Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 26 > Chapter 21 > Subchapter 2 - Licenses

• Addition: means any new construction that increases the height or floor area of an existing building or facility. See
• 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.
• 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
• Art selection panel: means a Council-appointed group of individuals consisting of the Department of Buildings and General Services project manager, the project architect, a representative or representatives from the occupant agency or agencies, the community, and arts professionals who forward recommendations of artwork to the Advisory Committee for final approval. See
• biennially: shall mean the year in which a regular session of the General Assembly is held. See
• Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Buildings and General Services. See
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contracting agency: means the administrative unit of State government responsible for securing the preparation of plans and specifications of a State building or facility for the purpose of negotiating or advertising for bids for the construction of such building or facility. 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.
• Council: means the Vermont Council on the Arts, Inc. See
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Director: means the Director of the Office of Professional Regulation. See
• Disposition facility: means a business registered with the Office conducted at a specific street address or location devoted to the disposition of human remains by means of cremation, alkaline hydrolysis, or natural organic reduction. 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
• Funeral director: means a licensed person who is the owner, co-owner, employee, or manager of a licensed funeral establishment and who, for compensation, engages in the practice of funeral service. See
• Funeral establishment: means a business registered with the Office conducted at a specific street address or location devoted to the practice of funeral service, and includes a limited services establishment. See
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Mixed media: means any combination of two or more types of materials used to create a single work of art in two or three dimensions. See
• Occupant agency: means that public entity that has or will have principal authority to use or occupy a public building. See
• Office: means the Office of Professional Regulation. 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: 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
• Practice of funeral service: means arranging, directing, or providing for the care, preparation, or disposition of dead human bodies for a fee or other compensation. See
• Project cost: means the budgeted cost of a construction or renovation project, which may include an addition, excluding the cost of design and of land acquisition or land improvement. See
• Project site: means any State building or facility undergoing new construction or renovation, which may include an addition, with a total project cost of $1,000,000. See
• Removal: means the removal of dead human bodies from places of death, hospitals, institutions, or other locations, for a fee or other compensation. 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 building or facility: means any State building, facility, permanent structure, park, or appurtenant structure thereof, wholly or partially enclosed, owned or leased by State government, that is to be constructed or renovated, which may include an addition, in part or totally with funds from any appropriation from the capital construction act. See
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• sworn: shall include affirmed. See
• Work of art: means an original creation of visual art in sculpture, paintings, graphic arts, mosaics, photography, crafts, calligraphy, mixed media, or any other creation that the Advisory Committee deems a visual art. See