Section 15-20.4-01 - DefinitionsAs used in this chapter:
1. "Authorization to operate" or like term means approval of the board to operate or to contract to operate a private postsecondary career school in this state.2. "Board" means the state board for career and technical education.3. "Education" or "educational services" or like term includes any class, course, or program of training, instruction, or study.4. "Educational credentials" means degrees, diplomas, certificates, transcripts, reports, documents, or letters of designation, marks, appellations, series of letters, numbers, or words which signify, purport, or are generally taken to signify enrollment, attendance, progress, or satisfactory completion of the requirements or prerequisites for education at a postsecondary career school operating in this state.5. "Entity" includes any company, firm, society, association, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, and trust.6. "Executive officer" means the director of career and technical education.7. "Postsecondary career school" means a private, vocational, technical, home study, business, professional, or other private school or college, or other private organization or person, operating in this state, offering educational credentials, or offering instruction or educational services, primarily to persons who have completed or terminated their secondary education or who are beyond the age of compulsory high school attendance, for attainment of educational, professional, or vocational objectives at a level no higher than the associate of applied science level.8. "To grant" includes awarding, selling, conferring, bestowing, or giving.9. "To offer" includes, in addition to its usual meanings, advertising, publicizing, soliciting, or encouraging any person, directly or indirectly, in any form, to perform the act described.10. "To operate" a career school, or like term, means to establish, keep, or maintain any facility or location in this state where, from, or through which, education is offered or given, or educational credentials are offered or granted, and includes contracting with any person, group, or entity to perform any such act.Amended by S.L. 2013, ch. 137 (HB 1103),§ 2, eff. 8/1/2013.