Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 51 > Subchapter I - General Provisions

• 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.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Bequeath: To gift property by will.
• Board: shall mean the Delaware Health Resources Board established pursuant to § 9303 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9302
• Bureau: shall mean the Bureau of Health Planning and Resources Management within the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9302
• Certificate of Public Review: shall mean the written approval of an application to undertake an activity subject to review as described in § 9304 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9302
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• 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.
• Department: means the Department of Health and Social Services except that Department means the Department of Services for Children, Youth and Their Families in the context of a treatment facility serving minors. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 5181
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Director: means the Director of the Division of Public Health, or such persons as may be designated by the Director. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• Division: means the Division of Public Health. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• 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.
• Freestanding acute inpatient rehabilitation hospital: shall mean a facility that satisfies, or is expected by the person who will construct, develop or establish the facility to satisfy, the requirements of 42 C. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9302
• Freestanding birthing center: shall mean any facility licensed as such pursuant to Chapter 1 of this title and more particularly in the State Board of Health Regulations. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9302
• Freestanding emergency center: shall mean any facility licensed as such pursuant to Chapter 1 of this title and more particularly § 52 of the State Board of Health Regulations. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9302
• Freestanding surgical center: shall mean any facility licensed as such pursuant to Chapter 1 of this title and more particularly in the State Board of Health Regulations. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9302
• Health-care facility: shall include hospital, nursing home, freestanding birthing center, freestanding surgical center, freestanding acute inpatient rehabilitation hospital, and freestanding emergency center, whether or not licensed or required to be licensed by the State, whether operated for profit or nonprofit and whether privately owned or operated or owned or operated by a unit of State or local government. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9302
• Hospital: shall mean any nonfederal facility licensed as such pursuant to Chapter 10 of this title and more particularly § 50 of the State Board of Health Regulations. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9302
• 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}
• Major medical equipment: shall mean a single unit of medical equipment or a single system of components with related functions which is used for the diagnosis or treatment of patients and which:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9302

• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Nursing home: shall mean any nonfederal facility licensed as such pursuant to Chapter 11 of this title and more particularly § 57 (Skilled care) and § 58 (Intermediate care) of the State Board of Health Regulations. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9302
• 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: shall mean an individual, a trust or estate, a partnership, a corporation (including associations, joint stock companies and insurance companies), a state or political subdivision or instrumentality (including a municipal corporation) of a state. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 9302
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services or such persons as may be designated by the Secretary. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• 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
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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