Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 2-12 - Forest Fires and Prevention

• ABGC: means the American Board of Genetic Counseling, a national agency for certification and recertification of genetic counselors or its successor agency. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-92-3
• ABMG: means the American Board of Medical Genetics, a national agency for certification and recertification of genetic counselors, MD and DO geneticists and Ph. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-92-3
• ACGC: means the Accreditation Council for Genetic Counseling (ACGC), an accreditation board for genetic counselor training programs or its successor agency. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-92-3
• Acknowledged: means with respect to any document or instrument required to be executed by an authorized person pursuant to this chapter, the authorized person executing the document or instrument has certified, under penalty of perjury, that the information set forth in the document or instrument is accurate and complete to the best of the authorized person's actual knowledge after due inquiry. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• 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.
• Agreement: means a written contractual agreement between the merchant and the third-party delivery service. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-58-1
• Airport corporation: means the Rhode Island airport corporation. See Rhode Island General Laws 1-2-1
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• 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.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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.
• Applicant: means any person filing an application for registration of a mark under this chapter, his or her legal representatives, successors, or assigns;

  (2)  "Mark" means any trademark or service mark entitled to registration under this chapter whether registered or not;

  (3)  "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, union, or other organization;

  (4)  "Registrant" means any person to whom the registration of a mark under this chapter is issued, his or her legal representative, successors, or assigns;

  (5)  "Service mark" means a mark used in the sale or advertising of services to identify the services of one person and distinguish them from the services of others;

  (6)  "Trade name" means a word, name, symbol, device, or any combination thereof used by a person to identify his or her business, vocation, or occupation and distinguish it from the business, vocation, or occupation of others;

  (7)  "Trademark" means any word, name, symbol, or device, or any combination of them, adopted and used by a person to identify goods made or sold by him or her, and to distinguish them from goods made or sold by others;

  (8)  For the purposes of this chapter, a trademark is deemed to be "used" in the state:

  (i)  On goods when it is placed in any manner on the goods or their containers or the displays associated with the goods or their containers, or on the tags or labels affixed to them, and the goods are sold or otherwise distributed in the state; and

  (ii)  On services when it is used or displayed in the sale or advertising of services, and the services are rendered in the state. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-2-1

• Applied behavior analyst: means a person licensed to practice applied behavior analysis under the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations authorized by this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-86-2
• Applied behavior analyst aide: means a person not licensed pursuant to the laws and rules applicable to the practice of applied behavior analysis, who works under the supervision of a licensed applied behavior analyst, who assists in the practice of applied behavior analysis and whose activities require an understanding of applied behavior analysis, but do not require professional or advanced training in the basic anatomical, psychological, and social sciences involved in the practice of applied behavior analysis. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-86-2
• Applied behavior assistant analyst: means a person licensed who practices applied behavior analysis under the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations authorized by this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-86-2
• approaches: means any airport land, airspace, and surfaces as set forth by the Federal Aviation Administration and Code of Federal Regulations in Title Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 77 — Safe, Efficient Use, and Preservation of the Navigable Airspace. See Rhode Island General Laws 1-2-3.1
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assessment measures: means with respect to any entity, the policies, procedures, or practices adopted by the entity to adduce objective factual information to assess the entity's performance in meeting its standards, including any procedures for internal or external verification of the information. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authorized person: means , with respect to any entity, any person or entity who has been duly authorized in accordance with the organizational documents of the entity and the laws of this state (whether statutory, common law or otherwise) under which the entity is incorporated, formed, or organized to execute the documents and instruments and make the acknowledgments as are required by this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• Board: means the licensing board of applied behavior analysts within the Rhode Island department of health, established pursuant to the provisions of § 5-86-4. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-86-2
• Bog: means a place where standing or slowly running water is near or at the surface during normal growing season and/or where a vegetational community has over fifty percent (50%) of the ground or water surface covered with sphagnum moss (Sphagnum) and/or where the vegetational community is made up of one or more of, but not limited to nor necessarily including all of, the following: blueberries, and cranberry (Vaccinium), leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata), pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea), sundews (Droseraceae), orchids (Orchidaceae), white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides), red maple (Acer rubrum), black spruce (Picae mariana), bog aster (Aster nemoralis), larch (Laris laricina), bogrosemary (Andromeda glaucophylla), azaleas (Rhododendron), laurels (Kalmia), sedges (Caryx), and bog cotton (Eriophorum). See Rhode Island General Laws 2-1-20
• Buffer: means an area of undeveloped vegetated land adjacent to a freshwater wetland that is to be retained in its natural undisturbed condition, or is to be created to resemble a naturally occurring vegetated area. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-1-20
• catalytic converter: when used in this chapter shall be defined as an air pollution abatement device that removes pollutants from motor vehicle exhaust, either by oxidizing them into carbon dioxide and water or reducing them to nitrogen. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-11.1-1
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Commercial unit: means such a unit of goods as by commercial usage is a single whole for purposes of lease and division of which materially impairs its character or value on the market or in use. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a lessee who is an individual and who takes under the lease primarily for a personal, family, or household purpose. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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.
• Customer: means the person, business, or other entity that places an order for merchant products through the marketplace. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-58-1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the department of business regulation. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-84-1.1
• Department: means the Rhode Island department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-86-2
• Department: means the department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-92-3
• Department: means the department of environmental management (DEM). See Rhode Island General Laws 2-1-20
• Director: means the executive director of the Rhode Island airport corporation. See Rhode Island General Laws 1-2-1
• Director: means the director, or his or her designee, of the department of business regulation. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-84-1.1
• Director: means the director of the Rhode Island department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-86-2
• Director: means the director of the department of environmental management or his or her duly authorized agent or agents. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-1-20
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Education: means the academic program pursued by the person in obtaining the bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree, that the programs to include formal course work, seminars, and practica. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-86-2
• Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
• Entity: means any corporation (stock or nonstock), or a limited-liability company, existing under the applicable laws of this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• 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}
• Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fault: means wrongful act, omission, breach, or default. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Finance lease: means a lease with respect to which:

  (i)  The lessor does not select, manufacture, or supply the goods;

  (ii)  The lessor acquires the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods in connection with the lease; and

  (iii)  One of the following occurs:

  (A)  The lessee receives a copy of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods before signing the lease contract;

  (B)  The lessee's approval of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods is a condition to effectiveness of the lease contract;

  (C)  The lessee, before signing the lease contract, receives an accurate and complete statement designating the promises and warranties, and any disclaimers of warranties, limitations or modifications of remedies, or liquidated damages, including those of a third party, such as the manufacturer of the goods, provided to the lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection with or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods; or

  (D)  If the lease is not a consumer lease, the lessor, before the lessee signs the lease contract, informs the lessee in writing (a) of the identity of the person supplying the goods to the lessor, unless the lessee has selected that person and directed the lessor to acquire the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods from that person, (b) that the lessee is entitled under this chapter to the promises and warranties, including those of any third party, provided to the lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection with or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods, and (c) that the lessee may communicate with the person supplying the goods to the lessor and receive an accurate and complete statement of those promises and warranties, including any disclaimers and limitations of them or of remedies. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103

• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Floodplain: means that land area adjacent to a river or stream or other body of flowing water which is, on the average, likely to be covered with flood waters resulting from a one-hundred (100) year frequency storm. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-1-20
• Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Freshwater wetlands: includes , but is not limited to, those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a frequency and duration to support, and that under normal circumstances do support a prevalence of vegetation adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-1-20
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (§?6A-2. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Governing body: means the board of directors or equivalent governing body, person, or entity having the power to manage and direct the business and affairs of the entity, and shall include any duly authorized and empowered committee of the board of directors or equivalent governing body. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• 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.
• in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
• Installment lease contract: means a lease contract that authorizes or requires the delivery of goods in separate lots to be separately accepted, even though the lease contract contains a clause "each delivery is a separate lease" or its equivalent. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• 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.
• Jurisdictional area: means the following lands and waters, as defined herein except as provided for in § 2-1-22(k), that shall be subject to regulation under this chapter:

  (i)  Freshwater wetlands;

  (ii)  Buffers;

  (iii)  Floodplains;

  (iv)  Areas subject to storm flowage;

  (v)  Areas subject to flooding; and

  (vi)  Contiguous areas that extend outward:

  (A)  Two hundred feet (200?) from the edge of a river or stream;

  (B)  Two hundred feet (200?) from the edge of a drinking water supply reservoir; and

  (C)  One hundred feet (100?) from the edge of all other freshwater wetlands. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-1-20

• landing field: means any area of land designed and set aside for the approach, landing, and taking off of aircraft and utilized or to be utilized in the interest of the public for those purposes. See Rhode Island General Laws 1-2-3.1
• 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}
• Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances including course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance as provided in this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this chapter and any other applicable rules of law. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensed genetic counselor: means a person licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of genetic counseling. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-92-3
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Lot: means a parcel or a single chapter that is the subject matter of a separate lease or delivery, whether or not it is sufficient to perform the lease contract. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Markup: The process by which congressional committees and subcommittees debate, amend, and rewrite proposed legislation.
• Marsh: means a place wholly or partly within the state where a vegetational community exists in standing or running water during the growing season and/or is made up of one or more of, but not limited to nor necessarily including all of, the following plants or groups of plants: hydrophytic reeds (Phragmites), grasses (Cramineae), mannagrasses (Glyceria), cutgrasses (Leersia), pickerelwoods (Pontederiaceae), sedges (Cyperaceae), rushes (Juncaceae), cattails (Typha), water plantains (Alismataceae), bur-reeds (Sparganiazceae), pondweeds (Zosteraceae), frog's bits (Hydrocharitaceae), arums (Araceae), duckweeds (Lemmaceae), water lilies (Nymphaeceae), water-milfoils (Haloragaceae), water-starworts (Callitrichaeceae), bladder-worts (Utricularia), pipeworts (Eriocaulon), sweet gale (Myrica gale), and buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis). See Rhode Island General Laws 2-1-20
• Merchant lessee: means a lessee that is a merchant with respect to goods of the kind subject to the lease. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Nonreporting entity: means any person or entity (including any entity) that is not a reporting entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• 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.
• Organizational documents: means the certificate of incorporation, bylaws, partnership agreement, limited-liability company agreement, articles of association or other agreement, document, or instrument containing the provisions by which an entity is formed or organized and by which its internal affairs are governed, in each case as amended, modified, supplemented, and/or restated and in effect as of any date of determination. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• 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: means an individual and does not mean an association of individuals or a legal entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-92-3
• person: when used in this chapter, shall include individuals, partnerships, associations, and corporations. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-11.1-1
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Pond: means a place natural or man-made, wholly or partly within the state, where open-standing or slowly moving water is present for at least six (6) months a year. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-1-20
• Practice of applied behavior analysis: means the design, implementation, and evaluation of environmental modifications by a behavior analyst to produce socially significant improvements in human behavior. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-86-2
• Practice of genetic counseling: means a communication process, conducted by one or more appropriately trained individuals that may include:

  (i)  Obtaining and evaluating individual, family, and medical histories to determine genetic risk for genetic/medical conditions and diseases in a patient, the patient's offspring, and other family members;

  (ii)  Discussing the features, natural history, means of diagnosis, genetic and environmental factors, and management of risk for genetic/medical conditions and diseases;

  (iii)  Identifying, ordering, and coordinating genetic laboratory tests as appropriate for the genetic assessment;

  (iv)  Integrating genetic laboratory test results and other diagnostic studies with personal and family medical history to assess and communicate risk factors for genetic/medical conditions and diseases;

  (v)  Explaining the clinical implications of genetic laboratory tests and other diagnostic studies and their results;

  (vi)  Evaluating the client's or family's responses to the condition or risk of recurrence and providing client-centered counseling and anticipatory guidance;

  (vii)  Identifying and utilizing community resources that provide medical, educational, financial, and psychosocial support and advocacy;

  (viii)  Providing written documentation of medical, genetic, and counseling information for families and healthcare professionals; and

  (ix)  When necessary, referring patients to a physician for diagnosis and treatment. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-92-3

• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Present value: means the amount as of a date certain of one or more sums payable in the future, discounted to the date certain. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Provider: means , as to any entity, any third party that is engaged to provide professional consulting services or advice to assist entities or enterprises in measuring, managing, or reporting the impact of their business and operations on issues of social and environmental impact. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• Provisional licensed genetic counselor: means a person with a provisional license issued under § 5-92-7. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-92-3
• Psychologist with equivalent experience: means a person deemed to hold equivalent licensure as an applied behavior analyst upon satisfying equivalency requirements through submission and satisfaction of written evidence of education and relevant experience to the department pursuant to § 5-86-9(c). See Rhode Island General Laws 5-86-2
• Public property: means property owned and maintained by a municipality, the state, the United States, or any quasi-governmental entity, and shall include, but not be limited to, items associated with public streets and sidewalks as follows:

  (1)  Manhole covers, or other types of utility access covers including, but not limited to, water maintenance covers;

  (2)  Highway and street signs;

  (3)  Street light poles and fixtures;

  (4)  Guardrails for bridges, highways, and roads;

  (5)  Historical, commemorative, and memorial markers and plaques; and

  (6)  Traffic directional and control signs and light signals. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-11.2-2

• Purchase: includes taking by sale, lease, mortgage, security interest, pledge, gift, or any other voluntary transaction creating an interest in goods. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• real estate: may be construed to include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and rights thereto and interests therein. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-10
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Regulated metals property: means all ferrous and nonferrous metals, including, but not limited to, copper, copper alloy, bronze and aluminum, not including aluminum beverage containers. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-11.2-2
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Report: means a report with respect to a reporting period for a reporting entity containing the following:

  (i)  A summary of the standards and assessment measures in effect during the applicable reporting period, which summary shall include the third-party criteria and any other source used to develop the entity's standards and assessment measures and the process by which they were identified, developed, and approved by the entity;

  (ii)  A summary of the actions or activities by which the entity has sought to meet the standards during the applicable reporting period, including engagement with and disclosure to stakeholders, if any;

  (iii)  The most recent available objective and factual information developed pursuant to the assessment measures, if any, with respect to the entity's performance in meeting its standards during the reporting period, and an assessment by the governing body whether the entity has been successful in meeting the standards, and in the case of any failure to meet the standards, a summary of any additional efforts the governing body has determined the entity will undertake to improve its performance in respect thereof, or its determination not to undertake the additional efforts;

  (iv)(A)  The identity of any provider assisting the entity in measuring, managing, or reporting the impact of the entity's business and operations in light of its standards; or

  (B)  A statement that the entity has not engaged the services of any provider for these purposes;

  (v)  A summary of any changes to the standards, assessment measures, or reporting period, the process by which the changes were identified, developed, and approved by the entity, and the third-party criteria used to develop any changes to the standards;

  (vi)  A summary of the actions or activities planned for the next succeeding reporting period with respect to measuring, managing, and reporting with respect to the standards if the actions and activities are materially different from those described for the applicable reporting period; and

  (vii)  Notwithstanding the foregoing, no entity shall be required to include in any report any information that the entity determines in good faith is subject to an attorney-client or other applicable privilege or would result in the disclosure of trade secrets or other competitively sensitive information. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3

• Reporting entity: means an entity that has been issued a certificate of adoption of transparency and sustainability standards and that has not become and continues to be a nonreporting entity pursuant to §?5-89-6. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• Reporting period: means a period of one year, the initial period to begin not more than one year following the filing of the standards statement, and subsequent reporting periods to begin on the day following the last date of the prior reporting period, unless a governing body elects to shorten the duration of a reporting period that has not begun in order to change the start date for subsequent reporting periods. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• residential consumer: means a direct purchaser of propane for consumption and not for resale as the primary source of fuel for residential heating and/or domestic hot water to one or more dwelling units within a structure having not more than four (4) dwelling units. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-83-2
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• River: means a body of water designated as a perennial stream by the United States Department of Interior geologic survey on 7. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-1-20
• Runway: means that portion of an airport or landing field designed or set aside for use by aircraft in landing, taking off, or taxiing or moving of aircraft on the ground. See Rhode Island General Laws 1-2-3.1
• seal: shall be construed to include an impression of the seal made with or without the use of wax or wafer on the paper. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-15
• Secondary metals recycler: means any person, firm or corporation in the state that is engaged, from a fixed location or otherwise, in the business of paying compensation for regulated metals that has served its original economic purposes, whether or not engaged in the business of performing the manufacturing process by which regulated metals are converted into raw materials products consisting of prepared grades and having an existing or potential economic value. See Rhode Island General Laws 6-11.2-2
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Standards: means , with respect to an entity, the principles, guidelines, or standards adopted by the entity to assess and report the impacts of its activities on society and the environment, which principles, guidelines, or standards shall be based on or derived from third-party criteria. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• Standards statement: means the filing described in §?5-89-5. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Stream: means any flowing body of water or watercourse that flows long enough each year to develop and maintain a channel and that may carry groundwater discharge or surface runoff. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-1-20
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supervised experience: means the practical application of principles, methods, and procedures of the science of applied behavioral analysis in accordance with the requirements of § 5-86-9. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-86-2
• Supervision: means that a licensed applied behavior analyst is at all times responsible for supportive personnel and clients. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-86-2
• Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See Rhode Island General Laws 6A-2.1-103
• Swamp: means a place, wholly or partly within the state, where ground water is near or at the surface of the ground for a significant part of the growing season or runoff water from surface drainage collects frequently and/or where a vegetational community is made up of a significant portion of one or more of, but not limited to nor necessarily including all of, the following: red maple (Acer rubum), elm (Ulmus americana), black spruce (Picea mariana), white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides), ashes (Fraximus), poison sumac (Rhus vernix), larch (Larix laricina), spice bush (Lindera benzoin), alders (Alnus), skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), hellebore (Veratrum viride), hemlock (Thuja canadensis), sphagnums (Sphagnum), azaleas (Rhododendron), black alder (Ilex verticillata), coast pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia), marsh marigold (Caltha palustris), blueberries (Vaccinium), buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), willow (Salicaceae), water willow (Decodon verticillatus), tupelo (Nyssa sylbatica), laurels (Kalmia), swamp white oak (Quercus biscolor), or species indicative of marsh. See Rhode Island General Laws 2-1-20
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Third party: means , with respect to any entity, any person or entity other than any person or entity that controls, is controlled by, or under common control with the entity, including any governmental or nongovernmental organization that provides services, standards, or criteria with respect to measuring, managing, or reporting the social and environmental impact of businesses or other enterprises. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• Third-party criteria: means any principles, guidelines, or standards developed and maintained by a third party (including a provider) that are used to assist businesses or other enterprises in measuring, managing, or reporting the social and environmental impact of businesses or other entities. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
• town council: include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
• Training: means the pre-professional or professional-supervised experience received by the person at the pre or post-doctoral level, that experience to have been obtained in an internship, clinic, or other similar professional setting. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-86-2
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• under common control with: means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person or entity, whether through the ownership of equity or other voting securities, by contract or otherwise. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-89-3
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.