Terms Used In Maryland Code > HEALTH - GENERAL > Title 13 > Subtitle 2 - State Advisory Council On Health and Wellness

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• County: means a county of the State or Baltimore City. See
• including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• 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}
• 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.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• state: means :
  
  (1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or
  
  (2) the District of Columbia. See