Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 37-2.1 - Domestic Steel

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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
• 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.
• Person: means natural persons as well as corporations, partnerships, business units, and associations;

  (2)  "Public agency" means any and all other public bodies, authorities, officers, agencies, or instrumentalities, whether exercising a governmental or proprietary function;

  (i)  The state and its departments, boards, commissions and agencies;

  (ii)  Cities, towns, school districts, and any other governmental unit or district; or

  (iii)  Any and all other public bodies, authorities, officers, agencies, or instrumentalities, whether exercising a governmental or proprietary function;

  (3)  "Public works" means steel to construct, frame or reinforce any public structure, building, highway, waterway, street, bridge, transit system, airport, or other betterment, work, or improvement, whether of a permanent or temporary nature, and whether for governmental or proprietary use;

  (4)  "Steel products" means products rolled, formed, shaped, drawn, extruded, forged, cast, fabricated, or otherwise similarly processed, or processed by a combination of two or more of these operations, from steel made in the United States by the open hearth, basic oxygen, electric furnace, Bessemer, or other steel making process; and

  (5)  "United States" means the United States of America and includes all territory, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 37-2.1-5

• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8