Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 29 > Chapter 58 - Laws Regulating the Conduct of Officers and Employees of the State

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• 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
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Certified takeoff weight: means the maximum weight contained in the type certificate or airworthiness certificate. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Commission: means the State Public Integrity Commission. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5831
• Compensation: means any money, thing of value or any other economic benefit of any kind or nature whatsoever conferred on or received by any person in return for services rendered or to be rendered by such person or another. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5831
• control relationship: means that the finished petroleum products wholesaler directly or indirectly controls the wholesaler, the wholesaler directly or indirectly controls the finished petroleum products wholesaler or the finished petroleum products wholesaler and the wholesaler are directly or indirectly controlled by the same person. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• controls: shall mean the direct or indirect ownership by 1 person of 100% of the stock or ownership interest in another person;

  14. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901

• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Declared state of emergency: means a disaster or emergency event:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 3101

• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Department of Finance. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 101
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the Director of the Division of Revenue or the Secretary of Finance of the State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Division of Revenue: means the Division of Revenue of the Department of Finance of the State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
• Emergency period: means a period that begins within 5 days of the first day of a declared state of emergency and that extends for a period of 60 calendar days after the end of such declared state of emergency, unless a longer period is authorized as provided herein. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 3101
• Emergency-related work: means repairing, renovating, installing, building, rendering services or other business activities relating to infrastructure that may be or has been damaged, impaired or destroyed during the emergency period. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 3101
• Employer: means any person on whose behalf a lobbyist acts. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5831
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
• Feedstock petroleum products: means 1 or more petroleum products that have been partially refined that are used as raw materials at the beginning of a refining process operated by a petroleum product refiner. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• Feedstock wholesaler: means every person engaged, as owner or agent, in the business of selling or exchanging for cash or barter or any consideration (i) crude oil to or with a petroleum product refiner or another feedstock wholesaler, or (ii) feedstock petroleum products to or with a petroleum product refiner or another feedstock wholesaler for the purpose of refining and resale by a petroleum product refiner, and includes without limitation crude oil and feedstock petroleum products sold or exchanged through pipelines, warehouses or other storage facilities and distribution depots of persons whose principal place of business is located inside or outside of the State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• Finished petroleum products: means 1 or more petroleum products that have been refined by a petroleum product refiner and that are of a type offered for sale by a petroleum product refiner to its customers in the ordinary course of business, including, but not limited to asphalt, distillate fuel oil (including all grades of diesel fuel and fuel oils), finished aviation gasoline, finished motor gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel (both kerosene-type and naphtha-type jet fuel), naphthas of all boiling ranges, other oils with boiling range equal to or greater than 401° Fahrenheit, petrochemical feed stocks, petroleum coke, residual fuel oils, road oils, still gas, wax and other miscellaneous petroleum products, including, but not limited to petrolatum, lube refining by products, absorption oils, ram-jet fuel, petroleum rocket fuels, synthetic natural gas feed stocks and specialty oils. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• Finished petroleum products wholesaler: means every person engaged, as owner or agent, in the business of buying from a petroleum product refiner finished petroleum products for cash or barter or any consideration for the purpose of further resale by the finished petroleum products wholesaler to a wholesaler or to a petroleum product refiner, and includes without limitation finished petroleum products sold or exchanged through pipelines, warehouses or other storage facilities and distribution depots of persons whose principal place of business is located inside or outside this State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• General Assembly: includes any member, committee or subcommittee of either House of the General Assembly. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5831
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Goods: includes produce, merchandise, goods, wares, items, products, crops, livestock, animals, metals, gems or any tangible personal property of whatever description, whether new or used, and includes alcoholic beverages of every nature. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• Goods: means all things that are movable at the time of identification to the lease contract, or are fixtures (Section 2A-309), but the term does not include money, documents, instruments, accounts, chattel paper, general intangibles, or minerals or the like, including oil and gas, before extraction. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Gross receipts: includes all proceeds received by any person engaged in manufacturing within this State for products manufactured in whole or in part within this State where such products are sold to another person, or the fair market value of any such products consumed by the manufacturer or any person affiliated with it, where the fair market value of such products is not received; provided, however, if a product is partially manufactured within this State and partially manufactured elsewhere by the same manufacturer, the gross receipts realized on the ultimate sale, transfer or consumption of said product to be included for purposes of this chapter shall be apportioned to this State in the proportion that the cost of manufacturing thereof in Delaware bears to the full cost of manufacturing the product expended by the same manufacturer, such apportionment to be computed in accordance with regulations of the Secretary of Finance. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2701
• gross receipts: includes total consideration received for all goods sold or services rendered within this State, but shall not include tobacco products taxes or motor fuel taxes paid or payable to the State under Part IV of this title or gasoline and special fuel taxes paid or payable to the federal government under Internal Revenue Code § 4041 [26 U. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Infrastructure: means property and equipment owned or used by communications networks, electric generation, transmission and distribution systems, gas distribution systems, water pipelines, and public roads and bridges and related support facilities directly in connection with the provision of services to multiple customers or citizens, including, without limitation, real and personal property such as buildings, offices, lines, poles, pipes, structures and equipment. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 3101
• Intermediate petroleum products: means 1 or more petroleum products that have been partially refined by a petroleum product refiner. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• Intermediate petroleum products wholesaler: means every person engaged, as owner or agent, in the business of selling to or exchanging with a petroleum product refiner intermediate petroleum products for cash or barter or any consideration for the purpose of further refining or resale by the petroleum product refiner, and includes without limitation intermediate petroleum products sold or exchanged through pipelines, warehouses or other storage facilities and distribution depots of persons whose principal place of business is located inside or outside this State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• Lease: means a transfer of the right to possession and use of goods for a term in return for consideration, but a sale, including a sale on approval or a sale or return, or retention or creation of a security interest is not a lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• 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}
• Lease contract: means the total legal obligation that results from the lease agreement as affected by this Article and any other applicable rules of law. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Lessee: means a person who acquires the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Lessor: means a person who transfers the right to possession and use of goods under a lease. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2A-103
• Lobbyist: means any individual who acts to promote, advocate, influence or oppose any matter pending before the General Assembly by direct communication with the General Assembly or any matter pending before a state agency by direct communication with that state agency, and who in connection therewith either:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5831

• Matter: means any application, petition, request, business dealing, transaction or decision of any sort. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5831
• minor child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Motor vehicle dealer: includes every person in the business of buying, selling or trading new or used motor vehicles, trailers, truck trailers or motorcycles. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 3001
• 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.
• Out-of-state business: means a business entity licensed in another state, commonwealth or district that has no registrations, tax filings, nexus or presence in this State and conducted no business in this State prior to a declared state of emergency and whose services are requested by a registered business or by a state or local government for purposes of performing emergency-related work. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 3101
• Out-of-state employee: means an employee who does not work in this State, except for "emergency-related work" during an "emergency period". See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 3101
• 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: means a natural person, partnership (whether general or limited), limited liability company, trust (including a common law trust, business trust, statutory trust, voting trust or any other form of trust), estate, association (including any group, organization, co-tenancy, plan, board, council or committee), corporation, government (including a country, state, county or any other governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality), custodian, nominee or any other individual or entity (or series thereof) in its own or any representative capacity, in each case, whether domestic or foreign. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Person: means and includes an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, association, company or corporation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, trust, joint venture and any other association of individuals or entities. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5831
• Person: includes an individual, partnership, firm, cooperative, corporation or any association of persons acting individually or as a unit. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• Person: includes an individual, partnership, firm, cooperative, corporation or any association of persons acting individually or as a unit. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2701
• Petroleum product: means crude oil, or any portion thereof, that is liquid at 70° Fahrenheit and at standard atmospheric pressures, and includes motor fuel, gasohol, other alcohol blended fuels, diesel fuel, aviation fuel, jet fuel, heating oil, motor oil and other petroleum based lubricants. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• Petroleum product refiner: means any person engaged in the operation of a petroleum product refinery in this State, the principal raw material for which, measured by volume, consists of crude oil. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• physically delivered within this State: includes delivery to the United States mail or to a common or contract carrier for shipment to a place within this State irrespective of F. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901
• 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.
• Product: includes any goods, materials, wares, merchandise, machinery, vehicles, solids, liquids or gases or any other item, object or thing which is produced as part of a manufacturing process. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2701
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Purchase price: means the value or any other consideration given by the owner to the seller for a motor vehicle; where trade-ins or allowances are given in conjunction with the purchase of any motor vehicle, the purchase price shall be the gross purchase price less any trade-in or allowance given by the seller of the motor vehicle to the owner of the motor vehicle; except that where a motor vehicle having been bought and registered outside the State and not subject to the limitation of § 3002(a)(4) of this title is first registered and titled in this State, "purchase price" shall mean the fair market value as of the date of such titling and registration. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 3001
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, The United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• State agency: means any office, department, board, commission, committee, school district, board of education and all public bodies existing by virtue of an act of the General Assembly or of the Constitution of the State, excepting only political subdivisions of the State, their agencies and other public agencies not specifically included in this definition that exist by virtue of state law and whose jurisdiction:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 5831

• State licensing or registration requirements: means all state or local business licensing or registration requirements, including, without limitation, registration or licensing by the Public Service Commission, the Secretary of State, the Division of Revenue, and any other state or local agency that requires businesses be licensed to operate within this State or imposes other regulatory requirements. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 3101
• State or local taxes: means state and local taxes or fees including, without limitation, unemployment insurance, state or local licensing fees, sales and use tax and ad valorem tax on equipment brought into this State solely to be used or consumed during the emergency period. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 3101
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Tax: shall be deemed also to refer to license fees imposed under Part III of this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• Taxable: means any person, fiduciary, association of persons, syndicate, joint venture or copartnership subject to making return or to payment of tax imposed by this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 101
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• wholesaler: includes every person engaged as owner or agent in the business of selling or exchanging goods for cash or barter or any consideration on the assumption that the purchaser of such goods has acquired the same for ultimate consumption or use and not resale and, where engaged in the foregoing business, includes automatic merchandising machine operators regardless of the product dispensed or vended, retail plant nurseries and florists, hucksters, peddlers, trading stamp redemption stores and catalog stores (except such stores described in paragraph (21)a. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 2901