Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes > Chapter 224 > Subchapter 73 - Sewage Treatment

• Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Animal: includes every warm-blooded living creature except a human being. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• 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
• Cabinet: means the Energy and Environment Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• District: means an air pollution control district as provided for in KRS Chapter 77. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Owner: when applied to any animal, means any person having a property interest in such animal. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• 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.
• public funds: means sums actually received in cash or negotiable instruments from all sources unless otherwise described by any state agency, state- owned corporation, university, department, cabinet, fiduciary for the benefit of any form of state organization, authority, board, bureau, interstate compact, commission, committee, conference, council, office, or any other form of organization whether or not the money has ever been paid into the Treasury and whether or not the money is still in the Treasury if the money is controlled by any form of state organization, except for those funds the management of which is to be reported to the Legislative Research Commission pursuant to KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Secretary: means the secretary of the Energy and Environment Cabinet. See Kentucky Statutes 224.1-010
• 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
• State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Sworn: includes "affirmed" in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• 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
• Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010