Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 57 > Chapter 12 - Utah Relocation Assistance Act

• Agency: means :
       (1)(a) a department, division, agency, commission, board, council, committee, authority, political subdivision, or other instrumentality of the state or of a political subdivision of the state whether one or more; and
       (1)(b) any other person whose use of the power of eminent domain results in a person becoming a displaced person. See Utah Code 57-12-3
• Ambulance service provider: means :
       (1)(a) an ambulance provider as defined in Section 26B-4-101; or
       (1)(b) a non-911 service provider as defined in Section 26B-4-101. See Utah Code 26B-3-801
• Applicant: means any person who requests assistance under the medical programs of the state. See Utah Code 26B-3-101
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Assessment: means the Medicaid ambulance service provider assessment established by this part. See Utah Code 26B-3-801
• Business: means any lawful activity, excepting a farm operation, conducted primarily:
       (2)(a) for the purchase, sale, lease, or rental of personal or real property, and for the manufacture, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, or any other personal property;
       (2)(b) for the sale of services to the public;
       (2)(c) by a nonprofit organization; or
       (2)(d) for assisting in the purchase, sale, resale, manufacture, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, personal property, or services by the erection and maintenance of an outdoor advertising display or displays, whether or not such display or displays are located on the premises on which any of the above activities are conducted. See Utah Code 57-12-3
• Child: means an individual who is younger than 19 years old. See Utah Code 26B-3-901
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department of Transportation: means the Department of Transportation created in Section 72-1-201. See Utah Code 57-12-3
• Displaced person: means any person who, after the effective date of this chapter, moves from real property, or who moves the person's personal property from real property, or moves or discontinues the person's business or moves the person's dwelling as a result of the acquisition of the real property, in whole or in part, or as a result of a written order of the acquiring agency to vacate real property for a program of purchase undertaken by an agency or as a direct result of code enforcement activities or a program of rehabilitation of buildings conducted pursuant to a federal or state assisted program. See Utah Code 57-12-3
• Division: means the Division of Integrated Healthcare within the department. See Utah Code 26B-3-801
• Division: means the Division of Integrated Healthcare within the department, established under Section 26B-3-102. See Utah Code 26B-3-101
• 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
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Farm operation: means any activity conducted solely or primarily for the production of one or more agricultural products or commodities, including timber, for sale or home use, and customarily producing such products or commodities in sufficient quantity to be capable of contributing materially to the operator's support. See Utah Code 57-12-3
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• 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.
• 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
• 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}
• Medicaid program: means the state program for medical assistance for persons who are eligible under the state plan adopted pursuant to Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act. See Utah Code 26B-3-101
• Member: means a child enrolled in the program. See Utah Code 26B-3-901
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Non-federal portion: means the non-federal share the division needs to seed amounts that will support fee-for-service ambulance service provider rates, as described in Section 26B-3-804. See Utah Code 26B-3-801
• Nonprofit organization: means all corporations, societies, and associations whose object is not pecuniary profit, but is to promote the general interest and welfare of the members, whether temporal, social, or spiritual. See Utah Code 57-12-3
• 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 any individual, partnership, corporation, or association. See Utah Code 57-12-3
• 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
• Plan: means the department's plan submitted to the United States Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to Utah Code 26B-3-901
• Pole barn: includes any building or structure that met the definition of a pole barn in Subsection (9)(a) at any time in the five years preceding the proposed acquisition. See Utah Code 57-12-3
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Program: means the Utah Children's Health Insurance Program created by this part. See Utah Code 26B-3-901
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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.
• Recipient: means a person who has received medical assistance under the Medicaid program. See Utah Code 26B-3-101
• 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.
• Total transports: means the number of total ambulance transports applicable to a given fiscal year, as determined under Subsection 26B-3-803(5). See Utah Code 26B-3-801
• United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.