Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 4 > Article 23 > Chapter 25 - Indiana Commission for Women

• accredited college or university: refers to a college or university that is accredited by one (1) of the following regional accrediting agencies:

  Indiana Code 24-4-11-2

• agency: refers to any agency of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state government. See Indiana Code 4-23-25-1
• architectural salvage material: means an item originally installed on or in a dwelling, a business, or any other structure and subsequently removed from the dwelling, business, or other structure. See Indiana Code 24-4-16-2
• 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
• board: refers to the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, a nonprofit corporation established to improve the practice and educational standards of the profession of industrial hygiene by certifying individuals who meet its education, experience, and examination requirements. See Indiana Code 24-4-11-3
• bona fide purchaser: means a person who in good faith makes a purchase without notice of any outstanding rights of others. See Indiana Code 24-4-17-2
• claim: means a right to payment, whether or not the right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, fixed, matured, disputed, secured, legal, or equitable. See Indiana Code 24-4-17-3
• Clerk: means the clerk of the court or a person authorized to perform the clerk's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• commission: means the fee that a consignor and a retail merchant have agreed that the retail merchant may retain after the sale of the consignor's item to a third party. See Indiana Code 24-4-17-4
• commission: refers to the Indiana commission for women established by section 3 of this chapter. See Indiana Code 4-23-25-2
• 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.
• 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.
• creditor: means a person who has a claim. See Indiana Code 24-4-17-5
• criminal history information: means information:

  Indiana Code 24-4-18-1

• customer: means a person who:

  Indiana Code 24-4-14-2

• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• dealer: means a person who purchases or otherwise acquires architectural salvage material for resale or reuse as part of the normal course of the person's business. See Indiana Code 24-4-16-3
• defibrillator: means an automated external defibrillator. See Indiana Code 24-4-15-1
• delivery period: means a period during which a shared vehicle is delivered to a location identified in the shared vehicle agreement before the vehicle sharing start time. See Indiana Code 24-4-9.2-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• education: means :

  Indiana Code 24-4-11-5

• 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}
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• experience: means the completion of professional level work sufficient to provide competence in the following:

  Indiana Code 24-4-11-6

• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• health club: means an establishment at which:

  Indiana Code 24-4-15-2

• 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
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• industrial hygiene: means the science and practice of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating, and controlling the environmental factors and stresses arising in or from the workplace that may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being, or significant discomfort among workers and the general community. See Indiana Code 24-4-11-7
• infant formula: means any food manufactured, packaged, and labeled specifically for sale for consumption by a child under two (2) years of age. See Indiana Code 24-4-12-5
• 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.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• manufacturer: means a person who manufactures a recording. See Indiana Code 24-4-10-1
• medical device: means an instrument, an apparatus, an implement, a machine, a contrivance, an implant, an in vitro reagent, a tool, or other similar or related article, including a component part or an accessory:

  Indiana Code 24-4-12-7

• minor: means a person less than eighteen (18) years of age. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• motor vehicle insurance policy: means an insurance policy that provides:

  Indiana Code 24-4-9.2-2

• new and unused property: means tangible personal property that:

  Indiana Code 24-4-12-4

• 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.
• on consignment: means that no:

  Indiana Code 24-4-17-6

• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• person: means an individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, association, or any other legal entity. See Indiana Code 24-4-10-2
• person: means an individual, a partnership, a corporation, a limited liability company, or another organization. See Indiana Code 24-4-14-5
• person: means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, an association, a firm, or an educational institution. See Indiana Code 24-4-15-3
• person: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 24-4-16.4-1
• person: means an individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, a partnership, or another legal entity. See Indiana Code 24-4-9.2-5
• personal information: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 24-4-14-6
• Personal property: includes goods, chattels, evidences of debt, and things in action. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• recording: means a tangible medium upon which sounds or visual images are recorded or stored. See Indiana Code 24-4-10-3
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• retail merchant: means a retail merchant making a retail transaction as described in Indiana Code 24-4-17-7
• sexually explicit materials: means a product or service:

  Indiana Code 24-4-16.4-2

• shared vehicle: means a vehicle that a shared vehicle owner has made available for P2P vehicle sharing with a shared vehicle driver through a P2P vehicle sharing program. See Indiana Code 24-4-9.2-6
• shared vehicle agreement: means a written contract:

  Indiana Code 24-4-9.2-11

• shared vehicle driver: means a person who:

  Indiana Code 24-4-9.2-7

• shared vehicle owner: means an individual who makes a shared vehicle available for P2P vehicle sharing with a shared vehicle driver through a P2P vehicle sharing program. See Indiana Code 24-4-9.2-8
• Sheriff: means the sheriff of the county or another person authorized to perform sheriff's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• start time: means the time, as identified in the shared vehicle agreement, when the shared vehicle driver is authorized to use a shared vehicle. See Indiana Code 24-4-9.2-9
• state department: refers to the Indiana department of health. See Indiana Code 24-4-15-4
• termination time: means the earliest of the following events:

  Indiana Code 24-4-9.2-10

• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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
• unused property market: means an event:

  Indiana Code 24-4-12-2

• unused property merchant: means a person, other than a vendor or a merchant with an established retail store in the county, who transports an inventory of goods to a building, vacant lot, or other unused property market location and who, at that location, displays the goods for sale and sells the goods at retail or offers the goods for sale at retail. See Indiana Code 24-4-12-3
• vehicle sharing period: means a period beginning with:

  Indiana Code 24-4-9.2-12

• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5