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2018 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedures
CHAPTER 77. LETHAL VIOLENCE PROTECTIVE ORDER [EFFECTIVE DEC. 27, 2018]
§ 7701. Definitions [Effective Dec. 27, 2018].

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10 DE Code § 7701 (2018)
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As used in this section:

(1) "Firearm" means as defined in § 222 of Title 11.

(2) "Law-enforcement officer" means as defined in § 222 of Title 11.

(3) "Lethal violence protective order" means an order issued by the Justice of the Peace Court or Superior Court prohibiting and enjoining a person from controlling, owning, purchasing, possessing, having access to, or receiving a firearm.

(4) "Petitioner" means either of the following:

a. A family member of the respondent as defined in § 901 of this title or a member of the class defined in § 1041(2)b. of this title.

b. A law-enforcement officer who files a petition alleging that the respondent poses a danger of causing physical injury to self or others by controlling, owning, purchasing, possessing, having access to or receiving a firearm.

(5) "Physical injury" means as defined in § 222 of Title 11.

(6) "Respondent" means the individual who is alleged to pose a danger of causing physical injury to self or others by controlling, owning, purchasing, possessing, having access to or receiving a firearm.

81 Del. Laws, c. 274, § 1.

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