Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 29 > Chapter 59 > Subchapter I - Definitions and Exclusions

• Agency: means any agency, board, department, bureau or commission of this State which receives an appropriation under the general appropriation act of the General Assembly. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5901
• 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
• Board: means the Merit Employee Relations Board created by this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5901
• 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.
• Lease: means an agreement (either written or oral) under which a lessor grants to a lessee the right to use property for a specified period or at the will of either the lessor or lessee. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 4301
• 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}
• Lessee: means any person to which a lease is made and any assignee of the person to which a lease is made. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 4301
• Lessor: means any person that grants a lease and any assignee of the person that grants a lease other than an assignee for security or financing. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 4301
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• 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.
• Person: means and includes an individual, partnership, firm, cooperative, corporation or any association of persons acting individually or as a unit. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 4301
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Rules: means those rules adopted by the Board pursuant to this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5901
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Human Resources. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5901
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, The United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• 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
• state service: means all positions of state employment other than the following positions, which are excluded:

  (1) Members of the General Assembly and others elected by popular vote and persons appointed to fill vacancies in elective offices. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5903

• Tax: shall be deemed also to refer to license fees imposed under Part III of this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302