Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 3 > Article 11 - Amendments to the State Constitution

• accuser: means a person who signs and swears to charges, any person who directs that charges nominally be signed and sworn to by another, and any other person who has an interest other than an official interest in the prosecution of the accused. See West Virginia Code 15-1E-1
• 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.
• Allegation: something that someone says happened.
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
• 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
• Athletic director: means a person employed by a county board to work in a school'. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
• Bench trial: Trial without a jury in which a judge decides the facts.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• board: means a county board of education. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
• classified information: means - any information or material that has been determined by an official of the United States or any state pursuant to law, an Executive order, or regulation to require protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national or state security, and any restricted data, as defined in section 11(y) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U. See West Virginia Code 15-1E-1
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Disability history: means the people, events and timelines of the development and evolution of services to, and the civil rights of, people with disabilities. See West Virginia Code 18-10O-4
• Existing school curriculum: means all the courses and curricula currently in place at a public school. See West Virginia Code 18-10O-4
• Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
• School: means the students and teachers assembled in one or more buildings, organized as a unit. See West Virginia Code 18-1-1
• 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
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}