Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 7 > Chapter 5 - Licenses

• 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.
• Agreement: means an agreement entered into by the Secretary and one or more contracting parties for a project. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 2002
• Agricultural products: includes all agricultural, horticultural, vegetable, fruit and floricultural products of the soil, livestock and meats, wool, hides, poultry, eggs, dairy products, nuts, mushrooms and honey, but does not include timber products. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8501
• 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.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Aquaculture: means the controlled propagation, growth, harvest and subsequent commerce in cultured aquatic stock by an aquaculturist. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Aquaculture facility: means any water system and associated infrastructures capable of holding and/or producing cultured aquatic stock. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Aquaculture registration: means the formal registration by application to the Department of Agriculture of an aquaculture facility by a person, partnership or corporation. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Aquaculturist: means an individual, partnership or corporation involved in the production of cultured aquatic stock or parts thereof. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Association: means a corporation formed under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8501
• Cemetery: means land or structure used or intended to be used for the interment/entombment of human remains, including facilities used for the final disposition of cremated remains. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 1002
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Closed system: means an aquaculture facility with water discharge(s) that does not connect in any way to the waters of the State prior to the discharged water being screened, filtered or percolated to prevent cultured aquatic stock from escaping. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Contracting party: means any individual, corporation, partnership, company, trust, association, joint venture, pool, syndicate, sole proprietorship, unincorporated association, body politic, authority or any other form of entity not specifically listed herein entering into an agreement with the Secretary for a project. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 2002
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cultured aquatic stock: means aquatic organisms, lawfully acquired by an aquaculturist that are held and grown in a registered aquaculture facility. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 2002
• Department: means the Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 2102
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• District: means an area of a municipality or county, or both, that meets the criteria set forth in §§ 2103 and 2104 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 2102
• Domesticated: means an animal or plant trained, adapted and/or bred to live in a human controlled environment. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• 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.
• 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.
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Farebox recovery ratio: means the fraction of a transit system's operating expenses which are met by the fares paid by passengers. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 2102
• Fee fishing: means removing cultured aquatic stock from a registered aquaculture facility in a sportsman-like manner for a payment of a fee. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Fee fishing operation: means a registered aquaculture facility where a person may fish for cultured aquatic stock. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• For-profit cemetery: means any person, partnership, corporation, or business entity operating a cemetery for purposes of generating a profit, specifically excluding churches, religious organizations, any nonprofit entities, and veteran organizations. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 1002
• 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}
• 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}
• 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}
• Level of service: means a qualitative measure describing operational conditions within a traffic stream based on service measures such as speed and travel time, freedom to maneuver, traffic interruptions, comfort, and convenience. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 2102
• Metropolitan planning organization: means a metropolitan planning organization established and designated pursuant to 23 U. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 2002
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Patron: means a person engaged in agriculture whose products are sold by or supplies purchased through the association, or who has executed a contract with the association to sell all or a part of the patron's agricultural products to or through the association. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 8501
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Project: means any public transportation project undertaken under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 2002
• Project: means any State-funded capital-related improvement or addition to the State's transportation infrastructure, including transit systems, facilities, stations and equipment, sidewalks, multi-use paths, protected bicycle lanes, and bicycle boulevards. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 2102
• real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Registered aquaculture facility: means an aquaculture facility which has a valid aquaculture registration issued by the Department of Agriculture. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 2002
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department or his or her designee. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• 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
• TNC: means a corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, or other entity that is licensed pursuant to this chapter and operating in Delaware that uses a digital network to connect transportation network company riders to transportation network company drivers who provide prearranged rides. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 1901
• TNC driver: means an individual who:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 1901

• Transportation System: means any capital-related improvement and addition to the State's transportation infrastructure, including but not limited to highways, roads, bridges, vehicles and equipment, ports and marine-related facilities, park and ride lots, rail and other transit systems, facilities, stations and equipment, rest areas, tunnels, airports, transportation management systems, control/communications/information systems and other transportation-related investments, or any combination thereof. See Delaware Code Title 2 Sec. 2002
• 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.
• Wild: means an animal or plant that is not trained, adapted and/or bred to live in a human controlled environment. See Delaware Code Title 3 Sec. 403