Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 20 > Chapter 1 > Subchapter VI - Service Pay, Disability Compensation and Company Appropriations

• 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
• Authority: means the State, any political subdivision thereof, or any board, commission, public agency or instrumentality thereof, which operates or takes over the operation of any mass transportation system within this State. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 801
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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 Labor or its authorized representatives. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 901
• Employee: includes any individual employed by an employer but shall not include:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 901

• Employer: includes any individual, partnership, association, corporation, statutory trust, business trust or any person or group of persons acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 901
• 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.
• Gratuities: means voluntary monetary contributions received by an employee from a guest, patron or customer for services rendered. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 901
• Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. ^{Source: U.S. Mint}
• Mass transportation system: means transportation of the public by bus, rail or any other means of conveyance serving the general public and moving under prescribed routes. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 801
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Occupation: means any occupation, service, trade, business, industry or branch or group of industries or employment or class of employment in which employees are gainfully employed. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 901
• 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.
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• 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
• Unit: shall mean any part of the Delaware National Guard designated a "unit" by order of the Adjutant General. See Delaware Code Title 20 Sec. 102
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Wage: means compensation due to an employee by reason of the employee's employment, payable in legal tender of the United States or check or bank convertible into cash on demand at full face value, subject to such deductions, charges or allowances as may be permitted by the regulations of the Department under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 901