Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 24 > Chapter 44 > Subchapter V - Disciplinary Proceedings

• 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.
• Board: means the Manufactured Home Installation Board. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• 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.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Division: means the Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Installation: means the assembly of manufactured homes on site and the process of affixing manufactured homes to the land by the use of a foundation, footings, utilities, or to an existing building. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Installer: means any person who is engaged in the business of performing manufactured housing installations as they are defined above. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• 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.
• Licensee: means any person who has completed the required training and who has paid the applicable fee for and received a license, under this chapter, for the installation of manufactured housing. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Manufactured home installation inspector: means any person who holds a manufactured home installation inspector's certificate issued pursuant to this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, joint stock company, limited partnership, limited liability company and any other legal entity and includes a legal successor of those entities. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• 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
• Substantially related: means the nature of the criminal conduct, for which the person was convicted, has a direct bearing on the person's fitness or ability to perform 1 or more of the duties or responsibilities necessarily related to the work of a manufactured home installer. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403