Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 7 > Chapter 41 > Subchapter I - General Provisions

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• brand: means a term, design, or trademark used in connection with 1 or several grades of commercial fertilizer. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103
• commercial fertilizer: means any substance containing 1 or more recognized plant nutrient(s) which is used for its plant nutrient content and which is designed for use or claimed to have value in promoting plant growth, except unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures, marl, lime, limestone, wood ashes and other products exempted by regulation of the Secretary;

  a. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103

• 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.
• Department: means State Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103
• distributor: means any person who imports, consigns, manufactures, produces, compounds, mixes or blends commercial fertilizer, or soil conditioner, or who offers for sale, sells, barters or otherwise supplies commercial fertilizer or soil conditioner in this State. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103
• grade: means the percentage of total nitrogen, available phosphate, and soluble potash stated in whole numbers in the same terms, order and percentages as in the guaranteed analysis. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103
• guaranteed analysis: shall mean the minimum percentage of plant nutrients claimed in the following order and form:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103

• label: means the display of all written, printed or graphic matter upon the immediate container or statement accompanying a commercial fertilizer or soil conditioner. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• mixed fertilizer: is a commercial fertilizer containing any combination of mixture of fertilizer materials;

  c. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103

• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• official sample: means any sample of commercial fertilizer or soil conditioner taken by the Secretary or the Secretary's agent and designated as "official" by the Secretary. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103
• open formula: means mixed fertilizer labeled so as to show in addition to requirements of § 2105 of this title the name and grade of materials and the quantity of each used per ton in compounding or mixing. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• percentage: means the percentage by weight. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103
• person: includes individual, partnership, association, ?rm and corporation. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103
• registrant: means the person who registers commercial fertilizer or soil conditioner under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the State Department of Agriculture or the Secretary's duly authorized delegates. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103
• soil conditioner: means any substance or mixture of substances, including any plant biostimulant, imported, manufactured, prepared or sold for manurial soil-enriching or soil-corrective purposes or intended to be used for promoting or stimulating the growth of plants, increasing the productivity of plants, improving the quality of crops, or producing any chemical, biochemical, biological or physical change in the soil, except commercial fertilizer as defined in this chapter, unmanipulated animal and vegetable manures, and agricultural liming materials. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103
• State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• ton: means a net weight of 2,000 pounds avoirdupois. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 2103
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302