Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 26 > Chapter 9 > Subchapter III - Changes in Customer Selection of Telecommunications Service Providers

• agency: means any state office, officer, official, department, board, commission, institution, bureau, agency, division or unit of the State, including those within the legislative and judicial branches of state government. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6002
• 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 Plans Management Board pursuant to § 2722 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6052
• Carrier: shall mean any person or entity offering to the public telecommunications service that originates or terminates within the State; provided, however, that the term "carrier" shall not include:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923

• Change order: shall mean any order changing a customer's designated carrier for local exchange service, intraLATA intrastate toll service or both. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
• Commission: shall mean the Delaware Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Customer: shall mean a person who subscribes to local exchange services, intraLATA intrastate toll service or both. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
• Deferred compensation: means income earned as a public officer or employee of the State which, pursuant to a written agreement between the State and the employee, is set aside for retirement purposes. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6052
• Deferred compensation program: means such plans to allow deferred compensation pursuant to §§ 457, 403(b) and 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code [26 U. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6052
• Disaster: means any disaster designated at Level III or higher in the American National Red Cross Regulations and Procedures, including both national and state disasters. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6002
• employee: includes employees of the Delaware Transit Corporation and Delaware Solid Waste Authority. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6052
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executing carrier: shall mean a carrier that effects a request that a customer's carrier be changed. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
• 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.
• Letter of agency: shall mean a separate document, or easily separable document, signed and dated by the customer or prospective customer, the sole purpose of which is to authorize a carrier to initiate a preferred carrier change. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Preferred carrier: shall mean any carrier providing service to a customer at the time this subchapter is enacted, or such carrier as the customer thereafter designates as the customer's preferred carrier. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
• Social Security Act: means the act of Congress approved August 14, 1935, Chapter 531, 49 Stat. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5701
• 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
• State Agency: means the State Treasurer. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5701
• Submitting carrier: shall mean any carrier that requests on behalf of a customer that the customer's carrier be changed, and seeks to provide retail services to an end user customer. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• volunteer: means any person who has completed the necessary training for and been certified as a disaster service specialist by the American Red Cross. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6002
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302