Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 7 > Chapter 78 - Pollution Prevention Act

• Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• 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 the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7803
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• Implementation Committee: means the Pollution Prevention Implementation Committee. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7803
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Multi-media: means all environmental media including, but not limited to, workplaces within facilities, water, land and air. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7803
• 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.
• Person: means any individual, trust, firm, joint stock company, federal agency, corporation (including a government corporation), partnership, association, state, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a state or any interstate body. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7803
• Pollution prevention: means any practice which:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7803

• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the referenced state department or a duly authorized designee. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7803
• Trade secret: means any information concerning production processes employed or substances manufactured, processed or otherwise used within a facility which the Secretary of the Department has determined to be propriety information. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7803
• Waste: means , but is not limited to, those substances defined as such under Delaware Codes, or the regulations promulgated thereunder: air pollution as defined in § 6002 of this title; hazardous waste as defined in § 6302 of this title; industrial waste as defined in § 6002 of this title; liquid waste as defined in § 6002 of this title; other wastes as defined in § 6002 of this title; refuse as defined in § 6002 of this title; rubbish as defined in § 6002 of this title; sewage as defined in § 6002 of this title; and solid waste as defined in § 6002 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 7 Sec. 7803
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302