Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 61 > Subchapter II - Implementation

• 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.
• Board: means the Enhanced 911 Emergency Reporting System Service Board. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10002
• Commission: shall mean the Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10002
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Fund: means the 911 Emergency Reporting System Service Fund created by Chapter 101 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10002
• 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.
• Provider: shall mean a telecommunications service provider, including a wireless provider, any other provider that is required to or opts to provide 911 service, or any intermediate entity or pass through agent providing telecommunications services. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10002
• Secretary: shall mean the Secretary of the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10002
• 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Wireless automatic location information: means the delivery or receipt of the approximate geographic location, as specified in the FCC E-911 Order, of the wireless device being used to place a call to a 911 system or to a wireless E-911 system. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10002
• Wireless automatic number identification: means the delivery or receipt of the telephone number when available assigned to the wireless device being used to place a call to a 911 system or to a wireless E-911 system. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10002
• Wireless provider: means a person engaged in the business of providing wireless service to end-use customers and resellers of such service in this State or commercial mobile radio service providers as defined by the Federal Communications Commission. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10002
• Wireless service: means commercial mobile radio service as defined under §§ 3(33) and 332(d) of the Communications Act of 1934 [47 USC §§ 153(33) and 322(d)], as amended by the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 (47 U. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10002
• Wireline: means telecommunications service provided in part over fixed physical access facilities, such as wires and cables, between residences or businesses and a telephone company switching office. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10002