Conn. Agencies Regs. § 12-62f-1 - Definitions
As used in sections 12-62f-1 to 12-62f-6, inclusive, of the regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, the following terms have the meaning ascribed to them in this section, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1)
"Alpha/numeric" means a generic term for alphabet letters, numerical digits and
special characters, such as punctuation marks, which are machine
processable;
(2) "Apartment" means
a dwelling containing five or more living units;
(3) "CAMA" means Computer-Assisted Mass
Appraisal;
(4) "Commercial
property" means real property used for the sale of goods and/or services,
including, but not limited to, non-residential living accommodations, dining
establishments, motor vehicle services, warehouses and distribution facilities,
retail services, bank and office buildings, and multi-purpose buildings,
wherein more than one occupation is conducted, recreation and entertainment
facilities, and airports;
(5)
"Committee" means the Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal Systems Advisory Board,
the members of which are appointed in accordance with the provisions of
subsection (f) of Section
12-62f
of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(6) "Condominiums" means real property with
individual ownership of the occupied area plus a fractional ownership of the
common elements.
(7) "Data base"
means the aggregate body of all information stored in a computing system which
is fundamental to the enterprise which owns or operates the system, access to
which may be limited to certain specific users and/or application
programs;
(8) "Editing" means to
modify, add, or delete data or text;
(9) "Field" means a variable length data
element within a record and is represented as a column in a table or
file;
(10) "File" means a set of
items pertaining to one function arranged or classified in sequence for
convenience or reference;
(11)
"Hardware" means a computer and the associated physical equipment directly
involved in the operation of the equipment that performs communication and/or
data processing functions;
(12)
"Industrial property" means real property used for production and fabrication
of durable and non-durable man-made goods from raw materials or compounded
parts;
(13) "Interface" means a
shared connection or boundary between two devices or systems, or the point at
which two devices or systems are linked;
(14) "Integrated" means the process which
results in the introduction of data which need not be repeated as further
allied or related data is also entered;
(15) "Module" means a part of a program that
performs a distinct function or task;
(16) "OPM" means the Office of Policy and
Management;
(17) "Password" means a
code word or group of characters a computer might require to allow an operator
access to certain functions as a security provision;
(18) "Record" means a collection of data
fields about an item within said file or table, and is represented as a row in
a file or table;
(19) "Residential
property" means real property used for human habitation, such as year-round
residences, including buildings of one- to four-dwelling unit(s), rural
residences, estates, seasonal residences, and individual mobile manufactured
homes;
(20) "Revaluation" means
establishing the fair market value of all real property, by either physical
observation or by a statistical method of adjusting the assessed value as
provided by Section
12-62
of the Connecticut General Statutes;
(21) "Sales/assessment ratio" means the
relationship between the assessed value and the sales price of a property,
calculated by dividing the assessed value by the sales price;
(22) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the
Office of Policy and Management;
(23) "Software" means the collection of
written or printed data such as programs, routines, or instructions essential
to the operation of a computer;
(24) "Table driven" means an array of non
hard-coded attributes and variables which may be adjusted or updated by a
system user;
(25) "Updating" means
the process which results in the introduction of data that need not be repeated
as further allied or related data is also entered; and
(26) "Value" means the fair market value as
defined in Section
12-63
of the Connecticut General Statutes.
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