power-operated equipment that can hoist, lower and horizontally move a suspended load and which has a manufacturer's maximum rated hoisting or lifting capacity exceeding two thousand pounds, including, but not limited to: (A) Articulating cranes such as knuckle-boom cranes, (B) crawler cranes, (C) floating cranes, (D) cranes on barges, (E) locomotive cranes, (F) mobile cranes such as wheel-mounted, rough terrain, all-terrain, commercial truck-mounted and boom truck cranes, (G) multipurpose machines when configured to hoist and lower, by means of a winch or hook, and horizontally move a suspended load, (H) industrial cranes such as carry-deck cranes, (I) dedicated pile drivers when used in construction, demolition or excavation work, (J) service or mechanic trucks with a hoisting device, (K) cranes on monorails, (L) tower cranes such as fixed jib hammerhead boom, luffing boom and self-erecting, (M) pedestal cranes, (N) portal cranes, (O) overhead and gantry cranes, (P) straddle cranes, (Q) side boom cranes, (R) derricks, and (S) variations of such equipment. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-221
• Credit bureau: An agency that collects individual credit information and sells it for a fee to creditors so they can make a decision on granting loans. Typical clients include banks, mortgage lenders, credit card companies, and other financing companies. (Also commonly referred to as consumer-reporting agency or credit-reporting agency.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Credit Score: A number, roughly between 300 and 800, that measures an individual's credit worthiness. The most well-known type of credit score is the FICO score. This score represents the answer from a mathematical formula that assigns numerical values to various pieces of information in your credit report. ^{Source: OCC}
• Credit union service organization: means an entity organized under state or federal law to provide credit union service organization services primarily to its members, to Connecticut credit unions, federal credit unions and out-of-state credit unions other than its members, and to members of any such other credit unions. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• crew leader: means an individual who (I) furnishes individuals to perform services in agricultural labor for any other person, (II) pays either on his own behalf or on behalf of such other person the individuals so furnished by him for the service in agricultural labor performed by them, and (III) has not entered into a written agreement with such other person under which such individual is designated as an employee of such other person. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222
• Customer: means any person using a service offered by a financial institution. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Date of the injury: means , for an occupational disease, the date of total or partial incapacity to work as a result of such disease. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Dealer: means any person, firm, corporation or cooperative association engaged in the receiving, handling, purchasing, distribution or sale of fluid milk or milk products, which fluid milk or milk products, in whole or in part, are intended for bottling, manufacturing, processing, distribution or sale in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• delivery: means any method of delivery used in conventional commercial practice including delivery by hand, mail, commercial delivery and electronic transmission. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Demand deposit: means a deposit that is payable on demand, a deposit issued with an original maturity or required notice period of less than seven days or a deposit representing funds for which the bank does not reserve the right to require at least seven days' written notice of the intended withdrawal, but does not include any time deposit. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Department: means the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-68
• Department: means the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 28-1
• department: means the Department of Administrative Services. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-191
• Department: means the Department of Administrative Services. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-201
• department: means the Department of Administrative Services. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-221
• Department: means the Labor Department. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-101
• Department: means the Department of Economic and Community Development. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Dependent: as used in this chapter , means a blood relation or the spouse of a Connecticut soldier, sailor or marine who, at the time of the calling of such soldier, sailor or marine into active military or naval service, is actually and solely dependent upon such soldier, sailor or marine for support and maintenance. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-80
• Dependent: means a member of the injured employee's family or next of kin who was wholly or partly dependent upon the earnings of the employee at the time of the injury. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Dependent in fact: means a person determined to be a dependent of an injured employee, in any case where there is no presumptive dependent, in accordance with the facts existing at the date of the injury. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Deposit: means funds deposited with a depository. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Deposit account: means an account into which deposits may be made. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Deposit account: includes a share account of a savings and loan association. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Depositor: includes a member of a mutual savings and loan association. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Development and management: means a plan required at the council's discretion, prepared by the applicant in conjunction with council staff, specifying how project construction will comply with siting orders issued by the council. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• development rights: means the rights of the owner of property to improve such property, including the right to change the terrain, remove natural vegetation and construct buildings thereon. See Connecticut General Statutes 25-102b
• development rights: means the rights of the owner of property to improve such property, including the right to change the terrain, remove natural vegetation and construct buildings thereon. See Connecticut General Statutes 25-102bb
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• dilution: means the lessening of the capacity of the registrant's mark to identify and distinguish goods or services, through use of the mark by another person, regardless of the presence or absence of (A) competition between the users of the mark, or (B) likelihood of confusion, mistake or deception arising from that use. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-11a
• Director: means a member of the governing board of a financial institution. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• disaster emergency: means an emergency declared by the Governor under the provisions of this chapter in the event of serious disaster or of enemy attack, sabotage or other hostile action within the state or a neighboring state, or in the event of the imminence of such an event. See Connecticut General Statutes 28-1
• discharge: means the emission of any water, substance or material into the waters of the state, whether or not such substance causes pollution. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Disfigurement: means impairment of or injury to the beauty, symmetry or appearance of a person that renders the person unsightly, misshapen or imperfect, or deforms the person in some manner, or otherwise causes a detrimental change in the external form of the person. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Disposal: means the incineration, long-term storage or treatment of hazardous waste, or the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping or placing of hazardous waste into or on land or water so that such hazardous waste or any hazardous constituent of such hazardous waste enters the environment, is emitted into the air, or is discharged into any waters, including groundwaters. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• disposal system: means a system for disposing of or eliminating wastes, either by surface or underground methods, and includes sewage systems, pollution abatement facilities, disposal wells and other systems. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Document: includes anything delivered to the office of the Secretary of the State for filing under sections 34-9 to 34-38u, inclusive. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Domestic insurer: means any insurer that has been chartered by, incorporated, organized or constituted within or under the laws of this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• domestic limited partnership: means a partnership formed by two or more persons under the provisions of this chapter and having one or more general partners and one or more limited partners. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• domestic service: includes all service for a person in the operation and maintenance of a private household, local college club or local chapter of a college fraternity or sorority as distinguished from service as an employee in the pursuit of an employer's trade, occupation, profession, enterprise or vocation. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222
• Domestic surplus lines insurer: means any domestic insurer that has been authorized by the commissioner to write surplus lines insurance. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• Domesticated entity: means the domesticating entity as it continues in existence after a domestication. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Domesticating entity: means the domestic entity that approves a plan of domestication pursuant to section 34-643 or the foreign entity that approves a domestication pursuant to the law of its jurisdiction of organization. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Domestication: means a transaction authorized by part V of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Duty status: means any one of the types of required duty wherein the person is performing military service under competent authority other than set forth in subdivision (9) of this section and includes travel to and from such duty. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• Early or first-stage financing: means financial aid to companies that have expended initial capital, developed and market-tested prototypes, and demonstrate that such funds are necessary to initiate full-scale manufacturing and sales. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• economic benefit: includes the amount of any savings resulting from avoided or delayed expenditures as a result of noncompliance with the effluent limitations of a permit to discharge into the waters of the state, and includes capital or one-time expenditures, operating costs, maintenance costs and any other benefits resulting from noncompliance. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Economic development agency: means (A) a municipal economic development agency or entity created or operating under chapter 130 or 132. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• effluent limitation: means any restriction, established by the commissioner by regulations adopted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, on quantities, rates or concentrations of chemical, physical, biological and other constituents which are discharged into the waters of the state and established by permit, schedule of compliance or administrative order. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• elevator: means a hoisting and lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform which moves in guides or rails in a substantially vertical direction other than an inclined stairway chairlift and a vertical wheelchair or incline lift, including sidewalk elevators used for the carrying of persons or freight. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-191
• Eligible costs: means the costs associated with the investigation, assessment, remediation and development of a brownfield, including, but not limited to, (A) soil, groundwater and infrastructure investigation, (B) assessment, (C) remediation, (D) abatement, (E) hazardous materials or waste disposal, (F) long-term groundwater or natural attenuation monitoring, (G) (i) environmental land use restrictions, (ii) activity and use limitations, or (iii) other forms of institutional control, (H) attorneys' fees, (I) planning, engineering and environmental consulting, and (J) building and structural issues, including demolition, asbestos abatement, polychlorinated biphenyls removal, contaminated wood or paint removal, and other infrastructure remedial activities. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• eligible financial institution: means an eligible financial institution as defined in section 32-65. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-61
• Eligible municipality: means any municipality with an unemployment rate equal to or greater than seven per cent of its work force in March, 1975, as certified by the Labor Commissioner. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-386
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Emergency: means any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the Governor or the President, state or federal assistance is needed to supplement state or local efforts and capabilities to save lives and protect property, public health and safety or to avert or lessen the threat of a disaster or catastrophe in any part of this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 28-1
• Emergency municipal public works employment project: means any municipal public works project considered by said commissioners for state financial assistance under this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-386
• Emigrant agent: means any person who, on behalf of an employment agency and for a fee, procures or attempts to procure domestic or household employment in Connecticut for persons outside the state seeking such employment, or domestic or household employees from outside the state for employers in the state seeking the services of such employees. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-129
• Employee: includes , but shall not be restricted to, any individual employed by a labor organization, any individual whose employment has ceased as a consequence of, or in connection with, any current labor dispute or because of any unfair labor practice, and who has not obtained any other regular and substantially equivalent employment, and shall not be limited to the employees of a particular employer. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-101
• Employee: means any individual currently employed or formerly employed by an employer and includes individuals in managerial positions. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-128a
• Employee: means any person who:

  (i) Has entered into or works under any contract of service or apprenticeship with an employer, whether the contract contemplated the performance of duties within or without the state. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275

• Employee: means any person engaged in service to an employer in a business of his employer. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-367
• Employee assistance program: means a program sponsored or authorized by an employer, intended to assist employees in identifying and resolving personal concerns including, but not limited to, health, marital, family, financial, alcohol, drug, gambling, legal, emotional, stress or other personal issues that may affect job performance. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-128a
• Employer: means any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee, but shall not include any person engaged in farming, or any person subject to the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act, unless the National Labor Relations Board has declined to assert jurisdiction over such person, or any person subject to the provisions of the Federal Railway Labor Act, or the state or any political or civil subdivision thereof or any religious agency or corporation, or any labor organization, except when acting as an employer, or any one acting as an officer or agent of such labor organization. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-101
• Employer: means an individual, corporation, partnership or unincorporated association. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-128a
• Employer: means any person, corporation, limited liability company, firm, partnership, voluntary association, joint stock association, the state and any public corporation within the state using the services of one or more employees for pay, or the legal representative of any such employer, but all contracts of employment between an employer employing persons excluded from the definition of employee and any such employee shall be conclusively presumed to include the following mutual agreements between employer and employee: (A) That the employer may accept and become bound by the provisions of this chapter by immediately complying with section 31-284. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Employer: means the state and any political subdivision thereof. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-367
• employment: shall include services described in clause (I) and (II) above performed after December 31, 1971, if 1. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222
• Employment agency: includes the business of procuring or offering to procure work or employment for persons seeking employment, or acting as agent for procuring such work or employment where a fee or other valuable thing is exacted, charged or received for procuring or assisting to procure employment, work or a situation of any kind or for procuring or providing help for any person. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-129
• end user: means any person who uses a material for such material's original use or any manufacturer who uses a material as feedstock to make a marketable product. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-207a
• Enlisted member: means a person in an enlisted grade. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Entrepreneur: means any person who seeks to organize, operate and assume the risk for a business enterprise, or who organizes, operates and assumes the risk for a business enterprise. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• environmental noise: means noise from all stationary sources. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-68
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Equity capital: means the excess of a Connecticut bank's total assets over its total liabilities, as defined in the instructions of the federal Financial Institutions Examination Council for consolidated reports of condition and income. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• escalator: means a moving inclined continuous stairway or runway used for raising or lowering passengers. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-191
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Event of withdrawal of a general partner: means an event that causes a person to cease to be a general partner as provided in section 34-28. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive officer: means every officer of a Connecticut bank who participates or has authority to participate, otherwise than in the capacity of a director, in major policy-making functions of such bank, regardless of whether such officer has an official title or whether that title contains a designation of assistant and regardless of whether such officer is serving without salary or other compensation. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Expansion financing: means financial aid to companies for market expansion or to enhance the fiscal position of a company in preceding a liquidity event including, but not limited to, an initial public offering or acquisition. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Experience period: means the three consecutive experience years ending on the computation date, except that (A) if the employer's account has been chargeable with benefits for less than three years, the experience period shall consist of the greater of one or two consecutive experience years ending on the computation date, and (B) to the extent allowed by federal law and as necessary to respond to the spread of COVID-19, for any taxable year commencing on or after January 1, 2022, the experience period shall be calculated without regard to benefit charges and taxable wages for the experience years ending June 30, 2020, and June 30, 2021, when applicable. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-225a
• Experience year: means the twelve consecutive months ending on June thirtieth. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-225a
• Explosive: as used in this chapter , means any chemical compound or any mechanical mixture that contains oxidizing and combustible units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities or packing that ignition by fire, friction, concussion, percussion or detonator may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressure is capable of destroying life or limb or of producing destructive effects to contiguous objects, but not including colloided nitrocellulose in sheets or rods or grains not under one-eighth of an inch in diameter, wet nitrocellulose containing twenty per cent or more moisture and wet nitrostarch containing twenty per cent or more moisture. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-343
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is a set of United States statutes added as Title VIII of the Consumer Credit Protection Act. Its purpose is to ensure ethical practices in the collection of consumer debts and to provide consumers with an avenue for disputing and obtaining validation of debt information in order to ensure the information's accuracy. It is often used in conjunction with the Fair Credit Reporting Act. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• farm: includes stock, dairy, poultry, fruit, fur-bearing animal, and truck farms, plantations, ranches, nurseries, ranges, greenhouses or other similar structures used primarily for the raising of agricultural or horticultural commodities, and orchards. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222
• farm: includes farm buildings, and accessory buildings thereto, nurseries, orchards, ranges, greenhouses, hoophouses and other temporary structures or other structures used primarily for the raising and, as an incident to ordinary farming operations, the sale of agricultural or horticultural commodities. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• farming: include cultivation of the soil, dairying, forestry, raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training and management of livestock, including horses, bees, the production of honey, poultry, fur-bearing animals and wildlife, and the raising or harvesting of oysters, clams, mussels, other molluscan shellfish or fish. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Federal agency: has the meaning given to that term in 12 USC Section 3101, as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Federal bank: means a national banking association, federal savings bank or federal savings and loan association having its principal office in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Federal branch: has the meaning given to that term in 12 USC Section 3101, as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Federal credit union: means any institution chartered or organized as a federal credit union pursuant to the laws of the United States having its principal office in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• federal Safe Drinking Water Act: means the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 USC, Section 300f et seq. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• federal Water Pollution Control Act: means the federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 USC Section 466 et seq. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiduciary: means a person undertaking to act alone or jointly with others primarily for the benefit of another or others in all matters connected with its undertaking and includes a person acting in the capacity of trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, assignee, receiver, conservator, agent, custodian under the Connecticut Uniform Gifts to Minors Act or the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act, and acting in any other similar capacity. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Filing entity: means an entity that is created by the filing of a public organic document. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. ^{Source: OCC}
• Finance committee: means a committee or subcommittee organized by the corporation and having the authority to approve or deny applications for financial aid and to enter into agreements on behalf of the corporation to provide financial aid. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Financial aid: means the infusion of capital to persons, in any form whatsoever, including, but not limited to, grants, loans, equity, leases, guarantees, royalty arrangements, other risk capital and other types of financial assistance. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Financial assistance: means grants, loans or loan guarantees, or any combination thereof. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• Financial institution: means any Connecticut bank, Connecticut credit union, or other person whose activities in this state are subject to the supervision of the commissioner, but does not include a person whose activities are subject to the supervision of the commissioner solely pursuant to chapter 672a, 672b or 672c or any combination thereof. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• 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.
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Foreign bank: has the meaning given to that term in 12 USC Section 3101, as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Foreign country: means any country other than the United States and includes any colony, dependency or possession of any such country. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Foreign country: means any jurisdiction not in any state, district or territory of the United States. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• Foreign entity: means an entity other than a domestic entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Foreign insurer: means any insurer that has been chartered by or organized or constituted within or under the laws of another state or a territory of the United States. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• Foreign limited partnership: means a partnership formed under the laws of any state other than this state and having as partners one or more general partners and one or more limited partners. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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}
• Full-time student: means any student enrolled for at least seventy-five per cent of a full-time student load at a postsecondary educational institution which has been approved by a state-recognized or federally-recognized accrediting agency or body. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• 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 Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governance interest: means the right under the organic law or organic rules of an entity, other than as a governor, agent, assignee or proxy, to (A) receive or demand access to information concerning, or the books and records of, the entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Governing board: means the group of persons vested with the management of the affairs of a financial institution irrespective of the name by which such group is designated. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Governor: means the Governor or anyone legally administering the office of Governor. See Connecticut General Statutes 28-1
• Governor: means a person by or under whose authority the powers of an entity are exercised and under whose direction the business and affairs of the entity are managed pursuant to the organic law and organic rules of the entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Grade: means a step or degree, in a graduated scale of office or military rank, that is established and designated as a grade by law or regulation. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Grooming facility: means any place, other than a commercial kennel, which is maintained as a business where dogs are groomed. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-327
• Grouse: includes ruffed grouse, partridge and spruce grouse. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Handler: means any person, firm, corporation or cooperative association engaged in the receiving, handling, distribution or sale of fluid milk or milk products, which fluid milk or milk products, in whole or in part, are intended for bottling, manufacturing, processing, distribution or sale in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• harmful thermal effect: means any significant change in the temperature of any waters resulting from a discharge therein, the magnitude of which temperature change does or is likely to render such waters harmful, detrimental or injurious to public health, safety or welfare, or to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural, recreational or other legitimate beneficial uses, or to livestock, wild animals, birds, fish or other aquatic life. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Hazardous waste: means any waste material which may pose a present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly disposed of, treated, stored, transported, or otherwise managed, including (A) hazardous waste identified in accordance with Section 3001 of the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 USC 6901 et seq. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• Hazardous waste facility: means land and appurtenances thereon or structures used for the disposal, treatment, storage or recovery of hazardous waste. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• Health system: means a business entity consisting of a parent corporation of one or more hospitals licensed pursuant to chapter 368v, and affiliated through governance, membership or some other means. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-182aa
• Holding company: means a bank holding company or a savings and loan holding company, except, as used in sections 36a-180 to 36a-191, inclusive, "holding company" means a company that controls a bank. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Hospital: means an institution which has been licensed by the Department of Public Health or state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, for the care and treatment of the sick and injured, and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other abnormal physical or mental conditions. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222
• Hospital: means a hospital licensed pursuant to chapter 368v. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-182aa
• Hunting: means pursuing, shooting, killing and capturing any bird, quadruped or reptile and attempting to pursue, shoot, kill and capture any bird, quadruped or reptile, whether such act results in taking or not, including any act of assistance to any other person in taking or attempting to take any such animal. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Impeachment: (1) The process of calling something into question, as in "impeaching the testimony of a witness." (2) The constitutional process whereby the House of Representatives may "impeach" (accuse of misconduct) high officers of the federal government for trial in the Senate.
• Improper means: includes theft, bribery, misrepresentation, breach or inducement of a breach of duty to maintain secrecy, or espionage through electronic or other means, including searching through trash. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-51
• in the line of duty: means any action that a police officer is obligated or authorized by law, rule, regulation or written condition of employment service to perform, or for which the police officer or firefighter is compensated by the public entity such officer serves. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Incubator facilities: means a building, structure or complex designed, constructed, renovated or developed to house and provide research and other services to assist small technology-based companies. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Independent practice association: means an organization (A) (i) having owners or members that consist entirely of independent providers, or (ii) that is owned by a tax exempt state-wide professional medical membership association and controlled by independent providers, and (B) that provides services to and on behalf of its members or owners. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-182aa
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• injury: includes , in addition to accidental injury that may be definitely located as to the time when and the place where the accident occurred, an injury to an employee that is causally connected with the employee's employment and is the direct result of repetitive trauma or repetitive acts incident to such employment, and occupational disease. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• insolvent: means , for any insurer, that it is unable to pay its obligations when they are due, or when its admitted assets do not exceed its liabilities plus the greater of: (A) Capital and surplus required by law for its organization and continued operation. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• Institution of higher education: means an educational institution which (1) admits as regular students only individuals having a certificate of graduation from a high school, or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222
• Insurance: means any agreement to pay a sum of money, provide services or any other thing of value on the happening of a particular event or contingency or to provide indemnity for loss in respect to a specified subject by specified perils in return for a consideration. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• insurance company: includes any person or combination of persons doing any kind or form of insurance business other than a fraternal benefit society, and shall include a receiver of any insurer when the context reasonably permits. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• insurance fund: means the Revenue Bond Mortgage Insurance Fund created under section 32-62. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-61
• Insured: means a person to whom or for whose benefit an insurer makes a promise in an insurance policy. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• Insured depository institution: has the meaning given to that term in 12 USC Section 1813, as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• intellectual disability: means a significant limitation in intellectual functioning existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior that originated during the developmental period before eighteen years of age. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1g
• Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
• Interest exchange: means a transaction authorized by part III of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Interest holder: means a direct holder of an interest. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Interest holder liability: means (A) personal liability for a liability of an entity that is imposed on a person (i) solely by reason of the status of the person as an interest holder, or (ii) by the organic rules of the entity pursuant to a provision of the organic law authorizing the organic rules to make one or more specified interest holders or categories of interest holders liable in their capacity as interest holders for all or specified liabilities of the entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Interests: means the proprietary interests in an other entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
• Invention: means any new product without regard to whether a patent has been or could be granted. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
• jail: means a correctional facility administered by the Commissioner of Correction. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• 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.
• Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
• 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.
• Keeper: means any person, other than the owner, harboring or having in his possession any dog. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-327
• Kennel: means one pack or collection of dogs which are kept under one ownership at a single location and are bred for show, sport or sale. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-327
• Labor dispute: includes , but shall not be restricted to, any controversy between employers and employees or their representatives concerning terms, tenure or conditions of employment or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing or maintaining, or seeking to negotiate, fix, maintain or change, terms or conditions of employment. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-101
• labor dispute: includes any controversy concerning terms or conditions of employment, or concerning the association or representation of persons in negotiating, fixing, maintaining, changing or seeking to arrange terms or conditions of employment or concerning employment relations, or any controversy arising out of the respective interest of employer and employee, regardless of whether or not the disputants stand in the proximate relation of employer and employee. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-112
• Labor organization: means any organization which exists and is constituted for the purpose, in whole or in part, of collective bargaining, or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or other mutual aid or protection, and which is not a company union as defined herein. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-101
• land: includes an easement to use air space, whether or not contiguous to the surface of the ground. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-600
• land coverage: means that portion of a given plot of land on which construction is permitted. See Connecticut General Statutes 25-102b
• Law specialist: means a commissioned officer of the organized naval militia of the state designated for special law duty. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• 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}
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Legal officer: means any commissioned officer of the organized militia of the state designated to perform legal duties for a command. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• legislative body: means : (1) As applied to unconsolidated towns, the town meeting. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• liabilities: shall include but not be limited to reserves required by statute or by regulations adopted by the commissioner in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54 or specific requirements imposed by the commissioner upon a subject company at the time of admission or subsequent thereto. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• Liability: means a debt, obligation or any other liability arising in any manner, regardless of whether it is secured or contingent. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Licensee: means any person who is licensed or required to be licensed pursuant to the applicable provisions of this title. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Licensee: means any person, firm, company, partnership or corporation engaged in the business of providing investigative or security services. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-152u
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life insurance: means insurance on human lives and insurances pertaining to or connected with human life. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• Limited partner: means a person who has been admitted to a limited partnership as a limited partner in accordance with the partnership agreement. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
• liquefied natural gas: as used in this chapter , means a fluid in the liquid state composed predominantly of methane and which may contain minor quantities of ethane, propane, nitrogen or other components normally found in natural gas. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-330
• liquefied petroleum gas: as used in this chapter , means and includes any material which is composed predominantly of any of the following hydrocarbons or mixtures of the same: Propane, propylene, butane, normal or isobutane and butylene. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-330
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• livestock: means any camelid or hooved animal raised for domestic or commercial use. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-381
• livestock producer: means a person involved in the keeping, feeding, growing, raising or breeding of livestock for domestic or commercial use. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-381
• Loan: includes any line of credit or other extension of credit. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• loan: means loans, notes, bonds or other forms of indebtedness related to the financing or refinancing of a project by the corporation or an eligible financial institution, or any participation or other interest therein, however evidenced, or any pool or portion of the foregoing. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-61
• Loan production office: means an office of a bank or out-of-state bank, other than a foreign bank, whose activities are limited to loan production and solicitation. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Local government: means any metropolitan district, town, consolidated town and borough, city, borough, village or any subdivision thereof. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-68
• Long-term storage: means the holding of more than fifty-five gallons or five hundred pounds, whichever amount is greater, of hazardous waste at one site for longer than one year. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• Major disaster: means any catastrophe including, but not limited to, any hurricane, tornado, storm, high water, wind-driven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm or drought, or, regardless of cause, any fire, flood, explosion, or man-made disaster in any part of this state that, (A) in the determination of the President, causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant major disaster assistance under the Robert T. See Connecticut General Statutes 28-1
• Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
• Manufacturing facility: means a business establishment classified under sector 31, 32 or 33 of the North American Industrial Classification System. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• mark: includes any trademark or service mark entitled to registration under this chapter whether registered or not. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-11a
• mark: means any word, name, symbol or device, or any combination thereof used to identify and includes any certification mark or collective mark entitled to registration under this chapter whether registered or not. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-18a
• Markup: The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation.
• Medical records: means all papers, documents and reports prepared by a physician, psychiatrist or psychologist that are in the possession of an employer and are work-related or upon which such employer relies to make any employment-related decision. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-128a
• Medical school: means a school of allopathic medicine leading to the M. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-182aa
• Member: includes all parts of the human body referred to in subsection (b) of section 31-308. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Member: means a natural person who or nonprofit organization that has been accepted for membership in, and owns a membership share issued by a worker cooperative. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-418g
• Merger: means the combination of one or more institutions with another which continues its corporate existence. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Merger: means a business combination pursuant to section 34-33a. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Merger: means a transaction in which two or more merging entities are combined into a surviving entity pursuant to a filing with the Secretary of the State. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Merging entity: means an entity that is a party to a merger and exists immediately before the merger becomes effective. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Military: refers to any or all of the armed forces. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• Military court: means a court-martial, a court inquiry, or a provost court. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• Military judge: means an official of a general or special court-martial appointed in accordance with section 27-167. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• milk for pasteurization: means normal lacteal secretion that is practically free of colostrum and that is obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy hooved mammals. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• milk or milk products: means products for which a standard of identity has been established pursuant to 21 C. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Minimum finance charge: The minimum, or fixed, finance charge that will be imposed during a billing cycle. A minimum finance charge usually applies only when a finance charge is imposed, that is, when you carry over a balance. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Misappropriation: means : (1) Acquisition of a trade secret of another by a person who knows or has reason to know that the trade secret was acquired by improper means. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-51
• Misbranded: means the use of any label, written or printed advertising or graphic upon or accompanying a product or container of milk, milk products or cheese, including, but not limited to, signs, electronic displays, electronic communication, placards or other means of communication intended to provide information to consumers, which is false or misleading or which violates any applicable municipal, state or federal labeling requirement. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• mixed municipal solid waste: means municipal solid waste that consists of mixtures of solid wastes which have not been separated at the source of generation or processed into discrete, homogeneous waste streams such as glass, paper, plastic, aluminum or tire waste streams provided such wastes shall not include any material required to be recycled pursuant to section 22a-241b. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-207a
• Mobile support unit: means an organization of civil preparedness forces created in accordance with the provisions of this chapter to be dispatched by the Governor or Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection to supplement civil preparedness forces in a stricken or threatened area. See Connecticut General Statutes 28-1
• Modification: means (A) any change or alteration in the design, capacity, process or operation of an existing hazardous waste facility requiring a new permit from the commissioner pursuant to chapter 445, 446c, 446d or 446k, that the council deems significant or (B) any change or alteration in the approved design, capacity, process or operation of a hazardous waste facility constructed or operating pursuant to this chapter that the council deems significant. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• month: means a calendar month, and the word "year" means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Municipal animal control officer: means any such officer appointed under the provisions of section 22-331. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-327
• Municipal authority: means the local governing body having legal jurisdiction over solid waste management within its corporate limits which shall be, in the case of any municipality which adopts a charter provision or ordinance pursuant to section 7-273aa, the municipal resource recovery authority. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Municipality: means a city, town or borough of the state. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• municipality: means any town, city or borough. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-170
• Municipality: means any town, city or borough within the state. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• municipality: means any metropolitan district, town, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough, city, borough, village, fire and sewer district, sewer district and each municipal organization having authority to levy and collect taxes or make charges for its authorized function. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• municipality: includes a district, as defined in section 7-324, a metropolitan area, as defined in section 7-333, and any political subdivision of the state that has the power to levy taxes and to issue bonds, notes or other obligations. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• Mutual: when used in conjunction with any institution that is a bank or out-of-state bank means any such institution without capital stock. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Mutual holding company: means a mutual holding company organized under sections 36a-192 to 36a-199, inclusive, and unless otherwise indicated, a subsidiary holding company controlled by a mutual holding company organized under sections 36a-192 to 36a-199, inclusive. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Mutual insurer: means any insurer without capital stock, the managing directors or officers of which are elected by its members. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• narcotic drugs: means all controlled substances, as designated by the Commissioner of Consumer Protection pursuant to subsection (c) of section 21a-243, but does not include drugs prescribed in the course of medical treatment or in a program of research operated under the direction of a physician or pharmacologist. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Noise: means the intensity, frequency, duration and character of sounds from a source or number of sources, and includes vibrations of subaudible or superaudible frequency. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-68
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• nonadmitted insurer: means an insurer that has not been granted a certificate of authority by the commissioner to transact the business of insurance in this state or an insurer transacting business not authorized by a valid certificate. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• Nonprofit corporation: means a corporation whose internal affairs are governed by chapter 602. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Nonprofit organization: means any organization that is exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-418g
• Nonstandardized milk products: means milk-based products modified so they do not meet the definition of optional ingredients established in 21 C. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Notes: means notes of the authority issued pursuant to this chapter and the resolutions of the authority, either in anticipation of and pending the issuance of bonds by the authority or otherwise. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Nursing: means the practice of nursing as defined in subsection (a) of section 20-87a, and "nurse" means a person engaged in such practice. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• oath: shall include affirmations in cases where by law an affirmation may be used for an oath, and, in like cases, the word "swear" shall include the word "affirm". See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• 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.
• Occupational disease: includes any disease peculiar to the occupation in which the employee was engaged and due to causes in excess of the ordinary hazards of employment as such, and includes any disease due to or attributable to exposure to or contact with any radioactive material by an employee in the course of his employment. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Occupational safety and health standard: means a standard which requires conditions, or the adoption or use of one or more practices, means, methods, operations, or processes, reasonably necessary or appropriate to provide safe or healthful employment in places of employment. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-367
• Officer: means commissioned or warrant officer. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• Open-end credit: A credit agreement (typically a credit card) that allows a customer to borrow against a preapproved credit line when purchasing goods and services. The borrower is only billed for the amount that is actually borrowed plus any interest due. (Also called a charge account or revolving credit.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Operator: means a person who owns or controls the operation of a passenger tramway or ski area. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-201
• order to abate pollution: includes an order to abate existing pollution or to prevent reasonably anticipated sources of pollution. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Ordinance: means an enactment under the provisions of section 7-157. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Organic law: means the section of the general statutes, if any, other than this section and sections 34-601 to 34-646, inclusive, governing the internal affairs of an entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Organic rules: means the public organic document and private organic rules of an entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Other entity: means any association or legal entity, other than a domestic or foreign limited partnership, organized to conduct business, including, but not limited to, a corporation, general partnership, limited liability partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, joint stock company, business trust, statutory trust and real estate investment trust. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Out-of-state: includes any state other than Connecticut and any foreign country. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Out-of-state bank: means any institution that engages in the business of banking, but does not include a bank, Connecticut credit union, federal credit union or out-of-state credit union. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Out-of-state credit union: means any credit union other than a Connecticut credit union or a federal credit union. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Out-of-state trust company: means any company chartered to act as a fiduciary but does not include a company chartered under the laws of this state, a bank, an out-of-state bank, a Connecticut credit union, a federal credit union or an out-of-state credit union. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• outside sales representative: means an individual whose services to a for-profit travel agency are performed under such travel agency's Airlines Reporting Corporation accreditation, or the International Airlines Travel Agent Network endorsement. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Partner: means a limited or general partner. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• 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 any valid agreement, written or oral, of the partners as to the affairs of a limited partnership and the conduct of its business. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Partnership interest: means a partner's share of the profits and losses of a limited partnership and the right to receive distributions of partnership assets. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Party to a merger: means any domestic or foreign limited partnership or other entity that will merge under a plan of merger. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• passenger tramway: includes the following: (A) Two-car aerial passenger tramways, which are devices used to transport passengers in two open or enclosed cars attached to, and suspended from, a moving wire rope, or attached to a moving wire rope and supported on a standing wire rope, or similar devices. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-201
• Patronage: means the amount of work performed as a member of a worker cooperative, measured in accordance with the articles of organization and bylaws of that cooperative. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-418g
• PCB regulations: means the polychlorinated biphenyls manufacturing, processing, distribution in commerce and use prohibitions found at 40 C. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• persistent violator: means any person or municipality which holds a permit to discharge into the waters of the state and which has exceeded any effluent limitation by a factor of one and one-half or more for four out of six consecutive reporting periods. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, syndicate, company, trust, corporation, nonstock corporation, limited liability company, municipality, agency or political or administrative subdivision of the state, or other legal entity of any kind. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-2
• Person: means an individual, company, including a company described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subdivision (12) of this section, or any other legal entity, including a federal, state or municipal government or agency or any political subdivision thereof. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Person: means an individual, a corporation, a partnership, a limited liability company, an association, a joint stock company, a business trust, an unincorporated organization or other legal entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, syndicate, company, trust, corporation, nonstock corporation, limited liability company, municipality, agency or political or administrative subdivision of the state, or other legal entity of any kind. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-2
• Person: means "person" as defined in subsection (b) of section 22a-2. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-68
• Person: means any individual, corporation, nonstock corporation, limited liability company, joint venture, public benefit corporation, partnership, association, trust or estate, the state and its agencies and political subdivisions, the federal government and its agencies, and any other entity, public or private, however organized. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• person: includes any individual, firm, partnership, association, syndicate, company, trust, corporation, limited liability company, municipality, agency or political or administrative subdivision of the state, and any other legal entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-170
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, limited liability company or corporation, public or private, organized or existing under the laws of the state or any other state, including federal corporations, but excluding municipalities, special districts having taxing powers or other political subdivisions of the state. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• person: means any individual, partnership, association, firm, limited liability company, corporation or other entity, except a municipality, and includes the federal government, the state or any instrumentality of the state, and any officer or governing or managing body of any partnership, association, firm or corporation or any member or manager of a limited liability company. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Person: includes individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, limited liability companies, trustees, receivers and legal representatives. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-101
• Person: includes persons or a company, society, association, limited liability company or corporation. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-129
• Person: means one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, corporations, limited liability companies, business trusts, legal representatives or any organized group of persons. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-367
• Person: means any individual, general or limited partnership, corporation, limited liability company, institution of higher education, governmental entity or joint venture conducting research into ideas with commercial potential or carrying on business, or proposing to carry on business, within the state which (A) in the case of an individual, general or limited partnership, corporation, limited liability company or joint venture, demonstrates to the corporation the inability (i) to obtain conventional financing in satisfactory amounts or on satisfactory terms or (ii) to locate or continue operations in the state without assistance as provided in this chapter, and (B) demonstrates to the corporation that any project for research into or the development of specific technologies, products, devices, techniques or procedures or the marketing of services based on the use of such technologies, products, devices, techniques or procedures for which assistance under this chapter, is sought, (i) will create new or retain existing jobs in the state, (ii) will result in an increase in the amount of goods or services exported from the state, (iii) will help to strengthen the economy of the state, or (iv) will promote the development and utilization of technology in the state. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, syndicate, company, trust, corporation, nonstock corporation, limited liability company, municipality, economic development agency, agency or political or administrative subdivision of the state or any other legal entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• Person: means a natural person, partnership, limited partnership, foreign limited partnership, trust, estate, association, limited liability company or corporation. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Person: means an individual, corporation, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, business or similar trust, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, union, governmental body or agency or other organization capable of suing or being sued in a court of law. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-11a
• person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, union, governmental body or agency or other organization. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-18a
• Person: means any individual, proprietorship, corporation, limited liability company, firm, partnership, incorporated and unincorporated association, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-25
• Person: means a natural person, corporation, limited liability company, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-51
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personnel file: means papers, documents and reports, including electronic mail and facsimiles, pertaining to a particular employee that are used or have been used by an employer to determine such employee's eligibility for employment, promotion, additional compensation, transfer, termination, disciplinary or other adverse personnel action including employee evaluations or reports relating to such employee's character, credit and work habits. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-128a
• Pet shop: means any place at which animals not born and raised on the premises are kept for the purpose of sale to the public. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-327
• Physician: includes any person licensed and authorized to practice a healing art, as defined in section 20-1, and licensed under the provisions of chapters 370, 372 and 373 to practice in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Pickerel: means the chain pickerel (Esox niger), not the dwarf species referred to variously as the banded pickerel (Esox americanus), grass pike, grass pickerel, mud pike or brook pickerel. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• place of abode: includes the inside of the residential structure, the garage, the common hallways, stairways, driveways, walkways and the yard. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plan: means a plan of merger, interest exchange, conversion or domestication. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Plan of consolidation: means a plan entered into pursuant to section 34-33b. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Plan of merger: means a plan entered into pursuant to section 34-33a. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Podiatrist: means any practitioner of podiatry, as defined in section 20-50, and duly licensed under the provisions of chapter 375 to practice in this state. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Point of sale terminal: means a device located in a commercial establishment at which sales transactions can be charged directly to the buyer's deposit, loan or credit account, but at which deposit transactions cannot be conducted. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Policy: means any document, including attached endorsements and riders, purporting to be an enforceable contract, which memorializes in writing some or all of the terms of an insurance contract. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• Political subdivision: means any city, town, municipality, borough or other unit of local government. See Connecticut General Statutes 28-1
• pollution: means harmful thermal effect or the contamination or rendering unclean or impure or prejudicial to public health of any waters of the state by reason of any wastes or other material discharged or deposited therein by any public or private sewer or otherwise so as directly or indirectly to come in contact with any waters. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• pollution abatement facility: means any equipment, plant, treatment works, structure, machinery, apparatus or land, or any combination thereof, acquired, used, constructed or operated for the storage, collection, reduction, recycling, reclamation, disposal, separation or treatment of water or wastes, or for the final disposal of residues resulting from the treatment of water or wastes, including, but not limited to: Pumping and ventilating stations, facilities, plants and works. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Postclosure period: means the first thirty years after the date of completing closure or any other period fixed by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection according to this chapter and sections 16-50j and 16-50v. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• potable drinking water: means drinking water from an existing water supply for which treatment is provided or an alternative supply, which the Commissioner of Public Health determines does not create an unacceptable risk of injury to the health or safety of those persons using such water as a public or private source of water for drinking or other personal or domestic uses. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• 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}
• 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.
• Prepayment penalty: means any charge or penalty for paying all or part of the outstanding balance owed on a loan before the date on which the principal is due and includes computing a refund of unearned interest by a method that is less favorable to the borrower than the actuarial method, as defined by Section 933(d) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, 15 USC 1615(d), as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Preseed financing: means financial aid provided for research and formulation of a concept. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Presumptive dependents: means the following persons who are conclusively presumed to be wholly dependent for support upon a deceased employee: (A) A wife upon a husband with whom she lives at the time of his injury or from whom she receives support regularly. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Previous disability: means an employee's preexisting condition caused by the total or partial loss of, or loss of use of, one hand, one arm, one foot or one eye resulting from accidental injury, disease or congenital causes, or other permanent physical impairment. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Private detective: means any person engaged in the business of, or advertising as engaged in the business of (A) investigating crimes or civil wrongs, (B) investigating the location, disposition or recovery of property, (C) investigating the cause of accidents, fire damage or injuries to persons or to property, except persons performing bona fide engineering services, (D) providing the personal protection of individuals, (E) conducting surveillance activity, (F) conducting background investigations, or (G) securing evidence to be used before a court, board, officer or investigation committee. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-152u
• Private detective agency: means any person, firm, company, partnership or corporation that, for consideration, advertises as providing, or is engaged in the business of providing, private detectives and private investigators. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-152u
• Private development district: means any land on the Adriaen's Landing site that is designated jointly by the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management and the authority as available for the purpose of on-site related private development and in need of inducement for private development and operation. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-600
• Private investigator: means an employee of a licensed private detective or private detective agency who performs services necessary for the conduct of such licensee's business. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-152u
• Private law: A private bill enacted into law. Private laws have restricted applicability, often addressing immigration and naturalization issues affecting individuals.
• Private military force: as used in this chapter , includes any group of five or more persons organized or associated together in a camp, group, organization, company, association or society, or in any other manner, for the purpose of drilling or maneuvering with firearms or other dangerous weapons, or with imitations, copies or replicas thereof, or for the purpose of giving or acquiring military training or experience. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-101
• Private organic rules: means the rules, whether or not in a record, that govern the internal affairs of an entity, are binding on all of its interest holders and are not part of its public organic document, if any. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Private waters: means a natural or artificial pond or lake to which the owner, not a corporation, partnership or voluntary association, has exclusive right of access, of which water supply all sources are located substantially within the property of the owner, to which fish do not have access from waters not under the control of such owner or from water stocked at the expense of the state, except that a natural or artificial pond five acres or less in extent may be owned by an individual, a corporation, partnership or voluntary association and, when meeting the other requirements of this subsection, such pond may be registered as private waters. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probate: Proving a will
• 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.
• Producer: means any person, firm or corporation that operates a dairy farm that provides, sells or offers milk to any dealer, person, handler, company or cooperative for sale. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Product: means any technology, device, technique, service or process, which is or may be exploitable commercially. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Professional corporation: means (A) a corporation that is organized under this chapter for the sole and specific purpose of rendering professional service and that has as its shareholders only individuals who themselves are licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render the same professional service as the corporation, (B) a corporation that is organized under this chapter for the sole and specific purpose of rendering professional services rendered by members of two or more of the following professions: Psychology, marital and family therapy, social work, nursing, professional counseling and psychiatry and that has as its shareholders only individuals who themselves are licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render one of the professional services for which the corporation was specifically incorporated, (C) a corporation that is organized under this chapter for the sole and specific purpose of rendering professional services by physicians specializing in ophthalmology and optometrists and that has as its shareholders only individuals who themselves are licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render one of the professional services for which the corporation was specifically incorporated, (D) a corporation that is organized under this chapter for the sole and specific purpose of rendering professional services by (i) physicians, and (ii) physician assistants or advanced practice registered nurses, or both, and that has as its shareholders only individuals who themselves are licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render one of the professional services for which the corporation was specifically incorporated, (E) a corporation that is organized under this chapter for the sole and specific purpose of rendering professional services by physicians and chiropractors and that has as its shareholders only individuals who themselves are licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render one of the professional services for which the corporation was specifically incorporated, (F) a corporation that is organized under this chapter for the sole and specific purpose of rendering professional services by physicians and psychologists and that has as its shareholders only individuals who themselves are licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render one of the professional services for which the corporation was specifically incorporated, or (G) a corporation which is organized under this chapter for the sole and specific purpose of rendering professional services by physicians and podiatrists and that has as its shareholders only individuals who themselves are licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render one of the professional services for which the corporation was specifically incorporated. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-182a
• Professional employee: means (A) any employee engaged in work (i) predominantly intellectual and varied in character as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical or physical work. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-101
• Professional service: means any type of service to the public that requires that members of a profession rendering such service obtain a license or other legal authorization as a condition precedent to the rendition thereof, limited to the professional services rendered by dentists, naturopaths, chiropractors, physicians and surgeons, physician assistants, doctors of dentistry, physical therapists, occupational therapists, podiatrists, optometrists, nurses, nurse-midwives, veterinarians, pharmacists, architects, professional engineers, or jointly by architects and professional engineers, landscape architects, real estate brokers, insurance producers, certified public accountants and public accountants, land surveyors, psychologists, attorneys-at-law, licensed marital and family therapists, licensed professional counselors and licensed clinical social workers. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-182a
• project: means a project as defined in subsection (d) of section 32-23d. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-61
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Protected agreement: means (A) a record evidencing indebtedness and any related agreement in effect on or after January 1, 2014. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Provider: means a physician licensed under chapter 370, a chiropractor licensed under chapter 372, an optometrist licensed under chapter 380 or a podiatrist licensed under chapter 375. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-182aa
• Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
• public buildings: shall include a statehouse, courthouse, townhouse, arsenal, magazine, prison, community correctional center, almshouse, market or other building belonging to the state, or to any town, city or borough in the state, and any church, chapel, meetinghouse or other building generally used for religious worship, and any college, academy, schoolhouse or other building generally used for literary instruction. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Public debt: Cumulative amounts borrowed by the Treasury Department or the Federal Financing Bank from the public or from another fund or account. The public debt does not include agency debt (amounts borrowed by other agencies of the Federal Government). The total public debt is subject to a statutory limit.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public organic document: means the public record, the filing of which creates an entity and any amendment to or restatement of such record. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Quadruped: means any four-legged animal which is ferae naturae or wild by nature, although such animal may be enclosed and considered a pet or semidomesticated, but shall exclude purely domesticated animals. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Qualified employer: means each employer subject to this chapter whose experience record has been chargeable with benefits for at least one full experience year, with the exception of employers subject to a flat entry rate of contributions as provided under subsection (d) of this section, employers subject to the maximum contribution rate under subsection (c) of section 31-273, and reimbursing employers. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-225a
• Qualified foreign entity: means a foreign entity that is authorized to transact business in this state pursuant to a filing with the Secretary of the State. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• railroad company: shall be construed to mean and include all corporations, trustees, receivers or other persons, that lay out, construct, maintain or operate a railroad, unless such meaning would be repugnant to the context or to the manifest intention of the General Assembly. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Rank: means the order of precedence among members of the state military forces. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• Raw milk cheese: means aged hard cheese that meets the sanitary provisions of this chapter and that is produced from retail raw milk. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act: Federal law that, among other things, requires lenders to provide "good faith" estimates of settlement costs and make other disclosures regarding the mortgage loan. RESPA also limits the amount of funds held in escrow for real estate taxes and insurance. ^{Source: OCC}
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Real property: means land, buildings and other structures and improvements thereto, subterranean or subsurface rights, any and all easements, air rights and franchises of any kind or nature. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Records: means the official records, files and data maintained by the Employment Security Division. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-237a
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Recovery: means a method, technique or process designed to produce materials or substances from hazardous waste for reuse, offering for sale, or sale. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• Recycling: means the processing of solid waste to reclaim material therefrom. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Referee: means an employment security appeals referee. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-237a
• Referee section: means the organizational unit consisting of the employment security appeals referees employed in the appeals division and all other supporting staff members employed in that division for discharge of the responsibilities assigned to referees in accordance with this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-237a
• Region: means two or more municipalities which have joined together by creating a district or signing an interlocal agreement or signing a mutual contract for a definite period of time concerning solid waste management within such municipalities. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Regional authority: means the administrative body delegated the responsibility for solid waste management in a region. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• registrant: includes the person to whom the registration of a mark under this chapter is issued, and the legal representatives, successors or assigns of such person. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-18a
• Regulated species: means the following species or species groups: Bait species, crustacea, finfish, horseshoe crabs, sea scallops, squid or whelk. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Release: means any discharge, spillage, uncontrolled loss, seepage, filtration, leakage, injection, escape, dumping, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying or disposal of a substance. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• 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.
• rendering unclean or impure: means any alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of any of the waters of the state, including, but not limited to, change in odor, color, turbidity or taste. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Reorganized savings and loan association: means any savings and loan association incorporated and organized in accordance with sections 36a-192 and 36a-193. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Reorganized savings bank: means any savings bank incorporated and organized in accordance with sections 36a-192 and 36a-193. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Reorganized savings institution: means any reorganized savings bank or reorganized savings and loan association. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
• Representative: includes a labor organization or an individual, whether or not employed by the employer or those whom he represents. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-101
• Representative office: has the meaning given to that term in 12 USC Section 3101, as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Research: means the scientific and engineering analysis, investigation, collection of ideas and inquiry into concepts, processes and techniques, the purpose of which is intended to result in a commercially feasible product, process or technique. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Reserves for loan and lease losses: means the amounts reserved by a Connecticut bank against possible loan and lease losses as shown on the bank's consolidated reports of condition and income. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Resources recovery: means the processing of solid wastes to reclaim energy therefrom. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Resources recovery facility: means a facility utilizing processes aimed at reclaiming the material or energy values from solid wastes. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Restraint device: means a restraining bar on a passenger tramway, as defined in subparagraph (D) of subdivision (1) of this section, that does not yield to forward pressure by a skier. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-201
• Retail deposits: means any deposits made by individuals who are not "accredited investors" as defined in 17 C. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Retail raw milk: means normal lacteal secretion that is practically free of colostrum, that is obtained by the complete milking of one or more healthy goats, sheep or cows, that is intended for human consumption in the unpasteurized state and that meets the sanitary standards of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Retail raw milk producer: means any person, firm, corporation or cooperative association engaged in the production, handling, distribution or sale of retail raw milk. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-127
• Revenues: means moneys or income received by the authority in whatever form, including but not limited to fees, charges, lease payments, interest payments on investments, payments due and owing on account of any instrument, contract or agreement between the authority and any municipality, region, state agency or person, gifts, grants, bestowals or any other moneys or payments to which the authority is entitled under the provisions of this chapter or any other law, or of any agreement, contract or indenture of the authority. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Right of offset: Banks' legal right to seize funds that a guarantor or debtor may have on deposit to cover a loan in default. It is also known as the right of set-off. ^{Source: OCC}
• Right of rescission: Right to cancel, within three business days, a contract that uses the home of a person as collateral, except in the case of a first mortgage loan. There is no fee to the borrower, who receives a full refund of all fees paid. The right of rescission is guaranteed by the Truth in Lending Act (TILA). ^{Source: OCC}
• Satellite device: means an automated teller machine which is not part of an office of the bank, Connecticut credit union or federal credit union which has established such machine. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Savings account: means a deposit account, other than an escrow account established pursuant to section 49-2a, into which savings deposits may be made and which account must be evidenced by periodic statements delivered at least semiannually or by a passbook. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Savings and loan association: means an institution chartered or organized under the laws of this state as a savings and loan association. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Savings and loan holding company: has the meaning given to that term in 12 USC Section 1467a, as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Savings bank: means an institution chartered or organized under the laws of this state as a savings bank. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• savings banks: shall include savings banks, societies for savings and savings societies. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Savings deposit: means any deposit other than a demand deposit or time deposit on which interest or a dividend is paid periodically. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Scar: means the mark left on the skin after the healing of a wound or sore, or any mark, damage or lasting effect resulting from past injury. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• scenic easement: means a less than fee interest in property acquired for the purpose of maintaining the existing condition of the property or of preserving an unobstructed view. See Connecticut General Statutes 25-102b
• school-sponsored activity: means any activity sponsored, recognized or authorized by a board of education and includes activities conducted on or off school property and "participation" means acting as a chaperone, advisor, supervisor or instructor at the request of an administrator with supervisory authority over the employee. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Seafood dealer: means (A) a person, firm or corporation, other than the ultimate consumer, who purchases, ships, consigns, transfers, transports, barters, accepts or packs any regulated species, except bait species directly from a commercial fisherman for resale, or (B) a commercial fisherman who sells, ships, consigns, transfers or barters his or her own catch of such species to anyone other than a seafood dealer. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Second disability: means a disability arising out of a second injury. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Second injury: means an injury, incurred by accident, repetitive trauma, repetitive acts or disease arising out of and in the course of employment, to an employee with a previous disability. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-275
• Security files: means memoranda, documents or collections of information relating to investigations of losses, misconduct or suspected crimes, and investigative information maintained pursuant to government requirements, provided such memoranda, documents, or information are maintained separately and not used to determine an employee's eligibility for employment, promotion, additional compensation, transfer, termination, disciplinary or other adverse personnel action. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-128a
• Security officer: means the licensed and registered person hired to safeguard and protect persons and property, by (A) the detection or prevention of any unlawful intrusion or entry, larceny, vandalism, abuse, arson or trespass on the property such security officer is hired to protect, or (B) the prevention, observation, or detection of any unauthorized activity on the property the security officer was hired to protect. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-152u
• Security service: means any person, firm, association or corporation that, for consideration, provides to another person, firm, association or corporation one or more of the following: (A) The prevention or detection of intrusion, entry, larceny, vandalism, abuse, fire, or trespass on the property the security service was hired to protect. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-152u
• Seed financing: means financial aid to an inventor or entrepreneur to assess the viability of a concept and to qualify for start-up financing to fund, including, but not limited to, product development, market research, management team building and, pending successful progress on such initial steps, business plan development. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Seed venture: means a business or other entity in the early stage of development. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Separation allowance: means a sum of money to be paid to the dependent or dependents of a soldier, sailor or marine whenever he or she is taken from his or her regular employment by which he or she earns his or her livelihood and supports those dependent upon him or her and is placed in active military or naval service either by the state or by the United States. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-80
• Sequester: To separate. Sometimes juries are sequestered from outside influences during their deliberations.
• service mark: means any word, name, symbol or device or any combination thereof used by a person to identify the services of one person, including a unique service, to distinguish them from the services of others, and to indicate the source of the services, even if that source is unknown. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-11a
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Set line: means a line fastened between two points, to which is attached a number of smaller lines with hooks attached, but a single line not personally attended may constitute a set line. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• 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.
• sewage: means human and animal excretions and all domestic and such manufacturing wastes as may tend to be detrimental to the public health. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Share account holder: means a person who maintains a share account in a Connecticut credit union, federal credit union or out-of-state credit union that maintains in this state a branch, as defined in section 36a-435b. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Shareholder: means the holder of any shares of the capital stock of a professional corporation. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-182a
• shareholders: when used in the general statutes in reference to the shareholders of a professional corporation, shall include such "members". See Connecticut General Statutes 33-182a
• Short-term storage: means the holding of individual containers of hazardous waste in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such hazardous waste. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• signature: includes any manual, facsimile, conformed or electronic signature. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• signature: includes any manual, facsimile, conformed or electronic signature. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Skier: includes the following: (A) A person utilizing the ski area under control of the operator for the purpose of skiing, whether or not he or she is utilizing a passenger tramway. See Connecticut General Statutes 29-201
• Solid waste: means unwanted or discarded solid, liquid, semisolid or contained gaseous material, including but not limited to, demolition debris, material burned or otherwise processed at a resources recovery facility or incinerator, material processed at a recycling facility and sludges or other residue from a water pollution abatement facility, water supply treatment plant or air pollution control facility. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Solid waste disposal area: means any location, including a landfill or other land disposal site, used for the disposal of more than ten cubic yards of solid waste. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Solid waste facility: means any solid waste disposal area, volume reduction plant, transfer station, wood burning facility, or biomedical waste treatment facility. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Solid waste management system: means that portion of the overall state-wide solid waste management plan specifically designed to deal with the provision of waste management services and to effect resources recovery and recycling by means of a network of waste management projects and resources recovery facilities developed, established and operated by the authority by contract or otherwise, but not embracing or including any regulatory or enforcement activities of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection in accordance with applicable provisions of the general statutes and as may be referred to in the state-wide solid waste management plan as developed and promulgated by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Sport fishing: means taking or attempting to take any regulated species whether from salt, brackish or fresh water by any method other than by commercial methods specified by law and regulations of the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection for commercial purposes. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Staff assistant: means the staff assistant to the Employment Security Board of Review. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-237a
• Start-up financing: means financial aid to companies in the process of organizing as a business or that have been in operation for less than one year and (A) have completed product development and initial marketing but have not sold such product commercially, and (B) have established viability by performing market studies, assembling key management, developing a business plan and may also qualify for start-up financing by demonstrating viability by other means deemed appropriate by the corporation. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the trust territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• State: means any state, district, or territory of the United States. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• State: means any state of the United States and shall include the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands on the day after the day on which the Secretary of Labor accepts an unemployment insurance law submitted by the Virgin Islands. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222
• state: means the state of Connecticut. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-61
• State: means the state of Connecticut. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• State agency: has the meaning given to that term in 12 USC Section 3101, as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• State branch: has the meaning given to that term in 12 USC Section 3101, as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• State Judge Advocate: means the commissioned officer responsible for supervising the administration of the military justice in the state military forces. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• State military forces: means the National Guard of the state, as defined in Section 101(3) of Title 32, United States Code, the organized naval militia of the state, and any other military force organized under the laws of the state and shall include the organized militia as defined in section 27-2. See Connecticut General Statutes 27-141
• State-wide solid waste management plan: means the administrative and financial plan developed by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection for solid waste disposal and resources recovery, pursuant to section 22a-228. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Stationary noise source: means any building, structure, facility or installation which emits or may emit noise, beyond the property line on which such source is located, except any on-site recreational or sporting activity which is sanctioned by the state or local government or farming equipment or farming activity. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-68
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Subsidiary: has the meaning given to that term in 12 USC Section 1841(d), as amended from time to time. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Subsidiary holding company: means a stock holding company, controlled by a mutual holding company, that holds one hundred per cent of the stock of a reorganized savings institution. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• succeeding: when used by way of reference to any section or sections, mean the section or sections next preceding, next following or next succeeding, unless some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supervisory agency: means : (A) The commissioner. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Surviving entity: means the entity that continues in existence after a merger or that is created by a merger. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Survivor: means , in a merger or consolidation, the limited partnership or other entity into which one or more other limited partnerships or other entities are merged or consolidated. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-9
• System: means the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry, NMLS, NMLSR or such other name or acronym as may be assigned to the multistate system developed by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators and owned and operated by the State Regulatory Registry, LLC, or any successor or affiliated entity, for the licensing and registration of persons in the mortgage and other financial services industries. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Taking: means shooting, pursuing, hunting, fishing, killing, capturing, trapping, snaring, hooking and netting any species of wildlife and attempting to shoot, pursue, hunt, fish, kill, capture, trap, snare, hook, net or catch any species of wildlife or any act of assistance to any other person in taking or attempting to take such wildlife whether or not such act results in the capture of any such wildlife. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Tax year: means the calendar year immediately following the computation date. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-225a
• Taxable wages: means total wages except:

  (A) That part of the remuneration (i) in excess of seven thousand one hundred dollars paid by an employer to an individual during any calendar year commencing on or after January 1, 1983, and prior to January 1, 1994, (ii) in excess of nine thousand dollars paid by an employer to an individual during the calendar year commencing on January 1, 1994, (iii) in excess of an amount equal to the taxable wages for the prior year increased by one thousand dollars so paid during any calendar year commencing on or after January 1, 1995, but prior to January 1, 1999, (iv) in excess of fifteen thousand dollars for any calendar year commencing on or after January 1, 1999, but prior to January 1, 2024, (v) in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars for the calendar year commencing on January 1, 2024, or (vi) for each calendar year commencing on or after January 1, 2025, in excess of an amount equal to the taxable wages for the prior year (I) adjusted by the percentage change in the employment cost index or its successor index, for wages and salaries for all civilian workers, as calculated by the United States Department of Labor, over the twelve-month period ending on June thirtieth of the preceding year, and (II) rounded to the nearest multiple of one hundred dollars. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222

• Technology: means the conversion of basic scientific research into processes, techniques and products which may have commercial potential. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Temporary help service: means any person conducting a business which consists of employing individuals directly for the purpose of furnishing part-time or temporary help to others. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-129
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
• Testate: To die leaving a will.
• Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Time account: means an account into which time deposits may be made. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Time deposit: means a deposit that the depositor or share account holder does not have a right and is not permitted to make withdrawals from within six days after the date of deposit, unless the deposit is subject to an early withdrawal penalty of at least seven days' simple interest on amounts withdrawn within the first six days after deposit, subject to those exceptions permissible under 12 C. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• Total wages: means all remuneration for employment and dismissal payments, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash except the cash value of any remuneration paid for agricultural labor or domestic service in any medium other than cash. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222
• trade name: includes words and names lawfully adopted and used by any person engaged in any business, trade, occupation or vocation to identify such business, trade, occupation or vocation whether or not registered, filed or recorded under any law of the state of Connecticut, or of any other state, or of the United States. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-11a
• Trade or commerce: means intrastate as well as interstate trade or commerce. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-25
• Trade secret: means any confidential formula, pattern, device or compilation of information, known only to the employer and those employees in whom it is necessary to confide it, which is used in the employer's business and gives him an opportunity to obtain an advantage over competitors who do not know or use it. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-367
• trade secret: means information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique, process, drawing, cost data or customer list that: (1) Derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use, and (2) is the subject of efforts that are reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-51
• trademark: means any word, name, symbol or device or any combination thereof used by a person to identify and distinguish the goods of such person, including a unique product, from those goods made or sold by others, and to indicate the source of the goods, even if that source is unknown. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-11a
• Training facility: means any place, other than a commercial kennel or grooming facility, which is maintained as a business where dogs are trained. See Connecticut General Statutes 22-327
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transfer station: means any location or structure, whether located on land or water, where more than ten cubic yards of solid waste, generated elsewhere, may be stored for transfer or transferred from transportation units and placed in other transportation units for movement to another location, whether or not such waste is stored at the location prior to transfer. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Transferable interest: means the right under an entity's organic law to receive distributions from the entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 34-600
• Trapping: means pursuing, killing and capturing by use of any trap, snare, net or other device any bird or wild or domestic quadruped, excluding rats, mice, moles and reptiles, whether such act results in taking or not, including any act of assistance to any other person in taking or attempting to take any such animal by any such method. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Treatment: means a method, technique or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological character or composition of hazardous waste, in order to neutralize such waste or render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable to recovery, amenable to storage or reduced in volume. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-115
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Trust bank: means a Connecticut bank organized to function solely in a fiduciary capacity. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• under common control with: means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract other than a commercial contract for goods or nonmanagement services, or otherwise, unless the power is the result of an official position with the person. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• Unemployment rate: means the rate of unemployment within any labor market area in the state as determined by the Labor Commissioner by computing the percentage of the work force within such labor market area which was unemployed during the month of March, 1975. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-386
• Unfair labor practice: means only those unfair labor practices listed in section 31-105. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-101
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Uninsured bank: means a Connecticut bank that does not accept retail deposits and for which insurance of deposits by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or its successor agency is not required. See Connecticut General Statutes 36a-2
• United States: means the United States of America, its territories and possessions, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. See Connecticut General Statutes 38a-1
• United States: includes the states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands on the day after the day on which the Secretary of Labor accepts an unemployment insurance law submitted by the Virgin Islands. See Connecticut General Statutes 31-222
• Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.
• use: means the bona fide use of a mark in the ordinary course of trade, and not made merely to reserve a right in a mark. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-11a
• use: means the bona fide use of a mark in the ordinary course of business activity and not made merely to reserve a right in a mark. See Connecticut General Statutes 35-18a
• User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
• UST regulations: means the regulations adopted pursuant to subsection (d) of section 22a-449. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-760
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
• Venture: means , without limitation, any contractual arrangement with any person whereby the corporation obtains rights from or in an invention or product or proceeds therefrom, or rights to obtain from any person any and all forms of equity instruments including, but not limited to, common and preferred stock, warrants, options, convertible debentures and similar types of instruments exercisable or convertible into capital stock, in exchange for the granting of financial aid to such person. See Connecticut General Statutes 32-34
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Victim advocate: work with prosecutors and assist the victims of a crime.
• Voice vote: A vote in which the Presiding Officer states the question, then asks those in favor and against to say "Yea" or "Nay," respectively, and announces the result according to his or her judgment. The names or numbers of legisators voting on each side are not recorded.
• Volume reduction plant: means any location or structure, whether located on land or water, where more than two thousand pounds per hour of solid waste generated elsewhere may be reduced in volume, including but not limited to, resources recovery facilities and other incinerators, recycling facilities, pulverizers, compactors, shredders, balers and composting facilities. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Voters: means those persons qualified to vote under the provisions of section 7-6. See Connecticut General Statutes 1-1
• Waste management project: means any solid waste disposal and resources recovery area, plant, works, system, facility or component of a facility, equipment, machinery or other element of a facility which the authority is authorized to plan, design, finance, construct, manage, operate or maintain under the provisions of this chapter, including real estate and improvements thereto and the extension or provision of utilities and other appurtenant facilities deemed necessary by the authority for the operation of a project or portion of a project, including all property rights, easements and interests required. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• Waste management services: means actions taken to effectuate the receipt, storage, transportation and processing for resources recovery, recycling, reuse of recovered materials, or disposal of solid wastes, including the sale of products, materials or energy on behalf of the state, a region, a municipality or a person by the authority or by any person or persons acting under contract with the authority, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-260
• wastes: means sewage or any substance, liquid, gaseous, solid or radioactive, which may pollute or tend to pollute any of the waters of the state. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• waters: means all tidal waters, harbors, estuaries, rivers, brooks, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, lakes, ponds, marshes, drainage systems and all other surface or underground streams, bodies or accumulations of water, natural or artificial, public or private, which are contained within, flow through or border upon this state or any portion thereof. See Connecticut General Statutes 22a-423
• Wildlife: means all species of invertebrates, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals which are ferae naturae or wild by nature. See Connecticut General Statutes 26-1
• Worker cooperative: means a corporation which has elected to be governed by the provisions of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 33-418g
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.