Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 11B > Chapter 15 > Subchapter 3 - Involuntary Termination

• Agency: means the Agency of Natural Resources. See
• 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.
• articles: include amended and restated articles of incorporation and articles of merger. See
• Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
• Collection: means the aggregation of electronic waste from covered entities and includes all the activities up to the time the electronic waste is delivered to a recycler. See
• Collector: means a public or private entity that receives electronic waste from covered entities or from another collector and that performs any of the following:

• Computer: means a laptop computer, desktop computer, tablet computer, or central processing unit that conveys electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical, or other high-speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions. See
• Computer monitor: means a display device without a tuner that can display pictures and sound and is used with a computer. See
• Computer peripheral: means a keyboard or any other device sold exclusively for external use with a computer that provides input or output into or from a computer. See
• 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.
• Corporation: means public benefit and mutual benefit corporation. See
• Covered electronic device: means a computer, computer monitor, device containing a cathode ray tube, printer, or television from a covered entity. See
• Covered entity: means any household, charity, or school district in the State or a business in the State that employs 10 or fewer individuals. See
• Domestic: when applied to a corporation, company, association, or copartnership shall mean organized under the laws of this State; "foreign" when so applied, shall mean organized under the laws of another state, government, or country. See
• Domestic corporation: means a corporation. See
• Electronic waste: means a computer, computer monitor, computer peripheral, device containing a cathode ray tube, printer, or television from a covered entity. See
• filing: means filed in the Office of the Secretary of State. See
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Foreign corporation: means a corporation organized under a law other than the law of this State which would be a nonprofit corporation if formed under the laws of this State. See
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Manufacturer: means a person who:

• 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
• Principal office: means the office (in or outside this State) so designated in the biennial report filed pursuant to section 16. See
• Printer: means desktop printers, multifunction printer copiers, and printer fax combinations taken out of service that are designed to reside on a work surface and include various print technologies, including without limitation laser and LED (electrographic), ink jet, dot matrix, thermal, and digital sublimation, and "multi-function" or "all-in-one" devices that perform different tasks, including copying, scanning, faxing, and printing. See
• Proceeding: includes civil suit and criminal, administrative, and investigatory action. See
• Program year: means the period established by the Secretary as the program year in the Plan required by section 7552 of this title. See
• Recycler: means a person who accepts electronic waste from covered entities and collectors for the purpose of recycling. See
• Recycling: means the process of collecting and preparing electronic wastes for use in manufacturing processes or for recovery of useable materials followed by delivery of such materials for use. See
• Retailer: means a person who sells, rents, or leases covered electronic devices to a person in the State, through any means, including sales outlets, catalogues, the telephone, the Internet, or any electronic means. See
• sale: means any transfer for consideration of title or of the right to use by lease or sales contract of a covered electronic device to a person in the State. See
• Secretary: means the corporate officer to whom the board of directors has delegated responsibility under subsection 8. See
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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
• Television: means any telecommunications system or device containing a cathode ray tube or other type of display system with a viewable area of greater than four inches when measured diagonally that can broadcast or receive moving pictures and sound over a distance and includes a television tuner or a display device peripheral to a computer that contains a television tuner. See
• Town: shall include city and wards or precincts therein; "selectboard members" and "board of civil authority" shall extend to and include the mayor and aldermen of cities; "trustees" shall extend to and include bailiffs of incorporated villages; and the laws applicable to the inhabitants and officers of towns shall be applicable to the inhabitants and similar officers of all municipal corporations. See
• Transporter: means a person that moves electronic waste from a collector to either another collector or to a recycler. See