Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 29 > Chapter 8 - Composition of and Reapportionment of the General Assembly

• Affiliated corporations: means 2 or more corporations which are members of a controlled group of corporations as defined in § 1563 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 [26 U. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6301
• Affiliated finance company: means a corporation substantially all of whose activity within this State is limited to the issuance of commercial paper or other debt obligations and use of the proceeds to make loans to 1 or more of its affiliated corporations or to purchase receivables from 1 or more of its affiliated corporations. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6301
• Affiliated group: has the meaning provided by § 1504 of the Internal Revenue Code [26 U. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6401
• 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
• Agency: includes every board, department, bureau, commission, person or group of persons or other authority created and now existing or hereafter to be created to execute, supervise, control and/or administer governmental functions under the laws of this State or to perform such other duties as may be prescribed or to whom any moneys are appropriated under any budget appropriation act or supplemental appropriation act or any other act which authorizes and requires any department to collect and/or use any taxes, fees, licenses, permits or other receipts for services or otherwise for the performance of any function of or related to or supported in whole or in part by the laws of this State, and/or created to administer any laws providing for the collection of taxes, fees, permits, licenses or other forms of receipts from any sources whatsoever for the use of the State or any agency of the State, except the judiciary and the courts of the State. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6301
• 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.
• Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attack: means any action or series of actions causing, or which may cause, substantial damage or injury to persons or property by any means, including through biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear means or through the use of other weapons, technologies, or processes. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7803
• Board: means the Merit Employee Relations Board created by this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5901
• Budget: includes the complete financial plan of the State as evidenced by all appropriations and allowances made and estimates of revenue approved by the General Assembly, including, in addition to the general budget of appropriations adopted by the General Assembly and approved by the Governor, all other appropriations and allowances authorized by law which have been or shall be made to any agency of this State which is supported in whole or in part out of the revenues, taxes, licenses, fees, permits, fines and from other sources including any agency which is empowered by statute to collect and expend revenues by the use of special funds by whatever name known whether or not specifically appropriated by the General Assembly, and includes the budgets and the revenues and expenditures of all agencies to which moneys are appropriated by supplementary appropriations or otherwise. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6301
• certification: means or refers to the written determination of the Director of Revenue issued to a corporation that it qualifies as a Headquarters Management Corporation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6401
• CMS: means the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
• Consumer lease: means a lease that a lessor regularly engaged in the business of leasing or selling makes to a lessee who is an individual and who takes under the lease primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• contiguous: means land adjoining or touching other property held by the same or related organization. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• 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.
• Department: means the Department of Finance. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 101
• Deputy: means an assistant or other subordinate officer who is authorized by law to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of a state or political subdivision office. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7803
• DHSS: means the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• Director: means the Director of the Division of Revenue or the Secretary of Finance of the State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Division of Revenue: means the Division of Revenue of the Department of Finance of the State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• dollars: means lawful money of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Emergency event: means an impending or existing attack, act of terrorism, disease, accident, or other natural or man-made disaster that does 1 or more of the following:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7803

• Emergency interim successor: means an individual designated under this chapter to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of an office held by another individual who is unavailable until a successor is appointed or elected and qualified as may be provided by the Delaware Constitution, statutes, charters, or ordinances or until the other individual who is unavailable is able to resume the exercise of the powers and discharge the duties of the office. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7803
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Expenditures: includes any outlay of public moneys by authority of any law of this State and includes the expenditure of any appropriation authorized by the General Assembly of the State. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6301
• 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.
• Fault: means wrongful act, omission, breach, or default. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Finance lease: means a lease with respect to which:

  (i) The lessor does not select, manufacture or supply the goods;

  (ii) The lessor acquires the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods in connection with the lease; and

  (iii) One of the following occurs:

  (A) The lessee receives a copy of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods before signing the lease contract;

  (B) The lessee's approval of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods is a condition to effectiveness of the lease contract;

  (C) The lessee, before signing the lease contract, receives an accurate and complete statement designating the promises and warranties, and any disclaimers of warranties, limitations or modifications of remedies, or liquidated damages, including those of a third party, such as the manufacturer of the goods, provided to the lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection with or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods; or

  (D) If the lease is not a consumer lease, the lessor, before the lessee signs the lease contract, informs the lessee in writing

  (1) Of the identity of the person supplying the goods to the lessor, unless the lessee has selected that person and directed the lessor to acquire the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods from that person,

  (2) That the lessee is entitled under this Article to the promises and warranties, including those of any third party, provided to the lessor by the person supplying the goods in connection with or as part of the contract by which the lessor acquired the goods or the right to possession and use of the goods, and

  (3) That the lessee may communicate with the person supplying the goods to the lessor and receive an accurate and complete statement of those promises and warranties, including any disclaimers and limitations of them or of remedies. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103

• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (Section 2A-309), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Grant-in-aid: includes an appropriation of the public money from the General Fund for a public purpose to any county, municipality, corporation, private agency or person. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6301
• Headquarters Management Corporation: means an entity treated as a corporation under the Internal Revenue Code of the United States (Title 26 of the United States Code) that:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6401

• Headquarters services: includes , without limitation, accounts receivable and payable, employee benefit plan, insurance, legal, payroll, data processing, purchasing, and tax, financial and securities accounting, reporting and compliance services provided by a Headquarters Management Corporation to itself and members of its affiliated group, and the maintenance and management of the intangible investments of other members of its affiliated group. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6401
• Intangible investments: includes , without limitation, investments in stocks, bonds, notes and other debt obligations (including debt obligations of affiliates), patents, patent applications, trademarks, trade names and similar types of intangible assets. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6401
• Investment activities: means the maintenance and management by a Headquarters Management Corporation of its intangible investments and the collection and distribution of the income from such investments or from tangible property physically located outside this State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6401
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• 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}
• Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Lease agreement: means the bargain, with respect to the lease, of the lessor and the lessee in fact as found in their language or by implication from other circumstances including course of dealing or usage of trade or course of performance as provided in this Article. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this Article and any other applicable rules of law. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
• Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• managed care company under contract to the Medicaid agency: means an entity that meets the definition of an MCO under 42 C. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Nursing facility: means a nursing facility as defined and licensed pursuant to Chapter 11 of Title 16. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• Nursing facility services: has the meaning given that term in 42 C. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Office: includes all state and political subdivision offices, the powers and duties of which are defined by the Delaware Constitution, statutes, charters, or ordinances. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7803
• Operating expense: means a Headquarters Management Corporation's cost of its wages, salaries and benefits, and the cost, if any, of other services obtained by it in connection with its investment activities and for the provision of headquarters services to itself and members of its affiliated group. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6401
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Political subdivision: includes counties, municipalities, districts, authorities, and other public corporations and entities whether organized and existing under a charter or general law. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7803
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Resident day: means a calendar day of care provided to a nursing facility resident, including the day of admission and excluding the day of discharge, provided that 1 resident day shall be deemed to exist when admission and discharge occur on the same day. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 6501
• 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 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

• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Supplemental appropriation: Budget authority provided in an appropriations act in addition to regular or continuing appropriations already provided. Supplemental appropriations generally are made to cover emergencies, such as disaster relief, or other needs deemed too urgent to be postponed until the enactment of next year's regular appropriations act.
• Supplier: means a person from whom a lessor buys or leases goods to be leased under a finance lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Tax: shall be deemed also to refer to license fees imposed under Part III of this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Taxable: means any person, fiduciary, association of persons, syndicate, joint venture or copartnership subject to making return or to payment of tax imposed by this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 101
• Unavailable: means either that a vacancy in an office exists and there is no deputy authorized to exercise all of the powers and discharge the duties of the office, or that the lawful incumbent of the office, including any deputy exercising the powers and discharging the duties of an office because of a vacancy, and the lawful incumbent's duly authorized deputy are absent or unable to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7803