§ 8521 Directors; duties; election; term; vacancies
§ 8522 Officers; appointment; terms; vacancies; bonds
§ 8523 Removal of directors and officers

Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 3 > Chapter 85 > Subchapter II - Directors and Officers

  • Applicant: shall mean any person filing an application for registration of a trademark under this chapter, the applicant's legal representatives, successors or assigns. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
  • 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
  • Association: means a corporation formed under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8501
  • Commission: means the park commission of a park district established by an election under the provisions of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 702
  • 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.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • 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.
  • Court: means the Court of Chancery. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3314
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department of Finance: means the Department of Finance of New Castle County in which the park district is located. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 702
  • Energy service agreement: means a contract between a homeowner and an energy service company by which the energy service company is to provide residential heating fuel to the homeowner's home and/or service the residential heating system. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3401
  • Energy service company: means any person engaged in the sale of residential heating fuel and/or the service of residential heating systems. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3401
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • 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.
  • Knowledge: means a person's actual knowledge of a fact, rather than the person's constructive knowledge of the fact. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
  • Legal voter: means every citizen resident in a proposed or existing park district, who would be entitled at the time of holding an election under this chapter to register and vote in any election district of which a proposed or existing park district is a part at a general election, if such general election were to be held at the time of any election under this chapter, whether or not he or she is at that time a registered voter. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 702
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Mark: shall include any trademark or service mark entitled to registration under this chapter, whether registered or not. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
  • Member: means a person who is admitted to a limited liability company as a member as provided in § 18-301 of this title, and includes a member of the limited liability company generally and a member associated with a series of the limited liability company. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 18-101
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Performing group: means a vocal or instrumental group using or seeking to use the name of another group that has previously released a commercial sound recording under that name. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3301A
  • Person: shall mean any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, union or other organization. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
  • Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, trustee or other entity having the capacity to enter into a valid and enforceable contract. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3401
  • Person: means a natural person, partnership (whether general or limited), limited liability company, trust (including a common law trust, business trust, statutory trust, voting trust or any other form of trust), estate, association (including any group, organization, co-tenancy, plan, board, council or committee), corporation, government (including a country, state, county or any other governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality), custodian, nominee or any other individual or entity (or series thereof) in its own or any representative capacity, in each case, whether domestic or foreign. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • 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.
  • Receiver of taxes and county treasurer: means the receiver of taxes and county treasurer of the county, Kent or Sussex, in which the park district is located. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 702
  • Recording group: means a vocal or instrumental group at least 1 of whose members has previously released a commercial sound recording under that group's name and in which the member or members have a legal right by virtue of use or operation under the group name without having abandoned the name or affiliation with the group. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3301A
  • Registrant: shall mean the person to whom the registration of a trademark under this chapter is issued, that person's legal representatives, successors or assigns. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
  • 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.
  • Residential heating fuel: includes natural gas, propane, fuel oil, wood and electricity. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3401
  • Residential heating system: means all equipment necessary for the storage and transmission of residential heating fuel and the conversion thereof to energy for the purpose of heating a residence and/or heating hot water to be used in the residence. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3401
  • Series: means a designated series of limited partners, general partners, partnership interests or assets that is a protected series or a registered series, or that is neither a protected series nor a registered series. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
  • Service mark: shall mean a mark used in the sale or advertising of services to identify the services of 1 person and distinguish them from the services of others. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
  • 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.
  • Sound recording: means a work that results from the fixation on a material object of a series of musical, spoken or other sounds regardless of the nature of the material object, such as a disk, tape or other media in which the sounds are embodied. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3301A
  • State: means the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any state, territory, possession, or other jurisdiction of the United States other than the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
  • Trade name: shall mean a word, name, symbol, device or any combination thereof used by a person to identify a business, vocation or occupation and distinguish it from the business, vocation or occupation of others. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
  • Trademark: shall mean any word, name, symbol or device or any combination thereof adopted and used by a person to identify goods made or sold by that person, and to distinguish them from goods made or sold by others. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 3302
  • 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
  • Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302