Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 50 > Chapter 4 > Part 10 - Youth Health Protection Act

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• 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}
• Female: means a member of the human species who, under normal development, has XX chromosomes and produces or would produce relatively large, relatively immobile gametes, or eggs, during her life cycle and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of those gametes. See Montana Code 50-4-1003
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gender: means the psychological, behavioral, social, and cultural aspects of being male or female. See Montana Code 50-4-1003
• 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.
• Health care professional: means a person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the laws of this state to administer health care in the ordinary course of the practice of the person's profession. See Montana Code 50-4-1003
• 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.
• Knowingly: means only a knowledge that the facts exist which bring the act or omission within the provisions of this code. See Montana Code 1-1-204
• Male: means a member of the human species who, under normal development, has XY chromosomes and produces or would produce small, mobile gametes, or sperm, during his life cycle and has a reproductive and endocrine system oriented around the production of those gametes. See Montana Code 50-4-1003
• Minor: means an individual under 18 years of age. See Montana Code 50-4-1003
• Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Physician: means a person who is licensed to practice medicine in this state. See Montana Code 50-4-1003
• Property: means real and personal property. See Montana Code 1-1-205
• Sex: means the organization of body parts and gametes for reproduction in human beings and other organisms. See Montana Code 50-4-1003
• Social transitioning: means acts other than pharmaceutical or surgical interventions that are offered as treatment to a minor for the purpose of the minor presenting as the opposite sex or an identity other than the minor's sex, including the changing of a minor's preferred pronouns or dress and the recommendation to wear clothing or devices, such as binders, for the purpose of concealing a minor's secondary sex characteristics. See Montana Code 50-4-1003
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201