Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 22 > Chapter 7 - Planning Commission

• 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.
• 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
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Chief executive officer: means the mayor if such there be or, if there be none, then it means the president of the legislative body of a municipal corporation or, if there be none, then it means the presiding officer of the legislative body of a municipal corporation. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 801
• Committee: means the Cabinet Committee on State Planning Issues established pursuant to § 9101 of Title 29. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1902
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• district: means an area within a municipality or unincorporated area designated as a Downtown Development District in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1902
• District plan: means the strategic plan or other detailed description of the overall strategy for the development of a proposed district submitted by the municipality or unincorporated area as part of its application for district designation. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1902
• Downtown: means that portion of a city, town, or unincorporated area that traditionally comprises its downtown or central business district, as determined by such city, town, or unincorporated area in accordance with guidelines promulgated by the Office. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1902
• 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.
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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.
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Municipal corporation: includes all cities, towns and villages created before or after December 28, 1961, under any general or special law of this State for general governmental purposes which possess legislative, administrative and police powers for the general exercise of municipal functions and which carry on such functions through a set of elected and other officials. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 801
• Municipality: means any incorporated town or city of this State. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1902
• Office: means the Office of State Planning Coordination. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1902
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Unincorporated area: means an area of the State having a concentration of population that is not a municipality and that is eligible to apply for and receive district designation in accordance with rules promulgated by the Office. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 1902