Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 20-3 - Marine Fisheries Council

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Commercial fishing: means to take, harvest, hold, transport, load, or off-load, marine species for sale or for intended sale;

  (3)  "Hinge width" means the distance between the convex apex of the right shell and the convex apex of the left shell;

  (4)  "Land or landing" means to off-load seafood products, including, but not limited to, finfish, shellfish, and crustaceans, for sale or intended sale, or to secure a vessel with the seafood products on board to a shoreside facility where the products may be off-loaded for sale or intended sale;

  (5)  "Nonresident landowner" means a nonresident citizen of the United States and owner of real estate in Rhode Island as evidenced by deed filed in the recorder of deeds office in a Rhode Island town or city hall;

  (6)  "Peck" means one fourth (¼) of a bushel;

  (7)  "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity;

  (8)  "Possession" means the exercise of dominion or control over the resource commencing at the time at which a decision is made not to return the resource to the immediate vicinity from which it was taken. See Rhode Island General Laws 20-1-3

• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.