Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 30 > Chapter 51 > Subchapter III - State Aid to Municipalities for Streets

• 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.
• Department: means Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
• 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.
• 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.
• Municipal Street Aid Fund: means the funds set up under this subchapter from money received under this subchapter. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5161
• Municipality: means any incorporated city or town having been in existence for a period of 1 year. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5161
• Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
• 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
• Street improvements: means construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of streets, including paving, repaving, grading and drainage, repairs, acquisition of rights-of-way, extension and widening of existing streets, elimination of railroad grade crossings, acquisition of trucks and other equipment necessary in the construction and maintenance of streets, removal of snow and ice and the laying of materials for traction, purchase and installation of street identification signs and traffic control signs, construction, reconstruction and repair of sidewalks and underpasses and overpasses necessary for pedestrian safety, relocation of above ground utilities, mowing, trimming and removal of trees impacting a street, administration and other necessary expenses in connection with such street improvements. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5161
• Streets: includes streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, bridges, tunnels, alleys or other public ways dedicated to public use and maintained for general vehicular travel lying within a municipality's corporate boundary, except that this term does not include state or federal highways within municipalities maintained by the Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5161
• Tax: shall be deemed also to refer to license fees imposed under Part III of this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Use: means the receipt, delivery or placing of special fuel by a special fuel user into the fuel supply tank or tanks of any motor vehicle while such vehicle is within this State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5131
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302