Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 64 - Amusement Rides Safety Inspection and Insurance Act

• Amusement ride: means any mechanical device or devices that carry or convey passengers along, around or over a fixed or restricted route or course or within a defined area for the purpose of giving its passengers amusement, pleasure or excitement, but such term does not include:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6402

• Anatomical gift: means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Decedent: means a deceased individual and includes a stillborn infant or fetus. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Department: means the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Director: means the Director of the Division of Public Health, or such persons as may be designated by the Director. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• Donate Life Delaware Registry: means that subset of persons in the Department of Transportation's driver's license and photo identification card database or any expanded or successor database who have elected to include the donor designation on their record. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Donor: means an individual who makes a gift of all or part of the individual's body. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Donor registry: means a database which contains records of anatomical gifts. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• 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.
• Eye bank: means a person that is licensed, accredited or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage or distribution of human eyes or portions of human eyes. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Fund: means the Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Trust Fund. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Health-care practitioner: means as defined in § 701 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1220
• Health-care professional: means as defined in § 701 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1220
• Hospital: means a hospital licensed, accredited or approved under the laws of any state and includes a hospital operated by the United States government, a state or a subdivision thereof, although not required to be licensed under state laws. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Infant: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Informed consent: means the signing of a consent form by the patient or a person authorized to make health care decision on behalf of the patient that satisfies all of the following conditions:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 1220

• 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.
• Medical examiner: means the Chief Medical Examiner, a Deputy Medical Examiner, an Assistant Medical Examiner, or their designee. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Office: means the Office of the State Fire Marshal. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6402
• OPO: means the federally certified organ procurement organization for the State. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Part: includes organs, tissues, eyes, bones, arteries, blood, other fluids and other portions of a human body, and "part" includes "parts. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• 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 an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, statutory trust, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association or any other legal entity. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• State: includes a state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession and any other area subject to the legislative authority of the United States of America. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• surgeon: means a physician or surgeon licensed or authorized to practice under the laws of any state. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Tissue bank: means a person that is licensed, accredited, or regulated under federal or state law to engage in the recovery, screening, testing, processing, storage, or distribution of tissue. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2710
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302