Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 5-48.2 - Professional Licensing and Regulation of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists

• Act: means chapter 48 of this title entitled, "speech-language pathology and audiology" as well as the provisions of this chapter, where the context so indicates. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-48.2-3
• 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.
• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• 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.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Audiologist: means an individual who is licensed by the board to practice audiology either in person or via telepractice. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-48.2-3
• Audiology: means the audiologist applies the principles, methods, and procedures related to hearing and the disorders of the hearing and balance systems, to related language and speech disorders, and to aberrant behavior related to hearing loss. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-48.2-3
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Board: means the state board of examiners of speech-language pathology and audiology established pursuant to § 5-48-2. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-48.2-3
• Clinical fellow: means the person who is practicing speech-language pathology under the supervision of a licensed speech-language pathologist while completing the postgraduate professional experience as required by the act and who holds a current provisional license in accordance with the requirements described in this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-48.2-3
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• 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.
• 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 Rhode Island department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-48.2-3
• Director: means the director of the Rhode Island department of health. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-48.2-3
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• 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}
• 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.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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
• Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
• oath: includes affirmation; the word "sworn" includes affirmed; and the word "engaged" includes either sworn or affirmed. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-11
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• 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.
• 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: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Person: means an individual, partnership organization, or corporation, except that only individuals can be licensed under this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-48.2-3
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• practice of speech-language pathology: means rendering or offering to render any service in speech-language pathology either in person or via telepractice as defined in this section. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-48.2-3
• 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.
• Probate: Proving a will
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• 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.
• Regionally accredited: means the official guarantee that a college or university or other educational institution is in conformity with the standards of education prescribed by a regional accrediting commission recognized by the United States Secretary of Education. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-48.2-3
• 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.
• Remainderman: One entitled to the remainder of an estate after a particular reserved right or interest, such as a life tenancy, has expired.
• 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
• 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.
• Speech-language pathologist: means an individual who is licensed by the board to practice speech-language pathology either in person or via telepractice. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-48.2-3
• Speech-language pathology: means the activities defined in § 5-48-1 and in this section. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-48.2-3
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Taxable period: means any period for which a tax return is required by law to be filed with the tax administrator and for which no return has been previously filed or for which an erroneous return has been filed. See Rhode Island General Laws 44-6.1-2
• Taxable period: means any period for which a tax return is required by law to be filed with the tax administrator. See Rhode Island General Laws 44-6.2-2
• Taxable period: means any period for which a tax return is required by law to be filed with the tax administrator;

  (2)  "Taxpayer" means any person, corporation, or other entity subject to any tax imposed by any law of the state of Rhode Island and payable to the state of Rhode Island and collected by the tax administrator. See Rhode Island General Laws 44-6.3-2

• Taxable period: means any period for which a tax return is required by law to be filed with the tax administrator;

  (2)  "Taxpayer" means any person, corporation, or other entity subject to any tax imposed by any law of the state of Rhode Island and payable to the state of Rhode Island and collected by the tax administrator. See Rhode Island General Laws 44-6.4-2

• Taxable period: means any period for which a tax return is required by law to be filed with the tax administrator. See Rhode Island General Laws 44-6.5-2
• Taxpayer: means any person, corporation, or other entity subject to any tax imposed by any law of the state of Rhode Island and payable to the state of Rhode Island and collected by the tax administrator. See Rhode Island General Laws 44-6.1-2
• Taxpayer: means any person, corporation, or other entity subject to any tax imposed by any law of the state of Rhode Island and payable to the state of Rhode Island and collected by the tax administrator. See Rhode Island General Laws 44-6.2-2
• Taxpayer: means any person, corporation, or other entity subject to any tax imposed by any law of the state of Rhode Island and payable to the state of Rhode Island and collected by the tax administrator. See Rhode Island General Laws 44-6.5-2
• Telepractice: means the use of telecommunication technology to deliver speech-language pathology and audiology services remotely. See Rhode Island General Laws 5-48.2-3
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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.