§ 10022 License as required
§ 10023 Application; rejection; award of dates and maximum racing days; …
§ 10024 Application fee and license fee
§ 10025 Issuance
§ 10026 Suspension or revocation; appeal
§ 10027 Rules of United States Trotting Association
§ 10028 Inspection of racing premises prior to meet
§ 10029 Rules, regulations and special powers of Commission
§ 10030 Licensee’s annual financial statement
§ 10032 Delaware-owned or bred races

Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 3 > Chapter 100 > Subchapter II - License to Conduct Harness Racing Meet; Taxes

  • adult person: means a person of the age of 18 years or older. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Agricultural structure: means a structure, which is located on a farm, used exclusively in connection with producing, harvesting, storing, drying, or raising agricultural commodities, including the raising of livestock. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4002
  • 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.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • 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
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
  • Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
  • Certified construction reviewer: means an individual who has passed a departmental sponsored or approved training course and who provides on-site construction review for sediment control and stormwater management in accordance with regulations promulgated under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4002
  • Charge: means the admission price or fee asked in return for invitation or permission to enter or go upon the land. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5902
  • Commission: means the Delaware Harness Racing Commission. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 10001
  • Commissioner: means a member of the Delaware Harness Racing Commission. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 10001
  • Committee: means a body of stakeholders that inform the treatment and disposition of unmarked human burials and skeletal remains:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5402

  • 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.
  • Dam: shall mean any artificial barrier, including appurtenant works, with the ability to impound or divert water, wastewater, or liquid-borne materials. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4202
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: shall mean the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4202
  • Department: shall mean the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4402
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Designated watershed or subwatershed: means a watershed or subwatershed proposed by a conservation district, county, municipality or state agency and approved by the Department. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4002
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Director: means the Director of the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs, Department of State. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5402
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • dollars: means lawful money of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Dower: A widow
  • 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
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • 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.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • harness horse races: means and includes only any racing of horses in which the horses competing or participating are harnessed to a sulky, carriage or similar vehicle and are not mounted by a jockey. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 10001
  • Infancy: means an age of less than 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Infant: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • 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.
  • Land: means land, roads, water, watercourses, private ways and buildings, structures, and machinery or equipment when attached to the realty. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5902
  • land disturbance: means any land change or construction activity for residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional land use which may result in soil erosion from water or wind or movement of sediments or pollutants into state waters or onto lands in the State, or which may result in accelerated stormwater runoff, including clearing, grading, excavating, transporting, and filling of land. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4002
  • 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
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
  • Lineal descendant: means any individual tracing their ancestry directly or by proven kinship. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5402
  • Lineal descendant: Direct descendant of the same ancestors.
  • Low hazard potential dam: shall mean any dam whose failure or misoperation is unlikely to cause loss of human life but may cause minor economic and/or environmental losses. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4202
  • Maximum storage elevation: shall mean the elevation of the lowest point of the top of dam independent of low points caused by partial failure or collapse. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4202
  • Medical Examiner: means as defined in Chapter 47 of Title 29. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5402
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • 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.
  • Owner: means the possessor of a fee interest, tenant, lessee, occupant or person in control of the premises. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5902
  • Owner: shall include any of the following who own, control, operate, maintain, manage, or propose to construct, reconstruct, enlarge, repair, alter, remove or abandon a dam or reservoir: the State and its departments, institutions, agencies and political subdivisions; every municipal or quasi-municipal corporation; every public utility; every district; every person; the duly authorized agents, lessees, or trustees of any of the foregoing; and receivers or trustees appointed by any court for any of the foregoing. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4202
  • 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, corporation, partnership, trust, institution, association, or any other private entity or any officer or employee, agent, department, or instrumentality of the United States or of any state or political subdivision thereof. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5402
  • Person: means any state or federal agency, individual, partnership, firm, association, joint venture, public or private corporation, trust, estate, commission board, public or private institution, utility, cooperative, municipality or other political subdivision of this State, any interstate body, or any other legal entity. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4002
  • Person: shall mean any person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, corporation or company. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4202
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • plan: means a plan for the control of soil erosion, sedimentation, stormwater quantity and water quality impacts which may result from any land disturbing activity. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4002
  • 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.
  • Professional archaeologist: means a person having all of the following qualifications:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5402

  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Proven kinship: means the relationship among individuals that exists because of genetic descent, which includes racial descent. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5402
  • 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.
  • remains: means any part of the body of a deceased human being in any stage of decomposition. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5402
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Reservoir: shall mean any basin that contains or will contain impounded water, wastewater, or liquid-borne materials by virtue of its having been impounded by a dam. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4202
  • Responsible personnel: means any foreperson or superintendent who is in charge of on-site clearing and land disturbing activities for sediment and stormwater control associated with a construction project. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4002
  • Secretary: shall mean the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4202
  • Secretary: shall mean the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4402
  • 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.
  • Skeletal analyst: means any individual having all of the following qualifications:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5402

  • Standard plan: means a set of predefined standards or specification for minor land disturbing activities that preclude the need for the preparation of a detailed sediment and stormwater management plan under specific conditions established by regulation by the Department under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4002
  • 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: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4202
  • State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4402
  • State waters: means any and all waters, public or private, on the surface of the earth which are contained within, flow through or border upon the State or any portion thereof. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4002
  • Stormwater: means the runoff of water from the surface of the land resulting from any form of precipitation and including snow or ice melt. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4002
  • Stormwater management: means :

    a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4002

  • Stormwater utility: means the establishment of an administrative organization that has been created for the purposes of funding sediment control, stormwater management or flood control planning, design, construction, maintenance, and overall resource needs by authorized and imposed charges. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4002
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Supervising engineer: shall mean the design engineer who is responsible for conducting dam construction quality assurance inspections in order to certify the construction has been completed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 4202
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Unmarked human burial: means any interment of human skeletal remains for which there exists no grave marker or any other historical documentation providing information as to the identity of the deceased. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 5402
  • Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
  • Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302