Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 9 > Chapter 15 > Subchapter II - Powers and Duties

• Acknowledged: shall mean , with respect to any document or instrument required to be executed by an authorized person pursuant to this chapter, the authorized person executing such document or instrument has certified, under penalty of perjury, that the information set forth in such document or instrument is accurate and complete to the best of such authorized person's actual knowledge after due inquiry. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001E
• 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
• Assessment measures: shall mean , with respect to any entity, the policies, procedures or practices adopted by such entity to adduce objective factual information to assess the entity's performance in meeting its standards, including any procedures for internal or external verification of such information. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001E
• Authorized person: means , with respect to any entity, any person or entity who has been duly authorized in accordance with the organizational documents of the entity and the laws of this State (whether statutory, common law or otherwise) under which the entity is incorporated, formed or organized to execute such documents and instruments and make such acknowledgments as are required by this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001E
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Document: means :

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

• Entity: means any: (A) corporation (stock or nonstock), partnership (whether general (including a limited liability partnership) or limited (including a limited liability limited partnership)), limited liability company, or statutory trust validly existing under the applicable laws of this State, or (B) any association of the kind commonly known as a joint-stock association or joint-stock company, and any unincorporated association, trust or other enterprise having members or having outstanding shares of stock or other evidences of financial or beneficial interest therein, the internal affairs of which are governed by the laws of this State and which has not otherwise been dissolved (whether voluntarily or by any order or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction) or otherwise terminated. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001E
• 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.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• 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.
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Governing body: shall mean the board of directors or equivalent governing body, person or entity having the power to manage and direct the business and affairs of the entity, and shall include any duly authorized and empowered committee of the board of directors or equivalent governing body. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001E
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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}
• 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}
• Nonreporting entity: shall mean any person or entity (including any entity) that is not a reporting entity. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001E
• 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.
• 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
• Report: shall mean a report with respect to a reporting period for a reporting entity containing the following:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001E

• Reporting entity: shall mean an entity that has been issued a certificate of adoption of transparency and sustainability standards and that has not become and continues to be a nonreporting entity pursuant to § 5004E of this title. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001E
• Reporting period: shall mean a period of 1 year, the initial such period to begin not more than 1 year following the filing of the standards statement, and subsequent reporting periods to begin on the day following the last date of the prior reporting period, unless a governing body elects to shorten the duration of a reporting period that has not begun in order to change the start date for subsequent reporting periods. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001E
• Standards: shall mean , with respect to an entity, the principles, guidelines or standards adopted by the entity to assess and report the impacts of its activities on society and the environment, which principles, guidelines or standards shall be based on or derived from third-party criteria. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001E
• Standards statement: shall mean the filing described in § 5003E of this title. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001E
• 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
• Third-party criteria: shall mean any principles, guidelines or standards developed and maintained by a third party (including a provider) that are used to assist businesses or other enterprises in measuring, managing or reporting the social and environmental impact of businesses or other entities. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 5001E
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302