Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 63A > Chapter 17 > Part 3 - Classification and Career Service

• Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Agency: means any department or unit of Utah state government with authority to employ personnel. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• 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.
• Career service: means positions under schedule B as defined in Section 63A-17-301. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Career service employee: means an employee who has successfully completed a probationary period of service in a position covered by the career service. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Career service status: means status granted to employees who successfully complete probationary periods for competitive career service positions. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Classified service: means those positions subject to the classification and compensation provisions of Section 63A-17-307. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• 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.
• Demotion: means a disciplinary action resulting in a reduction of an employee's current actual wage. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Department: means the Department of Government Operations. See Utah Code 63A-1-103
• Director: means the director of the division. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Disability: means a physical or mental disability as defined and protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Division: means the Division of Human Resource Management, created in Section 63A-17-105. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Employee: means any individual in a paid status covered by the career service or classified service provisions of this chapter. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executive director: means the executive director of the Department of Government Operations. See Utah Code 63A-1-103
• 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.
• Market comparability adjustment: means a salary range adjustment determined necessary through a market survey of salary data and other relevant information. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• 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
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Probationary employee: means an employee serving a probationary period in a career service position but who does not have career service status. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Probationary period: means that period of time determined by the division that an employee serves in a career service position as part of the hiring process before career service status is granted to the employee. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Sex: means , in relation to an individual, the individual's biological sex, either male or female, at birth, according to distinct reproductive roles as manifested by:
       (34)(a) sex and reproductive organ anatomy;
       (34)(b) chromosomal makeup; and
       (34)(c) endogenous hormone profiles. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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 compensation: means salaries and wages, bonuses, paid leave, group insurance plans, retirement, and all other benefits offered to state employees as inducements to work for the state. See Utah Code 63A-17-102
• Veteran: means an individual who:
            (44)(a)(i) has served in the United States Armed Forces for at least 180 days:

                 (44)(a)(i)(A) on active duty; or

                 (44)(a)(i)(B) in a reserve component, to include the National Guard; or
            (44)(a)(ii) has incurred an actual service-related injury or disability while in the United States Armed Forces regardless of whether the individual completed 180 days; and
            (44)(a)(iii) was separated or retired under conditions characterized as honorable or general. 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