Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
AIRCRAFT
Any contrivance, now known or hereafter invented, used or
designed for navigation or for flight in the air. The word "aircraft"
shall include helicopters and lighter-than-air dirigible balloons.
COMMERCIAL HANDBILL
Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger,
circular, leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet or any other printed or
otherwise reproduced original or copy of any matter or literature;
one which advertises for sale any merchandise, product, commodity
or thing; one which directs attention to any business or mercantile
or commercial establishment or activity for the purpose of either
directly or indirectly promoting the interests thereof by sales; one
which directs attention to or advertises any meeting, theatrical performance,
exhibition or event of any kind for which admission fees are charged
for the purpose of private gain or profit; or one which, while containing
reading matter other than advertising matter, is predominately and
essentially an advertisement and is distributed and circulated for
advertising purposes or for the private benefit and gain of any person
so engaged as advertiser or distributor. The terms of this definition
shall not apply where an admission fee is charged or a collection
is taken up for the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to
such a meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition or event of any
kind, when either of the same is held, given or takes place in connection
with the dissemination of information which is not restricted under
the ordinary rules of decency, good morals, public peace, safety and
good order, provided that nothing contained in this chapter shall
be deemed to authorize the holding, giving or taking place of any
meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition or event of any kind without
a license where such license is or may be required by any law of the
State of Delaware or under any ordinance of the City of Lewes.
LITTER
Includes all rubbish, waste material, refuse, cans, bottles,
garbage, trash, debris, dead animals or other discarded materials
of every kind and description.
NEWSPAPER
Any newspaper of general circulation as defined by general
law; any newspaper duly entered with the Post Office Department of
the United States in accordance with the federal statute or regulations;
any newspaper filed and recorded with the recording officer as provided
by general law; and, in addition thereto, any periodical or current
magazine regularly published with not less than four issues per year
and sold to the public.
NONCOMMERCIAL HANDBILL
Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger,
circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper, booklet or
any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copy of any
matter or literature not included in the aforesaid definitions of
"commercial handbill" or "newspaper" above.
PUBLIC PLACE
Any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys, or other
public ways, and any and all public parks, squares, beaches, spaces,
grounds and buildings, any public ponds or streams, and any storm
or sanitary sewers.
VEHICLE
Every motorized device in, upon, or by which any person or
property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public way, including
devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.