Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 10 > Chapter 47 > Subchapter V - Enforcement of Foreign Judgments

• Act: means the New Castle County Tax Increment Financing Act. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3202
• 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.
• 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.
• Assessed value: means the total assessed value of all real property in a TIF District subject to taxation as determined by the Assessor, with any adjustment pursuant to paragraph (2) of this section taken into account. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3202
• Assessor: shall mean the General Manager of the New Castle County Department of Land Use or designee. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3202
• bond: means any revenue or general obligation bonds or bond, notes or note, or other similar instruments or instrument issued by New Castle County pursuant to and in accordance with this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3202
• Commission: means Regional Planning Commission of New Castle County in § 3003 of this title but shall mean the Department of Land Use in all other sections. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3001
• County: means New Castle County. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3001
• county: means New Castle County. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3202
• County council: means New Castle County Council or designee. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3202
• County executive: means the County Executive for New Castle County or designee. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3202
• District: means Regional Planning District of New Castle County, which comprises all that portion of the County not included within the corporate limits of any city or town, unless any territory within such corporate limits is included upon request made by the governing body or authority of any such city or town. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3001
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• 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.
• 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.
• Original assessed value: means the assessed value as of January 1 of the calendar year in which the resolution creating the TIF District under § 3206(1) of this title becomes effective. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3202
• Plan: means the map, plat, or other document verbally or graphically illustrating or describing a plan of subdivision or land development. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3001
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• 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
• Subdivider: means any person, or agent thereof, who undertakes the subdivision of land; or any successor to the rights of said person in said land. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3001
• Subdivision: means :

  a. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3001

• Tax increment: means for any tax year the amount by which the assessed value as of January 1 preceding that tax year exceeds the original assessed value. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3202
• Tax year: means the fiscal year for the county. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3202
• TIF District: means an area designated by a resolution described in § 3206(1) of this title. See Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 3202
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302