Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 10 > Chapter 37 > Subchapter 5 - Water Quality Restoration and Improvement

• Basin: means a watershed basin designated by the Secretary for use as a planning unit under subsection 1253(d) of this title. See
• 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}
• Clean water project: means a best management practice or other program designed to improve water quality to achieve a target established under section 922 of this title that:

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Design life: means the period of time that a clean water project is designed to operate according to its intended purpose. See
• Fees: shall mean earnings due for official services, aside from salaries or per diem compensation. See
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Maintenance: means ensuring that a clean water project continues to achieve its designed pollution reduction value for its design life. See
• Municipality: shall include a city, town, town school district, incorporated school or fire district or incorporated village, and all other governmental incorporated units. See
• 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.
• Person: shall include any natural person, corporation, municipality, the State of Vermont or any department, agency, or subdivision of the State, and any partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. See
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Standard cost: means the projected cost of achieving a pollutant load reduction per unit or per best management practice in a basin. See
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See