Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 28 > Chapter 1 > Subchapter II - Powers and Duties of the Division

• Board: shall mean the Plans Management Board pursuant to § 2722 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6052
• Combative sports: shall include all professional boxing and mixed martial arts and all amateur boxing and mixed martial arts. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Combative sports entertainment: include d but not limited to "celebrity boxing" "entertainment boxing" and all such similar terms or names shall mean a display of skill for the purpose of entertaining an audience, consisting of choreographed or simulated combat in which techniques commonly used in combative sports are employed by participants. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contestant: shall mean a person who competes in any licensed combative sports event or permitted combative sports entertainment event. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Council: shall mean the Combative Sports Advisory Council. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Director: shall mean the Director of the Division of Professional Regulation of the Department of State. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Division: shall mean the Division of Professional Regulation of the Department of State. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• employee: includes employees of the Delaware Transit Corporation and Delaware Solid Waste Authority. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6052
• Event: shall mean an organized series of contests and/or individual matches presented as a single occasion. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Professional: shall mean a person who engages in a match or contest where a purse of cash or other article of value is awarded for that person's participation or victory which is greater than the maximum amount permitted by the Division to be awarded to an amateur, as defined in the Division's rule and regulations. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Promoter: shall mean any person, regardless of job title, who arranges, advertises, produces, stages or conducts a combative sports or combative sports entertainment event. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Secretary: means the Secretary of State or designee. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• 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.
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.