Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 18 > Chapter 55 - Mutual Benefit Associations

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Association: means a mutual benefit association as defined in this section. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 5502
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Competitive employment: means work in the competitive labor market that is performed on a full-time or part-time basis in an integrated setting and for which a person with a disability is compensated at or above the minimum wage, but not less than the customary wage and level of benefits paid by the employer for the same or similar work performed by persons without disabilities. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 742
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Disability: means any condition or characteristic that renders a person a person with a disability as defined in this section. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 722
• Disability: means , with respect to an individual:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 742

• Employee: means any person currently employed, laid off with reemployment rights or on leave of absence. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 731
• Employer: means any person employing 4 or more employees within the State at the time of the alleged violation, including the State or any political subdivision or board, department, commission or school district thereof. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 710
• Employer: means a person qualifying as an employer under § 710 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 722
• Employer: shall mean any individual, person, partnership, association, corporation, the State, any of its political subdivisions or any agency, authority, board or commission created by them. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 731
• 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.
• Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
• Integrated setting: means with respect to an employment outcome, a setting typically found in the community in which persons with disabilities interact with persons without disabilities, other than persons without disabilities who are providing services to those persons with disabilities, to the same extent that persons without disabilities in comparable positions interact with other persons. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 742
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Major life activities: includes caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, seeing, hearing, eating, sleeping, walking, standing, lifting, bending, speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 722
• Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
• Mutual benefit association: means a corporation, society, order or association which has no capital stock, which issues certificates of membership providing for payment of benefits in case of sickness, disability or death of its members and which accumulates funds by the collection of fees or dues from its members, at either stated or irregular intervals, with which to discharge its liabilities on its membership certificates and with which to pay the administrative expenses, but fraternal benefit societies as defined in Chapter 62 of this title shall not be deemed to be mutual benefit associations. See Delaware Code Title 18 Sec. 5502
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• 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 with a disability: means any person who satisfies any 1 of the following:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 722

• Personnel file: means , if maintained by the employer, any application for employment, wage or salary information, notices of commendations, warning or discipline, authorization for a deduction or withholding of pay, fringe benefit information, leave records, employment history with the employer, including salary information, job title, dates of changes, retirement record, attendance records, performance evaluations and medical records. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 731
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• Qualified person with a disability: means a person with a disability who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can satisfactorily perform the essential functions of the job in question:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 722

• Reasonable accommodation: means making reasonable changes in the work place, including, but not limited to, making facilities accessible, modifying equipment and providing mechanical aids to assist in operating equipment, or making reasonable changes in the schedules or duties of the job in question that would accommodate the known disability of a person with a disability by enabling such person to satisfactorily perform the essential duties of the job in question; provided that "reasonable accommodation" unless otherwise prescribed by applicable law, does not require that an employer:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 722

• Substantially limits: means that the impairment so affects a person as to create a likelihood that such person will experience difficulty in securing, retaining or advancing in employment because of a disability. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 722
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Working age: means 14 years of age or older in accordance with § 505 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 742