Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 272A > Subchapter 2 - Filings with the Secretary of State

• Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Administrative body: means each state board, bureau, cabinet, commission, department, authority, officer, or other entity, except the General Assembly and the Court of Justice, authorized by law to promulgate administrative regulations. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Administrative regulation: means each statement of general applicability promulgated by an administrative body that implements, interprets, or prescribes law or policy, or describes the organization, procedure, or practice requirements of any administrative body. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appropriate court: means the Circuit Court for the county of the Commonwealth in which the limited cooperative association's principal office is located or, if none, the county in which the registered office is or was last located. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• 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
• Appropriation: means an authorization by the General Assembly to expend, from public funds, a sum of money not in excess of the sum specified, for the purposes specified in the authorization and under the procedure prescribed in KRS Chapter 48. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Articles of association: means the articles of association of a limited cooperative association required by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authorizing signature: means the signature of the head of the administrative body authorized by statute to promulgate administrative regulations. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• 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
• Commission: means the Legislative Research Commission. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Cooperative: means a limited cooperative association or an entity organized under any cooperative law of any jurisdiction. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• 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
• Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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 cooperative: means an entity organized in a jurisdiction other than this
  Commonwealth under a law similar to this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Legislative committee: means an interim joint committee, a House or Senate standing committee, a statutory committee, or a subcommittee of the Legislative Research Commission. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• 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.
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• promulgated: means that an administrative regulation, or other document required to be filed by this chapter, has been submitted to the Commission in accordance with this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Proposed administrative regulation: means an administrative regulation that: (a) Has been filed by an administrative body. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Secretary: means the officer designated pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Sign: means , with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
  (a) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Small business: means a business entity, including its affiliates, that: (a) Is independently owned and operated. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 272A.1-020
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Tiering: means the tailoring of regulatory requirements to fit the particular circumstances surrounding regulated entities. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Written comments: means comments submitted to the administrative body's contact person identified pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 13A.010
• Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010