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Attachment A
<br /> General Terms and Conditions
<br /> DEFINITIONS individuals for Medicare and Medicaid patient
<br /> unless indicated otherwise from the context, the services.
<br /> following terms shall have the following meanings in (8) "Financial Statement" means a report
<br /> this Contract. All definitions are from 9 NCAC providing financial statistics relative to a given
<br /> 3M.0102 unless otherwise noted. If the rule or statute part of an organization's operations or status.
<br /> that is the source of the definition is changed by the (9) "Grant" means financial assistance provided
<br /> adopting authority, the change shall be incorporated by an agency, grantee, or subgrantee to carry
<br /> herein. out activities whereby the grantor anticipates
<br /> (1) "Agency" (as used in the context of the no programmatic involvement with the grantee
<br /> definitions below) shall mean and include or subgrantee during the performance of the
<br /> every public office, public officer or official grant.
<br /> (State or local, elected or appointed), (10) "Grantee" has the meaning in NCGS 143C-6-
<br /> institution, board, commission, bureau, 23(a)(2): a non-State entity that receives a
<br /> council, department, authority or other unit of grant of State funds from a State agency,
<br /> government of the State or of any county,unit, department, or institution but does not include
<br /> special district or other political subagency of any non-State entity subject to the audit and
<br /> government. For other purposes in this other reporting requirements of the Local
<br /> Contract, "Agency" shall mean the entity Government Commission. For other purposes
<br /> identified as one of the parties hereto. in this Contract, "Grantee" shall mean the
<br /> (2) "Audit" means an examination of records or entity identified as one of the parties hereto.
<br /> financial accounts to verify their accuracy. (11) "Grantor" means an entity that provides
<br /> (3) "Certification of Compliance" means a report resources,generally financial,to another entity
<br /> provided by the Agency to the Office of the in order to achieve a specified goal or
<br /> State Auditor that states that the Grantee has objective.
<br /> met the reporting requirements established by (12) "Non-State Entity" has the meaning in NCGS
<br /> this Subchapter and included a statement of 143C-1-1(d)(18): Any of the following that is
<br /> certification by the Agency and copies of the not a State agency: An individual, a firm, a
<br /> submitted grantee reporting package. partnership, an association, a county, a
<br /> (4) "Compliance Supplement" refers to the North corporation, or any other organization acting
<br /> Carolina State Compliance Supplement, as a unit. The term includes a unit of local
<br /> maintained by the State and Local government and public authority.
<br /> Government Finance Agency within the North (13) "Public Authority" has the meaning in NCGS
<br /> Carolina Department of State Treasurer that 143C-1-1(d)(22): A municipal corporation
<br /> has been developed in cooperation with that is not a unit of local government or a local
<br /> agencies to assist the local auditor in governmental authority, board, commission,
<br /> identifying program compliance requirements council, or agency that (i) is not a municipal
<br /> and audit procedures for testing those corporation and (ii) operates on an area,
<br /> requirements. regional, or multiunit basis, and the budgeting
<br /> (5) "Contract" means a legal instrument that is and accounting systems of which are not fully
<br /> used to reflect a relationship between the a part of the budgeting and accounting systems
<br /> agency, grantee,and subgrantee. of a unit of local government.
<br /> (6) "Fiscal Year" means the annual operating year (14) "Single Audit"means an audit that includes an
<br /> of the non-State entity. examination of an organization's financial
<br /> (7) "Financial Assistance" means assistance that statements, internal controls, and compliance
<br /> non-State entities receive or administer in the with the requirements of Federal or State
<br /> form of grants, loans, loan guarantees, awards.
<br /> property (including donated surplus property), (15) "Special Appropriation"means a legislative act
<br /> cooperative agreements, interest subsidies, authorizing the expenditure of a designated
<br /> insurance, food commodities, direct amount of public funds for a specific purpose.
<br /> appropriations, and other assistance. Financial (16) "State Funds" means any funds appropriated
<br /> assistance does not include amounts received by the North Carolina General Assembly or
<br /> as reimbursement for services rendered to collected by the State of North Carolina. State
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