Definitions

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''Alpha/numeric'' means a generic term for alphabet letters, numerical digits and special characters, such as punctuation marks, which are machine processable;

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''Apartment'' means a dwelling containing five or more living units;

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''CAMA'' means Computer-Assisted Mass Appraisal;

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''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;

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''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;

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''Condominiums'' means real property with individual ownership of the occupied area plus a fractional ownership of the common elements.

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''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;

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''Editing'' means to modify, add, or delete data or text;

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''Field'' means a variable length data element within a record and is represented as a column in a table or file;

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''File'' means a set of items pertaining to one function arranged or classified in sequence for convenience or reference;

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''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;

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''Industrial property'' means real property used for production and fabrication of durable and non-durable man-made goods from raw materials or compounded parts;

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''Interface'' means a shared connection or boundary between two devices or systems, or the point at which two devices or systems are linked;

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''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;

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''Module'' means a part of a program that performs a distinct function or task;

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''OPM'' means the Office of Policy and Management;

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''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;

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''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;

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''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;

Office of Policy and Management

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''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;

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''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;

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''Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management;

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''Software'' means the collection of written or printed data such as programs, routines, or instructions essential to the operation of a computer;

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''Table driven'' means an array of non hard-coded attributes and variables which may be adjusted or updated by a system user;

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''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

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''Value'' means the fair market value as defined in Section 12-63 of the Connecticut General Statutes.