Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 24 > Chapter 17 > Subchapter III - Certificate to Practice Medicine; Registration of Certificate; Renewal of Registration

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• 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
• Armored car agency: shall mean any person that provides armed secured transportation and protection from 1 place or point to another place or point of money, currency, coins, bullion, securities, bonds, jewelry, negotiables or other valuables in a specially-equipped motor vehicle. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Armored car guard: shall mean an individual employed by an armored car agency to perform duties as described under the definition of armored car agency. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Board: shall mean the Delaware Board of Examiners of Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Commissioned security guard: shall mean an individual employed to:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302

• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Director: shall mean the officer in charge of the Professional Licensing Section of the Division of the Delaware State Police. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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.
• License: shall mean a method of regulation whereby businesses, sole proprietors, partnerships for a private security agency, private investigative agency, or armored car agency are required to be licensed by the Board. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Manager: shall mean in the case of a corporation, an officer or supervisor, or in the case of a partnership, a general or unlimited partner meeting the experience qualifications set forth in this chapter for a private security agency, private investigative agency or armored car agency. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Officer: shall mean the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer, comptroller, partner, owner or any other corporate title. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Person: shall mean an individual (sole proprietorship), firm, association, company, partnership, corporation, nonprofit organization, institution, or similar entity. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• Private investigative agency: means any person who engages in the business or accepts employment to obtain or furnish information or to conduct investigations with reference to:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302

• Private security agency: shall mean any person engaging in the business of or undertaking to provide a private watchperson, guard or street patrol service on a contractual basis for another person and performing any 1 or more of the following or similar functions:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302

• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Registration: shall mean a method of regulation whereby an individual employed by a private security agency, private investigative agency, or armored car agency as a security guard, private investigator or armored car guard is licensed and issued an identification card by the Professional Licensing Section. See Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1302
• 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
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302