Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 6 > Chapter 2 - Agricultural Land Development Rights Acquisition Program

• Adverse event: is a ny untoward incident, therapeutic misadventure, iatrogenic injury, or other undesirable occurrence directly associated with care or services provided by a health care provider or health care facility. 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.
• Applicant: means a person that applies for a license to operate a cannabis establishment pursuant to this chapter. 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}
• Bloodborne pathogen: means a pathogenic microorganism that is present in human blood and can cause disease in humans. See
• Board: means the Cannabis Control Board. See
• Cannabis establishment: means a cannabis cultivator, propagation cultivator, wholesaler, product manufacturer, retailer, testing laboratory, or integrated licensee licensed by the Board to engage in commercial cannabis activity in accordance with this chapter. See
• Causal analysis: means a formal root cause analysis, similar analytic methodologies, or any similarly effective but simplified processes that use a systematic approach to identify the basic or causal factors that underlie the occurrence or possible occurrence of a reportable adverse event, adverse event, or near miss. See
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• 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.
• 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.
• Corrective action plan: means a plan to implement strategies intended to eliminate or significantly reduce the risk of a recurrence of an adverse event and to measure the effectiveness of such strategies. See
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Department of Health. See
• Director: means the Director of Occupational Health. See
• Division: means the Division of Occupational Health. See
• Employee: means any person engaged in service to an employer for wages, salary, or other compensation, excluding an independent contractor. See
• Employer: means the organization on whose behalf a worker is employed or volunteering when rendering health services to a source patient pursuant to this subchapter. See
• Employer: means a person who employs one or more persons. See
• 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.
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Fees: shall mean earnings due for official services, aside from salaries or per diem compensation. See
• General hospital: is a hospital of which not more than 50 percent of the total patient days during the year are customarily assignable to the following categories of cases: chronic, convalescent and rest, drug and alcoholic, epilepsy, developmental and psychiatric disabilities and mental conditions, and tuberculosis, and which provides adequate and separate facilities and equipment for the performance of surgery and obstetrics, or either, and for diagnostic X-ray and laboratory services. See
• Governmental unit: means a state, or political subdivision thereof, or any department, division, board, or other agency of any of the foregoing. See
• 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 worker: means any individual or employee of a health care provider who provides medical or other health services in the course of the worker's employment. See
• Health hazard: means any material, including biological material or energy, or both, in any form from any source that can adversely affect the health of any employee, or can adversely affect the health of any person exposed in a place of employment or any person adversely exposed from a source in a place of employment. See
• Health services: means activities and functions that are directly related to care, treatment, or diagnosis of a patient, including emergency medical treatment. See
• Hemp: means the plant Cannabis sativa L. See
• hemp-infused products: means all products with the federally defined tetrahydrocannabinol concentration level for hemp derived from, or made by, processing hemp plants or plant parts that are prepared in a form available for commercial sale, including cosmetics, personal care products, food intended for animal or human consumption, cloth, cordage, fiber, fuel, paint, paper, construction materials, plastics, and any product containing one or more hemp-derived cannabinoids, such as cannabidiol. See
• Hospital: means a hospital required to be licensed under chapter 43 of this title. See
• Hospital: means a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of diagnostic and therapeutic facilities for in-patient medical or surgical care of individuals who have an illness, disease, injury, or physical disability, or for obstetrics. See
• Intentional unsafe act: shall mean an adverse event or near miss that results from:

• Licensing agency: means the Department of Health. See
• Manner sufficient to transmit: means consistent with current guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as determined by a physician licensed to practice medicine in Vermont. 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
• Near miss: means any process variation that did not affect the outcome, but for which a recurrence carries a significant chance of a serious adverse outcome. See
• Occupational disease: means a disease caused by exposure to an occupational health hazard. See
• Owner: means a natural person who controls, or shares control of, a Cannabis Establishment. 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.
• Permit: means any permit or license issued pursuant to this title. 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
• Person: means any individual, company, corporation, association, partnership, the U. See
• Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint stock association, and the legal successor thereof. See
• Person: means a natural person, corporation, partnership, trust, society, club, association, or other organization, including municipalities and the State. See
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Place of employment: means any work place or place where an employee is engaged in performance of his or her work or duties, or which is used in connection with an employee's employment. See
• Principal: means one of the following:

• Probate: Proving a will
• Psychiatric hospital: means a hospital for the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. See
• Public safety personnel: means an individual employed or volunteering for a fire department, police department, or ambulance service. See
• Safety system: means the comprehensive patient safety surveillance and improvement system established pursuant to this chapter and the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. See
• Serious bodily injury: means bodily injury that creates a substantial risk of death or that causes substantial loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ or substantial impairment of health or substantial disfigurement. See
• Source patient: means an individual who, in the course of receiving health services, may have exposed a health care worker, public safety personnel, or emergency personnel to blood or bodily fluids in a manner sufficient to transmit a bloodborne disease. See
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• VOSHA Code: means this chapter and 21 Vt. See
• Worker: means emergency personnel, health care worker, or public safety personnel. See
• workplace: means an enclosed structure where employees perform services for an employer, including restaurants, bars, and other establishments in which food or drinks, or both, are served. See