Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 3 > Article 7 > Chapter 45 - Removal From Registration Records Due to Death

• 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.
• 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.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• assignee: means any individual, corporation, or other legal entity to which an SNG property interest is transferred. See Indiana Code 8-1-8.9-1
• Attorney: includes a counselor or other person authorized to appear and represent a party in an action or special proceeding. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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.
• 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.
• clean coal technology: means a technology (including precombustion treatment of coal):

  Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-3

• clean energy projects: means any of the following:

  Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-2

• coal gasification facility: means a facility in Indiana that uses a manufacturing process that converts coal into a clean gas that can be used:

  Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-4

• commission: refers to the Indiana utility regulatory commission. See Indiana Code 8-1-1-1
• commission: refers to the Indiana utility regulatory commission created by IC 8-1-1-2. See Indiana Code 8-1-8.9-2
• 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.
• Cost of relocation: shall include the entire amount paid by a utility properly attributable to such relocation, after deducting therefrom any increase in the value of the new facility and any salvage value derived from the old facility. See Indiana Code 8-1-9-2
• costs associated with qualified utility system property: means capital, operation, maintenance, depreciation, tax costs, and financing costs of or for qualified utility system property. See Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-5
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• eligible business: means a business that is an energy utility (as defined in Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-6
• energy utility: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 8-1-8.9-3
• 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.
• financing entity: means a person that provides:

  Indiana Code 8-1-8.9-4

• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• group: refers to the forecasting group established by Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-7
• Highway: when used in this chapter shall mean only those routes which are included within the national system of interstate and defense highways. See Indiana Code 8-1-9-2
• Highway: includes county bridges and state and county roads, unless otherwise expressly provided. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. 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.
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• new energy production or generating facility: refers to a generation or coal gasification facility that satisfies all of the following:

  Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-8

• nuclear energy production or generating facility: means :

  Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-8.5

• 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.
• Population: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• qualified contract: means a contract with a term of at least thirty (30) years for the sale of substitute natural gas to an energy utility. See Indiana Code 8-1-8.9-5
• qualified order: means a final and irrevocable order that:

  Indiana Code 8-1-8.9-7

• qualified utility system expenses: means the costs associated with the study, analysis, or development of a life cycle management project for a nuclear energy production or generating facility. See Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-8.7
• qualified utility system property: means any:

  Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-9

• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• renewable energy resource: means the following:

  Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-10

• small modular nuclear reactor: means a nuclear reactor that:

  Indiana Code 8-1-8.8-10.2

• SNG: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 8-1-8.9-8
• SNG property interest: means the right, title, and interest that:

  Indiana Code 8-1-8.9-9

• SNG seller: means any individual, corporation, or other legal entity that engages in the production and sale of substitute natural gas. See Indiana Code 8-1-8.9-10
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the commonwealths, possessions, states in free association with the United States, and the territories. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Utility: shall include all privately, municipally, publicly, or cooperatively owned systems for supplying communications, power, light, heat, electricity, gas, water, pipeline, sewer, sewage disposal, drain, or like service, directly or indirectly, to the public. See Indiana Code 8-1-9-2
• Verified: when applied to pleadings, means supported by oath or affirmation in writing. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5