Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes > Nebraska Clean Indoor Air Act

• Action: shall include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Attorney: shall mean attorney at law. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Company: shall include any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint-stock company, joint venture, or association. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• 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.
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Electronic smoking device: means an electronic nicotine delivery system as defined in section Nebraska Statutes 71-5718.01
• Employed: means hired, contracted, subcontracted, or otherwise engaged to furnish goods or services. See Nebraska Statutes 71-5719
• Employee: means a person who is employed by an employer in consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages, profit, or other remuneration. See Nebraska Statutes 71-5720
• Employer: means a person, nonprofit entity, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company, cooperative, firm, trust, association, organization, or other business entity, including retail establishments where goods or services are sold, who or which employs one or more employees. See Nebraska Statutes 71-5721
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. ^{Source: OCC}
• Guestroom or suite: means a sleeping room and directly associated private areas, such as a bathroom, a living room, and a kitchen area, if any, rented to the public for their exclusive transient occupancy, including, but not limited to, a guestroom or suite in a hotel, motel, inn, lodge, or other such establishment. See Nebraska Statutes 71-5722
• Indoor area: means an area enclosed by a floor, a ceiling, and walls on all sides that are continuous and solid except for closeable entry and exit doors and windows and in which less than twenty percent of the total wall area is permanently open to the outdoors. See Nebraska Statutes 71-5723
• 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.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Place of employment: means an indoor area under the control of a proprietor that an employee accesses as part of his or her employment without regard to whether the employee is present or work is occurring at any given time. See Nebraska Statutes 71-5724
• Process: shall mean a summons, subpoena, or notice to appear issued out of a court in the course of judicial proceedings. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Proprietor: means any employer, owner, operator, supervisor, manager, or other person who controls, governs, or directs the activities in a place of employment or public place. See Nebraska Statutes 71-5725
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public place: means an indoor area to which the public is invited or in which the public is permitted, whether or not the public is always invited or permitted. See Nebraska Statutes 71-5726
• Purchase: shall include taking by sale, discount, negotiation, or any other transaction for value creating an interest in property except liens. See Nebraska Statutes 77-122
• Smoke or smoking: means inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted or heated cigar, cigarette, pipe, hookah, or any other lighted or heated tobacco or plant product intended for inhalation, whether natural or synthetic, in any manner or in any form. See Nebraska Statutes 71-5727
• State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Sworn: shall include affirmed in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Tobacco retail outlet: means a store that sells only tobacco and products directly related to tobacco. See Nebraska Statutes 71-5728
• Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801