Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 4-24 - Permit Program for Cats

• 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.
• Agent: shall mean any person authorized by the state to purchase and affix tax stamps on packages of cigarettes. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• 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.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Bar: means an establishment that is devoted to the serving of alcoholic beverages for consumption by guests on the premises and in which the serving of food is only incidental to the consumption of those beverages, including, but not limited to, taverns, nightclubs, cocktail lounges, and cabarets. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Board: means the Rhode Island State Board of Licensed Massage Therapists as established within this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.8-1
• Board certified music therapist: means an individual who has completed the education and clinical training requirements established by the American Music Therapy Association; has passed the certification board for music therapists certification examination; or transitioned into board certification, and remains actively certified by the certification board for music therapists. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.8.1-1
• body-works services: means body rubs, body stimulation, manipulation, or conditioning of any part or parts of the body, spa services, and spa treatments performed by any person not licensed under this title. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.8-1
• Business: means a sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, corporation, or other business entity formed for profit-making purposes, including retail establishments where goods or services are sold as well as professional corporations and other entities where legal, medical, dental, engineering, architectural, or other professional services are delivered. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Chambers: A judge's office.
• Cigarette: shall mean any roll for smoking whether made wholly or in part of tobacco or any other substance, irrespective of size or shape and whether or not such tobacco or substance is flavored, adulterated or mixed with any other ingredient, the wrapper or cover of which is made of paper or any other substance or material except tobacco, and that because of its size, appearance, the type of tobacco used in its filler, or its packaging or labeling, is likely to be offered to, or purchased by, consumers as a cigarette or cigarette equivalent. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuing education: means a course of study subsequent to the completion of, and in addition to, an approved entry-level program of massage therapy education. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.8-1
• Continuing education units: means an instructional period of at least fifty (50) continuous minutes per hour in a recognized or approved course. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.8-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Control: means to add a drug or other substance or immediate precursor to a schedule under this chapter, whether by transfer from another schedule or otherwise. See Rhode Island General Laws 21-28-1.02
• Controlled substance: means a drug, substance, immediate precursor, or synthetic drug in schedules I — V of this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 21-28-1.02
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of health of this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 21-28-1.02
• Department: means the department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-21-1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the director of the department of health or his or her designee. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.8.1-1
• Director: means the director of health or his or her duly appointed agents. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.12-1
• Director: shall mean the director of the Rhode Island department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Director: means the director of health or his or her duly appointed agents. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-21-1
• Director: means the director of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 21-28-1.02
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Electronic nicotine delivery system: means an electronic device that may be used to simulate smoking in the delivery of nicotine or other substance to a person inhaling from the device, and includes, but is not limited to, an electronic cigarette, electronic cigar, electronic cigarillo, electronic pipe, or electronic hookah and any related device and any cartridge or other component of that device. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Electronic nicotine-delivery system usage: means any vaping, inhaling, or use of any device defined in Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.9-4
• Electronic smoking device establishment: means any business that sells food or alcohol and for which the principal or core business is selling electronic nicotine delivery system devices and where combustible substances are prohibited. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Employee: means a person who is employed by an employer in consideration for direct or indirect monetary wages or profit and a person who volunteers his or her services for a nonprofit entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Employer: means a person, business, partnership, association, corporation, including a municipal corporation, trust, or nonprofit entity that employs the services of one or more individual persons. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Enclosed area: means all space between a floor and ceiling that is enclosed on all sides by solid walls or windows (exclusive of doorways) that extend from the floor to the ceiling. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Federal law: means the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, (84 stat. See Rhode Island General Laws 21-28-1.02
• Governing body: means the body, board, committee or individual, or its designated agent(s) or designee(s), responsible for, or who or that has control over, the administration of any elementary or secondary school, public or private, in the state. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.9-4
• Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Healthcare facility: means an office or institution providing care or treatment of diseases, whether physical, mental, emotional, or other medical, physiological, or psychological conditions, including, but not limited to, hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals or other clinics, including weight control clinics, nursing homes, homes for the aging or chronically ill, laboratories, and offices of surgeons, chiropractors, physical therapists, physicians, dentists, and all specialists within these professions. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• 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
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Manufacturer: shall mean :

  (i)  Any entity which manufacturers or otherwise produces cigarettes or causes cigarettes to be manufactured or produced anywhere that such manufacturer intends to be sold in this state, including cigarettes intended to be sold in the United States through an importer; or

  (ii)  The first purchaser anywhere that intends to resell in the United States cigarettes manufactured anywhere that the original manufacturer or maker does not intend to be sold in the United States; or

  (iii)  Any entity that becomes a successor of an entity described in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subdivision. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3

• Massage: means the systematic and scientific manipulation of the soft tissues of the body accomplished by the use of digits, hands, forearms, elbows, knees, or feet, hand-held tool, or other external apparatus. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.8-1
• Massage therapist: means a person engaged in the practice of massage and is licensed in accordance with this chapter of the general laws of the state of Rhode Island. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.8-1
• Massage therapy: means the use of massage for therapeutic purposes, including, but not limited to: pain management, stress reduction, promotion of relaxation, and enhancement of general health and well-being. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.8-1
• Music therapist: means a person registered to practice music therapy pursuant to this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.8.1-1
• Music therapy: means the clinical and evidence based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship through an individualized music therapy treatment plan for the client that identifies the goals, objectives, and potential strategies of the music therapy services appropriate for the client using music therapy interventions, which may include music improvisation, receptive music listening, song writing, lyric discussion, music and imagery, music performance, learning through music, and movement to music. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.8.1-1
• 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.
• Official written order: means an order written on a form provided for that purpose by the Drug Enforcement Administration under any laws of the United States making provision for an official form, if order forms are authorized and required by federal law, and if no order form is provided, then on an official form provided for that purpose by the director of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 21-28-1.02
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• 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 any person or persons including but not limited to contract or other workers on school property, school students, school administrators, school employees, school faculty, and school visitors. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.9-4
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Person: as used in this chapter includes any partnership, association, corporation, city, or town. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-22-1
• Person: means any individual, firm, copartnership, association, or private or municipal corporation. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-21-1
• Person: means any corporation, association, partnership, or one or more individuals. See Rhode Island General Laws 21-28-1.02
• Place of employment: means an area under the control of a public or private employer that employees normally frequent during the course of employment, including, but not limited to, work areas, employees lounges, restrooms, conference rooms, meeting rooms, classrooms, employee cafeterias, and hallways. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Practice of massage therapy: means the exchange of massage therapy services for currency, goods, or services. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.8-1
• Practitioner: means :

  (i)  A physician, osteopath, dentist, chiropodist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, or other person licensed, registered, or permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or to administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state. See Rhode Island General Laws 21-28-1.02

• Principal or core business: means a business whose majority of customers are utilizing electronic nicotine delivery systems during normal business hours. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Production: includes the manufacture, planting, cultivation, growing, or harvesting of a controlled substance. See Rhode Island General Laws 21-28-1.02
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Public place: means an enclosed area to which the public is invited or in which the public is permitted, including, but not limited to, banks, bars, educational facilities, healthcare facilities, laundromats, public transportation facilities, reception areas, restaurants, retail food production and marketing establishments, retail service establishments, retail stores, shopping malls, sports arenas, the state house, theaters, and waiting rooms. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Quality control and quality assurance program: shall mean the laboratory procedures implemented to ensure that operator bias, systematic and nonsystematic methodological errors, and equipment-related problems do not affect the results of the testing. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Quick service restaurant: means any food service establishment that delivers food through a drive-thru window. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.12-1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Recreation facility or use: includes , but is not limited to, hotels, motels, motor courts or inns, tourist cabin establishments, camping areas, amusement places, bathing beaches, mobile recreational vehicle facilities, and parks. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-21-1
• 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.
• Repeatability: shall mean the range of values within which the repeat results of cigarette test trails from a single laboratory will fall ninety-five percent (95%) of the time. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Restaurant: means an eating establishment, including, but not limited to, coffee shops, cafeterias, and private and public school cafeterias, that gives or offers for sale food to the public, guests, or employees, as well as kitchens and catering facilities in which food is prepared on the premises for serving elsewhere. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Retail dealer: shall mean any person other than a manufacturer or wholesale dealer engaged in selling cigarettes or tobacco products. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Sale: shall mean any transfer of title or possession or both, exchange or barter, conditional or otherwise, in any manner or by any means whatever or any agreement therefor. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• 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
• Sell: shall mean to sell, or to offer or agree to do the same. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• smoke: means inhaling, exhaling, burning, or carrying any lighted or heated cigar, cigarette, pipe, weed, plant, other tobacco product or plant product, or other combustible substance in any manner or in any form intended for inhalation in any manner or form. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Smoking bar: means an establishment whose business is primarily devoted to the serving of tobacco products for consumption on the premises, in which the annual revenues generated by tobacco sales are greater than fifty percent (50%) of the total revenue for the establishment and the serving of food or alcohol is only incidental to the consumption of the tobacco products. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.10-2
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Swimming pool: as used in this chapter , includes all swimming pools, wading pools, and therapeutic pools owned or maintained by any person, partnership, association, corporation, city, or town, or the state, except swimming pools maintained by an individual for the sole use of the individual's household and guests without charge for admission and not for the purpose of profit or in connection with any business operated for the purpose of profit, and except also swimming pools owned or maintained by the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-22-1
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tobacco product usage: means the smoking or use of any substance or item that contains tobacco, including, but not limited to: cigarettes, cigars, pipes, or other smoking tobacco, or the use of snuff or smokeless tobacco, or having in one's possession a lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe, or other substance or item containing tobacco. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.9-4
• Topical applications: means but is not limited to, lubricants, emollients, non-prescription analgesics, and the use of heat and cold. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.8-1
• 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
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8
• Wholesale dealer: shall mean any person who sells cigarettes or tobacco products to retail dealers or other persons for purposes of resale, and any person who owns, operates or maintains one or more cigarette or tobacco product vending machines in, at or upon premises owned or occupied by any other person. See Rhode Island General Laws 23-20.11-3
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.