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§ 8201 Establishment of Department of Safety and Homeland Security 29
§ 8202 Secretary; division directors; Acting Secretary; appointment 29
§ 8203 Powers, duties and functions of the Secretary 29
§ 8204 Division of Alcohol and Tobacco Enforcement 29
§ 8205 Council on Police Training 29
§ 8206 Division of State Police 29
§ 8208 Delaware Emergency Management Agency 29
§ 8210 State Council for Persons with Disabilities 29
§ 8213 Books, records; access; annual report 29
§ 8214 Exemptions 29
§ 8215 Assumption of powers 29
§ 8216 Appeals 29
§ 8217 Definitions and references in other laws 29
§ 8218 Annual report 29
§ 8219 Misnomer of Department in donation 29
§ 8220 Budgeting and financing 29
§ 8221 Supremacy 29
§ 8222 Short title 29
§ 8223 Declaration of policy; findings of fact 29
§ 8224 Definitions 29
§ 8225 Adoption of federal requirements 29
§ 8226 State Emergency Response Commission 29
§ 8227 Remedies 29
§ 8228 Jurisdiction; penalties 29
§ 8229 Exclusive state regulation; general repealer 29
§ 8230 Exemption from liability 29
§ 8231 Hazardous substance spill cleanup 29
§ 8232 State Emergency Response Commission; other personnel 29
§ 8233 Division of Capitol Police 29
§ 8234 Division of the Office of Highway Safety 29
§ 8235 Division of Communications 29
§ 8236 Division of Gaming Enforcement 29
§ 8237 Omnibus School Safety Act 29
§ 8238 Division of Forensic Science 29

Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 29 > Chapter 82 - Department of Safety and Homeland Security

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • 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.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • 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.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Director: as used in this subchapter refers to the Director of the Division of Consumer Protection and includes any designee. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 2517
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • 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
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Not-for-profit healthcare conversion transaction: includes :

    a. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 2531

  • Not-for-profit healthcare entity: includes a not-for-profit hospital, including a corporation or a hospital created under a trust or will, a not for profit healthcare service provider, a not-for-profit nursing home or long term care facility, a not-for profit healthcare insurer, a mutual corporation holding assets in charitable trust for the public benefit, an entity maintaining plans to provide healthcare services or indemnity thereof, and an entity, other than a for-profit entity, affiliated with any of these through ownership, governance, or membership, such as a holding company or subsidiary. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 2531
  • Oath: includes affirmation in all cases where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and "sworn" includes affirmed; and the forms shall be varied accordingly. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • 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.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • 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 an individual, partnership, trust, estate, corporation, association, organization, joint venture, joint stock company, limited liability company, or other legal or commercial entity. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 2531
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Secretary: means Secretary of State. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302