Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 29 > Chapter 79 - Department of Health and Social Services

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• 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.
• Bequest: Property gifted by will.
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Child Protection Registry: means as defined under § 921 of Title 16. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7998
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Congregate housing facility: means a facility housing 8 or more homeless adults and children on a temporary basis. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7960
• Contribution: means any cash, property, services rendered or a promissory note or other obligation to contribute cash or property or to perform services, which a partner contributes to a limited partnership in the capacity as a partner. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Criminal background check: means a report of an individual's federal and state criminal history record from the Delaware State Bureau of Identification and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7998
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7998
• Department: shall mean the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 3703
• Department: means the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7972
• Devise: To gift property by will.
• Direct access: means the opportunity to have personal, unsupervised contact with persons receiving care or education during the course of one's assigned duties. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7998
• Director: means the Director of the State Division of Public Health. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7990
• Director: means Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 101
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Disqualifying criminal conviction: means those convictions set forth in § 309(d)(1) of Title 31 and the length of prohibition is the same as that set forth under that paragraph. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7998
• Division: means the State Division of Public Health within the Department of Health and Social Services of the State. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7990
• Division: shall mean the Division of Services for Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 3703
• Division: means the Division for the Visually Impaired under § 7929 of Title 29, a division of the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 2101
• Employer: means a person or other legal entity that employs individuals to work in long-term care facility, home care agency, or for a prescribed pediatric extended care center. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7972
• 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.
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• 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.
• HIV: means the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7990
• Home care agency: means all programs or agencies licensed under § 122(3)m. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7972
• Infant: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Legacy: A gift of property made by will.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Long-term care facility: means any facility licensed under Chapter 11 of Title 16. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7972
• Matched Housing Program: shall mean shared housing arrangements. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 3703
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• 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.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Participant: means an injection drug user who exchanges a sterile needle and syringe unit pursuant to the program established in § 7991 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7990
• 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 with blindness: means an individual with total blindness or visual acuity of not more than 20/200 in the better-seeing eye with best conventional correction or whose vision is limited in field so that the widest diameter subtends an angle no greater than 20 degrees. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 2101
• Person with visual impairment: means an individual who has a visual acuity of not more than 20/70 to 20/200 in the better-seeing eye with the best conventional correction. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 2101
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Prescribed pediatric extended care center: means any facility licensed under § 122(3)q. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7972
• President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
• Private residence: means the domicile of the individual in need of care, either personally owned by that individual or considered the place of residence of that individual. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7972
• Program: shall mean the Housing Counseling Program. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 3703
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• 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.
• Senior citizen: shall mean any Delaware resident 60 years of age or older. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 3703
• State: means the District of Columbia or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any state, territory, possession, or other jurisdiction of the United States other than the State of Delaware. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Task Force: shall mean the Task Force on Housing for Senior Citizens. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 3703
• 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
• Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.