Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 30 > Chapter 88 - Universal Telecommunications Service

• Bailiff: a court officer who enforces the rules of behavior in courtrooms.
• Basic telecommunications service: means that a customer has available at his or her location:

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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
• Interactive: means that a communications medium is regularly used to transmit information in two directions. 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}
• Line in service: means a circuit or channel connecting a customer to the public switched network or to the Internet. See
• Month: shall mean a calendar month and "year" shall mean a calendar year and be equivalent to the expression "year of our Lord. 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
• Private network: means a telecommunications system entirely owned and operated by a single corporate or individual person other than a telecommunications service provider and not available to the general public. See
• Public switched network: means the communications network owned and operated by telecommunications service providers, some of whom are common carriers. 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.
• Service area: means :

• Service location: means a business or residential geographic point of contact of a telecommunications service for purposes of the Enhanced 911 network. 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
• sworn: shall include affirmed. See
• Telecommunications service: means the transmission of any interactive electromagnetic communications that passes through the public switched network. See
• Telecommunications service provider: means a company required by law to hold a certificate of public good from the Public Utility Commission to offer telecommunications service for intrastate service, or is authorized by the Federal Communications Commission to offer interstate telecommunications service. See