Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 29 > Chapter 79A - Cemetery Registration and Distressed Cemetery Fund

• Abandoned cemetery: shall mean a cemetery where there is no owner of record in the respective county's recorder of deeds records. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7902A
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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: means the Cemetery Board established in this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7902A
• Cemetery: shall mean land or structure used or intended to be used for the interment/entombment of human remains including facilities used for the final disposition of cremated remains. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7902A
• Department: means Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7902A
• Distressed cemetery: means any land or structure used or intended to be used for the interment/entombment of human remains including facilities used for the final disposition of cremated remains whereby the owner lacks sufficient financial resources for the maintenance or preservation of said cemetery as determined by the Board. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7902A
• Fund: means the money collected as provided here in for maintenance or preservation of a distressed cemetery. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 7902A
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• 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.
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302