Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 29 > Chapter 84 - Department of Transportation

• Acknowledgment: shall mean a statement by a person that the person has executed an instrument for the purposes stated therein. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321
• 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.
• Affirmation: shall mean a promise of truthfulness that is a solemn, spoken pledge on one's own, personal honor without reference to a Supreme Being. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321
• 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
• Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Corridor route: means any existing or proposed road in an urban or rural area which is classified as part of the "principal arterial highway system" as defined in the National Highway Functional Classification Studies on record with the Department and which serves traffic corridor movements of substantial statewide or interstate travel and as to which the concept of service to abutting land is subordinate to the provisions of travel service to major traffic movements. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 8402
• Department: means the Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 8402
• Deputy Secretary: means the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 8402
• Director: means the Director of the Transportation Authority and/or the Director of the Division of Highways and/or the Director of the Office of Administration. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 8402
• Division: means the Division of Highways. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 8402
• Document: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form, including a record as defined in the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (Chapter 12A of Title 6). See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321
• Electronic document: means information that is created, generated, sent, communicated, received, or stored by electronic means. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321
• electronic notary: means a notary public who has been commissioned by the Secretary with the capability of performing electronic notarial acts under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321
• electronic seal: means information within a notarized electronic document that confirms the notary's name, jurisdiction, and commission expiration date and generally corresponds to data in notary seals used on paper documents. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321
• Electronic signature: means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with an electronic document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Notarial act: shall mean any act that a notary public of this State is authorized to perform and includes:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321

• Oath: shall mean a promise of truthfulness that is a solemn, spoken pledge to a Supreme Being. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• 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.
• Satisfactory evidence of identity: means identification of an individual based on:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321

• Seal: means a device for affixing on a paper document an image containing the notary's name and other information related to the notary's commission. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4321
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 8402
• 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.
• Transportation Authority: means Delaware Transportation Authority. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 8402
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302