Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 48 > Article 2 > Part 4 - Marriage Ceremony

• Advanced professional development training: means any academy, class, conference, course, program, seminar or training attended by an employee that:

  (1) Is not required by his or her current position. See West Virginia Code 6C-4-1

• Agency: means an administrative unit of state government, including, without limitation, any authority, board, bureau, commission, committee, council, division, section, or office within the executive branch of state government. See West Virginia Code 6C-4-1
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Continuing professional education: means educational courses, seminars, lectures or programs necessary to maintain or renew an employee'. See West Virginia Code 6C-4-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Employee: means any person who performs a full or part-time service for wages, salary, or other remuneration under a contract for hire, written or oral, express or implied, for an agency and receives advanced professional development training after the effective date of this article. See West Virginia Code 6C-4-1
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Professional accreditation: means any certification, degree, advanced degree, endorsement or occupational license. See West Virginia Code 6C-4-1
• State: means a state of the United States, or the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See West Virginia Code 48-14-601
• State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
• Training compensation: means tuition and expenses, paid to an or on the behalf of an employee for advanced professional development training. See West Virginia Code 6C-4-1
• whoever: includes corporations, societies, associations and partnerships, and other similar legal business organizations. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10