Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 57 - Public Printing and Distribution of Public Documents

• 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.
• any other state: includes any state, territory, outlying possession, the District of Columbia, and any foreign government or country. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Basic reparation insured: means :
  (a) A person identified by name as an insured in a contract of basic reparation insurance complying with this subtitle. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020
• Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• 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}
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• 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}
• Limited health service: means dental care services, vision care services, mental health services, substance abuse services, chiropractic services, pharmaceutical services, podiatric care services, and such other services as may be determined by the commissioner to be limited health services. See Kentucky Statutes 304.38A-010
• Limited health service organization: means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other entity that undertakes to provide or arrange limited health service or services to enrollees. See Kentucky Statutes 304.38A-010
• Loss: means accrued economic loss consisting only of medical expense, work loss, replacement services loss, and, if injury causes death, survivor's economic loss and survivor's replacement services loss. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020
• Medical expense: means reasonable charges incurred for reasonably needed products, services, and accommodations, including those for medical care, physical rehabilitation, rehabilitative occupational training, licensed ambulance services, and other remedial treatment and care. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020
• Moped: means either a motorized bicycle whose frame design may include one (1) or more horizontal crossbars supporting a fuel tank so long as it also has pedals, or a motorized bicycle with a step-through type frame which may or may not have pedals rated no more than two (2) brake horsepower, a cylinder capacity not exceeding fifty (50) cubic centimeters, an automatic transmission not requiring clutching or shifting by the operator after the drive system is engaged, and capable of a maximum speed of not more than thirty (30) miles per hour. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020
• Motor vehicle: means any vehicle which transports persons or property upon the public highways of the Commonwealth, propelled by other than muscular power except road rollers, road graders, farm tractors, vehicles on which power shovels are mounted, such other construction equipment customarily used only on the site of construction and which is not practical for the transportation of persons or property upon the highways, such vehicles as travel exclusively upon rails, and such vehicles as are propelled by electrical power obtained from overhead wires while being operated within any municipality or where said vehicles do not travel more than five (5) miles beyond the said limits of any municipality. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020
• Net loss: means loss less benefits or advantages, from sources other than basic and added reparation insurance, required to be subtracted from loss in calculating net loss. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020
• 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.
• Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder or secured party, who owns or has title to a motor vehicle or is entitled to the use and possession of a motor vehicle subject to a security interest held by another person. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Provider: means the same as defined in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 304.38A-010
• Reparation obligor: means an insurer, self-insurer, or obligated government providing basic or added reparation benefits under this subtitle. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020
• Replacement services loss: means expenses reasonably incurred in obtaining ordinary and necessary services in lieu of those the injured person would have performed, not for income but for the benefit of himself or his family, if he had not been injured. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020
• Security: means any continuing undertaking complying with this subtitle, for payment of tort liabilities, basic reparation benefits, and all other obligations imposed by this subtitle. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Survivor: means a person identified in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• 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.
• Use of a motor vehicle: means any utilization of the motor vehicle as a vehicle including occupying, entering into, and alighting from it. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020
• user: means a person who resides in a household in which any person owns or maintains a motor vehicle. See Kentucky Statutes 304.39-020