Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 19 > Chapter 6 > Part 12 - Disposal of Electronic Waste Program

• 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 a legislative authorization to make expenditures and to incur obligations for specific purposes. See Utah Code 51-5-3
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Computer: includes the following permanently affixed to or incorporated into a device described in Subsection (2)(a):
            (2)(b)(i) a cable cord;
            (2)(b)(ii) permanent wiring;
            (2)(b)(iii) a central processing unit; or
            (2)(b)(iv) a monitor. See Utah Code 19-6-1202
• Consumer: means a person who owns or uses a covered electronic device that is purchased primarily for personal or home business use. See Utah Code 19-6-1202
• Consumer electronic device: means the following products sold to a consumer:
       (4)(a) a computer;
       (4)(b) a computer peripheral;
       (4)(c) a television; or
       (4)(d) a television peripheral. See Utah Code 19-6-1202
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Department: means the Department of Environmental Quality. See Utah Code 19-1-103
• Eligible program: means a collection, reuse, or recycling system for a consumer electronic device, including:
       (5)(a) a system by which a manufacturer, manufacturer's designee, or other private entity offers a consumer an option to return a consumer electronic device by mail;
       (5)(b) a system using a physical collection site that a manufacturer, manufacturer's designee, or other private or public entity provides for a consumer to return a covered consumer electronic device; or
       (5)(c) a system that uses a collection event held by a manufacturer, manufacturer's designee, or other private or public entity at which a consumer may return a consumer electronic device. See Utah Code 19-6-1202
• Encumbrances: means obligations in the form of purchase orders, contracts, or salary commitments that are chargeable to an appropriation and for which a part of the appropriation is reserved. See Utah Code 51-5-3
• Expenditures: means decreases in net financial resources from other than interfund transfers, refundings of general long-term capital debt, and other items indicated by GASB. See Utah Code 51-5-3
• Financial resources: includes cash, claims to cash such as taxes receivable, and claims to goods or services such as prepaids. See Utah Code 51-5-3
• Function: means a group of related activities aimed at accomplishing a major service or regulatory program for which a governmental unit is responsible. See Utah Code 51-5-3
• Fund: means an independent fiscal and accounting entity with a self-balancing set of accounts, composed of financial resources and other assets, all related liabilities and residual equities or balances and changes in those resources, assets, liabilities, and equities that, when recorded, are segregated for the purpose of carrying on specific activities or attaining certain objectives, according to special regulations, restrictions, or limitations. See Utah Code 51-5-3
• GASB: means the Governmental Accounting Standards Board that is responsible for accounting standards used by public entities. See Utah Code 51-5-3
• Governmental fund: includes the following types: General Fund, special revenue funds, debt service funds, capital projects funds, and permanent funds. See Utah Code 51-5-3
• Land: includes :
       (18)(a) land;
       (18)(b) a tenement;
       (18)(c) a hereditament;
       (18)(d) a water right;
       (18)(e) a possessory right; and
       (18)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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.
• Manufacturer: means a person who:
       (6)(a) manufactures a consumer electronic device under a brand the person owns or is licensed to use; or
       (6)(b) assumes the responsibilities and obligations of a person described in Subsection (6)(a). See Utah Code 19-6-1202
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Outlays: Outlays are payments made (generally through the issuance of checks or disbursement of cash) to liquidate obligations. Outlays during a fiscal year may be for payment of obligations incurred in prior years or in the same year.
• Peripheral: means a keyboard, printer, or other device that:
       (7)(a) is sold exclusively for external use with a television or computer; and
       (7)(b) provides input into or output from a television or computer. See Utah Code 19-6-1202
• Person: means an individual, trust, firm, estate, company, corporation, partnership, association, state, state or federal agency or entity, municipality, commission, or political subdivision of a state. See Utah Code 19-1-103
• Postemployment: means that period of time following:
       (20)(a) the last day worked by an employee as a result of his long-term disability; or
       (20)(b) the date that an employee identifies as the date on which the employee intends to retire or terminate from state employment. See Utah Code 51-5-3
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Recycling: means the process of collecting and preparing electronic products for:
            (8)(a)(i) use in a manufacturing process; or
            (8)(a)(ii) recovery of reusable materials followed by delivery of reusable materials for use. See Utah Code 19-6-1202
• Reuse: means electronic waste:
       (9)(a) that is tested and determined to be in good working order; and
       (9)(b) that is removed from the waste stream to use for the same purpose for which it was manufactured, including the continued use of the whole system or components. See Utah Code 19-6-1202
• Revenue: means the increase in ownership equity during a designated period of time that is recognized as earned. See Utah Code 51-5-3
• sale: means any transfer for consideration of title or of the right to use by lease or sales contract of a consumer electronic device to a consumer. See Utah Code 19-6-1202
• 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
• Surplus: means the excess of the assets of a fund over its liabilities and restricted fund equity. See Utah Code 51-5-3
• Television: means a display system primarily intended to receive video programming via broadcast, cable, or satellite transmission. See Utah Code 19-6-1202
• Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5