Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 3 > Article 11.5 - Counting Absentee Ballots

• absentee ballot counter: refers to a person designated under Indiana Code 3-11.5-2-1
• account: means the first responder crisis intervention account established under section 11. See Indiana Code 12-21-8-1.5
• addiction treatment team: means a group of providers consisting of at least:

  Indiana Code 12-23-19.5-1

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• 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.
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• 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.
• 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
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• 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}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• CCDF: refers to the federal Child Care and Development Fund program administered under Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-0.4
• center: means a state identified center participating in the 9-8-8 suicide and crisis lifeline network to respond to statewide or regional 9-8-8 calls. See Indiana Code 12-21-8-1
• central location for counting absentee ballots: refers to a location for counting absentee ballots that a county election board must establish under this article. See Indiana Code 3-11.5-2-2
• child care employee: means an individual who:

  Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-0.5

• child care program: refers to the activities provided for children during the time that children are in the care of a provider. See Indiana Code 12-17.2-3.5-1.2
• child of a child care employee: means an individual who:

  Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-0.6

• Clerk: means the clerk of the court or a person authorized to perform the clerk's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• coalition: refers to the Indiana coalition against domestic violence. See Indiana Code 12-18-8-1
• coalition: refers to the Indiana coalition against domestic violence or a successor organization. See Indiana Code 12-18-9-1
• commission: means the Indiana behavioral health commission established by section 2 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 12-21-7.1-1
• 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.
• control board: refers to the township assistance control board. See Indiana Code 12-20-25-2
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• council: refers to the division of mental health and addiction planning and advisory council established by this chapter. See Indiana Code 12-21-4-1
• creditor: means a person that has a claim against the township resulting from providing assistance to an indigent individual as authorized by the township trustee under this article. See Indiana Code 12-20-25-3
• crisis receiving and stabilization services: means behavioral health services that provide short term, less than twenty-four (24) hour care with the capacity for diagnosis, initial management, observation, crisis stabilization, and follow-up referral services to a person in a homelike environment. See Indiana Code 12-21-8-2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Defense attorney: Represent defendants in criminal matters.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• distressed township: means :

  Indiana Code 12-20-25-4

• domestic violence: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 12-18-8-2
• eligible child: refers to an individual who:

  Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-1

• eligible provider: refers to a provider that satisfies the following conditions:

  Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-2

• employs: refers to services performed by an individual for compensation. See Indiana Code 12-17.2-3.5-1.3
• 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}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• extended enrollment period: refers to the period set forth by the office beginning not later than June 1 of each calendar year. See Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-2.1
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• fund: refers to the prekindergarten program fund established by section 13. See Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-4.7
• fund: refers to the therapeutic psilocybin research fund established by section 4 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 12-21-9-1
• fund: refers to the addiction services fund established by section 2 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 12-23-2-1
• 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.
• in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• in-home early education services: means a technology based program of early education that:

  Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.5-1

• incorrect outcome: means an outcome that is inconsistent with an election outcome that would be obtained by conducting a full recount. See Indiana Code 3-12-13-2
• indebtedness: includes unpaid township assistance claims, outstanding bonds, and advancements from the county to the township for any purpose, if the advancement is not repayable in the year the advancement is made. See Indiana Code 12-20-25-5
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• limited eligibility child: refers to an individual who:

  Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-2.5

• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• local domestic violence fatality review team: means the county or regional domestic violence fatality review team established under this chapter. See Indiana Code 12-18-8-5
• mental health and addiction forensic treatment services: means evidence based treatment and recovery wraparound support services that may be provided to individuals in the criminal justice system who are charged with a felony offense, or have a prior felony conviction, and have been placed or are eligible to be placed in a pretrial services program, community corrections program, prosecuting attorney's diversion program, or jail as an alternative to commitment to the department of correction. See Indiana Code 12-23-19-1
• micro facility: means an entity licensed under this article that provides child care for not less than three (3) children and not more than thirty (30) children for at least four (4) hours per day. See Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.6-1
• minor: means a person less than eighteen (18) years of age. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• mobile crisis team: means behavioral health professionals and peers that provide professional onsite community based intervention, including de-escalation, stabilization, and treatment for individuals who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis. See Indiana Code 12-21-8-3
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes "affirmation" and "to swear" includes to "affirm". See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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.
• office: means the office of the secretary of family and social services. See Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-3
• office: refers to the office of the secretary of family and social services. See Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.5-2
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• paths to QUALITY program: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-4
• peer: means an individual employed on the basis of the individual's personally lived experience with mental illness or addiction and recovery and meets the requirements of peer certification established by the division. See Indiana Code 12-21-8-5
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes goods, chattels, evidences of debt, and things in action. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• petitioner: refers to the individual voter whose name is listed first on the petition filed under section 2 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 3-12-12-1.7
• pilot program: refers to the pilot program established under section 3 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.6-2
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Population: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• post-election audit: means an audit protocol that makes use of statistical methods and is designed to limit to acceptable levels the risk of certifying a preliminary election outcome that constitutes an incorrect outcome. See Indiana Code 3-12-13-3
• potential eligible provider or existing eligible provider: refers to an entity that qualifies as a potential eligible provider or existing eligible provider under section 7. See Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-5.5
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• prekindergarten program: refers to the prekindergarten program established under section 7 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-5
• priority enrollment period: refers to the period set forth by the office beginning not later than April 1 of each calendar year, except for calendar year 2024, during which the priority enrollment period may begin later than April 1, 2024. See Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-5.7
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• procedure audit: refers to a process by which the procedures of an election are reviewed to determine how well an election was conducted in accordance with Indiana law. See Indiana Code 3-12-14-2
• psilocybin: means a naturally occurring psychedelic prodrug compound that is produced by fungi, including members of the genus psilocybe. See Indiana Code 12-21-9-2
• qualified early education services: refers to a program of early education services that:

  Indiana Code 12-17.2-7.2-6

• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• research institution: refers to an organization that meets all of the following:

  Indiana Code 12-21-9-3

• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• state domestic violence fatality review coordinator: refers to the individual employed by the coalition as the state domestic violence fatality review coordinator. See Indiana Code 12-18-9-2
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• veteran crisis line: means the veteran crisis line maintained by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. See Indiana Code 12-21-8-5.5
• voucher payment: means payment for child care through the federal Child Care and Development Fund voucher program administered under Indiana Code 12-17.2-3.5-3