Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 63A > Chapter 5b > Part 6 - Design and Construction

• Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Agency: means a board, commission, institution, department, division, officer, council, office, committee, bureau, or other administrative unit of the state, including the agency head, agency employees, or other persons acting on behalf of or under the authority of the agency head, the Legislature, the courts, or the governor, but does not mean a political subdivision of the state, or any administrative unit of a political subdivision of the state. See Utah Code 63A-1-103
• 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
• Compliance agency: means the same as that term is defined in Section 15A-1-202. See Utah Code 63A-5b-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the Department of Government Operations. See Utah Code 63A-1-103
• Director: means the division director, appointed under Section 63A-5b-302. See Utah Code 63A-5b-102
• Division: means the Division of Facilities Construction and Management created in Section 63A-5b-301. See Utah Code 63A-5b-102
• 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}
• Facility: means any building, structure, or other improvement that is constructed:
            (1)(a)(i) on property that the state or any of the state's departments, commissions, institutions, or agencies owns; or
            (1)(a)(ii) by the state or any of the state's departments, commissions, institutions, or agencies on property that the state does not own. See Utah Code 63A-5b-601
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Highway: includes :
       (15)(a) a public bridge;
       (15)(b) a county way;
       (15)(c) a county road;
       (15)(d) a common road; and
       (15)(e) a state road. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Institution of higher education: means an institution listed in Subsection 53B-2-101(1). See Utah Code 63A-5b-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
• Local government: means the county, municipality, or local school district that would have jurisdiction to act as the compliance agency if the division did not have jurisdiction to act as the compliance agency. See Utah Code 63A-5b-601
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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