Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 12A - Notification of Emergency Medical Providers of Persons With Communicable Diseases

• Ballot: means those portions of cardboard, paper or other material to be placed within the ballot frames of a voting machine or to be used for absentee voting in order to list the names of the offices to be voted for, the name of each candidate and the designation of the party by which the candidate is nominated, a space for the voter to write in the name of any candidate of that voter's choice for any office, and the statement of any question submitted with provision for a "yes" or "no" vote. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
• Communicable disease: means human immunodeficiency virus, (HIV, the virus that causes AIDS), and hepatitis B. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1201A
• Department: means the State Department of Elections, consisting of the State Board of Elections and such staff as the Board shall appoint under this title, but shall not include the State Election Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
• Division: means Division of Public Health, Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1201A
• Election officers: means the inspector of election, the 2 judges of election and the clerks of election who are appointed for each election district under § 4702 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
• Emergency medical care provider: means a fire fighter, law enforcement officer, paramedic, emergency medical technician, correctional officer, ambulance attendant or other person who serves as an employee or volunteer of an ambulance service and/or provides prehospital emergency medical services. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1201A
• political party: means any political organization which elects a state committee and officers of a state committee, by a state convention composed of delegates elected from each representative district in which the party has registered members, and which nominates candidates for electors of President and Vice-President, or nominates candidates for offices to be decided at the general election. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
• Primary election: means an election at which voters registered as members of a major political party may vote to determine the nominees of that political party for the general election. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
• Receiving medical facility: means a hospital or similar facility that receives a patient attended by an emergency medical care provider for the purposes of continued medical care. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1201A
• Registration record: means a voter's registration record maintained in the State's Election Management System, the list or file of registered voters sent to each election district for use by election officers on the day of the election, and until determined obsolete, it also applies to a voter's record maintained in the county master file. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Universal precautions: means those precautions, including the appropriate use of hand washing, protective barriers, and care in the use and disposal of needles and other sharp instruments that minimize the risk of transmission of communicable diseases between patients and health-care providers. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1201A