Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 11A > Chapter 7 > Subchapter 1 - Meetings

• Agency: means the Agency of Natural Resources. See
• Agency: means the Agency of Natural Resources. See
• Annual meeting: when applied to towns shall mean the annual town meeting in March or an adjournment thereof. See
• Aquatic nuisance: means undesirable or excessive substances or populations that interfere with the recreational potential or aquatic habitat of a body of water, including rooted aquatic plants and animal and algal populations. See
• Articles of incorporation: include amended and restated articles of incorporation, articles of merger, and special charters. See
• Best management practices: means approved activities, maintenance procedures, and other practices to prevent or reduce the effects of impervious surface or cleared area on water quality and natural resources. See
• Cleared area: means an area where existing vegetative cover, soil, tree canopy, or duff is permanently removed or altered. See
• 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.
• Duff: means leaf litter plus small fragments of plants and organic debris that provide a spongy substrate that absorbs the energy of falling water and allows runoff to infiltrate soil. See
• Expansion: means an increase or addition of impervious surface or cleared area. See
• 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.
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Impervious surface: means those manmade surfaces, including paved and unpaved roads, parking areas, roofs, driveways, and walkways, from which precipitation runs off rather than infiltrates. See
• Lake: means a body of standing water, including a pond or a reservoir, which may have natural or artificial water level control. See
• Mean water level: means the mean water level of a lake as defined in the Mean Water Level Rules of the Agency of Natural Resources adopted under 29 V. See
• Meeting: means any structured communications conducted by participants in person or through the use of electronic or telecommunications medium permitting simultaneous or sequentially structured communications for the purpose of reaching a collective agreement. 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
• New aquatic species: means an aquatic species that was not known to occur in a surface water of Vermont or in a segment of Lake Champlain as of January 1, 2007. See
• Parcel: means a portion of land or a tract of land with defined boundaries created by dividing the land by sale, gift, lease, mortgage foreclosure, court-ordered partition or decree, or filing of a plat, plan, or deed in the records of the municipality where the act of division occurred. See
• Person: includes individual and entity. See
• Principal office: means the office (in or outside this State) so designated in the annual report where the principal executive offices of a domestic or foreign corporation are located. See
• Protected shoreland area: means all land located within 250 feet of the mean water level of a lake that is greater than 10 acres in surface area. See
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Record date: means the date established under chapter 6 or 7 of this title on which a corporation determines the identity of shareholders and their shareholdings for purposes of this title. See
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources or the Secretary's duly authorized representative. See
• Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility under subsection 8. See
• Shareholder: means the person in whose name shares are registered in the records of a corporation or upon presentation for registration are entitled to be registered in the records of a corporation. 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
• Vegetative cover: means mixed vegetation within the protected shoreland area, consisting of trees, shrubs, groundcover, and duff. See
• Water resources: means the waters and the values inherent or potential in waters and their uses. See