Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 10 > Chapter 13 - Foreign Judgments

• Activation: means a declaration by the director of the department of health and welfare that health care facilities may operate under crisis standards of care as necessary when scarce resource limitations preclude operating under usual standards of care. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Asset disregard: means the total assets an individual owns and may retain under medicaid and still qualify for benefits at the time the individual applies for benefits if the individual is a beneficiary of a long-term care partnership program approved policy. See Idaho Code 56-1302
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Assistance: means aid in meeting daily living needs. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• 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}
• 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.
• CMS: means the centers for medicare and medicaid. See Idaho Code 56-1503
• CMS: means the centers for medicare and medicaid services. See Idaho Code 56-1602
• Consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a lessee who is an individual and who takes under the lease primarily for a personal, family or household purpose, if the total payments to be made under the lease contract, excluding payments for options to renew or buy, do not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000). See Idaho Code 28-12-103
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Crisis standards of care: means a substantial change in the usual health care operations and the level of care it is possible to deliver, justified by specific circumstances and formally declared by a state government in recognition that crisis operations will be in effect for a sustained period. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Declaration: means the issuance by the director of the department of health and welfare of a declaration or documentation that crisis standards of care have been activated in a particular region or statewide. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Department: means the Idaho department of health and welfare. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Department: means the department of health and welfare. See Idaho Code 56-1302
• Department: means the department of health and welfare. See Idaho Code 56-1503
• Department: means the department of health and welfare. See Idaho Code 56-1402
• Department: means the department of health and welfare. See Idaho Code 56-1801
• Department: means the Idaho department of health and welfare. See Idaho Code 56-1602
• Director: means the director of the Idaho department of health and welfare. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Disproportionate share hospital: means a hospital that serves a disproportionate share of medicaid low-income patients as compared to other hospitals as determined by department rule. See Idaho Code 56-1402
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• 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}
• Essential caregiver: means a person designated by a patient or resident to visit the patient or resident at a health care facility. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• 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.
• Extended employment services: means long-term maintenance services that assist participants in maintaining employment or gaining employment skills in preparation for community employment or that provide assistance to adult participants within an industry or a business setting or a community rehabilitation program intended to maintain paid employment. See Idaho Code 56-1801
• facility: means a hospital, a nursing facility, or an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities as defined in chapter 13, title 39, Idaho Code, or a residential care or assisted living facility as defined in chapter 33, title 39, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 56-1703
• Fiscal year: means the time period from July 1 to June 30. See Idaho Code 56-1503
• 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.
• Fiscal year: means the time period from July 1 to June 30. See Idaho Code 56-1602
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the nursing facility assessment fund established pursuant to section 56-1504, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 56-1503
• Fund: means the ICF assessment fund established pursuant to section 56–1603, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 56-1602
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (section 28-12-309, Idaho Code), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See Idaho Code 28-12-103
• Governmental entity: means and includes the state and its political subdivisions. See Idaho Code 56-1402
• Group community-based supported employment: means self-employment or paid employment that is: