Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 26B > Chapter 4 > Part 7 - Health Care Workforce

• Accredited clinical education program: means a clinical education program for a health care profession that is accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. See Utah Code 26B-4-701
• Accredited clinical training program: means a clinical training program that is accredited by an entity recognized within medical education circles as an accrediting body for medical education, advanced practice nursing education, physician assistant education, doctor of pharmacy education, dental education, or registered nursing education. See Utah Code 26B-4-701
• Agency: means the Utah Department of Environmental Quality or other state or federal agency that determines or approves the environmental response project under which the environmental covenant is created. See Utah Code 57-25-102
• 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.
• Assignee: means a person entitled to enforce an assignment of rents. See Utah Code 57-26-102
• Assignment of rents: means a transfer of an interest in rents in connection with an obligation secured by real property located in this state and from which the rents arise. See Utah Code 57-26-102
• Assignor: means a person that makes an assignment of rents or the successor owner of the real property from which the rents arise. See Utah Code 57-26-102
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: means the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. See Utah Code 26B-4-701
• 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.
• Day: means calendar day. See Utah Code 57-26-102
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Document: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored on an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Utah Code 57-26-102
• Environmental covenant: means a servitude arising under an environmental response project that imposes activity and use limitations. See Utah Code 57-25-102
• Environmental response project: means a plan, risk assessment, or work performed for environmental remediation of real property or surface and groundwater on or beneath the real property and conducted:
       (5)(a) under a federal or state program governing environmental remediation of real property, including under Title 19, Environmental Quality Code;
       (5)(b) incident to closure of a solid or hazardous waste management unit, if the closure is conducted with approval of an agency; or
       (5)(c) under the state voluntary clean-up program authorized in Title 19, Chapter 8, Voluntary Cleanup Program. See Utah Code 57-25-102
• Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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}
• Executive director: means the executive director of the department appointed under Section 26B-1-203. See Utah Code 26B-1-102
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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}
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Health care professionals in training: means medical students and residents, advanced practice nursing students, physician assistant students, doctor of pharmacy students, dental students, and registered nursing students. See Utah Code 26B-4-701
• Holder: means the grantee of an environmental covenant as specified in Subsection 57-25-103(1). See Utah Code 57-25-102
• Hospital: means a general acute hospital, as defined in Section 26B-2-201. See Utah Code 26B-4-701
• 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}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Notification: means a document containing information that this chapter requires a person to provide to another, signed by the person required to provide the information. See Utah Code 57-26-102
• 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: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Utah Code 57-26-102
• 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
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes :
       (25)(a) money;
       (25)(b) goods;
       (25)(c) chattels;
       (25)(d) effects;
       (25)(e) evidences of a right in action;
       (25)(f) a written instrument by which a pecuniary obligation, right, or title to property is created, acknowledged, transferred, increased, defeated, discharged, or diminished; and
       (25)(g) a right or interest in an item described in Subsections (25)(a) through (f). See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Physician: means a person:
       (6)(a) licensed as a physician under Title 58, Chapter 67, Utah Medical Practice Act; or
       (6)(b) licensed as a physician under Title 58, Chapter 68, Utah Osteopathic Medical Practice Act. See Utah Code 26B-4-701
• Proceeds: means personal property that is received or collected on account of a tenant's obligation to pay rents. See Utah Code 57-26-102
• 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
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• real property: includes :
       (31)(a) land;
       (31)(b) a tenement;
       (31)(c) a hereditament;
       (31)(d) a water right;
       (31)(e) a possessory right; and
       (31)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Rents: means :
       (12)(a) sums payable for the right to possess or occupy, or for the actual possession or occupation of, real property of another person;
       (12)(b) sums payable to an assignor under a policy of rental interruption insurance covering real property;
       (12)(c) claims arising out of a default in the payment of sums payable for the right to possess or occupy real property of another person;
       (12)(d) sums payable to terminate an agreement to possess or occupy real property of another person;
       (12)(e) sums payable to an assignor for payment or reimbursement of expenses incurred in owning, operating and maintaining, or constructing or installing improvements on, real property; or
       (12)(f) any other sums payable under an agreement relating to the real property of another person that constitute rents under law of this state other than this chapter. See Utah Code 57-26-102
• Rural county: means a county of the third, fourth, fifth, or sixth class under Section 17-50-501. See Utah Code 26B-4-701
• Rural hospital: means a hospital located within a rural county. See Utah Code 26B-4-701
• Security interest: means an interest in property that arises by agreement and secures performance of an obligation. See Utah Code 57-26-102
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Utah Code 57-26-102
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Tenant: means a person that has an obligation to pay sums for the right to possess or occupy, or for possessing or occupying, the real property of another person. See Utah Code 57-26-102
• UMEC: means the Utah Medical Education Council created in Section 26B-4-706. See Utah Code 26B-4-701
• United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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