Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 22 > Chapter 3 - Municipal Zoning Regulations

• 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.
• Applicant: means any person, individual, natural person who seeks to become licensed as a manufactured housing installer. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• 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
• Approval decal: means the decal approved by and purchased from the Board on which an installer shall inscribe the date of setup, the name of the installer, and the number of the installer's license. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authority: means a body politic and corporate created pursuant to this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Board: means the Manufactured Home Installation Board. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Board: shall mean the State Board of Home Inspectors established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4102
• Board: means the governing body of the authority. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Bonds: means and includes the notes, bonds and other evidence of indebtedness or obligations which the authority is authorized to issue pursuant to § 504 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• City: means incorporated city or town. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Commissioner: means the State Bank Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2701
• Construction: means and includes acquisition and construction, and "to construct" means and includes to acquire and to construct, all in such manner as may be deemed desirable. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Counterclaim: A claim that a defendant makes against a plaintiff.
• Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
• Division: means the Division of Professional Regulation. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• facilities: means lot or lots, buildings and structures above, at or below the surface of the earth, including equipment, entrances, exits, fencing and all other accessories necessary or desirable for the safety and convenience of the parking of vehicles. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Federal agency: means and includes the United States of America, the President of the United States of America and any department or corporation agency or instrumentality heretofore or hereafter created, designated or established by the United States of America. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• Home: shall mean any residential property, or manufactured or modular home, which is a single-family dwelling, duplex, triplex, quadruplex, condominium unit, or cooperative unit. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4102
• Improvement: means and includes extension, enlargement and improvement, and "to improve" means and includes to extend, to enlarge and to improve, all in such manner as may be deemed desirable. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Installation: means the assembly of manufactured homes on site and the process of affixing manufactured homes to the land by the use of a foundation, footings, utilities, or to an existing building. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Installer: means any person who is engaged in the business of performing manufactured housing installations as they are defined above. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Licensee: means any person who has completed the required training and who has paid the applicable fee for and received a license, under this chapter, for the installation of manufactured housing. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Licensee: means a licensed casher of checks, drafts or money orders. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2701
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Life estate: A property interest limited in duration to the life of the individual holding the interest (life tenant).
• Manufactured home installation inspector: means any person who holds a manufactured home installation inspector's certificate issued pursuant to this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Mobile unit: means any vehicle or other movable means from which the business of cashing checks, drafts or money orders is to be conducted. See Delaware Code Title 5 Sec. 2701
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Municipality: means any county, incorporated city or incorporated town of this State. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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: shall mean an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, joint stock company, limited partnership, limited liability company, and any other legal entity and includes a legal successor of those entities. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4102
• Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, association, joint stock company, limited partnership, limited liability company and any other legal entity and includes a legal successor of those entities. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Persons: means and includes natural persons. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Project: means any structure, facility or undertaking which the authority is authorized to acquire, construct, improve, maintain or operate under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 22 Sec. 502
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• 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
• Recreational vehicle: means a travel trailer, camping trailer, park model trailer, campers, or motor homes which are primarily designed as temporary living quarters for recreational camping, seasonal or travel use and which either have their own motor power or are mounted on or drawn by another vehicle. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Substantially related: means the nature of the criminal conduct, for which the person was convicted, has a direct bearing on the person's fitness or ability to perform 1 or more of the duties or responsibilities necessarily related to the work of a manufactured home installer. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
• Supervision: means managing the acts of another by overseeing the performance or operation of the person and by taking full responsibility for acts or omissions of the person that are being performed at the direction of a licensee or under the authority of a licensee's license. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• 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.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• Unauthorized practitioner: means any person, who engages in the occupational practices regulated by the Board, and who is not licensed or certified by the Board to do so. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 4403
• Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
• Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
• Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.