Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 29 > Chapter 2 - Art in State Buildings

• Addition: means any new construction that increases the height or floor area of an existing building or facility. See
• 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
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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
• Council: means the Vermont Council on the Arts, Inc. See
• 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
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fees: shall mean earnings due for official services, aside from salaries or per diem compensation. See
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• Municipality: shall include a city, town, town school district, incorporated school or fire district or incorporated village, and all other governmental incorporated units. 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
• 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
• 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
• Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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