Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 53 > Chapter 19 > Part 3 - Telecommunications Services

• 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.
• Committee: means the committee on telecommunications access services for persons with disabilities established in 2-15-2212. See Montana Code 53-19-302
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of revenue. See Montana Code 53-19-302
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• End user connection: means a customer's connection to a service provider's network. See Montana Code 53-19-302
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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}
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Mobility-disabled: means the condition of a person with reduced function of the arms, legs, or hands making activities related to moving, turning, or pressing objects difficult or impossible. See Montana Code 53-19-302
• 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.
• Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Person with a disability: means the condition of a person who is deaf and blind, deaf, hard-of-hearing, speech-disabled, or mobility-disabled. See Montana Code 53-19-302
• 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.
• Program: means the program established in 53-19-306. See Montana Code 53-19-302
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Service provider: means an entity that offers services to subscribers in Montana to allow two or more persons in different locations to communicate orally, without regard to the technology or medium the entity uses to provide the telecommunications service, and access to telecommunications relay service. See Montana Code 53-19-302
• Specialized telecommunications equipment: means any telecommunications device that enables or assists a person with a disability to communicate with others by means of the public switched telephone network or internet protocol-enabled voice communications service. See Montana Code 53-19-302
• 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
• Subscriber: means an end user who receives telecommunications network access from a service provider. See Montana Code 53-19-302
• Telecommunications: means the transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing without a change in the form or content of the information upon receipt. See Montana Code 53-19-302
• Telecommunications relay service: means a service that permits full and simultaneous communication between those using specialized telecommunications equipment and those using conventional telephone equipment or any other technology or equipment, including but not limited to personal computers and videophones. See Montana Code 53-19-302
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Writing: includes printing. See Montana Code 1-1-203