Terms Used In Idaho Code > Title 67 > Chapter 53 - Personnel System

• Adjournment sine die: The end of a legislative session "without day." These adjournments are used to indicate the final adjournment of an annual or the two-year session of legislature.
• Administrative employee: means any person, nonclassified or classified, appointed to a position that meets the criteria set forth in the federal fair labor standards act, 29 U. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• Administrator: means the administrator of the division of human resources in the governor’s office. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• 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.
• 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.
• Appointing authority: means the officer, board, commission, person or group of persons authorized by statute or lawfully delegated authority to make appointments to or employ personnel in any department. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Class: means a group of positions sufficiently similar as to the duties performed, degree of supervision exercised or required, minimum requirements of training, experience or skill, and other characteristics that the same title, the same tests of fitness and the same schedule of compensation may be applied to each position in the group. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• classified employee: means any person appointed to or holding a position in any department of the state of Idaho, which position is subject to the provisions of the merit examination, selection, retention, promotion and dismissal requirements of section 67-5309, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• Commission: means the Idaho personnel commission. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• Compensatory time: means approved time off from duty provided in compensation for overtime hours worked. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Department: means any department, agency, institution or office of the state of Idaho. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• Disabled veteran: is a s defined in section 65-502, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Eligible: means a person who has been determined to be qualified for a classified position and whose name has been placed on the register of eligibles. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• 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.
• Exempt employee: means any employee, classified or nonclassified, who is determined to be an executive, professional or administrative employee as defined in this section or who qualifies for any other exemption from cash compensation for overtime under applicable federal law. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• 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.
• Full-time employee: means any employee working a forty (40) hour workweek. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• 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
• Holiday: means any day so designated by the president of the United States or the governor of this state for a public fast, thanksgiving or holiday. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• Hours worked: means those hours actually spent in the performance of the employee’s job on any day including holidays and shall not include vacation or sick leave or other approved leave of absence. See Idaho Code 67-5302
• 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.
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Idaho Code 73-114
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Overtime work: means :