Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 18 > Article 10F - Disabled Persons and Public Use Buildings and Facilities

• Active duty: means full-time duty status in any of the active uniformed services of the United States, including service in the National Guard and Reserve pursuant to active duty orders in accordance with 10 U. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• 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.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• board: means a county board of education. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
• Child of a military family: means any school-aged child enrolled in any of grades kindergarten through twelfth who is in the household of an active duty uniformed services member. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• Compact commissioner: means the voting representative of a compacting state appointed pursuant to Article VIII of this compact. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• County board: means a county board of education, which is the public entity legally constituted by this state as an administrative agency to provide control of and direction for grades kindergarten through twelfth in the public schools in the county in which it operates. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Deployment: means the time period beginning one month prior to a uniformed services member'. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• Education records: means all documents, files, data and official records directly related to a student and maintained by a school or county board. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Extracurricular activities: means voluntary activities sponsored by a school, a county board or an organization sanctioned by a county board or the state board of education. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• 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.
• 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.
• in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, or figures, whether by printing, engraving, writing, or otherwise. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
• Interstate Commission: means the Commission that is created by Article IX of this compact. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• Judgment: includes decrees and orders for the payment of money, or the conveyance or delivery of land or personal property, or some interest therein, or any undertaking, bond or recognizance which has the legal effect of a judgment. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
• 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.
• 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}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
• Member state: means a state that has enacted this compact. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• Military installation: means a base, camp, post, station, yard, center, homeport facility for any ship, or other facility under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense, including any leased facility, which is located within any of the several states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Receiving state: means a state to which a child of a military family is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• Rule: means a written statement by the Interstate Commission which:

  (1) Is promulgated pursuant to Article XII of this compact. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2

• School: means the students and teachers assembled in one or more buildings, organized as a unit. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
• Sending state: means a state from which a child of a military family is sent, brought, or caused to be sent or brought. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• State board: means the West Virginia Board of Education. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
• State superintendent: means the state superintendent of free Schools. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Student: means a child of a military family who is formally enrolled in any of grades kindergarten through twelfth and for whom a county board receives public funding. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• superintendent: means a county superintendent of schools. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
• Teacher: means a teacher, supervisor, principal, superintendent, public school librarian or any other person regularly employed for instructional purposes in a public school in this state. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
• Transition: means :

  (1) The formal and physical process of transferring from one school to another. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2

• Uniformed services: means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and the Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Public Health Services. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2
• West Virginia Council: means the state coordinating council established in Article VIII of this compact. See West Virginia Code 18-10F-2