Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 22 > Chapter 18 - Special Development Districts

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Board: shall mean the State Board of Podiatry established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Diagnosis: shall mean the ascertainment of a disease or ailment by its general symptoms. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Division: shall mean the State Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Electrical treatment: shall mean the administration of electricity to the foot and ankle by means of electrodes, machinery, rays and the like. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Joint committee: Committees including membership from both houses of teh legislature. Joint committees are usually established with narrow jurisdictions and normally lack authority to report legislation.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Podiatrist: shall mean a person who is qualified to practice podiatry and is licensed under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Practice of podiatry: shall mean the diagnosis and the medical, surgical, mechanical, manipulative and electrical treatment of all ailments of the foot and ankle. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Protective hairstyle: includes braids, locks, and twists. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Race: includes traits historically associated with race, including hair texture and a protective hairstyle. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. ^{Source: FDIC}
• State: shall mean the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Substantially related: means the nature of the criminal conduct, for which the person was convicted, has a direct bearing on the fitness or ability to perform 1 or more of the duties or responsibilities necessarily related to podiatry. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 502
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.