Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 35A > Chapter 9 > Part 6 - Education Savings Incentive Program

• Act: means a voluntary bodily movement and includes speech. See Utah Code 76-1-101.5
• Actor: means a person whose criminal responsibility is in issue in a criminal action. See Utah Code 76-1-101.5
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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}
• Beneficiary: means the individual designated:
       (2)(a) in a 529 savings account agreement between a person, an estate, or a trust and the plan; and
       (2)(b) to benefit from the amount saved in a 529 savings account. See Utah Code 35A-9-601
• Business: means a retail business dealing in tangible personal property. See Utah Code 76-10-2401
• Commission: means the State Tax Commission. See Utah Code 35A-9-601
• Conduct: means an act or omission. See Utah Code 76-1-101.5
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Department: means the Department of Workforce Services created in Section 35A-1-103. See Utah Code 35A-1-102
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Deposit: means the payment of money from a source other than a match. See Utah Code 35A-9-601
• Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Federal earned income tax credit: means the federal earned income tax credit:
       (6)(a) described in Section 32, Internal Revenue Code; and
       (6)(b) that a qualifying individual claims and is eligible to claim on the federal income tax return for the taxable year. See Utah Code 35A-9-601
• 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.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Guardian: includes a person who:
       (14)(a) qualifies as a guardian of a minor or incapacitated person pursuant to testamentary or court appointment; or
       (14)(b) is appointed by a court to manage the estate of a minor or incapacitated person. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Intergenerational poverty: means poverty in which two or more successive generations of a family continue in the cycle of poverty and government dependance. See Utah Code 35A-9-102
• 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.
• 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
• Match: means the monetary amount described in Subsection 35A-9-603(2). See Utah Code 35A-9-601
• Offense: means a violation of any penal statute of this state. See Utah Code 76-1-101.5
• Person: means an individual, public or private corporation, government, partnership, or unincorporated association. See Utah Code 76-1-101.5
• 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
• Plan: means the Utah Educational Savings Plan created in Section 53B-8a-103. See Utah Code 35A-9-601
• Possess: means to have physical possession of or to exercise dominion or control over tangible property. See Utah Code 76-1-101.5
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Program: means the Education Savings Incentive Program created in Section 35A-9-603. See Utah Code 35A-9-601
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Qualifying individual: means an individual who the department identifies as experiencing intergenerational poverty and who has not been disqualified from participating in the program for overclaiming a match in a previous year. See Utah Code 35A-9-601
• 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