Sections
Subchapter I Foreign Bank Branches, Foreign Bank Limited Purpose Branches and Foreign Bank Agencies 1401 – 1416
Subchapter II Foreign Bank Representative Office 1420 – 1426
Subchapter III Merger of Delaware Banks and Foreign Banks; Resulting Branch Offices of Foreign Banks 1430 – 1436

Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 5 > Chapter 14 - Foreign Banks

  • Action: shall include nonaction or the failure to take action. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6810
  • 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.
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Annual percentage rate: The cost of credit at a yearly rate. It is calculated in a standard way, taking the average compound interest rate over the term of the loan so borrowers can compare loans. Lenders are required by law to disclose a card account's APR. Source: FDIC
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Antenna: means communications equipment that transmits or receives electromagnetic radio frequency signals used in the provision of wireless services. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Applicable codes: means uniform building, fire, electrical, plumbing, or mechanical codes adopted by a recognized national code organization or local amendments to those codes enacted solely to address imminent threats of destruction of property or injury to persons to the extent not inconsistent with the terms of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Applicant: means any person who submits an application and is a wireless provider. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Application: means a request submitted by an applicant to the Department for a permit:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603

  • 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.
  • Authorized agencies: shall mean :

    a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6810

  • Automobile graveyard: means any establishment or place of business which is maintained, used or operated, for storing, keeping, buying or selling wrecked, scrapped, ruined or dismantled motor vehicles or motor vehicle parts. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1202
  • Board: shall mean the Enhanced 911 Emergency Reporting System Service Board. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10102
  • Board: means the Delaware Health Information Network Board of Directors. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10312
  • Brownfield: means real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be hindered by the reasonably held belief that the real property may be environmentally contaminated. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
  • Brownfields developer: shall mean a person who, with respect to a facility:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9123

  • Brownfields Development Agreement: means an agreement between the Secretary and a brownfield developer with respect to a certified brownfield that sets forth a scope and schedule of activities to assess and respond to the actual, threatened, or perceived release of hazardous substances at the facility. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9123
  • buyer: means a person who buys a motor vehicle from a retail seller and who executed a retail installment contract in connection therewith. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
  • Cash sale price: means the price stated in a retail installment contract for which the seller would have sold to the buyer, and the buyer would have bought from the seller, the motor vehicle which is the subject matter of the retail installment contract, if such sale has been a sale for cash instead of a retail installment transaction. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
  • certificate of incorporation: as used in this chapter , unless the context requires otherwise, includes not only the original certificate of incorporation filed to create a corporation but also all other certificates, agreements of merger or consolidation, plans of reorganization, or other instruments, howsoever designated, which are filed pursuant to § 102, §§ 133-136, § 151, §§ 241-243, § 245, §§ 251-258, §§ 263-264, § 267, § 303, §§ 311-313, or any other section of this title, and which have the effect of amending or supplementing in some respect a corporation's certificate of incorporation. See Delaware Code Title 8 Sec. 104
  • Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Claims data: includes required claims data and additional health-care claims information that a voluntary reporting entity may elect, through entry into an appropriate data submission and use agreement under this subchapter, to submit to the Delaware Health Care Claims Database. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10312
  • Collocate: means to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate, or replace wireless facilities on or adjacent to a small wireless support structure or utility pole. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Commissioner: means State Bank Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
  • 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.
  • Construction: means the first complete building or rebuilding of a highway after it has been converted into a state highway upon a modern engineering design with a permanent foundation of cement, concrete or other equally hard and permanent material and a top dressing of suitable material to economically withstand the wear of the particular traffic to which such highway will probably be subject with an adequate drainage system so that such highway, with reasonable maintenance, can reasonably be expected to endure for upwards of 40 years. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 101
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • contract: means an agreement, entered into in this State, pursuant to which the title to, the property in or a lien upon the motor vehicle, which is the subject matter of a retail installment transaction, is retained or taken by a retail seller from a retail buyer as security, in whole or in part, for the buyer's obligation. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
  • Contractor: includes , but is not limited to, an architect, engineer, nursery worker, landscaper, subcontractor or any other person who enters into any contract with the Department of Transportation, its agents or authorized employees for the erection, construction, completion, authorization or repair of any highway, right-of-way, turnpike or toll express highway, including shoulders, median strips, parkways and islands, by such contractor. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 801
  • Contractual relationship: means , but is not limited to, land contracts, deeds, easements, leases or other instruments transferring title or possession. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
  • controlled area: means , and "controlled areas" includes, any area inside the boundaries of this State which is adjacent to and within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of a highway of the interstate system or the primary system. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1202
  • Controlled areas: means and includes any area inside the boundaries of this State which is adjacent to the right-of-way of a highway of the interstate or primary systems, except that areas beyond 660 feet of the right-of-way inside urban areas shall be excluded from this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
  • controlled areas: includes , any area inside the boundaries of this State which is adjacent to and within 1,000 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of a highway of the interstate system or the primary system. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1202
  • Crossing: shall include a bridge or bridges over the Delaware River or a tube or tubes under said River and all approaches thereto and approach highways and all other buildings or structures connected with any such bridge or tube and all equipment essential to the operation thereof and also all property rights, easements and franchises relating thereto and deemed necessary or convenient for the construction or operation thereof and may include any elevated or depressed highways connecting any such bridge or tube with a state road. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 401
  • 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.
  • Delaware byway: is a transportation route which is adjacent to or runs along or next to an area that has particular intrinsic scenic, historic, recreational, cultural or archaeological qualities and for which such transportation route is managed in order to protect such characteristics and to encourage development of tourism and recreational resources. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 101
  • Department: means the Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
  • Department: means the Department of Transportation established under this title, or if said Department shall be abolished, any board, commission or officer succeeding to the principal functions thereof, or to whom the powers given by this chapter to said Department shall be given by law. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 401
  • Department: means the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
  • Department: means the Delaware Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Department: means the Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 101
  • Department pole: means a pole owned or operated by the Department in the state right-of-way (ROW), including, a camera pole, roadway lighting pole, traffic signal strain pole and overhead sign structure. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • DHIN: means the Delaware Health Information Network. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10312
  • Director: means the Director of the Division of Public Health, or such persons as may be designated by the Director. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • dollars: means lawful money of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Environment: means the navigable waters, the waters of the contiguous zone, ocean waters, and any other surface water, ground water, drinking water supply, land surface or subsurface strata or ambient air within the State. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
  • 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
  • Erect: means to construct, build, raise, assemble, place, affix, attach, create, paint, draw or in any way bring into being or establish, but it shall not include any of the foregoing activities when performed as an incident to the change of advertising message or customary maintenance of a sign or sign structure. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
  • Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Existing environmental condition: means all known or discovered releases of hazardous substances which are found to be, or to have been, existing at or in the vicinity of the facility prior to a person entering into a Brownfields Development Agreement with the Secretary. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9123
  • Facility: means any building, structure, installation, equipment, pipe or pipeline (including any pipe into a sewer or publicly owned treatment works), well, pit, pond, lagoon, impoundment, ditch, landfill, storage container, motor vehicle, rolling stock, vessel, aircraft, or any site or area where a hazardous substance has been generated, manufactured, refined, transported, stored, treated, handled, recycled, released, disposed of, placed or otherwise come to be located. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
  • 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.
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: A government corporation that insures the deposits of all national and state banks that are members of the Federal Reserve System. Source: OCC
  • Fee: means a 1-time charge. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Finance charge: The total cost of credit a customer must pay on a consumer loan, including interest. The Truth in Lending Act requires disclosure of the finance charge. Source: OCC
  • Finance charge: means the amount agreed upon between the buyer and the seller, as limited by this chapter, to be added to the aggregate of the cash sale price, the amount, if any, included for insurance and other benefits and official fees, in determining the time price. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
  • 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.
  • Fund: shall mean the 911 Emergency Reporting System Fund created by this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10102
  • Gateway sign: means any sign, display, or device intended for its purpose to provide information to the travelling public advising motorists that they are entering the boundaries of a political subdivision or established nonincorporated area of the State. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
  • Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • 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.
  • Health insurer: means as defined in § 4004 of Title 18. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10312
  • Health-care services: means as defined in § 6403 of Title 18. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10312
  • highway: include any public way or road or portion thereof and any sewer, drain or drainage system connected therewith and any bridge, culvert, viaduct or other construction or artificial way used in connection therewith and anything which is accessory to any of the same or to the use thereof. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 101
  • Imminent threat of release: means potential for a release which requires action to prevent or mitigate damage to the environment or endangerment to public health or welfare which may result from such a release. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
  • Immune: shall mean that neither a civil action nor a criminal prosecution may arise from any action taken pursuant to this subchapter where actual malice on the part of the insurance company or authorized agency against the insured is not present. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6810
  • Information center: means an area or site established and maintained at a rest area for the purpose of informing the public of places of interest within the State and providing such other information as the Department may consider desirable. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
  • insurance company: includes the Insurance Placement Facility of Delaware (FAIR Plan). See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6810
  • Interstate system: means that portion of the national system of interstate and defense highways located within this State, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the Department and approved by the Secretary of Transportation of the United States, pursuant to Title 23, United States Code, "Highways. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
  • Interstate system: means that portion of the national system of interstate and defense highways located within this State, as officially designated, or as may hereafter be so designated, by the Department, and approved by the Secretary of Transportation pursuant to Title 23, United States Code, "Highways. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1202
  • Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
  • Junk: means old or scrap copper, brass, rope, rags, batteries, paper, trash, rubber, debris, waste, or junked, dismantled or wrecked automobiles, or parts thereof, iron, steel and other old or scrap ferrous or nonferrous material. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1202
  • Junkyard: means an establishment or place of business which is maintained, operated or used for storing, keeping, buying or selling junk, or for the maintenance or operation of an automobile graveyard. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1202
  • Law: means federal, state, or local law, statute, common law, code, rule, regulation, order, or ordinance. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • laws of this State: shall include a provision of the Constitution or statutes of the State, or an ordinance, rule or regulation enacted or adopted by an agency or political subdivision of this State pursuant to the Constitution or statutes. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
  • laws of this State: includes a provision of the Constitution or statutes of this State, or an ordinance, rule or regulation enacted or adopted by an agency or political subdivision of this State pursuant to the Constitution or statutes. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1202
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Licensee: means a holder of a license issued by the State Bank Commissioner pursuant to this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Main-traveled way: means the traveled way of a highway on which through traffic is carried. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1202
  • Maintain: means to allow to exist in accordance with state law. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
  • Mandatory reporting entity: means each of the following entities, to the extent permitted under federal law:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10312

  • Minimum finance charge: The minimum, or fixed, finance charge that will be imposed during a billing cycle. A minimum finance charge usually applies only when a finance charge is imposed, that is, when you carry over a balance. Source: Federal Reserve
  • Moneys or funds: includes , but is not limited to, the entire amount of all moneys or funds received by a contractor, as defined in this section, in connection with a contract with the Department of Transportation for the erection, construction, completion, authorization or repair of any highway, right-of-way, turnpike or toll express highway, including shoulders, median strips, parkways and islands, by such contractor, and moneys or funds by way of a loan or advance for the purpose of such erection, construction, completion, authorization or repair of any highway, right-of-way, turnpike or toll express highway, including shoulders, median strips, parkways and islands, by such contractor. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 801
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Motor vehicle: means any device propelled or drawn by any power other than muscular power, in, upon, or by which any person or property is, or may be transported or drawn upon a highway. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
  • nonprofit sports program: means any program (whether or not it is registered with or recognized by the State or any political subdivision of the State):

    a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6835

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Permit: means a written authorization required by the Department to perform an action or initiate, continue, or complete a project. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Person: means an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, joint venture, commercial entity, state government agency, unit of local government, school district, conservation district, federal government agency, Indian tribe or interstate body. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, trust, or other entity or organization, including the Department. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, and any other group however organized. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • 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.
  • Pricing information: includes all of the following:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10312

  • Primary system: means that portion of connected main highways of this State officially designated as such, or as may hereafter be designated as such, by the Department and approved by the Secretary of Transportation of the United States, pursuant to Title 23, United States Code, "Highways. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
  • Primary system: means that portion of connected main highways of this State officially designated as such, or as may hereafter be designated as such, by the Department, and approved by the Secretary of Transportation, pursuant to Title 23, United States Code, "Highways. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1202
  • Provider: includes a hospital or health-care practitioner participating in a group arrangement, including an accountable care organization, in which the hospital or health-care practitioner agrees to assume responsibility for the quality and cost of health care for a designed group of beneficiaries. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10312
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Railroad: means a road, the cars, carriages and coaches on which are propelled by steam power, electricity, cable, motor or any improved motive power. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 101
  • Rate: means a recurring charge. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • 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.
  • Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC
  • Release: means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping or disposing into the environment (including the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers and other closed receptacles containing any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant), but excludes:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103

  • Relevant: shall mean information having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the investigation or determination of the issue more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6810
  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Remedy: means any action, response or expenditure consistent with the purposes of this chapter to identify, minimize or eliminate any imminent threat posed by any hazardous substances to public health or welfare or the environment including preparation of any plans, conducting of any studies and any investigative, oversight of remedy or monitoring activities with respect to any release or imminent threat of release of a hazardous substance and any health assessments, risk assessments or health effect studies or natural resource damage assessments conducted in order to determine the risk or potential risk to public health or welfare or the environment. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
  • Reporting date: means a calendar deadline that is scheduled on a regularly recurring basis, by which a mandatory reporting entity must submit required claims data to the Delaware Health Care Claims Database. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10312
  • Required claims data: includes the basic claims information that a mandatory reporting entity must submit to the Delaware Health Care Claims Database by the reporting date, including all of the following:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10312

  • Rest area: means an area or site established and maintained within or adjacent to the right-of-way by or under public supervision or control, for the convenience of the traveling public. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Retail installment transaction: means any transaction evidenced by a retail installment contract entered into between a retail buyer and a retail seller wherein the retail buyer buys a motor vehicle from the retail seller at a time price payable in one or more deferred installments. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
  • ROW: means the area on, below, or above or across public roads, causeways, highways, bridges in the State which have been or may hereafter be constructed, acquired, or accepted by the Department. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Sales finance company: means a person engaged, in whole or in part, in the business of purchasing retail installment contracts from one or more retail sellers. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
  • Secretary: shall mean the Secretary of the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10102
  • Secretary: means Secretary of the Department or the Secretary's designee. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 9103
  • Secretary: means the Secretary of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 101
  • seller: means a person who sells a motor vehicle to a retail buyer under or subject to a retail installment contract. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2901
  • 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.
  • Small wireless facility: means a wireless facility that meets both of the following qualifications:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603

  • Small wireless support structure: means : a freestanding structure, such as a monopole; tower, either guyed or self-supporting; billboard; or, other existing or proposed structure that complies with the height restrictions in § 1606(g) of this title designed to support or capable of supporting wireless facilities. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • sponsor: means any person or entity which provides financial support to a civic organization through contributions, gifts or payment of dues. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6840
  • State highway: includes any road or highway or portion thereof which the Department has constructed or of which the Department has taken or assumed control or jurisdiction. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 101
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • System: shall mean a 911-Enhanced Emergency Reporting System. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10102
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Third-party administrator: means as defined in § 102 of Title 18. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10312
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Truth in Lending Act: The Truth in Lending Act is a federal law that requires lenders to provide standardized information so that borrowers can compare loan terms. In general, lenders must provide information on Source: OCC
  • Unzoned industrial areas: means those areas not zoned by any state, county or local authority, but used primarily for industrial purposes as determined by the Department. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1202
  • Urban areas: means and includes those areas designated as such by the Bureau of the Census and whose boundaries have been approved by the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
  • User fees: Fees charged to users of goods or services provided by the government. In levying or authorizing these fees, the legislature determines whether the revenue should go into the treasury or should be available to the agency providing the goods or services.
  • Utility pole: means a pole or similar structure owned by a public utility located in the ROW. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
  • Visible: means capable of being seen (whether or not legible) without visual aid by a person of normal visual acuity. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
  • Visible: means capable of being seen without visual aid by a person of normal visual acuity. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1202
  • Voluntary reporting entity: includes , except as prohibited under applicable federal law, any of the following entities, unless the entity is a mandatory reporting entity:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10312

  • Wholesale services: shall mean services that a provider furnishes to another provider, rather than to end-use customers. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 10102
  • Wireless facility: means equipment at a fixed location that enables wireless communications between user equipment and a communications network, including:

    1. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603

  • Wireless infrastructure provider: means any person, including a person authorized to provide telecommunications service in the state, that builds or installs wireless communication transmission equipment, wireless facilities or wireless support structures, pursuant to an agreement with a wireless service provider. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Wireless provider: means a wireless infrastructure provider or a wireless services provider. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Wireless services: means any services provided using licensed or unlicensed spectrum, whether at a fixed location or mobile, using wireless facilities. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Wireless services provider: means a person who provides wireless services. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1603
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.