Sections
Part 1 Short Title, General Construction and Subject Matter 2-101 – 2-107
Part 2 Form, Formation and Readjustment of Contract 2-201 – 2-210
Part 3 General Obligation and Construction of Contract 2-301 – 2-328
Part 4 Title, Creditors and Good Faith Purchases 2-401 – 2-403
Part 5 Performance 2-501 – 2-515
Part 6 Breach, Repudiation and Excuse 2-601 – 2-616
Part 7 Remedies 2-701 – 2-725

Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 6 > Article 2 - Sales

  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • adult person: means a person of the age of 18 years or older. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Advanced practice: includes activities such as community organization and development; social planning and policy development; administration of social work policies, programs, and activities; outcome evaluation; client education; research; nonclinical supervision of employees; nonclinical consultation; nonclinical assessment and referral; mediation; expert testimony; and advocacy. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Adverse action: means : Any action taken by a state psychology regulatory authority which finds a violation of a statute or regulation that is identified by the state psychology regulatory authority as discipline and is a matter of public record. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • 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.
  • Aesthetician: is a n individual who practices any of the following:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101

  • Affected local community: shall mean the municipality or county in which the largest portion of the real property which has been proposed as a conversion project is situated. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 7102
  • affected local government: shall mean the elected council or other governing body of an affected local community;

    (2) "Comparable housing" shall mean a dwelling place or manufactured home community site which is:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 7102

  • Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
  • agency: means any state office, officer, official, department, board, commission, institution, bureau, agency, division or unit of the State, including those within the legislative and judicial branches of state government. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6002
  • agent: means a licensee functioning as a party in an agency relationship created according to subchapter II of this chapter as an independent contractor and not as a fiduciary. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Aggregator: means any person or entity who contracts with an electric distribution company, electric supplier or PJM Interconnection (or its successor) to provide energy services, which facilitate battery storage systems for grid-integrated electric vehicles and related technologies. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • AIT: shall mean an individual who is registered with the Board to obtain the experience for licensure under the direct supervision of a preceptor. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
  • Alternative compliance payment: means a payment of a certain dollar amount per megawatt hour, which a retail electricity supplier or municipal electric company may submit in lieu of supplying the minimum percentage from Eligible Energy Resources required under Schedule I in § 354 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Amateur boxing: shall mean any boxing event, as herein defined, which is sanctioned by an amateur boxing association recognized by the Director, such as, but not limited to, the International Amateur Boxing Association, Golden Gloves USA Boxing, Inc. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Another jurisdiction: means another state of the United States, the District of Columbia, a territory of the United States, or a country outside of the United States or its territories. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Applicant: means any person, individual, natural person who seeks to become licensed as a manufactured housing installer. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • Applicant: means an individual seeking licensure under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appraisal: shall mean an analysis, opinion, or conclusion relating to the nature, quality, value, or utility of specified interests in, or aspects of, identified real estate as of a specific date. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Appraisal management company: means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, subsidiary or other business entity that directly or indirectly performs appraisal management services, regardless of the use of the term "appraisal management company" "mortgage technology provider" "lender processing services" "lender services" "loan processor" "mortgage services" "real estate closing services provider" "settlement services provider" "vendor management company" or any other term, and that does any of the following:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002

  • Appraisal management services: means the process of receiving a request for the performance of real property appraisal services from a client, and for a fee paid by the client, entering into an agreement with 1 or more independent appraisers who are part of an appraiser panel to perform the real property appraisal services contained in the request. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Appraisal review: means the act or process of developing and communicating an opinion about the quality of another appraiser's work that was performed as part of an appraisal assignment, but does not include an examination of an appraisal for grammatical, typographical or other similar errors that do not communicate an opinion related to the appraiser's data collection, analysis, opinions, conclusions, estimate of value or compliance with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Appraiser panel: means a group of independent appraisers that has been selected by an appraisal management company to perform real property appraisal services for the appraisal management company. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Apprentice: means any person who is engaged in the learning of any or all the practices of cosmetology, barbering, nail technology or electrology from a practitioner licensed in the profession the apprentice is studying. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • Approval decal: means the decal approved by and purchased from the Board on which an installer shall inscribe the date of setup, the name of the installer, and the number of the installer's license. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • Approved notification center: shall mean an organization identified by § 807 of this title and which complies with the requirements of § 807 of this title and is otherwise operated in accordance with the Federal Pipeline Safety Regulations codified at 49 C. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 802
  • AQB: shall mean the Appraisal Qualifications Board appointed by the Appraisal Foundation to establish the minimum education, examination, and experience requirements for real estate appraisers providing appraisals in federally-related transactions. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Arraignment: A proceeding in which an individual who is accused of committing a crime is brought into court, told of the charges, and asked to plead guilty or not guilty.
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Art therapy: means a mental health discipline that integrates use of psychotherapeutic principles, art media, and the creative process to assist individuals, families, or groups in, doing all of the following:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3060

  • Art therapy services: means all of the following services:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3060

  • Associate broker: means any individual who holds an associate broker license from the Commission and who is licensed under a broker to sell or offer to sell, or to buy or to offer to buy, or to negotiate the purchase, sale, or exchange of real estate, or to lease or rent or offer for rent any real estate, or to negotiate leases or rental agreements thereof or of the improvements thereon for others. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Attack: means any action or series of actions causing, or which may cause, substantial damage or injury to persons or property by any means, including through biological, chemical, radiological, or nuclear means or through the use of other weapons, technologies, or processes. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 1703
  • Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
  • Audiologist: shall mean a person who is licensed to practice audiology pursuant to this act and who offers such services to the public under any title or description of services incorporating the words "audiologist" "hearing clinician" "hearing therapist" "aural rehabilitator" or any other similar title or description of service. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3702
  • Audiology aide: shall mean a person who is certified by the Council of Accreditation of Occupational Hearing Conservationists, or its equivalent, and whose supervising licensed audiologist annually shall register such person with the Board. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3702
  • Auditor: means the Auditor of Accounts. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 2901
  • Authority to practice interjurisdictional telepsychology: means : a licensed psychologist's authority to practice telepsychology, within the limits authorized under this Compact, in another compact state. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • Authorized inspection agency: means a state, county, or municipal administrative department or agency, or other instrumentality of the State of Delaware, that has been assigned the function of inspecting manufactured home installations to ensure compliance with this chapter and the Board's rules and regulations or inspectors hired by the State, county or municipal administrative department or agency on a contract basis to perform inspections. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • Authorized officer: means any official of this State or any of its departments, agencies or other instrumentalities or any of its political subdivisions whose signature to a public security or instrument of payment is required or permitted. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5401
  • Baccalaureate social worker: means an individual licensed to practice baccalaureate social work. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
  • 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.
  • Barber: means any person licensed under this chapter who, for a monetary consideration, shaves or trims beards, cuts or dresses hair, gives facial or scalp massages, or treats beards or scalps with preparations made for this purpose. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Board: means the Board of Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Professionals. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3002
  • Board: means the Constable Board of Examiners. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5602
  • Board: shall mean the State Board of Funeral Services established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • Board: means the Board of Elevator Mechanics established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 6102
  • Board: shall mean the State Board of Veterinary Medicine established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3302
  • Board: shall mean the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3502
  • Board: shall mean the State Board of Geologists established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3602
  • Board: shall mean the State Board of Speech/Language Pathologists, Audiologists and Hearing Aid Dispensers established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3702
  • Board: shall mean the State Board of Home Inspectors established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4102
  • Board: shall mean the Plans Management Board pursuant to § 2722 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6052
  • Board: means the Manufactured Home Installation Board. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • Board: means the state Board of Cosmetology and Barbering under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • Board: shall mean the State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
  • Board: shall mean the State Board of Massage and Bodywork established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
  • Board: means the Board of Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Professionals established under § 3003 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3060
  • Board: shall mean the State Board of Professional Land Surveyors established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2702
  • Board: shall mean the State Board of Dietetics/Nutrition. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3802
  • Board: means the Board of Social Work Examiners. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Bout: shall mean 1 combative sports match, as defined herein. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Boxing: shall mean the act, activity, or sport of attack and defense in which a participant delivers blows with that participant's fists, especially according to rules requiring the use of boxing gloves and limiting legal blows to those striking above the waist and on the front or sides of the opponent. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Boxing match: shall mean a single boxing bout wherein participants use their best efforts to prevail through knockout, technical knockout, judges' decision or any other manner of determining victory which are consistent with the rules governing boxing and authorized by the rules and regulations of the Division. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Broker: means any individual who holds a broker license from the Delaware Real Estate Commission and who for a compensation or valuable consideration, is self-employed or is employed directly or indirectly by a brokerage organization to sell or offer to sell, or to buy or offer to buy, or to negotiate the purchase, sale, or exchange of real estate, or to lease or rent or offer for rent any real estate, or to negotiate leases or rental agreements thereof or of the improvements thereon for others. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2602
  • Broker: means a person or entity that acts as an agent or intermediary in the sale or purchase of, but that does not take title to, electricity for sale to retail electric customers. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Broker: means any individual who holds a broker license from the Commission and who for a compensation or valuable consideration, is self-employed or is employed directly or indirectly by a brokerage organization to sell or offer to sell, or to buy or offer to buy, or to negotiate the purchase, sale, or exchange of real estate, or to lease or rent or offer for rent any real estate, or to negotiate leases or rental agreements thereof or of the improvements thereon for others. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Brokerage agreement: means any written agreement for the payment for brokerage services of a broker for the management, sale, purchase, lease, or other conveyance or acquisition of commercial real estate. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2602
  • Brokerage organization: means that individual or business entity which is not licensed but is acting as a broker under § 2901(c) of this title and is the trade name under which the broker operates. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Building: means any multi-unit building or buildings or complex thereof, whether in vertical or horizontal arrangement, as well as other improvements comprising a part of the property and used or intended for use for residential, commercial or industrial purposes or for any other lawful purpose or for any combination of such uses. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Burial: shall mean the interment of human remains. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • Buyer: means a person who buys or contracts to buy goods. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2-103
  • Bylaws: means : those bylaws established by the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission pursuant to § 3509A of this title for its governance, or for directing and controlling its actions and conduct. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • Carrier: shall mean any person or entity offering to the public telecommunications service that originates or terminates within the State; provided, however, that the term "carrier" shall not include:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923

  • Case management: means a method to plan, provide, evaluate, and monitor services from a variety of resources on behalf of and in collaboration with a client. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
  • 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
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Change order: shall mean any order changing a customer's designated carrier for local exchange service, intraLATA intrastate toll service or both. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • Chemical dependency professional: is a person who uses addiction counseling methods to assist an individual or group to develop an understanding of alcohol and drug dependency problems, define goals, and plan action reflecting the individual's or group's interest, abilities and needs as affected by addiction problems. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3041
  • Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
  • CIS: means the disclosure form required by § 2938 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • Client: means an individual, couple, family, group, organization, or community that seeks or receives social work services from a social worker or an organization whether those services are free or for a fee. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Client: means a member of the public who is the principal in the statutory or common law agency relationship. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Clinical supervisor: means a licensed clinical social worker who has met the qualifications as determined by the Board. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • CMA: means a service provided by a licensee for the purpose of providing either a potential listing price or use or a potential offering price or use in a real estate services transaction. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Code of regulations: means such governing regulations as are adopted pursuant to this chapter for the regulation and management of the property, including such amendments thereof as may be adopted from time to time. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Combative fighting: shall include , but not be limited to such terms as "toughman fighting" "toughwoman fighting" "badman fighting" "extreme fighting" and all such similar terms or names, and shall mean any unsanctioned combative sports or wrestling match, contest or exhibition between 2 or more participants and where members of the public are selected from the audience to participate with or without protective headgear, who use their hands, with or without gloves, or their feet, or both, and who compete for a financial prize or any item of pecuniary value, and which match, contest, tournament, championship or exhibition is not recognized or sanctioned by any international, national or regional professional sanctioning organization recognized by the Director. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Combative sports: shall include all professional boxing and mixed martial arts and all amateur boxing and mixed martial arts. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Combative sports entertainment: include d but not limited to "celebrity boxing" "entertainment boxing" and all such similar terms or names shall mean a display of skill for the purpose of entertaining an audience, consisting of choreographed or simulated combat in which techniques commonly used in combative sports are employed by participants. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Commercial real estate: means any estate or interest owned in:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2602

  • Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102
  • Commission: means authority issued from the Board empowering a person or persons named in an application to exercise jurisdiction, perform the duties, and exercise the office of a constable within this State. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5602
  • Commission: means the Delaware Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Commission: means the Delaware Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Commission: means : the national administration of which all compact states are members. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • Commission: shall mean the Delaware Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
  • Commission: means the Delaware Real Estate Commission. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Commissioner: means : the voting representative appointed by each state psychology regulatory authority pursuant to § 3509A of this title. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • Common elements: means and includes:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202

  • Common expenses: means and includes:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202

  • Community-owned energy generating facility: means a renewable energy generating facility, located in the service area of a utility under the regulation of the Public Service Commission, that has multiple owners or customers who share the output of the generator, which may be located either as a stand-alone facility or behind the meter of a participating owner or customer. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Community-owned energy generating facility: has the meaning given in § 1001 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Compact state: means : a state, the District of Columbia, or United States territory that has enacted this Compact legislation and which has not withdrawn pursuant to § 3512A(c) of this title or been terminated pursuant to § 3511A(b) of this title. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • Compliance year: means the calendar year beginning with June 1 and ending with May 31 of the following year, for which a retail electricity supplier or municipal electric company must demonstrate that it has met the requirements of this subchapter. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Comprehensive community forestry plan: is a document that describes how a government or other organization will manage the tree resources located on publicly owned lands within its jurisdiction. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 1032
  • Concurrent resolution: A legislative measure, designated "S. Con. Res." and numbered consecutively upon introduction, generally employed to address the sentiments of both chambers, to deal with issues or matters affecting both houses, such as a concurrent budget resolution, or to create a temporary joint committee. Concurrent resolutions are not submitted to the President/Governor and thus do not have the force of law.
  • Construction management services: includes services performed pursuant to a contract with an owner of a structure, or with the agent of such owner, for the management of the erection, alteration or repair of such structure, where the person or entity providing such services does not perform or furnish labor or material for such erection, alteration or repair. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2701
  • Consultation: means an advisory professional relationship between a social worker and other professionals, with the social worker ethically maintaining responsibility for all judgments and decisions regarding service to a client. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Contest: shall mean a bout or group of bouts involving contestants competing in a professional or amateur combative sports or permitted combative sports entertainment event. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Contestant: shall mean a person who competes in any licensed combative sports event or permitted combative sports entertainment event. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract for sale: includes both a present sale of goods and a contract to sell goods at a future time. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2-106
  • Controlling person: means any of the following:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002

  • Conversion project: shall mean the area which comprises or formerly comprised a manufactured home community which has been converted to, or which will be converted to or include a condominium, cooperative or other form of multiple-unit housing (and which includes peripheral areas used for landscaping or recreation);

    (4) "Long-term vacancies" shall mean dwelling units in the manufactured home community which were not leased, or not occupied by bona fide tenants for more than 5 months prior to the preliminary notice;

    (5) "Manufactured home community" shall mean any manufactured home or trailer community designed to house manufactured homes which are served by utilities on a year-round basis. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 7102

  • Conversion therapy: means any practice or treatment that seeks to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity, as "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" are defined in § 710 of Title 19, including any effort to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same gender. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Conversion therapy: means any practice or treatment that seeks to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity, as "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" are defined in § 710 of Title 19, including any effort to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same gender. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3002
  • Conversion therapy: means any practice or treatment that seeks to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity, as "sexual orientation" and "gender identity" are defined in § 710 of Title 19, including any effort to change behaviors or gender expressions or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions or feelings toward individuals of the same gender. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3502
  • conveying: means a sale, lease, exchange, or other transfer of any estate or interest in commercial real estate. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2602
  • 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. 2902
  • coordinated database: means : an integrated process for collecting, storing, and sharing information on psychologists' licensure and enforcement activities related to psychology licensure laws, which is administered by the recognized membership organization composed of state and provincial psychology regulatory authorities. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • Cosmetologist: means any person licensed under this chapter who is not an apprentice or student practicing cosmetology, who shall have the qualifications provided for by this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • Cosmetology: means performing any of the following services for compensation:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101

  • Cosmetology shop: means any place or part thereof wherein cosmetology, barbering, electrology, nail technology, aesthetics, or any of their practices, are performed for compensation, whether or not the establishment holds itself out as a cosmetology shop. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • Council: shall mean the State Council on Real Estate Appraisers established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Council: means a board of natural individuals of the number stated in the code of regulations all of whom shall be either residents of this State or unit owners, as defined in paragraph (21) of this section, but need not be both, and who shall manage the business operation and affairs of the property on behalf of the unit owners and in compliance with and subject to the provisions of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Council: shall mean the Combative Sports Advisory Council. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Counseling: means a method, in addition to psychotherapy, advocacy, research, and consultation, used by social workers to assist individuals, couples, families, and groups in learning how to solve problems and make decisions about personal, health, social, educational, vocational, financial, and other interpersonal concerns. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Counseling experience: is a formal, systematic process that focuses on skill development and integration of knowledge related to addiction counseling and reflects the accumulation of hours spent providing substance abuse counseling services while under the supervision of an approved clinical supervisor. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3041
  • Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
  • Court: means the Court of Chancery except where another court is specifically designated. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2102
  • Credit report: A detailed report of an individual's credit history prepared by a credit bureau and used by a lender in determining a loan applicant's creditworthiness. Source: OCC
  • Credit Score: A number, roughly between 300 and 800, that measures an individual's credit worthiness. The most well-known type of credit score is the FICO score. This score represents the answer from a mathematical formula that assigns numerical values to various pieces of information in your credit report. Source: OCC
  • Cremation: shall mean the process of burning human remains to ashes. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • customer: means a purchaser of electricity for ultimate consumption and not for resale in this State, including the owner/operator of any building or facility, but not the occupants thereof, that purchases and supplies electricity to the occupants of such building or facility. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Customer: shall mean a person who subscribes to local exchange services, intraLATA intrastate toll service or both. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
  • Customer: means a member of the general public working with a licensee as a potential buyer, seller, exchangor, exchangee, tenant, or landlord of real property or is consulting with a licensee in 1 of these capacities for the purpose of entering into a brokerage agreement or transaction, but who has not yet entered into a statutory or common law agency relationship with a licensee. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Customer-sited generation: means a generation unit that is interconnected on the end-use customer's side of the retail electricity meter in such a manner that it displaces all or part of the metered consumption of the end-use customer. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Damage: shall mean , but is not limited to:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 802

  • Day: means : any part of a day in which psychological work is performed. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • DEC: means the Delaware Electric Cooperative and its successors. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Declaration: means the instrument by which the owner in fee simple or lessee of the property submits it to the provisions of this chapter as hereinafter provided and all amendments thereof. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Declaration plan: means a survey of the property prepared in accordance with § 2219 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Deferred compensation: means income earned as a public officer or employee of the State which, pursuant to a written agreement between the State and the employee, is set aside for retirement purposes. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6052
  • Deferred compensation program: means such plans to allow deferred compensation pursuant to §§ 457, 403(b) and 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code [26 U. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6052
  • Demand-side management: means cost effective energy efficiency programs that are designed to reduce customers' electricity consumption, especially during peak periods. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Department: means the State of Delaware Department of Agriculture and includes, but is not limited to, its officers, inspectors, employees, agents or representatives. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 1601
  • Department: shall mean the Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 1032
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • 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 on-site supervisor: means a licensee who has at least 5 years of continuous real estate services experience and who has been appointed as the full-time supervisor of a branch office by the broker. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Designer: shall mean any architect, engineer or other person, acting either as an employer or employee, who prepares a drawing for a construction or other project which requires excavation or demolition. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 802
  • Devices: means any grain moisture testing devices. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 1601
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Dietetic and nutrition therapy: shall mean the scope of services utilized in the delivery of preventive nutrition services and nutrition therapy. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3802
  • Direct access: means the right of electric suppliers and their customers to use an electric distribution company's transmission and distribution system on a nondiscriminatory basis at rates, terms and conditions of service comparable to the electric distribution company's own use of the system to transmit or distribute electricity from any electric supplier to any customer. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Direct supervision: shall mean oversight on the premises of a nursing home. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
  • Director: shall mean the Director of the Division of Professional Regulation of the Department of State. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Disaster: means any disaster designated at Level III or higher in the American National Red Cross Regulations and Procedures, including both national and state disasters. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6002
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Distribution facilities: means electric facilities located in Delaware that are owned by a public utility that operate at voltages of 34,500 volts or below and that are used to deliver electricity to customers, up through and including the point of physical connection with electric facilities owned by the customer. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Distribution services: means those services, including metering, relating to the delivery of electricity to a customer through distribution facilities. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Division: means the Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Division: means the Division of Professional Regulation of the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3002
  • Division: shall mean the State Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • Division: shall mean the state Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3302
  • Division: shall mean the state Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3702
  • Division: shall mean the State Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Division: shall mean the State Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4102
  • Division: means the Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • Division: means the Delaware Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • Division: shall mean the State Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
  • Division: shall mean the Division of Professional Regulation of the Department of State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
  • Division: shall mean the Division of Professional Regulation of the Department of State. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Division: shall mean the State Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2702
  • Division: means the Delaware Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • DNREC: means Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • DNREC Regulated Site: shall mean any parcel of land or portion thereof for which a final permit, remediation plan, institutional or administrative control, use restriction or similar limitation is imposed under the authority granted to the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control under Title 7 and for which due process opportunities have been provided. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 802
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Document: means :

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

  • Documentary material: means the original or any copy of any book, record, report, memorandum, paper, communication, tabulation, chart or other document, and further includes data and other information in a form readable by a data processing machine. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2102
  • Donee: The recipient of a gift.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Dower: A widow
  • Dual agent: means a salesperson, associate broker, broker and/or brokerage organization which represents both buyer and seller or tenant and landlord as clients in a real estate services transaction. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Electric distribution company: means a public utility owning and/or operating transmission and/or distribution facilities in this State. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Electric supplier: means a person or entity certified by the Commission that sells electricity to retail electric customers utilizing the transmission and/or distribution facilities of a nonaffiliated electric utility, including:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001

  • Electric supply service: means the provision of electricity and related services to customers. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Electrologist: means any person licensed under this chapter who, for a monetary consideration, engages in the removal of superfluous hair by use of specially designed electric needles. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) Source: OCC
  • Electronic mail: means communication delivered by electronic means as set forth in § 107(a)(1)a. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 4902
  • Eligible energy resources: include the following energy sources located within or imported into the PJM region:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352

  • Embalming: shall mean the disinfecting or preservation of a dead human body, entirely or in part, by the use of chemical substances, fluids, or gases in the body, or by the introduction of the same into the body by vascular or hypodermic injection, or by the direct application of the same into the organs or cavities. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • Emergency: shall mean any condition constituting a clear and present danger to life, health or property by reason of escaping gas or petroleum products, exposed or broken wires, other breaks or defects in an operator's utility line or by reason of any disaster of artificial or natural causes. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 802
  • Emergency event: means an impending or existing attack, act of terrorism, disease, accident, or other natural or man-made disaster that does 1 or more of the following:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 1703

  • Employee: includes an officer of a state or political subdivision thereof. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5701
  • employee: includes employees of the Delaware Transit Corporation and Delaware Solid Waste Authority. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6052
  • employee tax: means the tax imposed by § 1400 of such Code of 1939 and § 3101 of such Code of 1954 [26 U. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5701
  • Employer: means an individual, person, nonprofit organization, the State, county, or a municipality. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5602
  • Employment: means any service performed by an employee in the employ of the State, local government, housing authority or any other political subdivision thereof, for such employer, except (i) service which in the absence of an agreement entered into under this chapter would constitute "employment" as defined in the Social Security Act [42 U. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5701
  • End-use customer: means a person or entity in Delaware that purchases electrical energy at retail prices from a retail electricity supplier or municipal electric company. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • 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.
  • Escheat: Reversion of real or personal property to the state when 1) a person dies without leaving a will and has no heirs, or 2) when the property (such as a bank account) has been inactive for a certain period of time. Source: OCC
  • Escrow account: means a separate account established by the brokerage organization used solely for moneys in which a broker's customers or clients have an interest in accordance with the terms of a real estate services transaction. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Event: shall mean an organized series of contests and/or individual matches presented as a single occasion. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • excavation: shall mean any operation in which earth, rock or other material in the ground is moved, removed or otherwise displaced or disturbed by means of any tools, equipment or explosives and includes, without limitation, grading, trenching, digging, dredging, ditching, drilling, augering, tunnelling, boring, backfilling, post pounding, driving objects into the ground, installation of form pins, hammering, scraping, cable or pipe plowing or driving, but does not include the surface cultivation of the soil for agricultural purposes, such as tilling, or patch-type paving where the same, including cutback, does not exceed 12 inches in depth measured from the surface of the pavement being patched. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 802
  • Excavator: shall mean any person, including those acting either as an employer or employee, intending to perform or performing excavation or demolition work. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 802
  • Excessive use or abuse of drugs: means the use of narcotics, controlled substances, or illegal drugs without a prescription from a licensed physician or other professional licensed to prescribe, or the abuse of alcoholic beverages such that it impairs an individual's ability to perform social work. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Excessive use or abuse of drugs: means any use of narcotics, controlled substances or illegal drugs without a prescription from a licensed physician, or the abuse of alcoholic beverage such that it impairs a licensee's ability to perform the work of a licensed mental health or chemical dependency professional. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3002
  • Excessive use or abuse of drugs: shall mean any use of narcotics, controlled substances or illegal drugs without a prescription from a licensed physician, or the abuse of alcoholic beverage such that it impairs the person's ability to perform the work of a psychologist. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3502
  • Excessive use or abuse of drugs: shall mean any use of narcotics, controlled substances or illegal drugs without a prescription from a licensed physician, or the abuse of alcoholic beverage such that it impairs a person's ability to perform the work of a geologist. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3602
  • Excessive use or abuse of drugs: shall mean any use of narcotics, controlled substances, or illegal drugs without a prescription from a licensed practitioner, or the abuse of alcoholic beverage such that it impairs the ability to perform the work of an appraiser. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Excessive use or abuse of drugs: shall mean any use of narcotics, controlled substances, or illegal drugs without a prescription from a licensed practitioner, or the abuse of alcoholic beverage such that it impairs the ability to perform the work of a home inspector. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4102
  • Executing carrier: shall mean a carrier that effects a request that a customer's carrier be changed. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
  • Executive Board: means : a group of directors elected or appointed to act on behalf of, and within the powers granted to them by, the Commission. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Facsimile signature: means a reproduction by engraving, imprinting, stamping or other means of the manual signature of an authorized officer. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5401
  • Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. Source: OCC
  • Federal Insurance Contributions Act: means subchapter A of Chapter 9 of the Federal Internal Revenue Code of 1939 and subchapters A and B of Chapter 21 of the Federal Internal Revenue Code of 1954 [26 U. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5701
  • Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. Source: OCC
  • Federal Security Administrator: includes any individual to whom the Federal Security Administrator has delegated any of the Administrator's functions under the Social Security Act [42 U. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5701
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Firearm: means as defined in § 222 of Title 11. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5602
  • Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
  • 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
  • Forgery: The fraudulent signing or alteration of another's name to an instrument such as a deed, mortgage, or check. The intent of the forgery is to deceive or defraud. Source: OCC
  • franchise: shall mean authorization lawfully adopted or agreed to by the Commission pursuant to this chapter to construct or operate a cable television system or systems in whole or in part within a county of this State. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102
  • Fuel cell: means an electric generating facility that:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001

  • Fund: means the Delaware Green Energy Fund. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Funeral director: shall mean a person engaged in the care of human remains or in the disinfecting and preparing by embalming of human remains for the funeral service, transportation, burial, entombment or cremation, and who shall file all death certificates or permits as required by Chapter 31 of Title 16. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • Funeral establishment: shall mean any place used in the care and preparation of human remains for funeral service, burial, entombment or cremation; said place shall also include areas for embalming, the convenience of the bereaved for viewing and other services associated with human remains. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • Funeral services: shall mean those services rendered for the disinfecting, embalming, burial, entombment or cremation of human remains, including the sale of those goods and services usual to arranging and directing funeral services. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • GATS: means the generation attribute tracking system developed by PJM. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Generalist practice: means a professional problem process that includes engagement, assessment, treatment planning, intervention, and evaluation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Generation attribute: means a nonprice characteristic of the electrical energy output of a generation unit including, but not limited to, the unit's fuel type, geographic location, emissions, vintage and RPS eligibility. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Generation unit: means a facility that converts a fuel or an energy resource into electrical energy. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Geologist: shall mean a person who is qualified to practice professional geology including specialists in its various subdisciplines. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3602
  • Germane: On the subject of the pending bill or other business; a strict standard of relevance.
  • Good standing: means meeting the standards of § 3907(a) of this title. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. Source: Federal Reserve
  • Grain: means includes, but is not limited to, corn, wheat, rye, oats, barley, flaxseed, sorghum, soybeans, mixed grain and any other food grains, feed grains, hemp, and oilseeds which standards have been established in the United States Grain Standards Act, 7 U. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 1601
  • Grain Inspector: means anyone who operates grain moisture testing devices, follows standard grain inspection procedures and uses other grain inspection equipment. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 1601
  • Grand jury: agreement providing that a lender will delay exercising its rights (in the case of a mortgage,
  • Grantee: includes every person to whom a freehold estate or interest is conveyed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Grantor: includes every person by whom a freehold estate or interest is conveyed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Grid-integrated electric vehicle: means a battery-run motor vehicle that has the ability for 2-way power flow between the vehicle and the electric grid and the communications hardware and software that allow for the external control of battery charging and discharging by an electric distribution company, electric supplier, PJM Interconnection, or an aggregator. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
  • Hearing aid: shall mean any personal, wearable instrument or device designed for, offered for the purpose of, or represented as, aiding persons with, or compensating for, impaired hearing. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3702
  • Hearing aid dispenser: shall mean a person licensed to dispense hearing aids pursuant to this Act and who is engaged in the evaluation or measurement of the power or range of human hearing by means of an audiometer or any other means devised for the purpose of selecting, adapting and distributing or selling of hearing aids. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3702
  • Home: shall mean any residential property, or manufactured or modular home, which is a single-family dwelling, duplex, triplex, quadruplex, condominium unit, or cooperative unit. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4102
  • Home inspection: shall mean a visual analysis for the purposes of providing a written professional opinion of the condition of a building and its carports and garages, any reasonably accessible installed components and the operation of the building systems, including the controls normally operated by the owner, for the following components of a residential building of 4 units or fewer: heating system; electrical system; cooling system; plumbing system; structural components; foundation; roof covering; exterior and interior components; and site aspects as they affect the building. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4102
  • Improper means: shall include theft, bribery, misrepresentation, breach or inducement of a breach of a duty to maintain secrecy, or espionage through electronic or other means. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2001
  • In forma pauperis: In the manner of a pauper. Permission given to a person to sue without payment of court fees on claim of indigence or poverty.
  • Incumbent member: means the individual holding an office under this chapter before the emergency event. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 1703
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Infant: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Installation: means the assembly of manufactured homes on site and the process of affixing manufactured homes to the land by the use of a foundation, footings, utilities, or to an existing building. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • Installation instructions: means written instructions provided by the manufacturer in the installation manual, or equivalent, which accompanies each manufactured home when it leaves the factory, and that detail the manufacturers requirements for ground support, anchoring systems, and other work to be completed on site during the installation process. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • Installer: means any person who is engaged in the business of performing manufactured housing installations as they are defined above. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • Instructor: means any person who teaches cosmetology, barbering, electrology or nail technology. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • Instrument of payment: means a check, draft, warrant or order for the payment, delivery or transfer of funds. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5401
  • Integrated resource planning: means the planning process of an electric distribution company that systematically evaluates all available supply options, including but not limited to: generation, transmission and demand-side management programs, during the planning period to ensure that the electric distribution company acquires sufficient and reliable resources over time that meet its customers' needs at a minimal cost. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Intern: shall mean a person, duly registered with the Board, engaged in training to become a licensed funeral director in this State under the direction and personal supervision of a state-licensed funeral director. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Irrevocable trust: A trust arrangement that cannot be revoked, rescinded, or repealed by the grantor.
  • 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.
  • Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
  • Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
  • Juror: A person who is on the jury.
  • 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
  • Labor: includes work. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2701
  • Last-known address: means that address provided by the occupant in the latest rental agreement or the address provided by the occupant in a subsequent written notice of a change of address. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 4902
  • Late-payment fee: The fee that will be imposed when your payment is late. Source: Federal Reserve
  • Lawful age: means the age of 18 years or older. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
  • Legal tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. Source: U.S. Mint
  • Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Letter of agency: shall mean a separate document, or easily separable document, signed and dated by the customer or prospective customer, the sole purpose of which is to authorize a carrier to initiate a preferred carrier change. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
  • License: means the certificate issued by the Board. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 6102
  • License: means : authorization by a state psychology regulatory authority to engage in the independent practice of psychology, which would be unlawful without the authorization. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • License: shall mean any document which indicates that a person is currently licensed by the Board of Dietetics/Nutrition. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3802
  • Licensed chemical dependency professional: is a person who holds a current, valid license issued pursuant to this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3041
  • Licensed clinical social work: includes the provision of individual, marital, couple, family and group counseling, and psychotherapy, as they are related to clinical, therapeutic relationship. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Licensed clinical social worker: means an individual licensed to practice licensed clinical social work. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Licensed home inspector: shall mean a person, who has met the licensing requirements of this chapter and who holds a current, valid license issued under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4102
  • Licensed real property appraiser: shall mean a person, who has met the licensing requirements of this chapter and who may appraise noncomplex 1 to 4 residential units having a transaction value less than $1,000,000 and complex 1 to 4 residential units having a transaction value of $400,000 or less, and who holds a current, valid license issued under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Licensee: means an individual licensed under this chapter as a broker, associate broker or salesperson without implying what legal relationship they have with a customer or client. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Licensee: means an individual licensed under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Licensee: means any person who has completed the required training and who has paid the applicable fee for and received a license, under this chapter, for the installation of manufactured housing. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
  • Local government: shall mean a municipality, county or other political subdivision of the State or any agency thereof. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 1032
  • majority of the unit owners: means the owners of more than 50 percent in the aggregate in interest of the undivided ownership of the common elements as specified in the declaration. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Manufactured home installation inspector: means any person who holds a manufactured home installation inspector's certificate issued pursuant to this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • Marketer: means a person or entity that purchases and takes title to electricity for sale to customers in this State. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Massage and bodywork therapist: shall mean a person who represents himself or herself to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words "bodywork" "massage" "massage therapist" "massage therapy" "massage practitioner" "massagist" "masseur" "masseuse" or who engages in the practice of massage and bodywork for a fee, monetary or otherwise. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
  • Massage establishment: means any place of business that offers the practice of massage and bodywork and where the practice of massage and bodywork is conducted on the premises of the business, or that represents itself to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words "bodywork" "massage" "massage therapy" "massage practitioner" "massagist" "masseur" "masseuse" or other words identified by the Board in regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
  • Massage technician: shall mean a person, who is certified with the Board to perform certain functions within the practice of massage therapy, and who is authorized by the Board to use any title or description of services incorporating the words "bodywork" "massage" "massage practitioner" "massagist" "masseur" "masseuse" or "certified massage technician " but shall be prohibited from using the words "therapist" or "therapy. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
  • Master barber: means any person licensed under this chapter who, for a monetary consideration, shaves or trims beards, gives facial or scalp massages, treats beards or scalps with preparations made for this purpose, or embellishes, cleans or beautifies human hair, which includes arranging, dressing, curling, permanent waving, cutting, singeing, pressing, chemically bleaching or coloring, chemically straightening, or similar work. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • Master elevator mechanic: means an individual, licensed by the Board, to plan, estimate, layout, perform, or supervise the installation, erection, replacement, service, and repair of any elevator in any structure. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 6102
  • Member: means a member of the General Assembly under Article II of the Delaware Constitution. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 1703
  • 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
  • Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
  • Minority whip: See Whips.
  • Misappropriation: shall mean :

    a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2001

  • Mixed martial arts: shall mean combative discipline in which a combination of controls, takedowns, submissions and striking techniques are employed by trained practitioners. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • Multiple-unit usage: means use as a manufactured home condominium or cooperative community. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 7102
  • Municipal electric company: means a public corporation created by contract between 2 or more municipalities pursuant to provisions of Chapter 13 of Title 22 and the electric utilities that are municipally owned within the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Nail technician: means any person licensed under this chapter who engages only in the practice of manicuring, pedicuring or sculpting nails, including acrylic nails, of any person. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • 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
  • National Credit Union Administration: The federal regulatory agency that charters and supervises federal credit unions. (NCUA also administers the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which insures the deposits of federal credit unions.) Source: OCC
  • Non-compact state: means : any state which is not at the time a compact state. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • Nonpurchasing tenant: shall mean a tenant who has elected not to purchase a unit or units in the proposed conversion project. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 7102
  • Nonresidential condominium: means a condominium in which all units are restricted exclusively to nonresidential purposes. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Nonresidential purposes: means use for a purpose other than use for a dwelling and appurtenant recreational purposes, or both. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Nursing home: shall mean any licensed residential health facility for aged, infirm, chronically ill or convalescent persons, excluding neighborhood homes and group homes licensed by the Division of Health Care Quality, that provides shelter and food to more than 4 persons who:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202

  • Nursing home administrator: shall mean the individual licensed under this chapter to practice nursing home administration. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
  • nutritionist: shall mean a person who engages in the provision of nutrition services. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3802
  • Occupant: means a person, that person's sublessee, successor or assign, entitled to the use of the storage space at a self-service storage facility under a rental agreement, to the exclusion of others. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 4902
  • Operator: shall mean any person who furnishes or transports materials or services by means of a utility line. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 802
  • Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Owner: means the owner, operator, lessor or sublessor of a self-service storage facility, such person's agent or any other person authorized by the owner, operator, lessor or sublessor of a self-storage facility to manage the facility or to receive rent from an occupant under a rental agreement. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 4902
  • owners: refers to instances where a manufactured home community is located on 2 or more separate parcels where the owners, or the legal status or character of the owners, differ. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 7102
  • Person: means 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. 2902
  • Person: means a corporation, company, association and partnership, as well as an individual. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3002
  • Person: shall mean a corporation, company, association and partnership, as well as an individual. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • Person: shall mean a natural person, corporation, statutory trust, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision or agency, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2001
  • Person: shall mean a corporation, company, association and partnership, as well as an individual. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3502
  • Person: shall mean a corporation, company, association and partnership, as well as an individual. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3602
  • Person: shall mean a corporation, company, association or partnership, as well as an individual. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3702
  • 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. 4002
  • 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. 4102
  • Person: means 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. 4403
  • Person: means a corporation, company, association or partnership, as well as an individual. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • 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. 5202
  • Person: shall mean a corporation, company, association and partnership, as well as an individual. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
  • Person: means a natural individual, corporation, partnership, association, trustee or other legal entity. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • 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
  • Person: shall mean any individual, firm, joint venture, partnership, corporation, association, municipality, other political subdivision, state or federal governmental unit, department or agency, state cooperative association, joint stock association and shall include any assignee, trustee, receiver or personal representative thereof. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 802
  • Person: shall mean a corporation, company, association and partnership, as well as an individual. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2702
  • Person-in-environment perspective: means observing human behavior, development, and function in the context of the environment, social functioning, mental health, physical health, or any combination thereof. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Personal property: means movable property not affixed to land and includes, but is not limited to, goods, merchandise and household items. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 4902
  • Personal representative: means , as to a natural person, the executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or other legal representative thereof and, as to a person other than a natural person, the legal representative or successor thereof. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
  • Personal supervision: shall mean the active oversight by the state-licensed or certified real estate appraiser of the real property appraiser trainee. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Personal supervision: shall mean the active oversight by the licensed home inspector of the home inspector trainee. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4102
  • PJM interconnection: means the regional transmission organization (RTO) that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in the PJM region, or its successors at law. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • PJM region: means the area within which the movement of wholesale electricity is coordinated by PJM Interconnection. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • place of business: includes any office, clinic, facility, salon, spa, or other location where a person or persons engage in the practice of massage and bodywork. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
  • 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.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Political subdivisions: includes an instrumentality of a state and 1 or more of its political subdivisions, but only if such instrumentality is a juristic entity which is legally separate and distinct from the State or subdivision and only if its employees are not by virtue of their relation to such juristic entity employees of the State or subdivision; the housing authority continued under Chapter 43 of Title 31 shall be construed to be a political subdivision. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5701
  • Practice of geology: shall mean any service or creative work, the adequate performance of which requires geologic education, training and experience in the application of the principles, theories, laws and body of knowledge encompassed in the science of geology. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3602
  • Practice of land surveying: shall mean professional services or work involving special knowledge and application of the principles of mathematics and related sciences and the relevant requirement of law in connection with the use and development of land, as described herein:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2702

  • Practice of massage and bodywork: shall mean a system of structured touch applied to the superficial or deep tissue, muscle, or connective tissue, by applying pressure with manual means. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
  • Practice of nursing home administration: shall mean the performance of any act or the making of any decision involved in the planning, organizing, directing, or controlling of the operations of a nursing home, whether or not such acts are performed, or decisions made, by 1 or more persons. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
  • Practice of psychology: shall mean the observation, description, evaluation, interpretation and modification of human behavior by the application of psychological principles, methods, and/or procedures, for the purpose of preventing or eliminating symptomatic, maladaptive or undesired behavior, and of enhancing interpersonal relationships, work and life adjustment, personal effectiveness, behavioral health and mental health. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3502
  • Practice of veterinary medicine: shall mean :

    a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3302

  • Practitioner: shall mean a funeral director. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • 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.
  • Preceptor: shall mean a state-licensed nursing home administrator who is qualified under this chapter and approved by the Board to exercise direct supervision of a registered nursing home administrator-in-training. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
  • Preferred carrier: shall mean any carrier providing service to a customer at the time this subchapter is enacted, or such carrier as the customer thereafter designates as the customer's preferred carrier. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
  • present sale: means a sale which is accomplished by the making of the contract. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2-106
  • 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.
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Private law: A private bill enacted into law. Private laws have restricted applicability, often addressing immigration and naturalization issues affecting individuals.
  • Professional: shall mean a person who engages in a match or contest where a purse of cash or other article of value is awarded for that person's participation or victory which is greater than the maximum amount permitted by the Division to be awarded to an amateur, as defined in the Division's rule and regulations. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Professional boxing: shall mean a boxing match as herein defined, which is sanctioned by a professional boxing association recognized by the Director, such as, but not limited to, the World Boxing Association or the World Boxing Conference of the North American Boxing Association, and for which the boxers are compensated financially. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Professional land surveyor: shall mean an individual who holds a valid license to practice land surveying under this chapter, and in addition:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2702

  • Professional-in-charge: means a licensee who is responsible for the operation of a cosmetology shop, including ensuring that all employees are licensed, where required by law. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • Professional-in-charge: means a licensee who is responsible for the operation of a massage establishment, including ensuring that all employees are licensed, where required by law. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
  • Promoter: shall mean any person, regardless of job title, who arranges, advertises, produces, stages or conducts a combative sports or combative sports entertainment event. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Property: means and includes the land, the building, all improvements thereon, all owned either in fee simple or under lease, and all easements, rights and appurtenances belonging thereto which have been or are intended to be submitted to the provisions of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Property management services: means those actions taken for others, pursuant to an agreement, in exchange for a fee, commission, compensation or other valuable consideration which include the supervision and the administration of the physical maintenance and/or the financial matters of real property. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Protective hairstyle: includes braids, locks, and twists. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • Proxy voting: The practice of allowing a legislator to cast a vote in committee for an absent legislator.
  • Psychological assistant: shall mean a person who is registered with the Board to perform certain functions within the practice of psychology, only under the direct supervision of a supervising psychologist, and who is authorized by the Board to use the title "psychological assistant. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3502
  • Psychological testing: shall mean , but not be limited to: Administration and interpretation of standardized intelligence and neuropsychological tests which yield an intelligence quotient and/or are the basis for a diagnosis of organic brain syndromes for the purposes of classification and/or disability determination; and

    b. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3502

  • Psychologist: shall mean a person who makes representations to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words "psychology" "psychological" "psychologist" or who engages in the practice of psychology. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3502
  • Psychologist: means : an individual licensed for the independent practice of psychology. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • Public body: means the state's public agencies, including school districts, and its political subdivisions, including municipal and other authorities. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2102
  • Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Public security: means a bond, note, certificate of indebtedness or other obligation for the payment of money issued by this State or by any of its departments, agencies or other instrumentalities or by any of its political subdivisions. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5401
  • Public utility: includes every individual, partnership, association, corporation, joint stock company, agency or department of the State or any association of individuals engaged in the prosecution in common of a productive enterprise (commonly called a "cooperative"), their lessees, trustees or receivers appointed by any court whatsoever, that now operates or hereafter may operate for public use within this State, (however, electric cooperatives shall not be permitted directly or through an affiliate to engage in the production, sale or distribution of propane gas or heating oil), any natural gas, electric (excluding electric suppliers as defined in § 1001 of this title), electric transmission by other than a public utility over which the Commission has no supervisory or regulatory jurisdiction pursuant to § 202(a) or (g) of this title, water, wastewater (which shall include sanitary sewer charge), telecommunications (excluding telephone services provided by cellular technology or by domestic public land mobile radio service) service, system, plant or equipment. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102
  • purchasing tenant: shall mean a tenant who has agreed to purchase a unit or units in the proposed conversion project;

    (8) "Owner" shall mean the legal entity (including a natural person or group of persons) which owns the real estate on which a manufactured home is located. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 7102

  • Qualified fuel cell provider: means an entity that:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352

  • Qualified fuel cell provider project: means a fuel cell power generation project located in Delaware owned and/or operated by a qualified fuel cell provider under a tariff approved by the Commission pursuant to § 364(d) of this title. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Race: includes traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and a protective hairstyle. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • Rate base: means :

    a. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102

  • Real estate appraiser: means any person who advises, consults, or prepares analyses with respect to real estate values, uses, sales, developments or disposition, including acquisitions by eminent domain, or renders opinions relevant to the marketability of real estate, as a whole or partial vocation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Real estate service provider: means a licensee who is providing real estate services. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Real estate services: means those activities performed by a licensee as defined in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • Real property: shall mean 1 or more defined interests, benefits, and rights inherent in the ownership of real estate. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Recess: A temporary interruption of the legislative business.
  • Recorded: means that an instrument has been duly entered of record in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county in which the property is situate. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Recorder: means the recorder of deeds of the county in which the property is situate. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Recreational vehicle: means a travel trailer, camping trailer, park model trailer, campers, or motor homes which are primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational camping, seasonal or travel use and which either have their own motor power or are mounted on or drawn by another vehicle. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • rehabilitation: shall include , but are not limited to, hearing aid evaluation, recommendation, and fitting and selecting, adapting and distributing or selling of hearing aids. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3702
  • Relocation assistance plan: shall mean a proposed plan of assistance to tenants which is intended to enable such tenants to obtain comparable housing with a minimum of difficulty and expense;

    (10) "Tenant" shall mean a person, 18 years of age or older, who has at least a leasehold interest in a manufactured home community and who, for rent or by written or oral contract or other good consideration, is leasing or is purchasing or has purchased a manufactured home or manufactured home site within the community. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 7102

  • Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
  • Rental agreement: means any agreement or lease, written or oral, that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions, rules or any other provisions concerning the use and occupancy of a self-service storage facility. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 4902
  • Repair and replacement reserve: means a reserve fund maintained by the council solely for the repair and replacement of common elements, and for no other purpose (including operating budget shortfalls or other expenditures appropriate to a contingency reserve). See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
  • Reserve study: means an analysis, performed or updated within the last 5 years by 1 or more independent engineering, architectural or construction contractors, or other qualified persons, of the remaining useful life and the estimated cost to replace each separate system and component of the common elements, the purpose of which analysis is to inform the council and the unit owners of the amount which should be maintained from year to year in a fully funded repair and replacement reserve to minimize the need for special assessments. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Responsible charge: shall mean the direct control and personal direction of the investigation, operation and execution of land surveying work requiring initiative, and professional skill and independent judgment as a party chief or survey manager. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2702
  • Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
  • Retail competition: means the right of a customer to purchase electricity from an electric supplier. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Retail electricity product: means an electrical energy offering that is distinguished by its generation attributes and that is offered for sale by a retail electricity supplier or municipal electric company to end-use customers. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Retail electricity supplier: means a person or entity that sells electrical energy to end-use customers in Delaware, including but not limited to nonregulated power producers, electric utility distribution companies supplying standard offer, default service, or any successor service to end-use customers. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Returning customer service: means the electric supply service offered to customers with a peak monthly load of 1000 kW or more, which have left standard offer service as of April 30, 2007, and later decide to receive electric supply service from their electric distribution company. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Revocable trust: A trust agreement that can be canceled, rescinded, revoked, or repealed by the grantor (person who establishes the trust).
  • Revocation: means an instrument signed by all of the unit owners and by all holders of liens against the units by which the property is removed from the provisions of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
  • RPS: means the percentage of electricity sales at retail in the state that is to be derived from eligible energy resources. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Rule: means : a written statement by the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission promulgated pursuant to § 3510A of this title that is of general applicability, implements, interprets, or prescribes a policy or provision of the Compact, or an organizational, procedural, or practice requirement of the Commission and has the force and effect of statutory law in a compact state, and includes the amendment, repeal or suspension of an existing rule. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • Rural electric cooperative: means a nonstock, nonprofit, membership corporation organized pursuant to the federal Rural Electrification Act of 1936 [7 U. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Salesperson: means any individual who holds a salesperson license from the Commission and who is licensed under a broker to sell or offer to sell, or to buy or to offer to buy, or to negotiate the purchase, sale, auction or exchange of real estate, or to lease or rent or offer for rent any real estate, or to negotiate leases or rental agreements thereof or of the improvements thereon for others. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • school of barbering: means any place or part thereof where cosmetology, barbering, electrology, nail technology or any of the practices are taught, whether or not such place holds itself out as such. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • Secretary: means the Secretary of State or designee. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
  • Self-service storage facility: means any real property designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage space to occupants who are to have access to such for the purpose of storing and removing personal property. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 4902
  • Seller: means a person who sells or contracts to sell goods. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2-103
  • Significant investigatory information: means either of the following:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A

  • Simple resolution: Designated "S. Res.," simple resolutions are used to express nonbinding positions of the Senate or to deal with the Senate's internal affairs, such as the creation of a special committee. They do not require action by the House of Representatives.
  • Social Security Act: means the act of Congress approved August 14, 1935, Chapter 531, 49 Stat. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5701
  • Social work: means baccalaureate social work, master's social work, and licensed clinical social work, collectively or, if context demands, individually. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Social worker: means baccalaureate social worker, master's social worker, and licensed clinical social worker, collectively or, if context demands, individually. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Solar Alternative Compliance Payment: means a payment of a certain dollar amount per megawatt-hour, which a retail electricity supplier or municipal electric supplier may submit in lieu of supplying the minimum percentage from solar photovoltaics required under Schedule I in § 354 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Standard offer service: means the provision of electric supply service after the transition period by a standard offer service supplier to customers who do not otherwise receive electric supply service from an electric supplier. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Standard offer service supplier: means the electric distribution company serving within its certificated service territory. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • State: means the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3302
  • State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3702
  • State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4102
  • State: means the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5202
  • State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
  • 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
  • State: means : a state, commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2702
  • State agency: means every department, bureau, division, officer, board or commission of the State. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 2901
  • State Agency: means the State Treasurer. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5701
  • state contiguous to this State: shall mean any state having a common border with this State. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 801
  • State psychology regulatory authority: means : the board, office, or other agency with the legislative mandate to license and regulate the practice of psychology. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • Structure: includes a building or house. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2701
  • Submitting carrier: shall mean any carrier that requests on behalf of a customer that the customer's carrier be changed, and seeks to provide retail services to an end user customer. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
  • Substantially related: means the nature of the criminal conduct, for which the individual 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 providing real estate services. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2902
  • Substantially related: means the nature of the criminal conduct for which the individual was convicted has a direct bearing on the fitness or ability to perform 1 or more of the duties or responsibilities necessarily related to social work. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Substantially related: means the nature of the criminal conduct, for which a person was convicted, has a direct bearing on the fitness or ability of the person to perform 1 or more of the duties or responsibilities of a licensed mental health, chemical dependency, marriage and family therapy, or art therapy professional. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3002
  • 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 provision of funeral services. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3101
  • 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 veterinary medicine. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3302
  • 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 psychology. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3502
  • 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 geology. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3602
  • 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 speech/language pathology, audiology and/or the dispensing of hearing aids. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3702
  • Substantially related: shall mean 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 real estate appraisal. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Substantially related: shall mean 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 home inspecting. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4102
  • Substantially related: means the nature of the criminal conduct, for which the person was convicted, has a direct bearing on the person's fitness or ability to perform 1 or more of the duties or responsibilities necessarily related to the work of a manufactured home installer. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • 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 cosmetology, barbering, electrology, nail technology or aesthetics. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5101
  • 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 massage and bodywork. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
  • 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 land surveying. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2702
  • 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 provision of dietetics/nutrition therapy services. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3802
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Superintendent: means the Superintendent of the Delaware State Police. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5602
  • Supervised experience: means face-to-face consultation, on a regularly scheduled basis, between a supervisee and a licensed professional art therapist (LPAT) or other behavioral health professional approved by the Board. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3060
  • Supervising psychologist: shall mean a psychologist licensed in this State who has practiced as a licensed psychologist for 2 years in this or any other jurisdiction and who applies to the Board for the registration of a psychological assistant. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3502
  • Supervision: means the professional relationship between a clinical supervisor and a social worker that provides evaluation and direction over the services that the social worker provides and promotes continued development of the social worker's knowledge, skills, and abilities to provide social work services in an ethical and competent manner. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3902
  • Supervision: shall mean the face-to-face consultation between the registered psychological assistant and the supervising psychologist as required by the nature of the work of the psychological assistant. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3502
  • Supervision: means managing the acts of another by overseeing the performance or operation of the person and by taking full responsibility for acts or omissions of the person that are being performed at the direction of a licensee or under the authority of a licensee's license. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • Surveyor intern: shall mean an individual who has qualified for, taken, and has passed the written standardized national examination developed by the national professional association in the fundamentals of surveying. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 2702
  • system: shall mean a facility within this State which is constructed in whole or in part in, on, under or over any highway, road, street, alley, or other public place and which is operated to perform the service of receiving and amplifying the signals of 1 or more radio and/or television broadcasting stations and distributing such signals by cable, wire or other means to members of the public who subscribe to such service; provided that nothing herein is intended to prohibit any system from engaging in any other activity not expressly prohibited by law; except that such definition shall not include (i) any system which serves fewer than 50 subscribers; or (ii) any system which serves only the residents of 1 or more apartment dwellings or mobile home or trailer parks under common ownership, control or management, and commercial establishments located on the premises of such dwellings; or (iii) telephone, telegraph or electric utilities in those cases where the activity of such utility in connection with a cable system is limited to leasing or renting to cable systems, cables, wires, poles, towers or other electronic equipment or rights to use real property as part of, or for use in connection with, the operation of a cable system. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102
  • Telemedicine: means as defined in § 3002 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3060
  • Telepsychology: means : the provision of psychological services using telecommunication technologies. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • Temporary authorization to practice: means : a licensed psychologist's authority to conduct temporary in-person, face-to-face practice, within the limits authorized under this Compact, in another compact state. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3501A
  • Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • this State: means the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 5302
  • Total retail sales: means retail sales of electricity within the State of Delaware exclusive of sales to any industrial customer with a peak demand in excess of 1,500 kilowatts. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 352
  • Trade secret: shall mean information, including a formula, pattern, compilation, program, device, method, technique or process, that:

    a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2001

  • Trainee: shall mean a person who has completed classroom hours of education on real estate matters satisfactory to the Council, as indicated in the rules and regulations, including classroom hours on the topic of Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4002
  • Trainee: shall mean a person who has satisfied the requirements as set forth in § 4109 of this title and any requirements as set forth in the rules and regulations as established by the Board. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4102
  • Transition period: means the period of time beginning with the implementation of retail competition and ending on the dates specified in § 1004 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Transmission facilities: means electric facilities located in Delaware, including those in offshore waters and integrated with onshore electric facilities, and owned by a public utility that operate at voltages above 34,500 volts and that are used to transmit and deliver electricity to customers (including any customers taking electric service under interruptible rate schedules as of December 31, 1998) up through and including the point of physical connection with electric facilities owned by the customer. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 1001
  • Trustor: The person who makes or creates a trust. Also known as the grantor or settlor.
  • 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
  • Unauthorized practitioner: means any person, who engages in the occupational practices regulated by the Board, and who is not licensed or certified by the Board to do so. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
  • Unavailable: means absent from the place of session other than on official business of the General Assembly or unable, for physical, mental, or legal reasons, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of a member of the General Assembly, whether or not such absence or inability would give rise to a vacancy under the Delaware Constitution or other law of this State. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 1703
  • Under age: means an age of less than 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
  • 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
  • Unit: means a part of the property designed or intended for any type of independent use which has a direct exit to a public street or way, or to a common element or common elements leading to a public street or way, or to an easement or right-of-way leading to a public street or way, and includes the proportionate undivided interest in the common elements which is assigned thereto in the declaration or any amounts thereof. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Unit designation: means the number, letter or combination thereof designating a unit in the declaration plan. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • Unit owner: means the person or persons owning a unit. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 2202
  • 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.
  • Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. Source: OCC
  • Utility line: shall mean any item of personal property which shall be buried or placed below ground or submerged for use in connection with the storage or conveyance of water, sewage, electronic, cable television, telephonic or telegraphic communications, electric energy, oil, petroleum products, gas or other substances, and shall include, but not be limited to, pipes, sewers, conduits, cables, fiber optic conductors, valves, lines, wires, manholes, vaults, attachments and those portions of poles, pylons or other supports below ground or submerged. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 802
  • Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
  • Verified mail: means any method of mailing that is offered by the United States Postal Service or private delivery service that provides evidence of mailing. See Delaware Code Title 25 Sec. 4902
  • Veterinarian: shall mean a person who has received a degree in veterinary medicine from a school of veterinary medicine. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3302
  • Veterinary medicine: shall include veterinary surgery, obstetrics, dentistry and all other branches or specialties of veterinary medicine. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3302
  • Veterinary technician: shall mean a person who has received a degree from a veterinary technician program or its equivalent. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 3302
  • 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.
  • volunteer: means any person who has completed the necessary training for and been certified as a disaster service specialist by the American Red Cross. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6002
  • Wages: means all remuneration for employment as defined in this section, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash, except that such term shall not include that part of such remuneration which, even if it were for "employment" within the meaning of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, would not constitute "wages" within the meaning of such Act. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5701
  • Water utility: shall mean any person or entity operating within this State any water service, system, plant or equipment for public use. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
  • written notice: shall mean notice in writing which is hand-delivered or mailed by certified mail, to the person who is to be given notice. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102