Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 75A - Consolidated Emergency Services Districts

• 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.
• 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.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Chairman: means the chairman of the board of a consolidated emergency services district organized under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Chief: means the chief of the consolidated emergency services district organized under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Consolidated emergency services district: means districts organized under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Dismissal: means the discharge of an employee by lawful authority. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Employees: means all persons employed, and paid wages, salary, or other compensation for emergency services performed, by the board of trustees of a consolidated emergency services district organized under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• 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}
• 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.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• Member: shall include the chief and all officers. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Month: means calendar month. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Registered mail: means any governmental, commercial, or electronic method of delivery that allows a document or package to have:
  (a) Its chain of custody recorded in a register to enable its location to be tracked. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Suspension: means the separation of an employee from the service for a
  temporary or fixed period of time, by his appointing authority, as a disciplinary measure. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• 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.
• 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.
• Trustees: means the board of trustees of a consolidated emergency services district organized under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Volunteer: means any person who is a member of a consolidated emergency services district organized under this chapter who volunteers to provide services for the district, if the individual receives no salary, wages, or other compensation for services performed, or if the individual is paid expenses, reasonable benefits, or a nominal fee to perform the services for which the individual volunteered, and the services are not the same type of services which the individual is employed to perform for the consolidated emergency services district organized under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 75A.120
• Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010