Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 24 > Chapter 52 > Subchapter III - Other Provisions

• Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
• Board: shall mean the State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Direct supervision: shall mean oversight on the premises of a nursing home. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• 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}
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Nursing home: shall mean any licensed residential health facility for aged, infirm, chronically ill or convalescent persons, excluding neighborhood homes and group homes licensed by the Division of Health Care Quality, that provides shelter and food to more than 4 persons who:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202

• Nursing home administrator: shall mean the individual licensed under this chapter to practice nursing home administration. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• Person: shall mean 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. 5202
• Practice of nursing home administration: shall mean the performance of any act or the making of any decision involved in the planning, organizing, directing, or controlling of the operations of a nursing home, whether or not such acts are performed, or decisions made, by 1 or more persons. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302