Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 6C > Article 4 - Compensation to State Employees for Training, Education and Professional Development

• 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
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• 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
• 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
• 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