Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 29 > Chapter 60A - Deferred Compensation for Public Officers and Employees of the State

• Amateur boxing: shall mean any boxing event, as herein defined, which is sanctioned by an amateur boxing association recognized by the Director, such as, but not limited to, the International Amateur Boxing Association, Golden Gloves USA Boxing, Inc. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
• 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
• Bout: shall mean 1 combative sports match, as defined herein. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Boxing: shall mean the act, activity, or sport of attack and defense in which a participant delivers blows with that participant's fists, especially according to rules requiring the use of boxing gloves and limiting legal blows to those striking above the waist and on the front or sides of the opponent. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Boxing match: shall mean a single boxing bout wherein participants use their best efforts to prevail through knockout, technical knockout, judges' decision or any other manner of determining victory which are consistent with the rules governing boxing and authorized by the rules and regulations of the Division. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• 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

• Combative fighting: shall include , but not be limited to such terms as "toughman fighting" "toughwoman fighting" "badman fighting" "extreme fighting" and all such similar terms or names, and shall mean any unsanctioned combative sports or wrestling match, contest or exhibition between 2 or more participants and where members of the public are selected from the audience to participate with or without protective headgear, who use their hands, with or without gloves, or their feet, or both, and who compete for a financial prize or any item of pecuniary value, and which match, contest, tournament, championship or exhibition is not recognized or sanctioned by any international, national or regional professional sanctioning organization recognized by the Director. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Combative sports: shall include all professional boxing and mixed martial arts and all amateur boxing and mixed martial arts. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Combative sports entertainment: include d but not limited to "celebrity boxing" "entertainment boxing" and all such similar terms or names shall mean a display of skill for the purpose of entertaining an audience, consisting of choreographed or simulated combat in which techniques commonly used in combative sports are employed by participants. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Commission: shall mean the Delaware Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
• Contest: shall mean a bout or group of bouts involving contestants competing in a professional or amateur combative sports or permitted combative sports entertainment event. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Contestant: shall mean a person who competes in any licensed combative sports event or permitted combative sports entertainment event. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• 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.
• Council: shall mean the Combative Sports Advisory Council. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• 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
• Director: shall mean the Director of the Division of Professional Regulation of the Department of State. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Division: shall mean the Division of Professional Regulation of the Department of State. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• employee: includes employees of the Delaware Transit Corporation and Delaware Solid Waste Authority. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 6052
• Event: shall mean an organized series of contests and/or individual matches presented as a single occasion. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Mixed martial arts: shall mean combative discipline in which a combination of controls, takedowns, submissions and striking techniques are employed by trained practitioners. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• 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.
• Professional: shall mean a person who engages in a match or contest where a purse of cash or other article of value is awarded for that person's participation or victory which is greater than the maximum amount permitted by the Division to be awarded to an amateur, as defined in the Division's rule and regulations. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Professional boxing: shall mean a boxing match as herein defined, which is sanctioned by a professional boxing association recognized by the Director, such as, but not limited to, the World Boxing Association or the World Boxing Conference of the North American Boxing Association, and for which the boxers are compensated financially. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Promoter: shall mean any person, regardless of job title, who arranges, advertises, produces, stages or conducts a combative sports or combative sports entertainment event. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Secretary: means the Secretary of State or designee. See Delaware Code Title 28 Sec. 102
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Veto: The procedure established under the Constitution by which the President/Governor refuses to approve a bill or joint resolution and thus prevents its enactment into law. A regular veto occurs when the President/Governor returns the legislation to the house in which it originated. The President/Governor usually returns a vetoed bill with a message indicating his reasons for rejecting the measure. In Congress, the veto can be overridden only by a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and the House.
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302