Terms Used In Florida Statutes > Chapter 315 - Port Facilities Financing

• Accrediting organization: means an organization whose standards incorporate licensure regulations required by this state. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Agency: means the Agency for Health Care Administration. See Florida Statutes 400.960
• Agency: means the Agency for Health Care Administration. See Florida Statutes 400.902
• Agency: means the Agency for Health Care Administration. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Basic services: includes , but is not limited to, development, implementation, and monitoring of a comprehensive protocol of care, developed in conjunction with the parent or guardian, which specifies the medical, nursing, psychosocial, and developmental therapies required by the medically dependent or technologically dependent child served as well as the caregiver training needs of the child's legal guardian. See Florida Statutes 400.902
• Client: means any person determined by the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to be eligible for developmental services. See Florida Statutes 400.960
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Department of Children and Families. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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.
• General manager: means the individual who has the general administrative charge of the premises of a licensed home medical equipment provider. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• Home medical equipment: includes any product as defined by the Food and Drug Administration's Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, any products reimbursed under the Medicare Part B Durable Medical Equipment benefits, or any products reimbursed under the Florida Medicaid durable medical equipment program. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Home medical equipment provider: means any person or entity that sells or rents or offers to sell or rent to or for a consumer:
  (a) Any home medical equipment and services; or
  (b) Home medical equipment that requires any home medical equipment services. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Home medical equipment services: means equipment management and consumer instruction, including selection, delivery, setup, and maintenance of equipment, and other related services for the use of home medical equipment in the consumer's regular or temporary place of residence. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• 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.
• 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}
• Life-supporting or life-sustaining equipment: means a device that is essential to, or that yields information that is essential to, the restoration or continuation of a bodily function important to the continuation of human life. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Medical records: means medical records maintained in accordance with accepted professional standards and practices as specified in the rules implementing this part. See Florida Statutes 400.902
• Moratorium: means a mandated temporary cessation or suspension of the sale, rental, or offering of equipment after the imposition of the moratorium, in accordance with part II of chapter 408. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• 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.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner or operator: means a licensee. See Florida Statutes 400.902
• patient: means any person who uses home medical equipment in his or her place of residence. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• person: includes individuals, children, firms, associations, joint adventures, partnerships, estates, trusts, business trusts, syndicates, fiduciaries, corporations, and all other groups or combinations. See Florida Statutes 1.01
• political subdivision: include counties, cities, towns, villages, special tax school districts, special road and bridge districts, bridge districts, and all other districts in this state. See Florida Statutes 1.01
• PPEC center: means any building or buildings, or other place, whether operated for profit or not, which undertakes through its ownership or management to provide basic nonresidential services to three or more medically dependent or technologically dependent children who are not related to the owner or operator by blood, marriage, or adoption and who require such services. See Florida Statutes 400.902
• Premises: means those buildings and equipment which are located at the address of the licensed home medical equipment provider for the provision of home medical equipment services, which are in such reasonable proximity as to appear to the public to be a single provider location, and which comply with zoning ordinances. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Residence: means the consumer's home or place of residence, which may include nursing homes, assisted living facilities, transitional living facilities, adult family-care homes, or other congregate residential facilities. See Florida Statutes 400.925
• Restraint: means a physical device, method, or drug used to control behavior. See Florida Statutes 400.960
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.