Terms Used In Florida Statutes > Chapter 16 - Attorney General

• Abandoned: means left without provision for reasonable and necessary care or supervision. See Florida Statutes 61.503
• Able to work: means physically and mentally capable of performing the duties of the occupation in which work is being sought. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Accident: means only an unexpected or unusual event or result that happens suddenly. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Active pharmaceutical ingredient: includes any substance or mixture of substances intended, represented, or labeled for use in drug manufacturing that furnishes or is intended to furnish, in a finished dosage form, any pharmacological activity or other direct effect in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, therapy, or prevention of disease in humans or other animals, or to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or animals. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Acupuncture: means a form of primary health care, based on traditional Chinese medical concepts and modern oriental medical techniques, that employs acupuncture diagnosis and treatment, as well as adjunctive therapies and diagnostic techniques, for the promotion, maintenance, and restoration of health and the prevention of disease. See Florida Statutes 457.102
• Acupuncturist: means any person licensed as provided in this chapter to practice acupuncture as a primary health care provider. See Florida Statutes 457.102
• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Administrative Procedures Committee: means a committee designated by joint rule of the Legislature or by agreement between the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. See Florida Statutes 1.01
• adopted: means legal adoption prior to the time of the injury. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Adulterated: means a medical gas that:
  (a) Consists, in whole or in part, of impurities or deleterious substances exceeding normal specifications;
  (b) Is produced, prepared, packed, or held under conditions whereby the medical gas may have been contaminated causing it to be rendered injurious to health; or if the methods used in, or the facilities or controls used for, its manufacture, processing, packing, or holding do not conform to or are not operated or administered in conformity with current good manufacturing practices to ensure that the medical gas meets the requirements of this part as to safety and has the identity and strength and meets the quality and purity characteristics that the medical gas is represented to possess;
  (c) Is held in a container with an interior that is composed in whole or in part of a poisonous or deleterious substance that may render the contents injurious to health; or
  (d) Is represented as having a strength differing from, or quality or purity falling below, the standard set forth in the USP-NF. See Florida Statutes 499.82
• Advertisement: means any representation disseminated in any manner or by any means, other than by labeling, for the purpose of inducing, or which is likely to induce, directly or indirectly, the purchase of drugs, devices, or cosmetics. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• 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 a business entity that has a relationship with another business entity in which, directly or indirectly:
  (a) The business entity controls, or has the power to control, the other business entity; or
  (b) A third party controls, or has the power to control, both business entities. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Affiliate: means a legal entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another legal entity or that shares common branding with another legal entity. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• affiliated: includes , but is not limited to, the officers, directors, executives, shareholders active in management, employees, and agents of the affiliated corporation. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Affiliated party: means :
  (a) A director, officer, trustee, partner, or committee member of a permittee or applicant or a subsidiary or service corporation of the permittee or applicant;
  (b) A person who, directly or indirectly, manages, controls, or oversees the operation of a permittee or applicant, regardless of whether such person is a partner, shareholder, manager, member, officer, director, independent contractor, or employee of the permittee or applicant;
  (c) A person who has filed or is required to file a personal information statement pursuant to…. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Aftermarket crash part: means a replacement for any of the nonmechanical sheet metal or plastic parts which generally constitute the exterior of a motor vehicle, including inner and outer panels. See Florida Statutes 501.32
• Agency: means the Agency for Health Care Administration. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Aggregate consumer information: means information that relates to a group or category of consumers from which the identity of an individual consumer has been removed and is not reasonably capable of being directly or indirectly associated or linked with any consumer, household, or device. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• Agreement: means a contract executed between a buyer or lessee and a seller that leases or sells a distributed energy generation system. See Florida Statutes 520.20
• agricultural labor: includes field foremen, timekeepers, checkers, and other farm labor supervisory personnel. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Agricultural labor: means any remunerated service performed:
  (a) 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 Florida Statutes 443.036
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Alternative container: means an unfinished wood box or other nonmetal receptacle or enclosure, without ornamentation or a fixed interior lining, that is designed for the encasement of human remains and that is made of fiberboard, pressed wood, composition materials (with or without an outside covering), or like materials. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• 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.
• American aircraft: means an aircraft registered under the laws of the United States. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• American employer: means :
  (a) An individual who is a resident of the United States. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• American vessel: means any vessel documented or numbered under the laws of the United States. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• 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.
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Applicant: means a person applying for a permit or certification under this part. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Appropriate law enforcement official: means the sheriff of the county in which a secondhand dealer is located or, if the secondhand dealer is located within a municipality, both the police chief of the municipality and the sheriff; however, the sheriff or police chief may designate as the appropriate law enforcement official for that county or municipality, as applicable, any law enforcement officer working within that respective county or municipality. See Florida Statutes 538.03
• Appropriate law enforcement official: means the sheriff of the county in which a secondary metals recycler is located or, if the secondary metals recycler is located within a municipality, the police chief of the municipality in which the secondary metals recycler is located; however, the sheriff or police chief may designate as the appropriate law enforcement official for the county or municipality, as applicable, any law enforcement officer working within that respective county or municipality. See Florida Statutes 538.18
• 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
• Approved: means conforming to the requirements of the Florida Building Code. See Florida Statutes 553.36
• Approved inspection agency: means an organization determined by the department to be especially qualified by reason of facilities, personnel, experience, and demonstrated reliability to investigate, test, and evaluate manufactured building units or systems or the component parts thereof, together with the plans, specifications, and quality control procedures to ensure that such units, systems, or component parts are in full compliance with the Florida Building Code and to label such units complying with those standards. See Florida Statutes 553.36
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• articles of incorporation: as used in this chapter shall be deemed to include the articles of conversion of a converted corporation. See Florida Statutes 425.17
• 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.
• authenticated: means to verify or the state of having been verified, respectively, through reasonable means that the consumer who is entitled to exercise the consumer's rights under…. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• Automated kiosk: means an interactive device that is permanently installed within a secure retail space and that has the following technological functions:
  1. See Florida Statutes 538.03
• Available for work: means actively seeking and being ready and willing to accept suitable work. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• 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.
• Ballast efficiency factor: means the ratio of relative light output, expressed as a percent, to the power input, expressed in watts under test conditions. See Florida Statutes 553.955
• 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.
• Base period: means the first four of the last five completed calendar quarters immediately preceding the first day of an individual's benefit year. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• 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}
• Beneficiary: means a natural person expressly identified in a preneed contract as the person for whom funeral merchandise or services are intended. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Benefit year: means , for an individual, the 1-year period beginning with the first day of the first week for which the individual first files a valid claim for benefits and, thereafter, the 1-year period beginning with the first day of the first week for which the individual next files a valid claim for benefits after the termination of his or her last preceding benefit year. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Benefits: means the money payable to an individual, as provided in this chapter, for his or her unemployment. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Biometric data: means data generated by automatic measurements of an individual's biological characteristics. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• blood: means whole blood collected from a single donor and processed for transfusion or further manufacturing, and the term "blood components" means that part of the blood separated by physical or mechanical means. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Board: means any board or commission, or other statutorily created entity to the extent such entity is authorized to exercise regulatory or rulemaking functions, within the department, including the Florida Real Estate Commission; except that, for ss. See Florida Statutes 455.01
• Board: means any board or commission, or other statutorily created entity to the extent such entity is authorized to exercise regulatory or rulemaking functions, within the department, except that, for ss. See Florida Statutes 456.001
• Board: means the Board of Acupuncture. See Florida Statutes 457.102
• Board: means the Board of Medicine. See Florida Statutes 458.305
• Board: means the Board of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Brake fluid: means the fluid intended for use as the liquid medium through which force is transmitted in the hydraulic brake system of a vehicle operated upon the highways. See Florida Statutes 526.50
• Brand: means the product name appearing on the label of a container of brake fluid. See Florida Statutes 526.50
• Budget authority: Authority provided by law to enter into obligations that will result in outlays of Federal funds. Budget authority may be classified by the period of availability (one-year, multiyear, no-year), by the timing of congressional action (current or permanent), or by the manner of determining the amount available (definite or indefinite).
• budget planning: as used in this part shall mean the act of entering into a contract by any person, firm, corporation, or association with a particular debtor by the terms of which contract the debtor agrees to deposit periodically with such person, firm, corporation, or association a specified sum of money and said person, firm, corporation, or association agrees to distribute said sum of money among specified creditors of the debtor in accordance with an agreed plan for which service the debtor agrees to pay a valuable consideration. See Florida Statutes 559.10
• Burial right: means the right to use a grave space, mausoleum, columbarium, ossuary, or scattering garden for the interment, entombment, inurnment, or other disposition of human remains or cremated remains. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Buyer: means a person that enters into an agreement to buy a distributed energy generation system from a seller. See Florida Statutes 520.20
• Calendar quarter: means each period of 3 consecutive calendar months ending on March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31 of each year. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• carrier: as used in this chapter , means an insurer as defined in this subsection. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Casket: means a rigid container that is designed for the encasement of human remains and that is usually constructed of wood or metal, ornamented, and lined with fabric. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Casual labor: means labor that is occasional, incidental, or irregular, not exceeding 200 person-hours in total duration. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Cemetery: means a place dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent interment of human remains or cremated remains. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Cemetery company: means any legal entity that owns or controls cemetery lands or property. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Centralized embalming facility: means a facility in which embalming takes place that operates independently of a funeral establishment licensee and that offers embalming services to funeral directors for a fee. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Certificate of free sale: means a document prepared by the department which certifies a drug or device that is registered with the department as one that can be legally sold in the state. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• 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.
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• Child: includes a posthumous child, a child legally adopted prior to the injury of the employee, and a stepchild or acknowledged child born out of wedlock dependent upon the deceased, but does not include married children unless wholly dependent on the employee. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Child: means an individual who has not attained 18 years of age. See Florida Statutes 61.503
• Child: means an individual younger than 18 years of age. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• Child custody determination: means a judgment, decree, or other order of a court providing for the legal custody, physical custody, residential care, or visitation with respect to a child. See Florida Statutes 61.503
• Child custody proceeding: means a proceeding in which legal custody, physical custody, residential care, or visitation with respect to a child is an issue. See Florida Statutes 61.503
• Cinerator: means a facility where dead human bodies are subjected to cremation. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Civil forfeiture: The loss of ownership of property used to conduct illegal activity.
• 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 party who has contracted with an employee leasing company to provide a worker, or workers, to perform services for the client. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Closed pharmacy: means a pharmacy that is licensed under chapter 465 and purchases prescription drugs for use by a limited patient population and not for wholesale distribution or sale to the public. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Code: means the Florida Energy Efficiency Code for Building Construction. See Florida Statutes 553.955
• Color: includes black, white, and intermediate grays. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Color additive: means , with the exception of any material that has been or hereafter is exempt under the federal act, a material that:
  (a) Is a dye pigment, or other substance, made by a process of synthesis or similar artifice, or extracted, isolated, or otherwise derived, with or without intermediate or final change of identity from a vegetable, animal, mineral, or other source; or
  (b) When added or applied to a drug or cosmetic or to the human body, or any part thereof, is capable alone, or through reaction with other substances, of imparting color thereto. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Columbarium: means a structure or building that is substantially exposed above the ground and that is intended to be used for the inurnment of cremated remains. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Commencement: means the filing of the first pleading in a proceeding. See Florida Statutes 61.503
• commercial claim: includes an obligation of a person who is comaker, endorser, guarantor, or surety as well as the person to whom such credit was originally extended. See Florida Statutes 559.543
• Commercial collection agency: means any person engaged, as a primary or secondary business activity, in the business of soliciting commercial claims for collection or in the business of collecting commercial claims, asserted to be owed or due to another person, regardless of whether the collection efforts are directed at the primary debtor or some other source of payment. See Florida Statutes 559.543
• Commercial telephone seller: means a person who engages in commercial telephone solicitation on his or her own behalf or through salespersons. See Florida Statutes 501.603
• Commercial telephone solicitation: means :
  (a) An unsolicited telephone call to a person initiated by a commercial telephone seller or salesperson, or an automated dialing machine used in accordance with the provisions of…. See Florida Statutes 501.603
• Commission: means the Reemployment Assistance Appeals Commission. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Commission: means the Florida Building Commission created by this part. See Florida Statutes 553.71
• Commission: means the Financial Services Commission. See Florida Statutes 559.543
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• Common business enterprise: means a group of two or more business entities that share common ownership in excess of 50 percent. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• common control: means the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person or an organization, whether by ownership of stock, by voting rights, by contract, or otherwise. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• 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.
• Compensation: means the money allowance payable to an employee or to his or her dependents as provided for in this chapter. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Component: means any assembly, subassembly, or combination of parts for use as a part of a building, which may include structural, electrical, mechanical, and fire protection systems and other systems affecting health and safety. See Florida Statutes 553.36
• Construction design professional: means an architect, professional engineer, landscape architect, or surveyor and mapper, or any corporation, professional or general, that has a certificate to practice in the construction design field from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Construction industry: means for-profit activities involving any building, clearing, filling, excavation, or substantial improvement in the size or use of any structure or the appearance of any land. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Consumer: means an individual; child, by and through its parent or legal guardian; business; firm; association; joint venture; partnership; estate; trust; business trust; syndicate; fiduciary; corporation; any commercial entity, however denominated; or any other group or combination. See Florida Statutes 501.203
• Consumer: means an individual who is a resident of or is domiciled in this state acting only in an individual or household context. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• Consumer goods or services: means any real property or any tangible or intangible personal property which is normally used for personal, family, or household purposes or any property of any nature which is solicited for the purpose of providing a profit or investment opportunity, including, without limitation, any such property intended to be attached to or installed in any real property, without regard to whether it is so attached or installed, as well as timeshare estates and licenses, and any services related to such property. See Florida Statutes 501.603
• Container: means any receptacle in which brake fluid is immediately contained when sold, but does not mean a carton or wrapping in which a number of such receptacles are shipped or stored or a tank car or truck. See Florida Statutes 526.50
• 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.
• Contraband prescription drug: means any adulterated drug, as defined in…. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contributing employer: means an employer who is liable for contributions under this chapter. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Contribution: means a payment of payroll tax to the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund which is required under this chapter to finance reemployment assistance benefits. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Control: means the possession, directly or indirectly, through the ownership of voting shares, by contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship, or otherwise, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person or entity. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• control: means :
  1. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• controlled: means any of the following:
  (a) The ownership of, or power to vote, more than 50 percent of the outstanding shares of any class of voting security of a company. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• Controller: means :
  (a) A sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, association, or legal entity that meets the following requirements:

  1. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• 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.
• Cosmetic: means an article, with the exception of soap, that is:
  (a) Intended to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled, or sprayed on; introduced into; or otherwise applied to the human body or any part thereof for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness, or altering the appearance; or
  (b) Intended for use as a component of any such article. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• cost-effective: as used in this part , means cost-effective to the consumer. See Florida Statutes 553.901
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Court: means an entity authorized under the laws of a state to establish, enforce, or modify a child custody determination. See Florida Statutes 61.503
• 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}
• Cremated remains: means all the remains of the human body recovered after the completion of the cremation process, including processing or pulverization that leaves only bone fragments reduced to unidentifiable dimensions and may include the residue of any foreign matter, including casket material, bridgework, or eyeglasses that were cremated with the human remains. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Cremation: means any mechanical or thermal process whereby a dead human body is reduced to ashes and bone fragments. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Cremation chamber: means the enclosed space within which the cremation process takes place. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Cremation container: means the casket or alternative container in which the human remains are transported to and placed in the cremation chamber for a cremation. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Crew leader: means an individual who:
  (a) Furnishes individuals to perform service in agricultural labor for another person. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Customer: includes a customer's designated agent. See Florida Statutes 501.975
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dark pattern: means a user interface designed or manipulated with the effect of substantially subverting or impairing user autonomy, decisionmaking, or choice. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• Date of maximum medical improvement: means the date after which further recovery from, or lasting improvement to, an injury or disease can no longer reasonably be anticipated, based upon reasonable medical probability. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• dead human bodies: means the body of a deceased human person for which a death certificate or fetal death certificate is required under chapter 382 and includes the body in any stage of decomposition. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Dealer: means any person, firm, corporation, or other entity selling, brokering, or transferring ether to anyone other than a licensed ether manufacturer, distributor, or dealer. See Florida Statutes 499.61
• Dealer: means a motor vehicle dealer as defined in…. See Florida Statutes 501.975
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Decision that produces a legal or similarly significant effect concerning a consumer: means a decision made by a controller which results in the provision or denial by the controller of any of the following:
  (a) Financial and lending services. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• 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.
• Deidentified data: means data that cannot reasonably be linked to an identified or identifiable individual or a device linked to that individual. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• Demand letter: means a written communication, including e-mail, asserting or claiming that a person has engaged in patent infringement. See Florida Statutes 501.992
• Department: means the Department of Financial Services; the term does not include the Financial Services Commission or any office of the commission. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Department: means the Department of Commerce. See Florida Statutes 445.002
• Department: means the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. See Florida Statutes 455.01
• Department: means the Department of Health. See Florida Statutes 456.001
• Department: means the Department of Health. See Florida Statutes 457.102
• Department: means the Department of Health. See Florida Statutes 458.305
• Department: means the Department of Revenue. See Florida Statutes 61.046
• Department: means the Department of Financial Services. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Department: means the Department of Legal Affairs. See Florida Statutes 501.203
• Department: means the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Department: means the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. See Florida Statutes 499.61
• Department: means the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. See Florida Statutes 499.82
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. See Florida Statutes 501.603
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. See Florida Statutes 526.50
• Department: means the Department of Revenue. See Florida Statutes 538.03
• Department: means the Department of Revenue. See Florida Statutes 538.18
• Department: means the Department of Revenue. See Florida Statutes 538.31
• Department: means the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. See Florida Statutes 553.36
• Department: means the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. See Florida Statutes 553.71
• Department: means the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. See Florida Statutes 553.955
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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.
• Device: means any instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including its components, parts, or accessories, which is:
  (a) Recognized in the current edition of the United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary, or any supplement thereof,
  (b) Intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, therapy, or prevention of disease in humans or other animals, or
  (c) Intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals,

  and that does not achieve any of its principal intended purposes through chemical action within or on the body of humans or other animals and which is not dependent upon being metabolized for the achievement of any of its principal intended purposes. See Florida Statutes 499.003

• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Direct disposal establishment: means a facility licensed under this chapter where a direct disposer practices direct disposition. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Direct disposer: means any person licensed under this chapter to practice direct disposition in this state. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Direct supervision: means supervision by a licensed:
  (a) Funeral director who provides initial direction and periodic inspection of the arrangements and who is physically present or on the premises of the funeral establishment at all times when the tasks, functions, and duties relating to funeral directing are performed; or
  (b) Embalmer who provides initial direction and instruction regarding the preservation of a dead human body in its entirety or in part and who is physically present or on the premises of the funeral establishment or embalming facility at all times when the tasks, functions, and duties relating to embalming are performed. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Director: means the director of the Division of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Director: means the Director of the Division of Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. See Florida Statutes 509.013
• Disability: means incapacity because of the injury to earn in the same or any other employment the wages which the employee was receiving at the time of the injury. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Disinterment: means removal of a dead human body from earth interment or aboveground interment. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Distributed energy generation system: means a device or system that is used to generate or store electricity; that has an electric delivery capacity, individually or in connection with other similar devices or systems, of greater than one kilowatt or one kilowatt-hour; and that is used primarily for on-site consumption. See Florida Statutes 520.20
• distribution: means to sell, purchase, trade, deliver, handle, store, or receive. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• distribution: means to sell; offer to sell; deliver; offer to deliver; transfer by either the passage of title, physical movement, or both; broker; or give away a medical gas. See Florida Statutes 499.82
• Distributor: means any person, firm, corporation, or other entity distributing, selling, marketing, transferring, or otherwise supplying ether to retailers, dealers, or any other entity in the primary channel of trade, but does not include retailers. See Florida Statutes 499.61
• Distributor: means any person or business entity which distributes a privately labeled product on a national basis for which the specifications for manufacture, testing, and certification are established and attested to by the distributor, rather than the manufacturer. See Florida Statutes 553.955
• Division: means the Division of Workers' Compensation of the Department of Financial Services. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Division: means the Division of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services within the Department of Financial Services. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Division: means the Division of Hotels and Restaurants of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. See Florida Statutes 509.013
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Domestic individual self-insurer: means an individual self-insurer:
  (a) Which is a corporation formed under the laws of this state;
  (b) Who is an individual who is a resident of this state or whose primary place of business is located in this state; or
  (c) Which is a partnership whose principals are residents of this state or whose primary place of business is located in this state. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Drug: means an article that is:
  (a) Recognized in the current edition of the United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States, or any supplement to any of those publications;
  (b) Intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, therapy, or prevention of disease in humans or other animals;
  (c) Intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals; or
  (d) Intended for use as a component of any article specified in paragraph (a), paragraph (b), or paragraph (c), and includes active pharmaceutical ingredients, but does not include devices or their nondrug components, parts, or accessories. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• duration: means the period of time from the commencement to the completion of the particular job or project. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Earned income: means gross remuneration derived from work, professional service, or self-employment. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Educational institution: means an institution, except for an institution of higher education:
  (a) In which participants, trainees, or students are offered an organized course of study or training designed to transfer to them knowledge, skills, information, doctrines, attitudes, or abilities from, by, or under the guidance of, an instructor or teacher;
  (b) That is approved, licensed, or issued a permit to operate as a school by the Department of Education or other governmental agency that is authorized within the state to approve, license, or issue a permit for the operation of a school; and
  (c) That offers courses of study or training which are academic, technical, trade, or preparation for gainful employment in a recognized occupation. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• 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}
• Embalmer: means any person licensed under this chapter to practice embalming in this state. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• 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 medical reasons: include :
  (a) Transfers between wholesale distributors or between a wholesale distributor and a retail pharmacy or health care entity to alleviate a temporary shortage of a medical gas arising from a long-term delay or interruption of regular distribution schedules. See Florida Statutes 499.82
• Emergency use oxygen: means oxygen USP administered in emergency situations without a prescription for oxygen deficiency and resuscitation. See Florida Statutes 499.82
• Employee: includes any person who is an officer of a corporation and who performs services for remuneration for such corporation within this state, whether or not such services are continuous. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Employee leasing company: means an employing unit that has a valid and active license under chapter 468 and that maintains the records required by…. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Employer: means the state and all political subdivisions thereof, all public and quasi-public corporations therein, every person carrying on any employment, and the legal representative of a deceased person or the receiver or trustees of any person. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Employer: means an employing unit subject to this chapter under…. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Employing unit: means an individual or type of organization, including a partnership, limited liability company, association, trust, estate, joint-stock company, insurance company, or corporation, whether domestic or foreign; the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, trustee, or successor of any of the foregoing; or the legal representative of a deceased person, which has or had in its employ one or more individuals performing services for it within this state. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Employment: includes :
  1. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Employment: means a service subject to this chapter under…. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Energy conservation standard: means :
  (a) A performance standard which prescribes a minimum level of energy efficiency or a maximum quantity of energy use for a covered product, determined in accordance with applicable test procedures;
  (b) A design requirement for the products specified in…. See Florida Statutes 553.955
• Energy performance level: means the indicator of the energy-related performance of a building, including, but not limited to, the levels of insulation, the amount and type of glass, and the HVAC and water heating system efficiencies. See Florida Statutes 553.902
• Enforcing authority: means the office of the state attorney if a violation of this part occurs in or affects the judicial circuit under the office's jurisdiction. See Florida Statutes 501.203
• Enforcing authority: means the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services or the office of the state attorney if a violation of this part occurs in or affects the judicial circuit under the jurisdiction of the office of the state attorney. See Florida Statutes 501.603
• 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.
• 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}
• errata to the code: means a list of errors on current and previous editions of the Florida Building Code. See Florida Statutes 553.73
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Establishment: means a place of business which is at one general physical location and may extend to one or more contiguous suites, units, floors, or buildings operated and controlled exclusively by entities under common operation and control. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Ether: means diethyl ether in any form. See Florida Statutes 499.61
• 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.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Exterior envelope physical characteristics: means the physical nature of those elements of a building which enclose conditioned spaces through which energy may be transferred to or from the exterior. See Florida Statutes 553.902
• Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
• factory-built building: means a closed structure, building assembly, or system of subassemblies, which may include structural, electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating, or other service systems manufactured in manufacturing facilities for installation or erection as a finished building or as part of a finished building, which shall include, but not be limited to, residential, commercial, institutional, storage, and industrial structures. See Florida Statutes 553.36
• Factory-built school shelter: means any site-assembled or factory-built school building that is designed to be portable, relocatable, demountable, or reconstructible and that complies with the provisions for enhanced hurricane protection areas, as required by the applicable code. See Florida Statutes 553.36
• 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.
• Fair market value: means the fair market value of assets held by a trust as of a specific date, assuming all assets of the trust are sold on that specific date. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• farm: includes stock, dairy, poultry, fruit, fur-bearing animals, fish, and truck farms, ranches, nurseries, and orchards. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• 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 Florida Statutes 443.036
• Federal act: means the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 21 U. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Federal act: means the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. See Florida Statutes 499.82
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Ferrous metals: means any metals containing significant quantities of iron or steel. See Florida Statutes 538.18
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Final disposition: means the final disposal of a dead human body by earth interment, aboveground interment, cremation, burial at sea, anatomical donation, or delivery to a medical institution for lawful dissection if the medical institution or entity receiving the anatomical donation assumes responsibility for disposition after use pursuant to…. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Final judgment: means a judgment, including any supporting opinion, that determines the rights of the parties and concerning which appellate remedies have been exhausted or the time for appeal has expired. See Florida Statutes 501.203
• 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}
• Firm: as used in this part shall not include a partnership, all the members of which are admitted to practice law in this state, and who are current members of The Florida Bar. See Florida Statutes 559.12
• 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 location: means any site occupied by a secondary metals recycler as owner of the site or as lessee of the site under a lease or other rental agreement providing for occupation of the site by the secondary metals recycler for a total duration of not less than 364 days. See Florida Statutes 538.18
• fluorescent lamp ballast: means a device to operate a fluorescent lamp by providing a starting voltage and current and limiting the current during normal operation. See Florida Statutes 553.955
• For cause: includes , but is not limited to, engaging in fraud or other criminal acts, incapacity, unfitness, neglect of duty, official incompetence and irresponsibility, misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, gross mismanagement, waste, or lack of performance. See Florida Statutes 445.002
• 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 individual self-insurer: means an individual self-insurer:
  (a) Which is a corporation formed under the laws of any state, district, territory, or commonwealth of the United States other than this state;
  (b) Who is an individual who is not a resident of this state and whose primary place of business is not located in this state; or
  (c) Which is a partnership whose principals are not residents of this state and whose primary place of business is not located in this state. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• 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}
• Formula: means the name of the chemical mixture or composition of the brake fluid product. See Florida Statutes 526.50
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Freezer: means a cabinet designed as a unit for the storage of food at temperatures of about 0 °F, having the ability to freeze food, and having a source of refrigeration requiring an energy input. See Florida Statutes 553.955
• Freight forwarder: means a person who receives prescription drugs which are owned by another person and designated by that person for export, and exports those prescription drugs. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Fund: means the Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund created under this chapter, into which all contributions and reimbursements required under this chapter are deposited and from which all benefits provided under this chapter are paid. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Funeral director: means any person licensed under this chapter to practice funeral directing in this state. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Funeral establishment: means a facility licensed under this chapter where a funeral director or embalmer practices funeral directing or embalming. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• funeral service: means the observances, services, or ceremonies held to commemorate the life of a specific deceased human being and at which the human remains are present. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• 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 supervision: means supervision by a licensed:
  (a) Funeral director who is reasonably available and in a position to provide direction and guidance by being physically present, being on the premises of the funeral establishment, or being in proximity to the funeral establishment and available telephonically or by electronic communication at all times when the tasks, functions, and duties relating to funeral directing are performed; or
  (b) Embalmer who is reasonably available and in a position to provide direction and guidance by being physically present, being on the premises of the funeral establishment or embalming facility, or being in proximity to the funeral establishment or embalming facility and available telephonically or by electronic communication at all times when the tasks, functions, and duties relating to embalming are performed. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
• Grandchild: means a child as above defined of a child as above defined. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• 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.
• Guest: means any patron, customer, tenant, lodger, boarder, or occupant of a public lodging establishment or public food service establishment. See Florida Statutes 509.013
• Health care entity: means a closed pharmacy or any person, organization, or business entity that provides diagnostic, medical, surgical, or dental treatment or care, or chronic or rehabilitative care, but does not include any wholesale distributor or retail pharmacy licensed under state law to deal in prescription drugs. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Health care facility: means a health care facility licensed under chapter 395. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Health care practitioner: means any person licensed under chapter 457; chapter 458; chapter 459; chapter 460; chapter 461; chapter 462; chapter 463; chapter 464; chapter 465; chapter 466; chapter 467; part I, part II, part III, part V, part X, part XIII, or part XIV of chapter 468; chapter 478; chapter 480; part I, part II, or part III of chapter 483; chapter 484; chapter 486; chapter 490; or chapter 491. See Florida Statutes 456.001
• Health insurance: means coverage under a fee-for-service arrangement, health maintenance organization, or preferred provider organization, and other types of coverage available to either parent, under which medical services could be provided to a dependent child. See Florida Statutes 61.046
• Hearsay: Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court.
• High quarter: means the quarter in an individual's base period in which the individual has the greatest amount of wages paid, regardless of the number of employers paying wages in that quarter. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Home state: means the state in which a child lived with a parent or a person acting as a parent for at least 6 consecutive months immediately before the commencement of a child custody proceeding. See Florida Statutes 61.503
• Hospice: means a corporation licensed under part IV of chapter 400. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Hospital: means an institution that is licensed, certified, or approved by the Agency for Health Care Administration as a hospital. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Hospital: means a facility as defined in…. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• HVAC: means a system of heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning. See Florida Statutes 553.902
• Identified or identifiable individual: means a consumer who can be readily identified, directly or indirectly. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• Income: means any form of payment to an individual, regardless of source, including, but not limited to: wages, salary, commissions and bonuses, compensation as an independent contractor, worker's compensation, disability benefits, annuity and retirement benefits, pensions, dividends, interest, royalties, trusts, and any other payments, made by any person, private entity, federal or state government, or any unit of local government. See Florida Statutes 61.046
• Income: means earnings on trust assets, including interest, dividends, and other income earned on the principal. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• 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}
• 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.
• individual: includes both natural persons and legal entities. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Individual: means a single human being and does not mean a firm, association of individuals, corporation, partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, or any other entity. See Florida Statutes 501.603
• Individual self-insurer: means any employer who has secured payment of compensation pursuant to…. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Initial determination: means the first child custody determination concerning a particular child. See Florida Statutes 61.503
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Injury: means personal injury or death by accident arising out of and in the course of employment, and such diseases or infection as naturally or unavoidably result from such injury. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Insignia: means an approved device or seal issued by the department to indicate compliance with the standards and rules established pursuant to this part. See Florida Statutes 553.36
• insolvent: means :
  (a) With respect to an individual self-insurer:

  1. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Insolvent member: means an individual self-insurer which is a member of the Florida Self-Insurers Guaranty Association, Incorporated, or which was a member and has withdrawn pursuant to…. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Institution of higher education: means an educational institution that:
  (a) Admits as regular students only individuals having a certificate of graduation from a high school, or the recognized equivalent of a certificate of graduation;
  (b) Is legally authorized in this state to provide a program of education beyond high school;
  (c) Provides an educational program for which it awards a bachelor's or higher degree, or provides a program that is acceptable for full credit toward a bachelor's or higher degree; a program of postgraduate or postdoctoral studies; or a program of training to prepare students for gainful employment in a recognized occupation; and
  (d) Is a public or other nonprofit institution. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Institution of higher education: means an educational institution as defined in Florida Statutes 501.992
• Insured work: means employment for employers. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Insurer: means a group self-insurers' fund authorized by…. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Insurer: includes an insurance company and any person authorized to represent the insurer with respect to a claim and who is parting within the scope of the person's authority. See Florida Statutes 501.32
• 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}
• Jewelry: means a personal ornament that contains precious metals and may contain gemstones. See Florida Statutes 538.31
• 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.
• 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.
• Known child: means a child under circumstances of which a controller has actual knowledge of, or willfully disregards, the child's age. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• Label: means a display of written, printed, or graphic matter upon the immediate container of any drug, device, or cosmetic. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed, or graphic matters:
  (a) Upon a drug, device, or cosmetic, or any of its containers or wrappers; or
  (b) Accompanying or related to such drug, device, or cosmetic. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Labeling: includes all written, printed or graphic representations, in any form whatsoever, imprinted upon or affixed to any container of brake fluid. See Florida Statutes 526.50
• 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}
• Leave of absence: means a temporary break in service to an employer, for a specified period of time, during which the employing unit guarantees the same or a comparable position to the worker at the expiration of the leave. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Legally authorized person: means , in the priority listed:
  1. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Legislative Auditing Committee: means a committee or committees designated by joint rule of the Legislature, by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or by agreement between the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. See Florida Statutes 1.01
• Lessee: means a person that enters into an agreement to lease or rent a distributed energy generation system. See Florida Statutes 520.20
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means any permit, registration, certificate, or license issued by the department. See Florida Statutes 455.01
• License: means any permit, registration, certificate, or license, including a provisional license, issued by the department. See Florida Statutes 456.001
• License: means the document of authorization issued by the department for a person to engage in the practice of acupuncture. See Florida Statutes 457.102
• License: includes all authorizations required or issued under this chapter, except where expressly indicated otherwise, and shall be understood to include authorizations previously referred to as registrations or certificates of authority in chapters 470 and 497 as those chapters appeared in the 2004 edition of the Florida Statutes. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Licensee: means any person issued a permit, registration, certificate, or license by the department. See Florida Statutes 455.01
• Licensee: means any person or entity issued a permit, registration, certificate, or license, including a provisional license, by the department. See Florida Statutes 456.001
• Licensee: means the person or entity holding any license or other authorization issued under this chapter, except where expressly indicated otherwise. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Load management control device: means any device installed by any electric utility or its contractors which temporarily interrupts electric service to major appliances, motors, or other electrical systems contained within the buildings or on the premises of consumers for the purpose of reducing the utility's system demand as needed in order to prevent curtailment of electric service in whole or in part to consumers and thereby maintain the quality of service to consumers, provided the device is in compliance with a program approved by the Florida Public Service Commission. See Florida Statutes 553.71
• Local enforcement agency: means an agency of local government, a local school board, a community college board of trustees, or a university board of trustees in the State University System with jurisdiction to make inspections of buildings and to enforce the codes which establish standards for design, construction, erection, alteration, repair, modification, or demolition of public or private buildings, structures, or facilities. See Florida Statutes 553.71
• Local enforcement agency: means the agency of local government which has the authority to make inspections of buildings and to enforce the Florida Building Code. See Florida Statutes 553.902
• local governing body: as used in this part shall be construed to refer exclusively to such local board or agency. See Florida Statutes 553.73
• Local government: means any municipality, county, district, or combination thereof comprising a governmental unit. See Florida Statutes 553.36
• local government: means a county, municipality, special district, or political subdivision of the state. See Florida Statutes 553.73
• Luminaire: means a complete lighting unit consisting of a fluorescent lamp or lamps, together with parts designed to distribute the light, to position and protect such lamps, and to connect such lamps to the power supply. See Florida Statutes 553.955
• Mail-in secondhand precious metals dealer: means any person or entity that:
  1. See Florida Statutes 538.31
• Manufacture: means the preparation, deriving, compounding, propagation, processing, producing, or fabrication of any drug, device, or cosmetic. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Manufacture: means the process of making, fabricating, constructing, forming, or assembling a product from raw, unfinished, semifinished, or finished materials. See Florida Statutes 553.36
• Manufacturer: means :
  (a) A person who holds a New Drug Application, an Abbreviated New Drug Application, a Biologics License Application, or a New Animal Drug Application approved under the federal act or a license issued under…. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Manufacturer: means any person, firm, corporation, or other entity preparing, deriving, producing, synthesizing, or otherwise making ether in any form or repacking, relabeling, or manipulating ether. See Florida Statutes 499.61
• Manufacturer: means any person or business entity engaged in the original production or assembly of a product. See Florida Statutes 553.955
• Markup: The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation.
• mechanism: means a system that is purchased by a person on a prepaid basis, that enables access to the funds via an authorization code or other security measure, and that is not directly used as a general-use prepaid card. See Florida Statutes 501.603
• Medical convenience kit: means packages or units that contain combination products as defined in Florida Statutes 499.003
• Medical gas: means any liquefied or vaporized gas that is a prescription drug, whether alone or in combination with other gases, and as defined in the federal act. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Medical gas: means a liquefied or vaporized gas that is a prescription drug, whether alone or in combination with other gases, and as defined in the federal act. See Florida Statutes 499.82
• Medical gas-related equipment: means a device used as a component part or accessory used to contain or control the flow, delivery, or pressure during the administration of a medical gas, such as liquid oxygen base and portable units, pressure regulators and flow meters, and oxygen concentrators. See Florida Statutes 499.82
• Medical oxygen: means oxygen USP which must be labeled in compliance with labeling requirements for oxygen under the federal act. See Florida Statutes 499.82
• merchandise: means any personal property offered or sold by any person for use in connection with the final disposition, memorialization, interment, entombment, or inurnment of human remains or cremated remains, including, but not limited to, caskets, outer burial containers, alternative containers, cremation containers, cremation interment containers, urns, monuments, private mausoleums, flowers, benches, vases, acknowledgment cards, register books, memory folders, prayer cards, and clothing. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• 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}
• minor: includes any person who has not attained the age of 18 years. See Florida Statutes 1.01
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Misbranded: means having a label that is false or misleading; a label without the name and address of the manufacturer, packer, or distributor and without an accurate statement of the quantities of active ingredients; or a label without an accurate monograph for the medical gas, except in the case of mixtures of designated medical gases where the label identifies the component percentages of each designated medical gas used to make the mixture. See Florida Statutes 499.82
• Misconduct: includes , but is not limited to, the following, which shall not be construed in pari materia with each other:
  (a) Conduct evincing such willful or wanton disregard of an employer's interests as is found in deliberate violation or disregard of standards of behavior which the employer has the right to expect of the employee; or
  (b) Carelessness or negligence of such a degree or recurrence as to manifest culpability, wrongful intent, or evil design, or to show an intentional and substantial disregard of an employer's interests or of the employee's duties and obligations to the employer. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Mobile home: means any residential unit constructed to standards promulgated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. See Florida Statutes 553.36
• Modification: means a child custody determination that changes, replaces, supersedes, or is otherwise made after a previous determination concerning the same child, regardless of whether it is made by the court that made the previous determination. See Florida Statutes 61.503
• Module: means a separately transported three-dimensional component of a manufactured building which contains all or a portion of structural systems, electrical systems, plumbing systems, mechanical systems, fire systems, and thermal systems. See Florida Statutes 553.36
• Monetary determination: means a determination of whether and in what amount a claimant is eligible for benefits based on the claimant's employment during the base period of the claim. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Money: means a medium of exchange authorized or adopted by a domestic or foreign government as part of its currency. See Florida Statutes 538.18
• money transfer provider: means a person or financial institution that provides cash-to-cash money transfers for a person in the normal course of its business, regardless of whether the person holds an account with such person or financial institution. See Florida Statutes 501.603
• Monument: means any product used for identifying a grave site and cemetery memorials of all types, including monuments, markers, and vases. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Monument establishment: means a facility that operates independently of a cemetery or funeral establishment and that offers to sell monuments or monument services to the public for placement in a cemetery. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• 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.
• Net income: means , in relation to a trust, ordinary income minus any income distributions for items such as trust expenses. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Net worth: means total assets minus total liabilities pursuant to generally accepted accounting principles. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• New drug: means :
  (a) Any drug the composition of which is such that the drug is not generally recognized, among experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of drugs, as safe and effective for use under the conditions prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the labeling of that drug; or
  (b) Any drug the composition of which is such that the drug, as a result of investigations to determine its safety and effectiveness for use under certain conditions, has been recognized for use under such conditions, but which drug has not, other than in those investigations, been used to a material extent or for a material time under such conditions. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• New product: means a product that is sold, offered for sale, or installed for the first time and specifically includes floor models and demonstration units. See Florida Statutes 553.955
• 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.
• Nonferrous metals: means metals not containing significant quantities of iron or steel, including, without limitation, copper, brass, aluminum, bronze, lead, zinc, nickel, and alloys thereof, excluding precious metals subject to regulation under part I. See Florida Statutes 538.18
• Nonmonetary determination: means a determination of the claimant's eligibility for benefits based on an issue other than monetary entitlement and benefit overpayment. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Nonprofit organization: means any of the following:
  (a) An organization exempt from federal taxation under…. See Florida Statutes 501.702
• Nontransient: means a guest in nontransient occupancy. See Florida Statutes 509.013
• Nontransient occupancy: means occupancy when it is the intention of the parties that the occupancy will not be temporary. See Florida Statutes 509.013
• Nontransient public lodging establishment: means any unit, group of units, dwelling, building, or group of buildings within a single complex of buildings which is rented to guests for periods of at least 30 days or 1 calendar month, whichever is less, or which is advertised or held out to the public as a place regularly rented to guests for periods of at least 30 days or 1 calendar month. See Florida Statutes 509.013
• Novelty payment: means a payment method that does not provide systematic monitoring to detect and deter fraud. See Florida Statutes 501.603
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• oath: includes affirmations. See Florida Statutes 1.01
• 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.
• Obligee: means the person to whom payments are made pursuant to an order establishing, enforcing, or modifying an obligation for alimony, for child support, or for alimony and child support. See Florida Statutes 61.046
• Obligor: means a person responsible for making payments pursuant to an order establishing, enforcing, or modifying an obligation for alimony, for child support, or for alimony and child support. See Florida Statutes 61.046
• Occupancy: means an occupied building or part of a building. See Florida Statutes 553.955
• Office: means the Office of Financial Regulation of the commission. See Florida Statutes 559.543
• Office of Economic and Demographic Research: means an entity designated by joint rule of the Legislature or by agreement between the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. See Florida Statutes 1.01
• Office of Insurance Regulation: means the Office of Insurance Regulation of the Financial Services Commission. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability: means an entity designated by joint rule of the Legislature or by agreement between the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. See Florida Statutes 1.01
• officer of a corporation: includes a member owning at least 10 percent of a limited liability company as defined in and organized pursuant to chapter 605. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Official compendium: means the current edition of the official United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary, or any supplement thereto. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• One-stop career center: means a service site established and maintained as part of the one-stop delivery system under…. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Operation: means the ability to start the lamp at least 8 times out of 10 with a minimum of 1 minute between attempts when tested under test conditions. See Florida Statutes 553.955
• Operator: means the owner, licensee, proprietor, lessee, manager, assistant manager, or appointed agent of a public lodging establishment or public food service establishment. See Florida Statutes 509.013
• Order: means a cease and desist order issued by the enforcing authority as set forth in…. See Florida Statutes 501.203
• Oriental medicine: means the use of acupuncture, electroacupuncture, Qi Gong, oriental massage, herbal therapy, dietary guidelines, and other adjunctive therapies. See Florida Statutes 457.102
• Out-of-state collector: means any person or business entity engaged in the business of soliciting commercial claims for collection or of collecting commercial claims whose business activities in this state are limited to collecting commercial claims by means of interstate communications, including telephone, mail, or facsimile transmission, originating from outside this state. See Florida Statutes 559.543
• Outer burial container: means an enclosure into which a casket is placed and includes, but is not limited to, vaults made of concrete, steel, fiberglass, or copper; sectional concrete enclosures; crypts; and wooden enclosures. See Florida Statutes 497.005
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Parent: includes stepparents and parents by adoption, parents-in-law, and any persons who for more than 3 years prior to the death of the deceased employee stood in the place of a parent to him or her and were dependent on the injured employee. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Parenting plan: means a document created to govern the relationship between the parents relating to decisions that must be made regarding the minor child and must contain a time-sharing schedule for the parents and child. See Florida Statutes 61.046
• Partner: means any person who is a member of a partnership that is formed by two or more persons to carry on as co-owners of a business with the understanding that there will be a proportional sharing of the profits and losses between them. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• 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.
• Pay period: means a period of 31 or fewer consecutive days for which a payment or remuneration is ordinarily made to the employee by the person employing him or her. See Florida Statutes 443.036
• Permanent impairment: means any anatomic or functional abnormality or loss determined as a percentage of the body as a whole, existing after the date of maximum medical improvement, which results from the injury. See Florida Statutes 440.02
• Permittee: means any person holding a permit issued under this chapter. See Florida Statutes 499.003
• Person: includes any natural person, firm, association, corporation, business trust, partnership, federal agency, state or political subdivision or agency thereof, or any body politic; and