Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 13 > Chapter 56 - Ticket Transferability Act

• 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.
• 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
• Appropriation: means an allocation of money for a specific purpose. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Assessment area: means an area, or, if more than one area is designated, the aggregate of all areas within a local entity's jurisdictional boundaries that is designated by a local entity under Part 2, Designating an Assessment Area, for the purpose of financing the costs of improvements, operation and maintenance, or economic promotion activities that benefit property within the area. See Utah Code 11-42-102
• Assessment bonds: means bonds that are:
       (3)(a) issued under Section 11-42-605; and
       (3)(b) payable in part or in whole from assessments levied in an assessment area, improvement revenues, and a guaranty fund or reserve fund. See Utah Code 11-42-102
• Assessment resolution: means a resolution adopted by a local entity under Section 11-42-404 that levies an assessment on benefitted property within an assessment area. See Utah Code 11-42-102
• Bonds: means assessment bonds and refunding assessment bonds. See Utah Code 11-42-102
• Budget: means a plan for financial operations for a fiscal period, embodying estimates for proposed expenditures for given purposes and the means of financing the expenditures. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Budget period: means the fiscal period for which a budget is prepared. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• County general fund: means the general fund used by a county. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Department: means any functional unit within a fund which carries on a specific activity. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Designation ordinance: means an ordinance adopted by a local entity under Section 11-42-206 designating an assessment area. See Utah Code 11-42-102
• Designation resolution: means a resolution adopted by a local entity under Section 11-42-206 designating an assessment area. See Utah Code 11-42-102
• Development authority: means :
       (18)(a) the Utah Inland Port Authority created in Section 11-58-201; or
       (18)(b) the military installation development authority created in Section 63H-1-201. See Utah Code 11-42-102
• Encumbrance system: means a method of budgetary control where part of an appropriation is reserved to cover a specific expenditure by charging obligations, such as purchase orders, contracts, or salary commitments to an appropriation account. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Estimated revenue: means any revenue estimated to be received during the budget period in any fund for which a budget is prepared. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Executive: when used to describe the powers, duties, or functions of a person or body elected as the county executive or a person appointed as the county manager or administrative officer, refers to:
       (2)(a) the power and duty to carry laws and ordinances into effect and secure their due observance; and
       (2)(b) those powers, duties, and functions that, under constitutional and statutory provisions and through long usage and accepted practice and custom at the federal and state level, have come to be regarded as belonging to the executive branch of government. See Utah Code 17-50-101
• Finance officer: means :
       (13)(a) the county auditor or the person selected to provide accounting services for the county in accordance with Section 17-19a-205; or
       (13)(b) notwithstanding Subsection (13)(a), for the purposes of preparing a tentative budget in a county operating under a county executive-council form of county government, the county executive. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Fiscal period: means the annual or biennial period for recording county fiscal operations. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Fund: means an independent fiscal and accounting entity comprised of a sum of money or other resources segregated for a specific purpose or objective. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Fund balance: means the excess of the assets over liabilities, reserves, and contributions, as reflected by its books of account. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• General fund: is a s defined by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board as reflected in the Uniform Accounting Manual for All Local Governments prepared by the Office of the Utah State Auditor. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• 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.
• Last completed fiscal period: means the fiscal period next preceding the current period. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Legislative: when used to describe the powers, duties, or functions of a county commission or council, refers to:
       (3)(a) the power and duty to enact ordinances, levy taxes, and establish budgets; and
       (3)(b) those powers, duties, and functions that, under constitutional and statutory provisions and through long usage and accepted practice and custom at the federal and state level, have come to be regarded as belonging to the legislative branch of government. See Utah Code 17-50-101
• Local entity: means :
       (31)(a) a county, city, town, special service district, or special district;
       (31)(b) an interlocal entity as defined in Section 11-13-103;
       (31)(c) the military installation development authority, created in Section 63H-1-201;
       (31)(d) a public infrastructure district under Title 17D, Chapter 4, Public Infrastructure District Act, including a public infrastructure district created by a development authority;
       (31)(e) the Utah Inland Port Authority, created in Section 11-58-201; or
       (31)(f) any other political subdivision of the state. See Utah Code 11-42-102
• Person: means :
       (24)(a) an individual;
       (24)(b) an association;
       (24)(c) an institution;
       (24)(d) a corporation;
       (24)(e) a company;
       (24)(f) a trust;
       (24)(g) a limited liability company;
       (24)(h) a partnership;
       (24)(i) a political subdivision;
       (24)(j) a government office, department, division, bureau, or other body of government; and
       (24)(k) any other organization or entity. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Property: includes real property and any interest in real property, including water rights and leasehold rights. See Utah Code 11-42-102
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Refunding assessment bonds: means assessment bonds that a local entity issues under Section 11-42-607 to refund, in part or in whole, assessment bonds. See Utah Code 11-42-102
• Retained earnings: means that part of the net earnings retained by an enterprise or internal service fund which is not segregated or reserved for any specific purpose. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Service: means :
       (48)(a) water, sewer, storm drainage, garbage collection, library, recreation, communications, or electric service;
       (48)(b) economic promotion activities; or
       (48)(c) any other service that a local entity is required or authorized to provide. See Utah Code 11-42-102
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Unappropriated surplus: means that part of a fund which is not appropriated for an ensuing budget period. See Utah Code 17-36-3
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Writing: includes :
       (48)(a) printing;
       (48)(b) handwriting; and
       (48)(c) information stored in an electronic or other medium if the information is retrievable in a perceivable format. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5