Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 16 - Litter Control Law

• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Balloon: means a bag made from rubber, latex, polychloroprene, nylon, mylar, or other material which is or can be filled with air, water, or a gas, including helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, or oxygen. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1603
• 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
• 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
• Dumping: means the deposit of litter in a substantial quantity on public or private property. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1603
• 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
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Inspector: means inspector of elections. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
• LIEF: means the Littering Investigation and Enforcement Fund. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1603
• Litter: includes all rubbish, waste material, refuse, cans, bottles, garbage, trash, debris, dead animals, 1 to 4 balloons released at 1 time, or other discarded materials of every kind and description. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1603
• Mass release of balloons: means the intentional release of 5 or more balloons at 1 time. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1603
• Peace Officer: means any public officer authorized by law to make arrests in a criminal case. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• 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
• Public or private property: includes the right-of-way of any road or highway; any body of water or watercourse, or the shores or beaches thereof; any park, playground, building, refuge, or conservation or recreation area; and any residential or farm properties, timberlands, or forests. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1603
• 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
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• 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
• Substantial quantity: means a gross, uncompressed volume of litter equal to or greater than 32 gallons or 4. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1603
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302