2023 Idaho Code › Title 55 - PROPERTY IN GENERAL › Chapter 9 - UNLAWFUL TRANSFERS › Section 55-910 - UNIFORM VOIDABLE TRANSACTIONS ACT — DEFINITIONS.

55-910. UNIFORM VOIDABLE TRANSACTIONS ACT — DEFINITIONS. As used in this act:
(1) "Affiliate" means:
(a) A person that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote, twenty percent (20%) or more of the outstanding voting securities of the debtor, other than a person that holds the securities:
1. as a fiduciary or agent without sole discretionary power to vote the securities; or
2. solely to secure a debt, if the person has not in fact exercised the power to vote;
(b) A corporation twenty percent (20%) or more of whose outstanding voting securities are directly or indirectly owned, controlled, or held with power to vote, by the debtor or a person that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds with power to vote, twenty percent (20%) or more of the outstanding voting securities of the debtor, other than a person that holds the securities:
1. as a fiduciary or agent without sole discretionary power to vote the securities; or
2. solely to secure a debt, if the person has not in fact exercised the power to vote;
(c) A person whose business is operated by the debtor under a lease or other agreement, or a person substantially all of whose assets are controlled by the debtor; or
(d) A person that operates the debtor’s business under a lease or other agreement or controls substantially all of the debtor’s assets.
(2) "Asset" means property of a debtor, but the term does not include:
(a) Property to the extent it is encumbered by a valid lien;
(b) Property to the extent it is generally exempt under nonbankruptcy law.
(3) "Claim" means a right to payment, whether or not the right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured.
(4) "Creditor" means a person that has a claim.
(5) "Debt" means liability on a claim.
(6) "Debtor" means a person that is liable on a claim.
(7) "Electronic" means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities.
(8) "Insider" includes:
(a) If the debtor is an individual:
1. a relative of the debtor or of a general partner of the debtor;
2. a partnership in which the debtor is a general partner;
3. a general partner in a partnership described in subsection (7)(a)2. of this section; or
4. a corporation of which the debtor is a director, officer, or person in control;
(b) If the debtor is a corporation:
1. a director of the debtor;
2. an officer of the debtor;
3. a person in control of the debtor;
4. a partnership in which the debtor is a general partner;
5. a general partner in a partnership described in subsection (7)(b)4. of this section; or
6. a relative of a general partner, director, officer, or person in control of the debtor;
(c) If the debtor is a partnership:
1. a general partner in the debtor;
2. a relative of a general partner in, or a general partner of, or a person in control of the debtor;
3. another partnership in which the debtor is a general partner;
4. a general partner in a partnership described in subsection (7)(c)3. of this section; or
5. a person in control of the debtor;
(d) An affiliate, or an insider of an affiliate as if the affiliate were the debtor; and
(e) A managing agent of the debtor.
(9) "Lien" means a charge against or an interest in property to secure payment of a debt or performance of an obligation, and includes a security interest created by agreement, a judicial lien obtained by legal or equitable process or proceedings, a common-law lien, or a statutory lien.
(10) "Organization" means a person other than an individual.
(11) "Person" means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or any other legal entity.
(12) "Property" means anything that may be the subject of ownership.
(13) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form.
(14) "Relative" means an individual related by consanguinity within the third degree as determined by the common law, a spouse, or an individual related to a spouse within the third degree as so determined, and includes an individual in an adoptive relationship within the third degree.
(15) "Sign" means, with present intent to authenticate or adopt a record:
(a) To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; or
(b) To attach to or logically associate with the record an electronic symbol, sound or process.
(16) "Transfer" means every mode, direct or indirect, absolute or conditional, voluntary or involuntary, of disposing of or parting with an asset or an interest in an asset, and includes payment of money, release, lease, license and creation of a lien or other encumbrance.
(17) "Valid lien" means a lien that is effective against the holder of a judicial lien subsequently obtained by legal or equitable process or proceedings.
History:
[55-910, added 1987, ch. 202, sec. 2, p. 423; am. 2015, ch. 342, sec. 1, p. 1290.]