Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 19 > Chapter 7 > Subchapter III - Persons With Disabilities Employment Protections

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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}
• 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.
• 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
• Employer: means a person qualifying as an employer under § 710 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 722
• 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
• Person with a disability: means any person who satisfies any 1 of the following:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 19 Sec. 722

• 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

• 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
• 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
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302