Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 4 > Article 6 > Chapter 2 - Powers and Duties

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• agricultural labor camp: includes at least one (1) building or structure, tent, trailer, or vehicle, including the land, established, operated, or used as living quarters for at least five (5) adult seasonal or temporary workers engaged in agricultural activities, including related food processing. See Indiana Code 16-41-26-1
• 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.
• 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.
• assembly: means a collection of individuals gathered together at any location at any one (1) time for any purpose. See Indiana Code 16-41-22-2
• 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
• bed and breakfast establishment: means an operator occupied residence that meets the following conditions:

  Indiana Code 16-41-31-1

• bedding: means any mattress, mattress pad, mattress protector pad, box spring, upholstered spring, upholstered sofa bed, quilted pad, comforter, bolster, cushion, pillow, featherbed, sleeping bag, or any other bag, case, or covering that meets the following conditions:

  Indiana Code 16-41-32-5

• Clerk: means the clerk of the court or a person authorized to perform the clerk's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• design daily flow: means the calculated peak daily sewage flow from a residence. See Indiana Code 16-41-25-0.4
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• filling material: means the following:

  Indiana Code 16-41-32-6

• 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.
• governing body: means the following:

  Indiana Code 16-41-22-3

• guest: means an individual who rents a guest room in a bed and breakfast establishment. See Indiana Code 16-41-31-2
• 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
• industrialized residential structure: means a structure that is both an industrialized building system (as defined in IC 22-12-1-14) and a one (1) or two (2) family private residence. See Indiana Code 16-41-27-2.1
• 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.
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• manufacture: means making, remaking, or renovating. See Indiana Code 16-41-32-7
• manufactured home: has the meaning set forth in IC 22-12-1-16. See Indiana Code 16-41-27-3.5
• mobile home: means a dwelling, including the equipment sold as a part of the dwelling, that:

  Indiana Code 16-41-27-4

• mobile home community: means one (1) or more parcels of land:

  Indiana Code 16-41-27-5

• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• new: means an article of bedding or filling material that has not been previously used for any purpose. See Indiana Code 16-41-32-8
• operator: means an owner or the owner's agent of a bed and breakfast establishment who resides within the establishment or on contiguous property. See Indiana Code 16-41-31-4
• 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.
• 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.
• pest: means an arthropod, a vertebrate, or a microorganism of health significance to humans. See Indiana Code 16-41-33-1
• Population: has the meaning set forth in Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Probate: Proving a will
• Property: includes personal and real property. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• publicly owned treatment works: means a treatment works, as defined in Section 212(2) of the federal Clean Water Act (Indiana Code 16-41-25.5-2
• recreational vehicle: means a vehicle with or without motive power that is equipped to be used exclusively as living quarters for persons traveling upon the highways. See Indiana Code 16-41-27.5-3
• residential onsite sewage system: means all equipment and devices necessary for proper conduction, collection, storage, treatment, and onsite disposal of sewage from:

  Indiana Code 16-41-25-0.4

• RV campground: means an area containing at least two (2) RV campsites. See Indiana Code 16-41-27.5-4
• RV campsite: means an individual site at which at least one (1) recreational vehicle may be parked overnight for vacation, recreational, health, educational, sectarian, business, or tourist activities. See Indiana Code 16-41-27.5-5
• secondhand: means any article of bedding or material or part of bedding or material of which prior use of any kind has been made. See Indiana Code 16-41-32-10
• sell: includes any of the following, or any combination of the following:

  Indiana Code 16-41-32-11

• Sheriff: means the sheriff of the county or another person authorized to perform sheriff's duties. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• unit: means a city, town, or county. See Indiana Code 16-41-22-4
• 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
• vector: means an arthropod or a feral animal responsible for the transmission of pathogens from a host to another animal or human. See Indiana Code 16-41-33-2
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5