Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 5 > Chapter 33 - Business and Industrial Development Corporations

• Abandoned vessel: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 1303

• Academic license: means a license issued under § 1132A of this title to a full-time director, chairperson, or attending faculty member of a hospital based dental, oral and maxillofacial surgery or other specialty dental residency program for the purposes of teaching. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Adult: shall mean a person who has attained the age of 18. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Adult entertainment establishment: shall mean any commercial establishment, business or service, or portion thereof, which offers sexually-oriented material, devices, paraphernalia or specific sexual activities, services, performances or any combination thereof, or in any other form, whether printed, filmed, recorded or live. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Adult-oriented retail establishment: shall mean any commercial establishment, business or service, or portion thereof, which offers as a substantial portion of their business sexually-oriented material, devices, or paraphernalia, but does not allow on-site displays of sexually-oriented materials or sexual activities. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Affiliate: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1301

• Alarm: means a security alarm system signal that is created by the activation of a security alarm system. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Applicant: shall mean the person in whose name or on whose behalf a license under this chapter is requested. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Apprentice electrician: shall mean a person who is licensed by the Board and whose principal occupation is the learning and assisting in the performance of electrical services. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• 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
• Approved personal flotation device: shall mean any United States Coast Guard approved type I, II, III or V personal flotation device. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2211
• Architect: shall mean any person who engages in the practice of architecture as hereinafter defined. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 302
• Armed: shall mean any private security guard or armored car guard who carries or has immediate access to a firearm in the performance of his or her duties. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Arming station: means a device that allows control of a security alarm system. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Armored car agency: shall mean any person that provides armed secured transportation and protection from 1 place or point to another place or point of money, currency, coins, bullion, securities, bonds, jewelry, negotiables or other valuables in a specially-equipped motor vehicle. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Armored car guard: shall mean an individual employed by an armored car agency to perform duties as described under the definition of armored car agency. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Asset: means property of a debtor, but the term does not include:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1301

• Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
• Automatic voice dialer: means any electrical, electronic, mechanical, or other device capable of being programmed to send a prerecorded voice message, when activated, over a telephone line, radio or other communication system, to a law-enforcement authority, public safety or emergency services agency requesting dispatch. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Board: shall mean the State Board of Podiatry established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Board: shall mean the State Board of Dentistry and Dental Hygiene established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Board: shall mean the Delaware State Board of Landscape Architecture. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 201
• Board: shall mean the State Board of Electrical Examiners established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Board: shall mean the Board of Architects established by § 8735(a)(3) of Title 29 and this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 302
• Board: shall mean the Delaware Board of Examiners of Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Cancellation: means the process where response to a security alarm system dispatch request is terminated when a security alarm business for the security alarm system site notifies the responding law-enforcement agency, prior to arrival at the security alarm system site, that there is not an existing situation at the security alarm system site requiring law-enforcement authority response. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• 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
• Certificate of registration: shall mean any document which indicates that a person is currently registered with the Board of Architects. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 302
• Claim: means any request or demand, whether under a contract or otherwise, for money or property and whether or not the Government has title to the money or property, that:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1202

• Claim: means a right to payment, whether or not the right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1301
• Commission: shall mean the Commission on Adult Entertainment Establishments. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Commissioned security guard: shall mean an individual employed to:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302

• Compliance agent: shall mean any individual employed by a private security agency, private investigative agency, or armored car agency within the State of Delaware who serves within a management capacity within the State, and who ensures compliance of the business with the requirements of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Computer forensic specialist: shall mean an individual who interprets, evaluates, tests, or analyzes preexisting data from computers, computer systems, networks, or other electronic media, provided to them by another where that person owns, controls, or possesses said computer, computer systems, networks or electronic media through the use of highly specialized expertise in recovery, authentication and analysis of electronic data or computer usage. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Conversion: means the transaction or process by which a security alarm business begins the servicing and/or monitoring of a previously unmonitored security alarm system or a security alarm system previously serviced and/or monitored by another security alarm business. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Conviction: means a verdict of guilty by the trier of fact, whether judge or jury, or a plea of guilty or a plea of nolo contendere accepted by the court. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Creditor: means a person who has a claim. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1301
• Debt: means liability on a claim. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1301
• Debtor: means a person who is liable on a claim. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1301
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Dental assistant: shall mean any person not licensed to practice dentistry and/or dental hygiene in this State, who aids a dentist in the performance of generalized tasks, including chair-side aid, clerical work, reception, radiography, dental laboratory work, and any other such tasks delegated by the dentist. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Dental hygienist: shall mean a person who is qualified to practice dental hygiene as prescribed in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Dental technician: shall mean any person not licensed to practice dentistry in this State, engaged in the business of constructing, altering, repairing or duplicating full dentures ("plates"), partial dentures, splints, orthodontic appliances, fixed bridges or any other prosthetic appliances. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Dentist: shall mean a person who is qualified to practice dentistry as prescribed in the chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Department: means the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control;

  (3) "Vessel" means every description of watercraft, other than a seaplane, used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water or ice. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 1303

• Department: shall mean the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Diagnosis: shall mean the ascertainment of a disease or ailment by its general symptoms. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Direct supervision: shall mean that degree of supervision by a person overseeing the work of another whereby the supervisor has both control over and detailed professional knowledge of the work prepared under the person's supervision. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 302
• Director: shall mean the officer in charge of the Professional Licensing Section of the Division of the Delaware State Police. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Division: shall mean the State Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Division: shall mean the State Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Division: shall mean the State Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Division: shall mean the Division of the Delaware State Police. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Document: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101

• Dwelling: shall mean , for purposes of this chapter, any enclosure that affords habitable living space for a human being or human beings. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Electrical inspection agency: shall mean the agency responsible for the oversight and the issuing of certificates of inspection for all electrical work performed in this State. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Electrical treatment: shall mean the administration of electricity to the foot and ankle by means of electrodes, machinery, rays and the like. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Electronic prescription: means a prescription that is generated on an electronic application and transmitted as an electronic data file. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Electronic prescription: means a prescription that is generated on an electronic application and transmitted as an electronic data file. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Event security staff: shall mean any individual employed by a private security agency to primarily perform crowd management, patron screening and event security at sports or entertainment venues with a minimum spectator capacity of 5,000 people. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Excessive use or abuse of drugs: shall mean any use of narcotics, controlled substances or illegal drugs without a prescription from a licensed individual with valid prescriptive authority or the abuse of alcoholic beverage or prescription or nonprescription drugs, such that it impairs a person's ability to perform the work of a dentist or dental hygienist. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• 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.
• False alarm: means a security alarm system dispatch request to a law-enforcement authority, when no emergency of actual or threatened criminal activity requiring immediate response exists. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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}
• General partner: means a person who is named as a general partner in the certificate of limited partnership or similar instrument under which a limited partnership is formed if so required and who is admitted to the limited partnership as a general partner in accordance with the partnership agreement or this chapter, and includes a general partner of the limited partnership generally and a general partner associated with a series of the limited partnership. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Government: includes all departments, boards or commissions of the executive branch of the State, all political subdivisions of the State, the Delaware Department of Transportation and all state and municipal authorities, all organizations created by or pursuant to a statute which declares in substance that such organization performs or has for its purpose the performance of an essential governmental function, and all organizations, entities or persons receiving funds of the State where the act complained of pursuant to this chapter relates to the use of such funds of the State. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1202
• Grantee: includes every person to whom a freehold estate or interest is conveyed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Hazardous site: shall mean any commercial premises, building, structure or any part thereof, which is a site of high-risk sexual conduct. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1632
• Headway speed: shall mean the minimum speed necessary to maintain steerage and control of a personal watercraft while such personal watercraft is moving. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2211
• High-risk sexual conduct: shall mean :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1632

• Holdup alarm: means a silent alarm signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal a robbery in progress. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Homeowner: shall mean , for purposes of this chapter, an individual who both owns and lives in that person's home or dwelling. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Indictment: The formal charge issued by a grand jury stating that there is enough evidence that the defendant committed the crime to justify having a trial; it is used primarily for felonies.
• Insider: includes :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1301

• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Journeyperson electrician: shall mean a person who is qualified and skilled to perform electrical work and who has met the requirements of § 1408 of this title to be licensed as a journeyperson electrician. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
• 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
• Landscape architect: shall mean a person who, on the basis of demonstrated knowledge acquired by professional education or practical experience, or both, has been granted and holds a current certificate entitling the person to use the designation "landscape architect" and practices landscape architecture in this State under the authority of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 201
• Landscape architecture: shall mean any service or creative work the adequate performance of which requires landscape architectural education, training and experience. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 201
• Law-enforcement authority: means any authorized representative of a law-enforcement agency. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
• License: shall mean the certificate issued by the Board that is evidence that the holder has met the requirements of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• License: shall mean a method of regulation whereby businesses, sole proprietors, partnerships for a private security agency, private investigative agency, or armored car agency are required to be licensed by the Board. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Licensee: shall mean the person to whom and in whose name a license is issued under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Lien: means a charge against or an interest in property to secure payment of a debt or performance of an obligation, and includes a security interest created by agreement, a judicial lien obtained by legal or equitable process or proceedings, a common-law lien or a statutory lien. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1301
• Limited electrician: shall mean a person licensed by the Board to plan, estimate, layout, perform or supervise the installation, erection or repair of any electrical conductor, molding, duct, raceway, conduit, machinery, apparatus, device or fixture, for the purpose of lighting, heating or power, in any structure which contains 4 or fewer dwelling units, as determined by the applicable building code. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Limited electrician special: shall mean a person licensed by the Board to plan, estimate, layout, perform or supervise the installation, erection or repair of any electrical conductor, molding, duct, raceway, conduit, machinery, apparatus, device or fixture, for any of the following purposes: elevators, swimming pools, air conditioning, heating and oil burners, in any structure which contains 4 or fewer dwelling units, as determined by the applicable building code. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Manager: shall mean in the case of a corporation, an officer or supervisor, or in the case of a partnership, a general or unlimited partner meeting the experience qualifications set forth in this chapter for a private security agency, private investigative agency or armored car agency. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Masochism: shall mean sexual gratification achieved by a person through, or the association of sexual activity with, submission or subjection to physical pain, suffering, humiliation, torture or death. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Master electrician: shall mean a person, licensed by the Board, to plan, estimate, layout, perform or supervise the installation, erection or repair of any electrical conductor, molding, duct, raceway, conduit, machinery, apparatus, device or fixture for the purpose of lighting, heating or power in any structure. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Master electrician special: shall mean a person, licensed by the Board, to plan, estimate, layout, perform or supervise the installation, erection or repair of any electrical conductor, molding, duct, raceway, conduit, machinery, apparatus, device or fixture for any 1 of the following purposes: elevators, swimming pools, electric signs, air conditioning, heating, refrigeration and oil burners, and overhead and underground primary distribution systems. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Material: includes anything having a natural tendency to influence, or be capable of influencing, the payment or receipt of money or property. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1202
• Monitoring: means the process by which a security alarm business receives signals from a security alarm system and relays a security alarm system dispatch request for the purpose of summoning law enforcement to the security alarm system site. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Monitoring station: means an office or entity whereby a security alarm business conducts monitoring of security alarm systems for purposes of dispatch and notification. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. ^{Source: OCC}
• Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
• 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: includes an established duty, whether or not fixed, arising from an express or implied contractual, grantor-grantee, or licensor-licensee relationship, from a fee-based or similar relationship, from statute or regulation, or from the retention of any overpayment. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1202
• Officer: shall mean the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, comptroller, partner, owner or any other corporate title. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Panic alarm: means an audible security alarm system signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal a life threatening or emergency situation requiring law-enforcement response. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Partner: shall include both a general and a limited partner. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Partner: means a limited or general partner. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Partnership: shall include both a general and a limited partnership. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Peace officer: shall include police officers, the Attorney General and the Attorney General's deputies and assistants. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, statutory trust, business trust, estate, trust or any other legal or commercial entity. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1301
• Person: shall mean a corporation, company, association or partnership, as well as an individual. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, organization, or similar entity. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Person: shall mean an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, joint stock company, limited partnership, limited liability company and any other legal entity and includes a legal successor of those entities. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Person: means a human being who has been born and is alive, and, where appropriate, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association, a government or a governmental instrumentality. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Person: shall mean an individual (sole proprietorship), firm, association, company, partnership, corporation, nonprofit organization, institution, or similar entity. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• 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
• Personal watercraft: shall mean any class A in-board vessel (less than 16 feet in length) as defined by the United States Coast Guard which uses either an internal combustion engine powering a water jet-pump or a propeller as its primary source of propulsion and which is designed to be operated either by a person or persons sitting, standing or kneeling on the vessel, or by a water skier via remote control, instead of in the conventional manner of vessel operation, such as riding in the vessel. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2211
• Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
• Podiatrist: shall mean a person who is qualified to practice podiatry and is licensed under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Practice of architecture: shall mean the rendering or offering to render those services, hereinafter described, in connection with the design and construction, enlargement or alteration of a structure or group of structures which have as their principal purpose human habitation or use, and the utilization of space within and surrounding such structures; the services referred to include planning, preparing studies, designs, drawings, specifications and other technical submissions and furnishing administration of construction contracts. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 302
• Practice of dental hygiene: shall mean the removal of calculus deposits, plaque and stains from all surfaces of the teeth, and making instrumental examinations of the oral cavity, and assembling all necessary information for use by the dentist in diagnosis and treatment planning, and the performance of such prophylactic or preventive measures in the case of teeth, including the application of chemicals to the teeth and periodontal tissues, designed and approved for the prevention of dental caries and/or periodontal disease, as the Board may authorize; but the "practice of dental hygiene" shall not include any other operation on the teeth or tissues of the mouth. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Practice of podiatry: shall mean the diagnosis and the medical, surgical, mechanical, manipulative and electrical treatment of all ailments of the foot and ankle. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Principal stockholder: shall mean a person who owns equity securities of the licensee, whether voting or nonvoting, preferred or common, in any amount equal to or greater than 10 percent of the total amount of equity securities of the licensee issued and outstanding. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Private investigative agency: means any person who engages in the business or accepts employment to obtain or furnish information or to conduct investigations with reference to:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302

• Private investigator: shall mean an individual employed by a private investigative agency (even as a sole proprietor) to perform 1 or more duties as described under the definition of "private investigative agency. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Private security agency: shall mean any person engaging in the business of or undertaking to provide a private watchperson, guard or street patrol service on a contractual basis for another person and performing any 1 or more of the following or similar functions:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302

• Private security guard: shall mean an individual employed by a private security agency to perform one or more duties as described under the definition of a private security agency. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Property: means anything that may be the subject of ownership. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1301
• Protective hairstyle: includes braids, locks, and twists. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Race: includes traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and a protective hairstyle. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• 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}
• Registered architect: shall mean an architect holding a current certificate of registration. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 302
• Registration: shall mean a method of regulation whereby an individual employed by a private security agency, private investigative agency, or armored car agency as a security guard, private investigator or armored car guard is licensed and issued an identification card by the Professional Licensing Section. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Relative: means an individual related by consanguinity within the 3rd degree as determined by the common law, a spouse, or an individual related to a spouse within the 3rd degree as so determined, and includes an individual in an adoptive relationship within the third degree. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1301
• 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 electrician: means a person who is qualified and skilled to perform residential electric work and who has met the requirements of § 1408 of this title to be licensed as a residential electrician and who is subject to the restrictions imposed by § 1422A of this title. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Responder: means an individual capable of reaching the security alarm system site within 30 minutes and having access to the security alarm system site, the code to the security alarm system, and the authority to approve repairs to the security alarm system. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Sadism: shall mean sexual gratification achieved through, or the association of sexual activity with, the infliction of physical pain, suffering, humiliation, torture or death upon another person or animal. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• Secretary: shall mean the Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1632
• Secretary: shall mean the Secretary of the Department of Safety and Homeland Security. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Security alarm business: is a s defined in § 1201 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Security alarm system: is a s defined in § 1201 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Security alarm system administrator: means a person designated by the State with authority to administer, control and review false alarm reduction efforts and administer the provisions of this section. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Security alarm system dispatch request: means a notification to a law-enforcement authority that a security alarm system, either manual or automatic, has been activated at a particular security alarm system site. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Security alarm system registration: means authorization granted by the security alarm system administrator to a security alarm system user to operate a security alarm system. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Security alarm system site: means a single fixed premises or location served by a security alarm system or systems. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Security alarm system user: means any person or entity, which has contracted for monitoring, repair, installation or maintenance services from a security alarm business for a security alarm system, or which owns or operates a security alarm system which is not monitored, maintained or repaired under contract. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Service: shall mean , for purposes of this chapter, to repair or replace in kind. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Sexually-oriented material: shall mean any book, article, magazine, publication or written matter of any kind, drawing, etching, painting, photograph, motion picture film or sound recording, which depicts sexual activity, actual or simulated, involving human beings or human beings and animals, or which exhibits uncovered human genitals or pubic region in a lewd or lascivious manner or which exhibits human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state, even if completely covered. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1602
• sponsors and operators: shall mean The Pilots' Association for the Bay and River Delaware and the Ports of Philadelphia Maritime Exchange. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2401
• State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• 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
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Substantially related: means the nature of the criminal conduct, for which the person was convicted, has a direct bearing on the fitness or ability to perform 1 or more of the duties or responsibilities necessarily related to podiatry. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Substantially related: means the nature of the criminal conduct, for which the person was convicted, has a direct bearing on the fitness or ability to perform 1 or more of the duties or responsibilities necessarily related to the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1101
• Substantially related: means the nature of criminal conduct, for which the person was convicted, has a direct bearing on the fitness or ability to perform 1 or more of the duties or responsibilities necessarily related to landscape architecture. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 201
• Substantially related: means the nature of the criminal conduct, for which the person was convicted, has a direct bearing on the fitness or ability to perform 1 or more of the duties or responsibilities necessarily related to the work of an electrician. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Substantially related: means the nature of criminal conduct, for which the person was convicted, has a direct bearing on the fitness or ability to perform 1 or more of the duties or responsibilities necessarily related to the practice of architecture. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 302
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Superintendent: shall mean the Superintendent of the Division of the Delaware State Police or the appointed designee. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Supervision: shall mean that a licensed electrician shall be fully responsible for all electrical work performed under that licensed electrician's license. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Takeover: means the transaction or process by which a security alarm system user takes over control of an existing security alarm system, which was previously controlled by another security alarm system user. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• Technical submissions: shall mean designs, drawings, specifications, studies and other technical reports prepared in the course of practicing architecture. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 302
• Transfer: means every mode, direct or indirect, absolute or conditional, voluntary or involuntary, of disposing of or parting with an asset or an interest in an asset, and includes payment of money, release, lease and creation of a lien or other encumbrance but excludes, without limitation, any disposition of or parting with property or an interest in property described in paragraph (2) of this section. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 1301
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Unlicensed practitioner: shall mean any person, who engages in the occupational practices as defined in paragraph (12), (13), (14) or (15) of this section, and who has not been granted a license or a homeowner's permit by the Board. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1402
• Urban and community forestry: shall mean the planting, protection, care and management of trees and other related natural resources located on publicly owned lands within a city, town or municipality. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 1032
• Verdict: The decision of a petit jury or a judge.
• Verify: means at least 2 attempts by a security alarm business, or its representative, to contact the security alarm system site and/or security alarm system user by telephone and/or other electronic means, whether or not actual contact with a person is made, to determine whether a security alarm system signal is valid before requesting law-enforcement dispatch, in an attempt to avoid an unnecessary security alarm system dispatch request. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222
• watch officer: means any river pilot, licensed as such by any state, or any person otherwise certified by the sponsors and operators, and who is maintaining a vessel traffic watch at any designated vessel information traffic station serving the water within the Delaware River and Bay and their tributaries and approaches, including the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal or any other water within the territorial limits of the State. See Delaware Code Title 23 Sec. 2401
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Zones: means division of devices into which a security alarm system is divided to indicate the general location from which a security alarm system signal is transmitted. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1222