Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 26 > Chapter 56 - Out-of-State Telehealth Licensure & Registration and Interstate Compacts

• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Board: means the Vermont Enhanced 911 Board established under section 7053 of this title. See
• Board: means the Board of Medical Practice. See
• Board: means the Vermont Community Broadband Board. 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
• Commissioner: shall mean in this title only the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. See
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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
• Department: means the Department of Public Service. See
• Director: means the Director for statewide Enhanced 911. See
• Eligible provider: means :

• Emergency services: means fire, police, medical, and other services of an emergency nature as identified by the Board. 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}
• 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
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Fund: means the Vermont Community Broadband Fund established by this chapter. See
• 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
• In good standing: means that a health care professional holds an active license, certificate, or registration from another U. 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Municipality: means a city, town, incorporated village, or unorganized town or gore. See
• Municipality: means any city, town, incorporated village, unorganized town, gore, grant, or other political subdivision of the State. See
• Office: means the Office of Professional Regulation. 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
• 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.
• road: shall include bridges thereon and their approaches. 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
• Small communications carrier: means :

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Unserved: means a location that only has access to broadband capable of speeds of less than 4 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload. See
• Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
• Village: shall mean an incorporated village. See