Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes > State Park System Construction Alternatives Act

• Action: shall include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Action shall: include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Alternative technical concept: means changes suggested by a qualified, eligible, short-listed design-builder to the commission's basic configurations, project scope, design, or construction criteria. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1703
• 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.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Best value-based selection process: means a process of selecting a design-builder using price, schedule, and qualifications for evaluation factors. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1704
• Commission: means the Game and Parks Commission. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1705
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Construction manager: means the legal entity which proposes to enter into a construction manager-general contractor contract pursuant to the State Park System Construction Alternatives Act. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1706
• Construction manager-general contractor contract: means a contract which is subject to a qualification-based selection process between the commission and a construction manager to furnish preconstruction services during the design development phase of the project and, if an agreement can be reached which is satisfactory to the commission, construction services for the construction phase of the project. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1707
• Construction services: means activities associated with building the project. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1708
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Design-build contract: means a contract between the commission and a design-builder which is subject to a best value-based selection process to furnish (1) architectural, engineering, and related design services and (2) labor, materials, supplies, equipment, and construction services. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1709
• Design-builder: means the legal entity which proposes to enter into a design-build contract. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1710
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• 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
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Preconstruction services: means all nonconstruction-related services that a construction manager performs in relation to the design of the project before execution of a contract for construction services. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1711
• 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
• Project performance criteria: means the performance requirements of the project suitable to allow the design-builder to make a proposal. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1712
• Proposal: means an offer in response to a request for proposals (1) by a design-builder to enter into a design-build contract or (2) by a construction manager to enter into a construction manager-general contractor contract. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1713
• Qualification-based selection process: means a process of selecting a construction manager based on qualifications. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1714
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Request for proposals: means the documentation by which the commission solicits proposals. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1715
• Request for qualifications: means the documentation or publication by which the commission solicits qualifications. See Nebraska Statutes 37-1716
• 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
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801