Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 18 > Chapter 28 > Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• 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.
• Department: means the Department of Health. See
• Director: means the Director of Occupational Health. See
• Division: means the Division of Occupational Health. See
• Employee: means any person engaged in service to an employer for wages, salary, or other compensation, excluding an independent contractor. See
• Employer: means a person who employs one or more persons. See
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• 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
• General hospital: is a hospital of which not more than 50 percent of the total patient days during the year are customarily assignable to the following categories of cases: chronic, convalescent and rest, drug and alcoholic, epilepsy, developmental and psychiatric disabilities and mental conditions, and tuberculosis, and which provides adequate and separate facilities and equipment for the performance of surgery and obstetrics, or either, and for diagnostic X-ray and laboratory services. See
• Governmental unit: means a state, or political subdivision thereof, or any department, division, board, or other agency of any of the foregoing. See
• Health hazard: means any material, including biological material or energy, or both, in any form from any source that can adversely affect the health of any employee, or can adversely affect the health of any person exposed in a place of employment or any person adversely exposed from a source in a place of employment. See
• Hospital: means a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of diagnostic and therapeutic facilities for in-patient medical or surgical care of individuals who have an illness, disease, injury, or physical disability, or for obstetrics. See
• Licensing agency: means the Department of Health. See
• Occupational disease: means a disease caused by exposure to an occupational health hazard. See
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association, and the legal successor thereof. See
• Person: means a natural person, corporation, partnership, trust, society, club, association, or other organization, including municipalities and the State. See
• Place of employment: means any work place or place where an employee is engaged in performance of his or her work or duties, or which is used in connection with an employee's employment. See
• Psychiatric hospital: means a hospital for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. 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
• VOSHA Code: means this chapter and 21 Vt. See