Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 17 > Chapter 19 - Regulation of Unused or Unoccupied Automotive Service Stations

• Construction: means the first complete building or rebuilding of a highway after it has been converted into a state highway upon a modern engineering design with a permanent foundation of cement, concrete or other equally hard and permanent material and a top dressing of suitable material to economically withstand the wear of the particular traffic to which such highway will probably be subject with an adequate drainage system so that such highway, with reasonable maintenance, can reasonably be expected to endure for upwards of 40 years. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 101
• Department: means the Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 101
• Department: means the Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Erect: means to construct, build, raise, assemble, place, affix, attach, create, paint, draw or in any way bring into being or establish, but it shall not include any of the foregoing activities when performed as an incident to the change of advertising message or customary maintenance of a sign or sign structure. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Maintain: means to allow to exist in accordance with state law. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 1102
• 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
• Secretary: means the Secretary of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 17 Sec. 101