Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 39F - Local Rescue Programs - State and Local Search and Rescue Programs

• agent: includes managing general agent unless the context requires otherwise. See Kentucky Statutes 304.9-085
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• 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.
• 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.
• City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Committee substitute: Short for committee amendment in the nature of a substitute.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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.
• General rescue squad: means a rescue squad which performs one (1) or more of the following functions as a stated mission of the organization:
  (a) Light duty rescue. See Kentucky Statutes 39F.010
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Impaired person: means a person who has a known or reported:
  (a) Developmental disability, including but not limited to autism, or traumatic brain injury and whose disappearance poses a credible threat to the health or safety of the person, as determined by the Department of Kentucky State Police or a local law enforcement agency. See Kentucky Statutes 39F.010
• insured: as used in this subtitle , shall not be construed as preventing a person other than the insured with a proper insurable interest from making application for and owning a policy covering the insured or from being entitled under such a policy to any indemnities, benefits, and rights provided therein. See Kentucky Statutes 304.17-320
• Month: means calendar month. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Rescue: means gaining access, rendering appropriate care, and transporting of a person or persons by whatever means, to a safe environment for appropriate care. See Kentucky Statutes 39F.010
• Search: means the process of looking for a person or persons whose location is not precisely known, and who may be in distress. See Kentucky Statutes 39F.010
• Search and rescue mission: includes , but is not limited to, searching for a missing or lost person or persons, cave rescue, high angle or rough terrain rescue, urban search and rescue, dive rescue and recovery of drowning victims, inland water search, rescue, and recovery. See Kentucky Statutes 39F.010
• Specialized rescue squad: means a rescue squad which performs one (1) or more of the following functions as the primary or sole mission of the organization:
  (a) Cave rescue. See Kentucky Statutes 39F.010
• Treatment: when used in a criminal justice context, means targeted interventions
  that focus on criminal risk factors in order to reduce the likelihood of criminal behavior. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Veteran at risk: means a veteran or an active-duty member of the Armed Forces, the National Guard, or a military reserve component of the United States who is known to have a physical or mental health condition, to include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), that is related to his or her service. See Kentucky Statutes 39F.010
• Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010