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• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Adverse action: means any action taken by a state psychology regulatory authority that finds a violation of a statute or regulation that is identified by the state psychology regulatory authority as discipline and is a matter of public record. See
• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• ALI: means the system capability to identify automatically the geographical location of the electronic device being used by the caller to summon assistance and to provide that location information to an appropriate device located at any public safety answering point for the purpose of sending emergency assistance. See
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• ANI: means the system capability to identify automatically the calling telephone number and to provide a display of that number at any public safety answering point. See
• Animal: means any animal other than a human and includes fowl, birds, fish, and reptiles. See
• Annual meeting: when applied to towns shall mean the annual town meeting in March or an adjournment thereof. 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.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• 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
• ARRT: means the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists. See
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology: means a licensed psychologist's authority to practice telepsychology, within the limits authorized under this Compact, in another Compact state. See
• biennially: shall mean the year in which a regular session of the General Assembly is held. See
• board: means the governing board of the communications union district as established under this chapter. See
• Board: means the Vermont Enhanced 911 Board established under section 7053 of this title. See
• Board: means the Vermont Community Broadband Board. See
• Board: means the Vermont Board of Veterinary Medicine created under this chapter. See
• Board: means the Board of Psychological Examiners established under this chapter. See
• Board: means the Board of Medical Practice. See
• broadband: means a mass-market retail service by wire or radio in Vermont that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or substantially all Internet endpoints, including any capabilities that are incidental to and enable the operation of the communications service, but excluding dial-up Internet access service. See
• Bylaws: means those bylaws established by the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission pursuant to section 3031 of this title for its governance or for directing and controlling its actions and conduct. See
• Cable television: means cable television system as defined in chapter 13 of this title. See
• Caller: means a person or an automated device calling on behalf of a person. See
• Client or patient: means the recipient of psychological services, whether psychological services are delivered in the context of health care, corporate, supervision, consulting services, or a combination of these. See
• Commission: means the national administration of which all Compact states are members. See
• Commissioner: shall mean in this title only the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. See
• Commissioner: means the voting representative appointed by each state psychology regulatory authority pursuant to section 3031 of this title. See
• Communications plant: means any and all parts of any communications system owned by the district, whether using wires, cables, fiber optics, wireless, other technologies, or a combination thereof, and used for the purpose of transporting or storing information, in whatever forms, directions, and media, together with any improvements thereto hereafter constructed or acquired, and all other facilities, equipment, and appurtenances necessary or appropriate to such system. See
• Compact state: means a state, the District of Columbia, or United States territory that has enacted this Compact legislation and that has not withdrawn pursuant to subsection 3024(c) of this title or been terminated pursuant to subsection 3023(b) of this title. See
• compensation: means payment in any form except reimbursement for mileage or the normal salary paid to a person otherwise employed by the school. See
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cooperative: means a corporation organized under this chapter or which becomes subject to this chapter in the manner hereinafter provided. See
• Cooperative: means a corporation organized under, or otherwise subject to, chapter 81 of this title. See
• coordinated database: means an integrated process for collecting, sorting, and sharing information on psychologists' licensure and enforcement activities related to psychology licensure laws, which is administered by the recognized membership organization composed of state and provincial psychology regulatory authorities. 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• database: means a derivative, verified set of records which contain at a minimum a telephone number and location identification for each unique building or publicly used facility within a defined geographic area in Vermont. See
• Day: means any part of a day in which psychological work is performed. See
• Dealer: means any person who sells or delivers motor fuel into the fuel supply tanks of motor vehicles or aircraft owned or operated by others. See
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Dental operation: means :

• Department: means the Department of Public Service. See
• Direct supervision: means that the person being supervised remains in the physical presence of the supervisor at all times. See
• Director: means the Director for statewide Enhanced 911. See
• Director: means the Director of the Office of Professional Regulation. See
• Director: means the Director of the Office of Professional Regulation. See
• Director: means the Director of the Office of Professional Regulation. See
• disciplinary cases: includes any action taken by a board against a licensee or applicant premised upon a finding of wrongdoing or unprofessional conduct by the licensee or applicant. See
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dispatchable Location: means the location information delivered to the public safety answering point with a 911 call. See
• Distant State: means the Compact state where a psychologist is physically present, not through the use of the telecommunications technologies, to provide temporary in-person, face-to-face psychological services. See
• Distributor: means a person who imports or causes to be imported gasoline or other motor fuel for use, distribution, or sale within the State, or any person who produces, refines, manufactures, or compounds gasoline or other motor fuel within the State for use, distribution, or sale. See
• district: means a communications union district formed under this chapter. 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
• Electric facilities: means any facilities necessary or incidental to the generation of electric power and energy or the transmission thereof, including electric generating units, electric generating plants, electric transmission lines, plant sites, rights-of-way, and real and personal property and equipment, and rights of every kind useful in connection therewith. See
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Eligible provider: means :

• Emergency services: means fire, police, medical, and other services of an emergency nature as identified by the Board. See
• Energy: includes electrical, propane, natural gas, fossil fuels, and other forms of energy. See
• 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}
• 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.
• Executive Board: means a group of directors elected or appointed to act on behalf of, and within the powers granted to them by, the Commission. See
• Fees: shall mean earnings due for official services, aside from salaries or per diem compensation. See
• Financial interest: means being:

• Financial interest: means being:

• Financial interest: means being:

• 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.
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the Vermont Community Broadband Fund established by this chapter. See
• General supervision: means that the supervisor is readily available for consultation or intervention on the premises where radiologic technology services are being provided. See
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Health care professional: means an individual who holds a valid license, certificate, or registration to provide health care services in any other U. See
• Health care services: means services for the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, cure, or relief of a health condition, illness, injury, or disease. See
• Home State: means a Compact state where a psychologist is licensed to practice psychology. See
• Identity history summary: means a summary of information retained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), or other designee with similar authority, in connection with arrests and, in some instances, federal employment, naturalization, or military service. See
• In good standing: means that a health care professional holds an active license, certificate, or registration from another U. See
• Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Interactive media: means communications media that is regularly used to transmit information in two directions. See
• Internet: means collectively the computer and telecommunications facilities, including equipment and operating software, that comprise the interconnected network of networks that employ the transmission control protocol/Internet protocol, or any predecessor or successor protocols to such protocol, to communicate information of any kind, whether by wire or wireless means. See
• Internet service provider: means a business that provides broadband Internet access service to any person in Vermont. See
• IP-enabled service: means a service, device, or application that makes use of Internet protocol, or IP, and which is capable of entering the digits 9-1-1 or otherwise contacting the emergency 911 system. See
• IPC: means a certificate issued by the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) that grants temporary authority to practice based on notification to the state psychology regulatory authority of intention to practice temporarily and verification of one's qualifications for such practice. See
• 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.
• Landscape architect: means a person who complies with all provisions of this chapter and is licensed by the Director to engage in the practice of landscape architecture. 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}
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• License: means an authorization granted by the Director to practice landscape architecture. See
• License: means authorization by a state psychology authority to engage in the independent practice of psychology, which would be unlawful without the authorization. See
• Licensed practitioner: means a person licensed under this title to practice medicine, osteopathy, advanced practice registered nursing, dentistry, podiatry, naturopathic medicine, or chiropractic. See
• Licensed veterinarian: means a person who is validly and currently licensed by the Board to practice veterinary medicine in Vermont. See
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Location: means an E-911 business or residential address connected to the electric power grid. See
• Mandatory disclosure: means the information that the health care professional must disclose to the patient at the initial telehealth visit or consultation, as determined by the relevant regulatory body by rule. See
• member municipality: means a town or city that elects to form or join a communications union district under this chapter. See
• Month: means 30 days and "year" means 365 days. See
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• motor fuel: includes aviation gasoline and shall not include the following:

• motor fuel: includes aviation gasoline and shall not include the following:

• Motor vehicle: means any self-propelled vehicle using motor fuel on the public highways and registered or required to be registered for operation on these highways. See
• Municipal electric utility: means any city, town, village, or department thereof, within this State, authorized to and engaged in the manufacture, distribution, purchase, and sale of electricity in this State. See
• Municipality: means any city, town, incorporated village, unorganized town, gore, grant, or other political subdivision of the State. See
• Municipality: means a city, town, incorporated village, or unorganized town or gore. 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
• NMTCB: means the Nuclear Medicine Technologist Certification Board. See
• Nonresident: shall include any person who does not come under the definition of a resident. 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.
• Office: means the Office of Professional Regulation. See
• Office: means the Office of Professional Regulation. See
• Ophthalmologist: means a licensed physician who has had special training in the field of ophthalmology. See
• Optician: is a person who is qualified and licensed under this chapter to interpret and fill prescriptions of ophthalmologists or optometrists for ophthalmic lenses or repair and reproduce previously prepared ophthalmic lenses and frames, prepare and deliver work orders to technicians engaged in grinding lenses and fabricate eyewear, verify the accuracy of ophthalmic lenses, and adjust and disperse lenses, specially fabricated optical devices, frames, and appurtenances. See
• Optometrist: means a person licensed under chapter 30 of this title. See
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• 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: includes any natural person, corporation, association, co-partnership, company, firm, or other aggregation of individuals. See
• Person: means a natural person, firm, association, corporation, business trust, partnership, federal agency, state or political subdivision or agency thereof, or a body politic or other entity. See
• 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
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Practice of landscape architecture: means any service where landscape architectural education, training, experience, and the application of mathematical, physical, and social science principles are applied in consultation, evaluation, planning, and design, including the preparation and filing of drawings, plans, specifications, and other contract documents and the administration of contracts relative to projects principally directed at the functional and aesthetic development, use, or preservation of land that directly affects the health, safety, and welfare of the public. See
• Practice of psychology: means rendering or offering to render to individuals, groups, or organizations, for a consideration, any service involving the application of principles, methods, and procedures of understanding, predicting, and influencing behavior that are primarily drawn from the science of psychology. See
• Practice of radiologic technology: means the practice of:

• Practice of veterinary medicine: means :

• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Psychologist: means an individual licensed for the independent practice of psychology. See
• Psychotherapy: means the provision of treatment, diagnosis, evaluation, or counseling services to individuals or groups, for a consideration, for the purpose of alleviating mental disorders. See
• Public safety answering point: means a facility with the capability to receive emergency calls, operated on a 24-hour basis, assigned the responsibility of receiving 911 calls and dispatching, transferring, or relaying emergency 911 calls to other public safety agencies or private safety agencies. See
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein, and pews or slips in places of public worship shall be treated as real estate. See
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Receiving State: means a Compact state where the client or patient is physically located when the telepsychological services are delivered. See
• Registered optician trainee: means a person registered as an optician trainee under this chapter. See
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• road: shall include bridges thereon and their approaches. See
• Rule: means a written statement by the Psychology Interjurisdiction Compact Commission promulgated pursuant to section 3032 of this title that is of general applicability; implements, interprets, or prescribes a policy or provision of the Compact, or an organization, procedural, or practice requirement of the Commission and has the force and effect of statutory law in a Compact state; and includes the amendment, repeal, or suspension of an existing rule. See
• said: when used by way of reference to a person or thing shall apply to the same person or thing last mentioned. See
• School of veterinary medicine: means a college of veterinary medicine approved or accredited by the American Veterinary Medical Association. See
• seal: shall include an impression of the official seal made upon paper alone or by means of a wafer or wax affixed thereto. See
• Served: means a location that has access to broadband service capable of speeds of at least 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload. See
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• 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.
• Significant investigatory information: means :

• Small communications carrier: means :

• State: means a state, commonwealth, territory, or possession of the Unites States, or the District of Columbia. 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
• State psychology regulatory authority: means the board, office, or other agency with the legislative mandate to license and regulate the practice of psychology. See
• Station: means a telephone handset, customer premise equipment (CPE), or calling device that is capable of initiating a call to 911. See
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Store and forward: means an asynchronous transmission of medical information, such as one or more video clips, audio clips, still images, x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging scans, electrocardiograms, electroencephalograms, or laboratory results, sent over a secure connection that complies with the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. See
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Telecommunications: means one or more of the following as defined in chapter 88 of this title:

• Telehealth: means health care services delivered by telemedicine, store and forward, or audio-only telephone. See
• Telemedicine: means the delivery of health care services, such as diagnosis, consultation, or treatment, through the use of live interactive audio and video over a secure connection that complies with the requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. See
• Telepsychology: means the provision of psychological services using telecommunication technologies. See
• Temporary Authorization to Practice: means a licensed psychologist's authority to conduct temporary in-person, face-to-face practice, within the limits authorized under this Compact, in another Compact state. See
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• 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
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Unauthorized practice: means conduct prohibited by section 2802 of this chapter and not exempted by section 2803 of this chapter. See
• Underserved: means a location that only has access to broadband service capable of speeds of at least 4 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload but less than 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload. See
• Universal service plan: means a plan for providing each unserved and underserved location in a communications union district or in a municipality that was not part of a communications union district prior to June 1, 2021 access to broadband service capable of speeds of at least 100 Mbps download and 100 Mbps upload. See
• Unprofessional conduct: means conduct prohibited by section 3016 of this title or by other statutes relating to the practice of psychology, whether or not taken by a license holder. See
• Unserved: means a location that only has access to broadband capable of speeds of less than 4 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload. See
• Utility: except as otherwise required by the context in which used herein, is intended to refer to cooperatives, municipal utilities, as herein defined, and private electric utilities. See
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Village: shall mean an incorporated village. See