14-7651. Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. " Adult" means a person who is at least twenty-one years of age.
2. " Benefit plan" means an employer's plan for the benefit of an employee or partner.
3. " Broker" means a person lawfully engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities or commodities for the person's own account or for the account of others.
4. " Conservator" means a person appointed or qualified by a court to act as a general, limited or temporary guardian of a minor's property or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions.
5. " Court" means the superior court.
6. " Custodial property" means an interest in property that is transferred to a custodian pursuant to this article and income from and proceeds of that interest in property.
7. " Custodian" means a person designated pursuant to section 14-7659 or a successor or substitute custodian designated pursuant to section 14-7668.
8. " Financial institution" means a bank, trust company, savings institution or credit union, which is chartered and supervised under state or federal law.
9. " Legal representative" means an individual's personal representative or conservator.
10. " Member of the minor's family" means the minor's parent, stepparent, spouse, grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt, whether of the whole or half blood or by adoption.
11. " Minor" means a person under the age of twenty-one years.
12. " Person" means an individual, corporation, organization or other legal entity.
13. " Personal representative" means an executor, administrator, successor personal representative or special administrator of a decedent's estate or a person legally authorized to perform substantially the same functions.
14. " State" includes a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and a territory or possession subject to the legislative authority of the United States.
15. " Street name or nominee name" means registration used by a broker or financial institution for holding securities if they are not registered in the name of the beneficial owner.
16. " Transfer" means a transaction that creates custodial property pursuant to section 14-7659.
17. " Transferor" means a person who makes a transfer pursuant to this article.
18. " Trust company" means a financial institution, corporation or other legal entity, which is authorized to exercise general trust powers.
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