Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 6 > Article 4 > Part 5 - Collection of Documentary Drafts

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Affixing agent: means any tobacco products dealer or any other person within or without this State appointed by the Department of Finance as an agent to affix the stamps to be used in paying the excise tax imposed by this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Aviation jet fuel: means fuel designed for use in the operation of jet or turbo-prop aircraft, and sold or used for that purpose. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5171
• Cigar: means any roll for smoking which is not a cigarette and which is made wholly or in part of tobacco or any substitute therefor when the cover of the roll is made chiefly of tobacco. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Cigarette: means any roll for smoking made wholly or in part of tobacco, irrespective of size or shape, and irrespective of the tobacco being flavored, adulterated, or mixed with any other ingredient, the wrapper or cover of which is made of paper or any other substance or material except tobacco. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Consumer: means any person who has possession of tobacco products for any purpose other than transportation or sale. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Customer: means a person having an account with a bank or for whom a bank has agreed to collect items, including a bank that maintains an account at another bank. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4-104
• Deficiency: means , in the case of any tax imposed by this title or, where applicable, Title 4, the amount by which such tax so imposed exceeds the excess of:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502

• Department: means Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
• Department: means the Department of Finance. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Director: means the Director of the Division of Revenue or the Secretary of Finance of the State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Distributor: includes any person, association of persons, firm or corporation, wherever resident or located, who imports or causes to be imported into the State gasoline, as defined in this section, for use, distribution, storage or sale after the gasoline reaches the State or who, being in the business of selling and or distributing gasoline in bulk quantities, desires to purchase gasoline tax free from another distributor for resale within this State or for export from this State; and also any person, association of persons, firm or corporation who produces, refines, manufactures or compounds, or causes to be produced, refined, manufactured or compounded gasoline as defined in this section within the State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
• Distributor: means any of the following:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301

• Documentary draft: means a draft to be presented for acceptance or payment if specified documents, certificated securities (Section 8-102) or instructions for uncertificated securities (Section 8-102), or other certificates, statements, or the like are to be received by the drawee or other payor before acceptance or payment of the draft. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4-104
• Draft: means a draft as defined in Section 3-104 or an item, other than an instrument, that is an order. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4-104
• Drawee: means a person ordered in a draft to make payment. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 4-104
• Electronic smoking device: includes a device that is manufactured, distributed, marketed, or sold as an e-cigarette, e-cigar, e-pipe, e-hookah, vape pen, or any other similar product with any other product name or descriptor. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Gasoline: includes all products commonly or commercially known or sold as gasoline, including gasohol, casinghead gasoline, natural gasoline, aviation gasoline and all flammable liquids composed of a mixture of selected hydrocarbons expressly manufactured and blended for the purpose of effectively and efficiently operating spark-ignited internal combustion engines. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Licensed aviation jet fuel supplier: means any wholesale seller or distributor of aviation jet fuel that has procured a license from the Department. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5171
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Moist snuff: means any finely cut, ground, or powdered tobacco that is not intended to be smoked, but does not include any finely cut, ground, or powdered tobacco that is intended to be placed in the nasal cavity. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• pack: means , as to cigars, the smallest individual container which contains more than 1 cigar in or from which retail sales are normally made or intended to be made, and means, as to other tobacco products, the smallest individual container in or from which retail sales of such products are normally made or intended to be made. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Person: means and includes an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, association, company or corporation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Person: includes every natural person, fiduciary, association of persons or corporation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
• Place of business: means any place where tobacco products are sold, or where tobacco products are bought or kept for the purpose of sale or consumption, including, so far as applicable, any vessel, airplane, train, or vending machine dispensing tobacco products. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Sale: means in addition to its usual meaning, any sale, transfer, exchange, theft, barter, gift, or offer for sale and distribution, in any manner or by any means whatsoever. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Finance or the Secretary's duly authorized designee; provided, that any such delegation of authority is consistent with Chapter 83 of Title 29. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Smokeless tobacco products: means all products, other than moist snuff, made primarily of tobacco for individual consumption, not intended to be smoked. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, The United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Tax: shall be deemed also to refer to license fees imposed under Part III of this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Taxable: means any person, fiduciary, association of persons, syndicate, joint venture or copartnership subject to making return or to payment of tax imposed by this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 101
• Tobacco product tax stamps: means any adhesive stamps, tax meter impression, or other stamps, labels, or prints authorized by the Department of Finance to evidence the payment of the tax imposed by this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Tobacco product vending machine: means any mechanical device from which tobacco products are dispensed for a consideration. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Tobacco products: means all products made primarily from tobacco for individual consumption, including cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, and vapor products. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Unstamped tobacco products: means any pack or package of tobacco products to which the proper amount of genuine Delaware tobacco product tax stamps has not been affixed. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Use: means the receipt, delivery or placing of special fuel by a special fuel user into the fuel supply tank or tanks of any motor vehicle while such vehicle is within this State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5131
• Use: means the exercise of any right or power over tobacco products including the retention for any length of time for any purpose other than sale or transportation as allowed under the provisions of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Vapor product: means any nicotine liquid solution or other material containing nicotine that is intended to be used with or in an electronic smoking device. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Wholesale dealer: means any person who regularly sells tobacco products within this State to others who buy for the purpose of resale. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Wholesale price: means the price for which a manufacturer sells a tobacco product to a distributor exclusive of any discount, rebate, or other reduction. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5301
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302