Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 14A > Subchapter 9 - Foreign Business Entities

• Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Advanced recycling: means a manufacturing process for the conversion of post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks into basic hydrocarbon raw materials, feedstocks, chemicals, and other products through processes that include pyrolysis, gasification, depolymerization, catalytic cracking, reforming, hydrogenation, solvolysis, and other similar technologies. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Advanced recycling facility: means a manufacturing facility that receives, stores, and converts post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks it receives using advanced recycling. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• 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.
• Air pollution: means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one (1) or more air contaminants in sufficient quantities and of such characteristics and duration as is or threatens to be injurious to human, plant, or animal life, or to property, or which unreasonably interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• 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.
• Animal: includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• any other state: includes any state, territory, outlying possession, the District of Columbia, and any foreign government or country. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• area: means any geographical area established or designated by the cabinet in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• 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.
• Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• 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.
• branch budget: means an enactment by the General Assembly which provides appropriations and establishes fiscal policies and conditions for the biennial financial plan for the judicial branch, the legislative branch, and the executive branch, which shall include a separate budget bill for the Transportation Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Business: includes every trade, occupation, and profession. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Business trust: means a business trust governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter 386 or a statutory trust governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter
  386A. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Cabinet: means the Energy and Environment Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• Certified mail: means any method of governmental, commercial, or electronic delivery that allows a document or package to have proof of:
  (a) Sending the document or package. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Closure: means the time at which a waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility permanently ceases to accept wastes, and includes those actions taken by the owner or operator of the facility to prepare the site for post-closure monitoring and maintenance or to make it suitable for other uses. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Commercial solid waste: means all types of solid waste generated by stores, offices, restaurants, warehouses, and other service and nonmanufacturing activities, excluding tire-derived fuel and household and industrial solid waste. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Compost: means solid waste which has undergone biological decomposition of organic matter, been disinfected using composting or similar technologies, been stabilized to a degree which is potentially beneficial to plant growth and which is approved for use or sale as a soil amendment, artificial topsoil, growing medium amendment, or other similar uses. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Composting: means the process by which biological decomposition of organic solid waste is carried out under controlled aerobic conditions, and which stabilizes the organic fraction into a material which can easily and safely be stored, handled, and used in an environmentally acceptable manner:
  (a) "Composting" may include a process which creates an anaerobic zone within the composting material. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• 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.
• 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.
• Corporation: means a business corporation governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter 271B, a cooperative or association governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter 272, a nonprofit corporation governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter 273, and a rural electric or rural telephone cooperative corporation governed as to its internal affairs by KRS Chapter 279. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Corporation: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Depolymerization: means a manufacturing process where post-use polymers are broken into smaller molecules such as monomers and oligomers or raw, intermediate, or final products, plastics and chemical feedstocks, basic and unfinished chemicals, waxes, lubricants, coatings, and other basic hydrocarbons. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
• Directors: when applied to corporations, includes managers or trustees. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, or placing of any waste into or on any land or water so that such waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any waters, including ground waters. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• District: means an air pollution control district as provided for in KRS Chapter 77. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Domestic: when applied to a corporation, partnership, business trust, or limited liability company, means all those incorporated or formed by authority of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Effluent limitations: means any restrictions or prohibitions established under state
  law which include, but are not limited to, effluent limitations, standards of
  performance for new sources, and toxic effluent standards on quantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical, physical, biological, and other constituents which are discharged into waters. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Entity: means a corporation, business or statutory trust, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, limited cooperative association, or unincorporated nonprofit association, governed as to its internal affairs by the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• 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}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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.
• Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Floor leaders: The Majority Leader and Minority Leader are elected by their respective party conferences to serve as the chief Senate spokesmen for their parties and to manage and schedule the legislative and executive business of the Senate. By custom, the Presiding Officer gives the floor leaders priority in obtaining recognition to speak on the floor of the Senate.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Foreign: when applied to a corporation, partnership, limited partnership, business trust, statutory trust, or limited liability company, includes all those incorporated or formed by authority of any other state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Foreign limited cooperative association: means a limited cooperative association that is not:
  (a) Organized pursuant to the laws of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Foreign limited liability partnership: means a partnership that:
  (a) Is formed under laws other than the laws of this Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gasification: means a process through which post-use polymers and recovered feedstocks are heated and converted into a fuel and gas mixture in an oxygen- deficient atmosphere, and then converted into raw, intermediate, and final products. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Generator: means any person, by site, whose act or process produces waste. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Governing body: means a county, a waste management district, an entity created pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act, a taxing district created pursuant to the provisions of KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Hazardous waste: means any discarded material or material intended to be discarded or substance or combination of such substances intended to be discarded, in any form which because of its quantity, concentration or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Household solid waste: means solid waste, including garbage and trash generated by single and multiple family residences, hotels, motels, bunkhouses, ranger stations, crew quarters, and recreational areas such as picnic areas, parks, and campgrounds, but it does not include tire- derived fuel. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Industrial energy facility: means a facility that produces transportation fuels, synthetic natural gas, chemicals, or electricity through a gasification process using coal, coal waste, or biomass resources, and costing in excess of seven hundred fifty million dollars ($750,000,000) at the time of construction. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Industrial solid waste: means solid waste generated by manufacturing or industrial processes that is not a hazardous waste or a special waste as designated by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• 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.
• Key personnel: means an officer, partner, director, manager, or shareholder of five percent (5%) or more of stock or financial interest in a corporation, partnership, or association or parent, subsidiary, or affiliate corporation and its officers, directors, or shareholders of five percent (5%) or more of stock or financial interest. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Land disposal: includes but is not limited to any placement of hazardous waste in a landfill, surface impoundment, waste pile, injection well, land treatment facility, salt dome formation, salt bed formation, or underground mine or cave. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• 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}
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• 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.
• Manifest: means the form used for identifying the quantity, composition, and the origin, routing, and destination of waste during its transportation from the point of generation to the point of disposal, treatment, or storage. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Month: means calendar month. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• Municipal solid waste: means household solid waste and commercial solid waste. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Municipal solid waste disposal facility: means any type of waste site or facility where the final deposition of any amount of municipal solid waste occurs, whether or not mixed with or including other waste allowed under Subtitle D of the Federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, and includes but is not limited to incinerators and waste-to-energy facilities that burn municipal solid waste and contained and residential landfills, but does not include an advanced recycling facility or a waste site or facility which is operated exclusively by a solid waste generator on property owned by the solid waste generator which accepts only industrial solid waste from the solid waste generator or industrial solid waste generated at another facility owned and operated by the generator or wholly-owned subsidiary, or a medical waste incinerator which is owned, operated, and located on the property of a hospital or university which is regulated by the cabinet and used for the purpose of treatment, prior to landfill, of medical waste received from the generator exclusively or in combination with medical waste generated by professionals or facilities licensed or regulated or operated by the Commonwealth. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Newsprint: means that class or kind of paper chiefly used for printing newspapers and weighing more than twenty-four and one-half (24 1/2) pounds, but less than thirty-five (35) pounds for five hundred (500) sheets of paper two (2) feet by three (3) feet in size, on rolls that are not less than thirteen (13) inches wide and twenty- eight (28) inches in diameter and having a brightness of less than sixty (60). See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• NPDES: means National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• Open dump: means any facility or site for the disposal of solid waste which does not have a valid permit issued by the cabinet or does not meet the environmental performance standards established under regulations promulgated by the cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Organized: means organized, incorporated, or formed. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Partnership: means an association of two (2) or more persons to carry on as co- owners a business for profit formed under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Partnership: includes both general and limited partnerships. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Person: means an individual, an entity, a foreign entity, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• 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.
• Plea agreement: An arrangement between the prosecutor, the defense attorney, and the defendant in which the defendant agrees to plead guilty in exchange for special considerations. ^Source:
• Pollutant: means and includes dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, sewage sludge, garbage, chemical, biological or radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, soil, industrial, municipal or agricultural waste, and any substance resulting from the development, processing, or recovery of any natural resource which may be discharged into water. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Post-closure monitoring and maintenance: means the routine care, maintenance, and monitoring of a solid waste or hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility following closure of the facility. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Post-use polymer: means a plastic polymer that:
  (a) Is derived from any industrial, commercial, agricultural, or domestic activities. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Postconsumer waste paper: means discarded paper after it has served its intended use by a publisher. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• 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.
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Principal office: means the address required by this chapter or the organic act to be of record with the Secretary of State as the principal office, the principal place of business address, the designated office of a limited partnership, or the chief executive office of a limited liability partnership. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Property: means all property, real, personal, or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Publisher: means a person engaged in the business of publishing newspapers, advertisement flyers, telephone books, and other printed material. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Pyrolysis: means a manufacturing process through which post-use polymers are heated in the absence of oxygen until melted and thermally decomposed, and are then cooled, condensed, and converted into raw materials, intermediate products, or final products. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• real estate: includes lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interest therein, other than a chattel interest. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Recovered feedstock: means one (1) or more of the following materials that has been processed so that it may be used as feedstock in an advanced recycling facility:
  1. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Recovered material: means those materials, including but not limited to compost,
  which have known current use, reuse, or recycling potential, which can be feasibly used, reused, or recycled, and which have been diverted or removed from the solid waste stream for sale, use, reuse, or recycling, whether or not requiring subsequent separation and processing, but does not include materials diverted or removed for purposes of energy recovery or combustion except refuse-derived fuel (RDF), which shall be credited as a recovered material in an amount equal to that percentage of the municipal solid waste received on a daily basis at the processing facility and processed into RDF. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Recovered material processing facility: means a facility engaged solely in the storage, processing, and resale or reuse of recovered material, but does not mean a solid waste management facility if solid waste generated by a recovered material processing facility is managed pursuant to this chapter and administrative regulations adopted by the cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Recycling: means any process by which materials which would otherwise become solid waste are collected, separated, or processed and reused or returned to use in the form of raw materials or products, including refuse-derived fuel when processed in accordance with administrative regulations established by the cabinet, but does not include the incineration or combustion of materials for the recovery of energy. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Refuse-derived fuel: means a sized, processed fuel product derived from the extensive separation of municipal solid waste, which includes the extraction of recoverable materials for recycling and the removal of nonprocessables such as dirt and gravel prior to processing the balance of the municipal solid waste into the refuse-derived fuel product. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Registered agent: means a registered agent appointed in accordance with KRS
  14A. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Registered office: means the registered office identified in accordance with and
  satisfying the requirements of KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• Regulatory board: means the agency that is charged by law with the licensing and regulation of the practice of the profession which the entity is organized to provide. See Kentucky Statutes 14A.1-070
• 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.
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Energy and Environment Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Sewage system: means individually or collectively those constructions or devices used for collecting, pumping, treating, and disposing of liquid or waterborne sewage, industrial wastes, or other wastes. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Solid waste management: means the administration of solid waste activities: collection, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, and disposal, which shall be in accordance with a cabinet-approved county or multicounty solid waste management plan. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Solid waste management facility: means any facility for collection, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, or disposal of solid waste, whether such facility is associated with facilities generating such wastes or otherwise, but does not include a container located on property where solid waste is generated and which is used solely for the purpose of collection and temporary storage of that solid waste prior to off-site disposal, or a recovered material processing facility or advanced recycling facility, both of which are otherwise subject to regulation pursuant to this chapter for control of environmental impacts and to prevent any public nuisance. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Solvolysis: includes but is not limited to hydrolysis, aminolysis, ammonolysis, methanolysis, and glycolysis. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Storage: means the containment of wastes, either on a temporary basis or for a period of years, in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of such wastes. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Termination: means the final actions taken by the cabinet as to a solid waste or hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility when formal responsibilities for post-closure monitoring and maintenance cease. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Transportation: means any off-site movement of waste by any mode, and any loading, unloading, or storage incidental thereto. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Treatment: means any method, technique, or process, including neutralization, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological character or composition of any waste so as to neutralize such waste or so as to render such waste nonhazardous, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, or reduced in volume. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• 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.
• Violate: includes failure to comply with. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Waste: means :
  (a) "Solid waste" means any garbage, refuse, sludge, and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial, commercial, mining (excluding coal mining wastes, coal mining by-products, refuse, and overburden), agricultural operations, and from community activities, but does not include those materials including, but not limited to, sand, soil, rock, gravel, or bridge debris extracted as part of a public road construction project funded wholly or in part with state funds, recovered material, post-use polymers or recovered feedstocks, tire-derived fuel, special wastes as designated by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Waste management district: means any county or group of counties electing to form under the provisions of KRS Chapter 109 and operate in conformance with the provisions of KRS Chapter 109 and with Section 4006, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended (Public Law 94-580). See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Waste site or facility: means any place where waste is managed, processed, or disposed of by incineration, landfilling, or any other method, but does not include a container located on property where solid waste is generated and which is used solely for the purpose of collection and temporary storage of that solid waste prior to off-site disposal, or a recovered material processing facility, or an advanced recycling facility, or the combustion of processed waste in a utility boiler. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• waters of the Commonwealth: means and includes any and all rivers, streams, creeks, lakes, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, wells, marshes, and all other bodies of surface or underground water, natural or artificial, situated wholly or partly within or bordering upon the Commonwealth or within its jurisdiction. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• Whips: Assistants to the floor leaders who are also elected by their party conferences. The Majority and Minority Whips (and their assistants) are responsible for mobilizing votes within their parties on major issues. In the absence of a party floor leader, the whip often serves as acting floor leader.
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010