Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes > Chapter 113A > Article 1 - Environmental Policy Act

• Environmental document: means an environmental assessment, an environmental impact statement, or a finding of no significant impact. See North Carolina General Statutes 113A-9
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• 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}
• Major development project: shall include but is not limited to shopping centers, subdivisions and other housing developments, and industrial and commercial projects, but shall not include any projects of less than ten contiguous acres in extent. See North Carolina General Statutes 113A-9
• Minimum criteria: means a rule that designates a particular action or class of actions for which the preparation of environmental documents is not required. See North Carolina General Statutes 113A-9
• property: shall include all property, both real and personal. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• Public land: means all land and interests therein, title of which is vested in the State of North Carolina, in any State agency, or in the State for the use of any State agency or political subdivision of the State, and includes all vacant and unappropriated land, swampland, submerged land, land acquired by the State by virtue of being sold for taxes or by any other manner of acquisition, or escheated land. See North Carolina General Statutes 113A-9
• Significant expenditure of public moneys: means expenditures of public funds greater than ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for a single project or action or related group of projects or actions. See North Carolina General Statutes 113A-9
• Special-purpose unit of government: includes any special district or public authority. See North Carolina General Statutes 113A-9
• state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall be construed to include the said district and territories and all dependencies. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
• State agency: includes every department, agency, institution, public authority, board, commission, bureau, division, council, member of Council of State, or officer of the State government of the State of North Carolina, but does not include local governmental units or bodies such as cities, towns, other municipal corporations or political subdivisions of the State, county or city boards of education, other local special-purpose public districts, units or bodies of any kind, or private corporations created by act of the General Assembly, except in those instances where programs, projects and actions of local governmental units or bodies are subject to review, approval or licensing by State agencies in accordance with existing statutory authority, in which case local governmental units or bodies shall supply information which may be required by such State agencies for preparation of any environmental statement required by this Article. See North Carolina General Statutes 113A-9
• State official: means the Director, Commissioner, Secretary, Administrator or Chairman of the State agency having primary statutory authority for specific programs, projects or actions subject to this Article, or his authorized representative. See North Carolina General Statutes 113A-9
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.