Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 3 > Chapter 82 > Subchapter I - Rabies Control in Animal and Human Populations

• Activity and use limitations: means restrictions or obligations with respect to real property created under this subchapter. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
• adult person: means a person of the age of 18 years or older. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Ancillary equipment: means any device including, but not limited to, such devices as piping, fittings, flanges, valves and pumps, that are used to distribute, meter or control the flow of petroleum or hazardous substances from an underground storage tank. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. ^{Source: FDIC}
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Borrower: means a person obtaining or desiring to obtain a mortgage loan. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2101
• Brownfield: means real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be hindered by the reasonably held belief that the real property may be environmentally contaminated. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Brownfields developer: shall mean a person who, with respect to a facility:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9123

• Brownfields Development Agreement: means an agreement between the Secretary and a brownfield developer with respect to a certified brownfield that sets forth a scope and schedule of activities to assess and respond to the actual, threatened, or perceived release of hazardous substances at the facility. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9123
• buyer: means a person who buys a motor vehicle from a retail seller and who executed a retail installment contract in connection therewith. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Cash sale price: means the price stated in a retail installment contract for which the seller would have sold to the buyer, and the buyer would have bought from the seller, the motor vehicle which is the subject matter of the retail installment contract, if such sale has been a sale for cash instead of a retail installment transaction. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• CERCLA: means the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• certificate of incorporation: as used in this chapter , unless the context requires otherwise, includes not only the original certificate of incorporation filed to create a corporation but also all other certificates, agreements of merger or consolidation, plans of reorganization, or other instruments, howsoever designated, which are filed pursuant to § 102, §§ 133-136, § 151, §§ 241-243, § 245, §§ 251-258, §§ 263-264, § 267, § 303, §§ 311-313, or any other section of this title, and which have the effect of amending or supplementing in some respect a corporation's certificate of incorporation. See Delaware Code Title 8 Sec. 104
• Certified brownfield: means a brownfield, as defined in § 9103(3) of this title, that the Secretary has certified pursuant to the regulations governing hazardous substance cleanup. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9123
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Commissioner: means the State Bank Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2101
• Commissioner: means the State Bank Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2403
• Commissioner: means State Bank Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Common interest community: means a condominium or other real property with respect to which a person, by virtue of the person's ownership of a parcel of real property, is obligated to pay for property taxes, insurance premiums, maintenance, or improvement of other real property described in a recorded covenant that creates the common interest community. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• contract: means an agreement, entered into in this State, pursuant to which the title to, the property in or a lien upon the motor vehicle, which is the subject matter of a retail installment transaction, is retained or taken by a retail seller from a retail buyer as security, in whole or in part, for the buyer's obligation. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Contractor: means any corporation, company, association, firm, partnership, society, joint-stock company, sole proprietorship or individual that contracts to perform any remedial action under the remedial standards established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Contractual relationship: means , but is not limited to, land contracts, deeds, easements, leases or other instruments transferring title or possession. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Corrective action: means the sequence of actions, or process, that includes confirming a release, site assessment, interim remedial action, remedial action, monitoring, and termination of remedial action. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. ^{Source: OCC}
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Department: means the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC). See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
• Department: means the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Department: means the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any hazardous substance into or on any land, water or into the air so that such hazardous substance or any constituent thereof may enter the environment. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• dollars: means lawful money of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Environment: means the navigable waters, the waters of the contiguous zone, ocean waters, and any other surface water, ground water, drinking water supply, land surface or subsurface strata or ambient air within the State. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Environmental covenant: means a servitude arising under an environmental response project that imposes activity and use limitations. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
• Environmental response project: means a plan or work performed for environmental remediation of real property, conducted:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907

• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Existing environmental condition: means all known or discovered releases of hazardous substances which are found to be, or to have been, existing at or in the vicinity of the facility prior to a person entering into a Brownfields Development Agreement with the Secretary. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9123
• Facility: means any location or part thereof that contains or had previously contained 1 or more underground storage tanks. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Facility: means any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline (including any pipe into a sewer or publicly owned treatment works), well, pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, motor vehicle, rolling stock, vessel, aircraft, or any site or area where a hazardous substance has been generated, manufactured, refined, transported, stored, treated, handled, recycled, released, disposed of, placed or otherwise come to be located. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiduciary: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402

• Fiduciary: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103

• Fiduciary capacity: means the capacity of a person in holding title to a facility, or otherwise having control of or an interest in the facility, pursuant to the exercise of the responsibilities of the person as a fiduciary. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Fiduciary capacity: means the capacity of a person in holding title to a facility, or otherwise having control of or an interest in the facility, pursuant to the exercise of the responsibilities of the person as a fiduciary. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. ^{Source: OCC}
• Finance charge: means the amount agreed upon between the buyer and the seller, as limited by this chapter, to be added to the aggregate of the cash sale price, the amount, if any, included for insurance and other benefits and official fees, in determining the time price. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
  • You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
  • The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
  • The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
• Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Fund: means the Delaware Underground Petroleum Storage Tank Response Fund. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Fund: means the Hazardous Substance Cleanup Fund created pursuant to § 9113 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Grantee: includes every person to whom a freehold estate or interest is conveyed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Hazardous substance: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103

• Heating fuels: means a type of fuel oil that is 1 of 8 technical grades. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Holder: means a person that is the grantee of an environmental covenant. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
• Immediate family member: means a spouse, child, sibling, parent, grandparent or grandchild. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2403
• Imminent threat of release: means potential for a release which requires action to prevent or mitigate damage to the environment or endangerment to public health or welfare which may result from such a release. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Individual: means a natural person. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2403
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Lender: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402

• Lender: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103

• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Licensee: means a holder of a license issued by the State Bank Commissioner pursuant to this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Loan processor or underwriter: means an individual who performs clerical or support duties as an employee at the direction of and subject to the supervision and instruction of a person licensed, or exempt from licensing under Chapter 21 or 22 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2403
• Minimum finance charge: The minimum, or fixed, finance charge that will be imposed during a billing cycle. A minimum finance charge usually applies only when a finance charge is imposed, that is, when you carry over a balance. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. ^{Source: OCC}
• Mortgage loan: means an extension of credit secured by a first or secondary mortgage on any 1-to-4 family residential owner-occupied property intended for personal, family or household purposes, which is:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2101

• Mortgage loan broker: means a person who (i) in the ordinary course of business, for compensation or gain, or in the expectation of compensation or gain, either directly or indirectly, negotiates or offers to negotiate, or arranges or solicits, or offers to arrange or solicit, a mortgage loan on behalf of a borrower, or (ii) holds himself out as being able to serve as an agent for any person in an attempt to obtain a mortgage loan; or (iii) holds himself or herself out as being able to serve as an agent or independent contractor to negotiate the terms or conditions of a mortgage loan on behalf of a lender (but who is not a person employed as an employee or agent of the lender). See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2101
• Mortgage loan originator: means an individual who for compensation or gain or in the expectation of compensation or gain:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2403

• Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
• Motor vehicle: means any device propelled or drawn by any power other than muscular power, in, upon, or by which any person or property is, or may be transported or drawn upon a highway. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry: means a mortgage licensing system developed and maintained by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors and the American Association of Residential Mortgage Regulators for the licensing and registration of licensed mortgage loan originators. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2403
• Natural resources: means land, fish, wildlife, biota, air, water, groundwater, drinking water supplies, and other such resources belonging to, managed by, held in trust by, appertaining to, or otherwise controlled by Delaware, the United States, any foreign government, any local government, or any Indian tribe. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• Nontraditional mortgage product: means any mortgage product other than a 30-year fixed rate mortgage. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2403
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Operable unit: means any subdivision of a facility in terms of area or environmental media or any other manner approved by the Secretary. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Operator: means any person in control of, or having responsibility for, the daily operation of the underground storage tank system. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Out of service: means a storage system which:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402

• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Owner: means a person that owns a fee simple interest in real property that is subject to an environmental covenant. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
• Owner: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402

• Owner or operator: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103

• participate in management: means actually participating in the management or operational affairs of an underground storage tank or facility, but does not include merely having the capacity to influence, or the unexercised right to control, an underground storage tank or facility operations. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means any individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, federal agency, partnership, corporation (including a government corporation or authority), limited liability company, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state or any interstate body. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
• Person: means any individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, federal agency, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state or any interstate body. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership or any other group of individuals however organized. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2101
• Person: means an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, joint venture, commercial entity, state government agency, unit of local government, school district, conservation district, federal government agency, Indian tribe or interstate body. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Person: means a natural person, corporation, company, limited liability company, partnership, association, or other entity. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2403
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, and any other group however organized. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• person licensed: means any person duly licensed or regulated by the Commissioner pursuant to this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2101
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plan of remedial action: means a detailed plan describing cleanup actions and related information for the containment or permanent removal and disposal of hazardous substances from a facility. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Potentially responsible party: means any person identified pursuant to § 9105(a)(1) through (6) of this title as a person liable with respect to a facility. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• Prospective purchaser: means a person (or a tenant of a person) that acquires or intends to acquire ownership of a facility after the date of the enactment of this subdivision and that establishes each of the following:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103

• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Record: when used as a noun, 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. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
• Registered mortgage loan originator: means any individual who:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2403

• Regulated substance: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402

• Release: means any spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching or disposing into groundwater, surface water or soils. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Release: means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping or disposing into the environment (including the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers and other closed receptacles containing any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant), but excludes:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103

• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Remedial action: means the containment, contaminant mass or toxicity reduction, isolation, treatment, removal, cleanup or monitoring of hazardous substances released into the environment, or the taking of such other actions as may be necessary to prevent, minimize or mitigate harm or risk of harm to the public health or welfare or the environment which may result from a release or an imminent threat of a release of hazardous substances. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Remedy: means any action, response or expenditure consistent with the purposes of this chapter to identify, minimize or eliminate any imminent threat posed by any hazardous substances to public health or welfare or the environment including preparation of any plans, conducting of any studies and any investigative, oversight of remedy or monitoring activities with respect to any release or imminent threat of release of a hazardous substance and any health assessments, risk assessments or health effect studies or natural resource damage assessments conducted in order to determine the risk or potential risk to public health or welfare or the environment. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Removal: means the process of removing and disposing of an underground storage tank system, through the use of prescribed techniques for the purging of residues and vapors and removal of the vessel from the ground. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Residential mortgage loan: means any loan primarily for personal, family, or household use that is secured by a mortgage, deed of trust, or other equivalent consensual security interest on a dwelling (as defined in § 103(v) of the United States Truth in Lending Act [15 U. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2403
• Residential real estate: means any real property located in Delaware, upon which is constructed, or intended to be constructed, a dwelling. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2403
• Responsible party: means any person who:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402

• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• Retail installment transaction: means any transaction evidenced by a retail installment contract entered into between a retail buyer and a retail seller wherein the retail buyer buys a motor vehicle from the retail seller at a time price payable in one or more deferred installments. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Retrofit: means modification or correction of an underground storage tank system to meet standards contained in regulations promulgated under this chapter through such means as replacement of valves, fill pipes, vents and liquid level monitoring systems, and the installation of overfill protection, transfer spill protection, leak detection and cathodic protection devices; but the term does not include the process of relining an underground tank through application of such materials as epoxy resins, nor does the term include the process of conducting a tightness test to establish the integrity of the tank. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Sales finance company: means a person engaged, in whole or in part, in the business of purchasing retail installment contracts from one or more retail sellers. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control or the Secretary's duly authorized designee. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control or a duly authorized designee. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Secretary: means Secretary of the Department or the Secretary's designee. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• Security interest: means an interest in a petroleum UST or UST system or in a facility or property on which a petroleum UST or UST system is located, created or established for the purpose of securing a loan or other obligation. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Security interest: includes a right under a mortgage, deed of trust, assignment, judgment, lien, pledge, security agreement, factoring agreement, or lease and any other right accruing to a person to secure the repayment of money, the performance of a duty, or any other obligation by a nonaffiliated person. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• seller: means a person who sells a motor vehicle to a retail buyer under or subject to a retail installment contract. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Site assessment: means the assessment of a facility and/or property to determine whether hazardous substances have entered the environment. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
• State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• State: means the State of Delaware, in the United States. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7907
• State: means the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Truth in Lending Act: The Truth in Lending Act is a federal law that requires lenders to provide standardized information so that borrowers can compare loan terms. In general, lenders must provide information on ^{Source: OCC}
• Underground storage tank: means a containment vessel, including underground pipes connected thereto, which is used to contain an accumulation of regulated substances, and the volume of which, including the volume of the underground pipes connected thereto, is 10 per centum or more beneath the surface of the ground. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Underground storage tank system: means an underground storage tank and its associated ancillary equipment and containment system, if any. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7402
• Unique identifier: means a number or other identifier assigned by protocols established by the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System and Registry. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2403
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302