9 Del. C. § 4102 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 41 / Subchapter I / Section 4102
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        4102. Levy Court Districts in Kent County.
Status: in_force

(a) Kent County shall be divided into 6 Levy Court Districts, 1 additional Levy Court District is comprised of the County as a whole.

(b) The Levy Court Districts are established as follows:

(1) First Levy Court District. — The First Levy Court District shall comprise: All that portion of Kent County, more particularly described by reference to the general highway map of Kent County, dated 1963 (revised January 1, 1978), and Sheet A of said highway map of Kent County, dated 1963 (revised August 1, 1974), prepared by the mapping section of the Division of Highways, bounded by a line beginning at the point on the center line of the boundary between the States of Delaware and Maryland, thence in an easterly direction along the center line of the boundary between New Castle County and Kent County in an easterly direction and northeasterly direction passing U.S. Route 13 and in a northerly direction to a point where the said boundary line between Kent County and New Castle County intersects with the center line of the boundary between the States of Delaware and New Jersey, thence continuing along the center line of the Delaware and New Jersey boundary in a southeasterly direction to a point opposite the center of the mouth of the Leipsic River, thence, in a westerly direction to the mouth of the Leipsic River and, thence with the center of the Leipsic River in a westerly direction to its northern junction with Little Duck Creek in the Town of Leipsic, thence in a southerly direction along the center line of the eastern boundary line of the Town of Leipsic, thence in a westerly direction along the center line of the southern boundary of the Town of Leipsic crossing State Route 9, thence in a northerly direction along the center line of the western boundary of the Town of Leipsic to its intersection with the center of Little Duck Creek, thence with the center of Little Duck Creek in a westerly direction to its point of intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 13, thence with the center line of U.S. 13 in a southerly direction to its point of intersection with County Road 100 (Denneys Road), thence with the center line of County Road 100 (Denneys Road) in a westerly, southerly and westerly direction to its point of intersection with the center line of County Road 104 (Kenton Road), thence along the center line of County Road 104 (Kenton Road), in a southeasterly direction to its intersection with the center of Mudstone Branch, thence with the center of Mudstone Branch in a southwesterly direction and the center of a tributary to Mudstone Branch in a southerly direction (being the northerly boundary of Enumeration District 195 and the easterly boundary of Enumeration District 194 respectively as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map) to a point in the center line of County Road 158, thence with the center line of County Road 158 in a southwesterly direction to its intersection with the center line of State Route 8 where it intersects with the center line of County Road 199, thence with the center line of County Road 199 in a southwesterly and southerly direction, crossing County Road 200, to its intersection with the center line of County Road 73, thence northeasterly with the center line of County Road 73 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 204, thence with the center line of County Road 204 in a southerly direction to its intersection with the center of Issac Branch, thence with the center of Issac Branch in an easterly direction to its intersection with the center of Almshouse Branch as shown on Sheet A of the general highway map of Kent County, Delaware, dated 1963 (revised August 1, 1974), thence with the center of Almshouse Branch in a southerly direction to its intersection with the center line of County Road 52, thence with the center line of County Road 53 in a westerly direction, crossing the intersection of County Road 228, thence in a northwesterly direction to its intersection with the center line of County Road 73 at Hazlettville, thence with the center line of County Road 73 in a northeasterly direction to its intersection with the center line of County Road 101, thence with the center line of County Road 101 in a northerly direction, crossing County Road 200 and State Route 8 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 171, thence with the center line of County Road 171 in a northwesterly direction, crossing the Conrail Railroad tracks to its intersection with the center line of County Road 98 and State Route 11 at Fords Corner, thence with the center line of County Road 98 in a westerly direction to its intersection with the center line of State Route 44, thence in a northwesterly direction along the center line of State Route 44 to its intersection with the center line of State Route 300 at Everetts Corner, thence in a westerly direction along the center line of U.S. Route 300 to its intersection with the center line of the boundary between the States of Delaware and Maryland, thence in a northerly direction along the center line of the common boundary of Delaware and Maryland through the Blackiston Wildlife Area to the point where the center line of the boundary of the States of Delaware and Maryland intersects with the center line of the boundary of Kent County and New Castle County which is the point and place of beginning.

(2) Second Levy Court District. — The Second Levy Court District shall comprise: All that portion of Kent County, partially lying with the City of Dover and bounded as follows: All that portion of Kent County, more particularly described by reference to the general highway map of Kent County, dated 1963 (revised January 1, 1978), and Sheet A of said highway maps of Kent County, dated 1963 (revised August 1, 1974), prepared by the mapping section of the Division of Highways, bounded by a line beginning at a point which is the center line of State Route 8 and County Road 199 and from said point and place of beginning, following the center line of County Road 199 in a southwesterly direction, crossing County Road 200 and continuing in a southerly direction, to its intersection with the center line of County Road 73, thence northeasterly along the center line of County Road 73, to its intersection with the center line of County Road 204, thence southerly along the center line of County Road 204 to its intersection with the center of Issac Branch, thence northeasterly with the center of Issac Branch to its intersection with the center of a tributary to Issac Branch known as Almshouse Branch, thence southerly with the center of Almshouse Branch to its intersection with the center line of County Road 52, thence with the center line of County Road 52 in an easterly direction to its intersection with the western boundary of the Town of Wyoming, thence following the boundaries of the Town of Wyoming in a northerly and easterly direction to its intersection with the center line of Issac Branch, thence in an easterly direction along the center line of Issac Branch, crossing its intersections with County Road 195, Conrail Railroad tracks and County Road 190 (New Burton Road), to its intersection with the center line of the boundary separating the Towns of Wyoming and Camden, thence continuing along the meanderings of Issac Branch, also being the northerly boundary of the Town of Camden, to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 13, thence in a southwesterly direction along the center line of U.S. Route 13 to its intersection with the center line of Delaware Route 10 (Lebanon Road), thence in an easterly direction along the center line of Delaware Route 10 (Lebanon Road), to its intersection with the center line of U.S. 113-A, thence in a northerly direction along the center line of U.S. 113-A to a point in the center of the southerly boundary of the City of Dover as of June 30, 1981, which is also a portion of Issac Branch, thence with the southern boundary of the City of Dover in an easterly direction to its point of intersection with U.S. Route 113 (Bay Road), thence with the center line of U.S. Route 113 (Bay Road), in a northerly direction to its intersection with the center line of State Route 8 (Division and Forest Streets), thence westerly along the center line of State Route 8 (Division and Forest Streets) to its intersection with the center line of County Road 156 (Saulsbury Road), thence in a northerly direction along the center line of County Road 156 (Saulsbury Road) to its intersection with the center line of County Road 156 (McKee Road) to the point of its intersection with the center line of County Road 100 (Denneys Road), thence in a southwesterly direction along the center line of County Road 100 (Denneys Road) to its point of intersection with the center line of County Road 104, thence along the center line of County Road 104 in a southeasterly direction to a point in the center of Mudstone Branch, thence with the center of Mudstone Branch in a southwesterly direction and a tributary of Mudstone Branch in a southerly direction (being the northerly boundary of Enumeration District 195 and easterly boundary of Enumeration District 194 respectively, as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map) to a point in the center line of County Road 158, thence with the center line of County Road 158 in a southwesterly direction to its intersection with State Route 8 and County Road 199 which is the point and place of beginning.

(3) Third Levy Court District. — The Third Levy Court District shall comprise: All that portion of Kent County, particularly described by reference to the general highway map of Kent County, Delaware, dated 1963 (revised January 1, 1978), and Sheet A of the said highway map of Kent County dated 1963, (revised August 1, 1974), prepared by the mapping section of the Division of Highways, bounded by a line beginning with the center line of the boundary between the States of New Jersey and Delaware at a point opposite the center line of the mouth of the Leipsic River and, thence in a westerly direction to the mouth of the Leipsic River and, thence with the center of the Leipsic River in a westerly direction to its intersection with the eastern boundary of the Town of Leipsic, thence in a southerly direction along the center of the eastern boundary of the Town of Leipsic, thence in a westerly direction along the center line of the southern boundary of the Town of Leipsic crossing State Route 9, thence in a northerly direction along the center line of the western boundary of the Town of Leipsic to its intersection with the center line of Little Duck Creek, thence with the center of Little Duck Creek in a westerly direction to its point of intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 13, thence with the center line of U.S. Route 13 in a southerly direction to its point of intersection with County Road 100 (Denneys Road) thence with the center line of County Road 100 (Denneys Road) in a westerly, southerly and westerly direction to its point of intersection with the center line of County Road 156 (McKee Road), thence southeasterly along the center line of County Road 156 (McKee Road) to its intersection with the center line of County Road 156 (Saulsbury Road), thence southerly along the center line of County Road 156 (Saulsbury Road) to its intersection with the center line of State Route 8 (Forest and Division Streets), thence easterly along the center line of State Route 8 (Forest and Division Streets), to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 13, thence southeasterly along the center line of U.S. Route 13 to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 113 (Bay Road), thence in a southeasterly direction along the center line of U.S. Route 113 (Bay Road) to its intersection with lands of the United States known as Dover Air Force Base, thence along the center line of said boundary in a northeasterly, southeasterly, easterly, southeasterly, easterly, and northerly direction to a point of its intersection with the center line of County Road 348 (Horsepond Road), thence with the center line of County Road 348 (Horsepond Road) to its intersection again with lands of the United States known as Dover Air Force Base, thence along the center line of said boundary in a northerly, easterly, and southerly direction to a point of intersection with the center line of County Road 348, thence easterly with the center line of County Road 348 to its intersection with State Route 9 at Postles Corner, thence southerly with the center line of State Route 9 to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 113 (Bay Road), thence southerly with the center line of U.S. Route 113 (Bay Road) to its intersection with the center of St. Jones River, thence with the center of St. Jones River in a southeasterly direction to its intersection with Delaware Bay, thence in an easterly direction to the boundary between the States of New Jersey and Delaware in Delaware Bay, thence with the New Jersey-Delaware boundary in a northerly and westerly direction to the point and place of beginning.

(4) Fourth Levy Court District. — The Fourth Levy Court District shall comprise: All that portion of Kent County in Little Creek, East Dover, South Murderkill and Milford Hundreds and bounded as follows: Beginning at a point on the boundary between States of New Jersey and Delaware in the Delaware Bay opposite the mouth of the Mispillion River, thence in a westerly direction to the mouth of Mispillion River, which is also on the boundary between Kent and Sussex Counties, thence with the center of the boundary line between Kent and Sussex Counties, in a westerly direction to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 13, thence northerly along the center line of U.S. Route 13 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 116, thence with the center line of County Road 116 in an easterly direction to its intersection with the center line of County Road 434, thence northerly and northeasterly with the center line of County Road 434 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 429, thence northerly with the center line of County Road 429 crossing the Conrail Railroad tracks and County Roads 432, 431 and 430 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 35, thence northeasterly with the center line of County Road 35 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 388, thence in a northwesterly direction along the center line of County Road 388 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 33, thence in a northwesterly direction along the center line of County Road 33, to its intersection with the center line of County Road 371, thence in a southwesterly direction along the center line of County Road 371 to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 13, thence in a northerly direction along the center line of U.S. Route 13 to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 13A, thence in a northwesterly direction along the center line of U.S. Route 13A to a point approximately 755 feet north of its intersection with the center line of County Road 370, said point being the center line of its intersection with Double Run, thence in an easterly direction along the center line of Double Run, also being the northern boundary of Enumeration District 266 as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 13, thence with the center line of U.S. Route 13 in a northerly direction approximately 600 feet to a point in the center line of its intersection with an unnamed tributary of Double Run, said point being approximately 3,250 feet south of its intersection with County Road 30, thence along the center line of said tributary to the center line of its intersection of Double Run which is the southerly boundary of Enumeration District 234 as it appears on the Official 1980 Census Map, thence in an easterly direction along the center line of Double Run across its intersection with County Road 105, to its intersection with the center line of an unnamed tributary to Double Run, as it appears on the Official 1980 Census Map, thence in a northerly direction along the center line of said unnamed tributary, being also a portion of the easterly boundary of Enumeration District 233 as it appears on the Official 1980 Census Map, crossing its intersection with County Road 368 and continuing in a northwesterly direction to the intersection of the center line of an unnamed road at its easternmost point as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, thence along the center line of said unnamed road in a westerly direction to its intersection with the center line of County Road 105, thence in a northerly direction along the center line of County Road 105 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 30, thence with the center line of County Road 30 in a northeasterly direction for approximately 4,750 feet to its intersection with the center of an unnamed tributary to Voshell Pond, thence northerly and northeasterly along the meanderings of said tributary, Voshell Pond and Tidbury Creek to its intersection with the center line of County Road 357 extended at Lebanon thence with the center line of County Road 357 extended and County Road 357 in an easterly direction to its intersection with the southerly boundary of lands of the United States known as Air Base Housing, thence with the boundary of land of the United States southeasterly, northerly, southeasterly and northeasterly to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 113 (Bay Road) thence with the center line of U.S. Route 113 (Bay Road) in a southeasterly direction crossing its intersection with the center line of State Route 9, thence in a southerly direction to its intersection with the center of the St. Jones River, thence with the center of the St. Jones River in a southeasterly direction to its intersection with Delaware Bay at the northerly boundary of the Town of Bowers, thence in an easterly direction to the boundary between the States of New Jersey and Delaware in Delaware Bay, thence with the New Jersey-Delaware boundary in a southerly direction to the point and place of beginning.

(5) Fifth Levy Court District. — The Fifth Levy Court District shall comprise: All that portion of Kent County including parts of West Dover, North Murderkill and East Dover Hundreds and bounded as follows: Beginning at a point where the center line of County Road 52 intersects with the center of Almshouse Branch, thence southerly with the center of Almshouse Branch, also being the westerly boundary of Enumeration District 260 as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, to its intersection with the center of a tributary to Almshouse Branch, thence southeasterly along the center of said tributary to its intersection with the center line of an unnamed road, thence easterly along the center line of said unnamed road, also being the southerly boundary of Enumeration District 260, to its intersection with the center line of County Road 125 thence southerly with the center line of County Road 125 to a power line which is also the northwesterly boundary of Enumeration District 262, thence southwesterly along the Enumeration District boundary to its intersection with the center line of County Road 232, thence southeasterly along the center line of County Road 232 to the center of an unnamed branch of Tidbury Creek being also the westerly boundary of Enumeration District 262, thence southerly along the meanderings of the said branch to its intersection with the center line of County Road 236, thence westerly along the center line of County Road 236 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 235, thence southerly along the center line of County Road 235 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 109, thence southwesterly with the center line of County Road 109 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 108, thence southeasterly along the center line of County Road 108 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 239, thence southeasterly with the center line of County Road 239 to a point in the center of Hudson Branch, thence in an easterly direction along the center of Hudson Branch, also being the northern boundary of Enumeration District 269 as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, to the center of a power line, thence southerly along the center of said power line, also being the easterly boundary of Enumeration District 269, to a point in the center line of County Road 239, thence with the center line of County Road 239 in an easterly direction to its intersection with the center line of the Conrail Railroad tracks, thence in a northerly direction along the center line of the Conrail Railroad tracks to a point in the center of Hudson Branch, thence northeasterly and easterly along the center of Hudson Branch, also being the northerly boundary of Enumeration District 268 as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 13, thence in a northerly direction along the center line of U.S. Route 13 to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 13 to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 13A, thence in a northwesterly direction along the center line of U.S. Route 13A to a point approximately 755 feet north of its intersection with the center line of County Road 370, said point being the center line of its intersection with Double Run, thence in an easterly direction along the center line of Double Run, also being the northern boundary of Enumeration District 266 as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 13, thence with the center line of U.S. Route 13 in a northerly direction approximately 600 feet to a point in the center line of its intersection with an unnamed tributary of Double Run, said point being approximately 3,250 feet south of its intersection with County Road 30, thence along the center line of said tributary to the center line of its intersection with Double Run which is the southerly boundary of Enumeration Districts 233 and 234 as they appear on the Official 1980 Census Map, thence continuing in an easterly direction along the center line of Double Run across its intersection with County Road 105, to its intersection with the center line of an unnamed tributary to Double Run, as it appears on the Official 1980 Census Map, thence in a northerly direction along the center line of said unnamed tributary being also a portion of the easterly boundary of Enumeration District 233 as it appears on the Official 1980 Census Map, crossing its intersection with County Road 368 and continuing in a northwesterly direction to the intersection of the center line of an unnamed road at its easternmost point as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, thence along the center line of said unnamed road in a westerly direction to its intersection with the center line of County Road 105, thence in a northerly direction along the center line of County Road 105 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 30, thence with the center line of County Road 30 in a northeasterly direction for approximately 4,750 feet to its intersection with the center of an unnamed tributary to Voshell Pond, thence northerly and northeasterly along the meanderings of said tributary, Voshell Pond and Tidbury Creek to its intersection with the center line of County Road 357 extended at Lebanon, thence with the center line of County Road 357 extended and County Road 357 in an easterly direction to its intersection with the southern boundary of the lands of the United States of America, known as Air Base Housing, thence with the boundary of the lands of the United States of America, known as Air Base Housing, thence with the boundary of the lands of the United States of America southeasterly, northerly and northeasterly to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 113, thence with the center line of U.S. Route 113 in a southeasterly direction to its intersection with the center line of State Route 9, thence with the center line of State Route 9 in a northerly direction to its intersection with County Road 348, thence with the center line of County Road 348 to its intersection with lands of the United States of America, known as Dover Air Force Base, thence in a northerly, westerly, southerly, westerly, southerly and westerly direction with the lands of the United States to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 113, thence with the center line of U.S. Route 113 in a northwesterly direction to its intersection with the southerly boundary of the City of Dover as of June 30, 1981, thence southwesterly along the center line of the City of Dover boundary to a point in the center line of U.S. Route 113-A, thence in a southerly direction to a point where the center line of U.S. Route 113-A intersects with the center line of State Route 10, thence in a westerly direction along the center line of State Route 10, to its intersection with the center line of U.S. Route 13, thence in a northerly direction along the center line of U.S. Route 13 to its intersection with the center line of Issac Branch, which is also the northern boundary of the Town of Camden, thence in a westerly direction along the meanderings of Issac Branch crossing its intersection with County Road 190 (New Burton Road), Conrail Railroad tracks and County Road 195, thence continuing along the northwesterly, westerly and southwesterly boundary of the Town of Wyoming to its intersection with the center line of County Road 52, thence in a westerly direction along the center line of County Road 52, to its intersection with the center of Almshouse Branch which is the point and place of beginning.

(6) Sixth Levy Court District. — The Sixth Levy Court District shall comprise: All that portion of Kent County in Mispillion, South Murderkill and North Murderkill Hundreds lying within the following boundaries: Beginning at a point on the center line of the boundary between the State and State of Maryland which intersects with the center line of the boundary between Kent County and Sussex County and continuing in an easterly direction, to the center line of U.S. Route 13, thence northerly along the center line of U.S. Route 13 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 116, thence with the center line of County Road 116, in an easterly direction to its intersection with the center line of County Road 434, thence northerly and northeasterly with the center line of County Road 434 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 429, thence northerly with the center line of County Road 429 crossing the Conrail Railroad tracks and County Roads 432, 431, 430 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 35, thence northeasterly with the center line of County Road 35 to its intersection with County Road 388, thence northwesterly to its intersection with the center line of County Road 33, thence with the center line of County Road 33 in a northwesterly direction to its intersection with the center line of County Road 371, thence in a southwesterly direction along the center line of County Road 371 to its intersection with U.S. Route 13, thence in a northerly direction with the center line of U.S. Route 13 to a point in the center of Hudson Branch, thence westerly and southwesterly along the center of Hudson Branch, also being the northerly boundary of Enumeration District 268 as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, to its intersection with the center line of the Conrail Railroad tracks, thence southerly along the center line of the Conrail Railroad tracks to its intersection with the center line of County Road 239, thence westerly with the center line of County Road 239 to the center of a power line as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, thence with the center of said power line in a northerly direction to its intersection with the center of Hudson Branch, thence westerly with the center of Hudson Branch, also being the northerly boundary of Enumeration District 269 as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, to its intersection with the center line of County Road 239, thence northwesterly along the center line of County Road 239 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 108, thence northwesterly along the center line of County Road 108 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 109, thence northeasterly with the center line of County Road 109 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 235, thence northerly along the center line of County Road 235 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 236, thence easterly along the center line of County Road 236 to its intersection with the center of an unnamed branch of Tidbury Creek being also the westerly boundary of Enumeration District 262 as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, thence northerly along the meanderings of said branch to its intersection with the center line of County Road 232, thence northwesterly along the center line of County Road 232 to a power line which is also the northwesterly boundary of Enumeration District 262 as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, thence northeasterly along the northwesterly boundary of Enumeration District 262 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 125, thence northerly along the center line of County Road 125 to its intersection with the center line of an unnamed road, thence in a westerly direction along the center line of said unnamed road, also being the southerly boundary of Enumeration District 260 as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, to its intersection with the center of a tributary of Almshouse Branch, thence northwesterly along the center of said tributary to its intersection with the center of Almshouse Branch, thence northerly along the center of Almshouse Branch, also being the westerly boundary of Enumeration District 260 as shown on the Official 1980 Census Map, to its intersection with the center line of County Road 52, thence westerly with the center line of County Road 52 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 73 at Hazlettville, thence in a northeasterly direction along the center line of County Road 73 to its intersection with the center line of County Road 101, thence in a northerly direction along the center line of County Road 101 crossing State Route 8 to its intersection with County Road 171, thence in a northwesterly direction along the center line of County Road 171 to its intersection with the center line of State Route 11 and the center line of County Road 98, thence southwesterly with the center line of County Road 98 crossing County Road 175 to its intersection with the center line of State Route 44, thence northwesterly with the center line of State Route 44 to its intersection with the center line of State Route 300 at Everett’s Corner, thence in a westerly direction along the center line of State Route 300 to the center line of the boundary between the State and the State of Maryland, thence in a southerly direction following the center line of the boundary between the State and the State of Maryland through the Town of Marydel and continuing in a southerly direction to the point where the said boundary intersects with the center line of the common boundary of Kent County and Sussex County, which is the point and place of beginning.

(7) Seventh Levy Court District. — The boundaries of the Seventh Levy Court District shall comprise all of Kent County.
9 Del. C. § 2201 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 22 / Subchapter I / Section 2201
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        2201. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

(1) “County” means New Castle County.

(2) “Revenue bonds” means bonds to the payment of which all or any part of the revenues derived from the operation of any sewerage system are pledged in accordance with this chapter.

(3) “Service charges” means rents, rates, fees or other charges charged or collected under § 2209 of this title.

(4) “Sewerage system” means the plants, structures and other real and personal property acquired, constructed or operated or to be acquired, constructed or operated by the County for the collection, treatment, purification or disposal in a sanitary manner of any sewage, liquid or solid wastes, night soil or industrial wastes, garbage and storm water, including sewers, conduits, pipelines, mains, pumping and ventilating stations, sewage treatment or disposal systems, plants and works, connections, and outfalls, and other plants, structures, boats, conveyances, and other real and personal property, and rights therein, and appurtenances necessary or useful and convenient for such purposes.
9 Del. C. § 8139 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 81 / Subchapter II / Section 8139
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        8139. Oaths.
Status: in_force

Each assessor and collector and his or her duly designated assistants may take and administer the oath, where required, on any claim for exemption under this subchapter and no charge shall be made for the taking of any affidavit or the preparation of any form required by this subchapter.
9 Del. C. § 6912 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 69 / Subchapter I / Section 6912
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        6912. Zoning coordination.
Status: in_force

The Commission may cooperate with other planning and zoning commissions within Sussex County and within other counties and states, and with legislative and administrative authorities of incorporated or unincorporated municipalities, either within or without such County, with a view to coordinating and integrating the zoning of the County with the planning and zoning of other counties or states or of municipalities. The Commission shall also have power to appoint such committee or committees, and adopt such rules for the conduct of its business, as it may deem proper to effect such cooperation or to more expeditiously and effectively perform its functions.
9 Del. C. § 8749 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 87 / Subchapter III / Section 8749
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        8749. Judgment and sale of property.
Status: in_force

If a bond be not given, the court or justice of the peace (as the case may be), upon the entry of judgment against the defendant and upon the petition of the plaintiff, shall forthwith make an order for the sale of the property attached upon due notice or so much thereof as shall be necessary to pay the judgment with the costs, and shall render judgment against every garnishee summoned upon the attachment that has answered, confessing property in his, her or its hands or upon the verdict of a jury in the Superior Court against him or her or upon the finding against him or her on a hearing before the Court of Common Pleas or justice of the peace (as the case may be), if required to plead, as in other proceedings by attachment.
9 Del. C. § 9608 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 96 / Section 9608
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        9608. Assignment record.
Status: in_force

Each recorder shall keep an assignment record and index thereof. There shall be recorded in such record the assignment of all mortgages and other instruments which are by law recorded in his or her office.
9 Del. C. § 4953 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 49 / Subchapter II / Section 4953
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        4953. Scope of subchapter.
Status: in_force

(a) The County shall have power and responsibility:

(1) To plan for their future development and growth.

(2) To adopt and amend comprehensive plans, or elements or portions thereof, to guide their future development and growth.

(3) To implement adopted or amended comprehensive plans by the adoption of appropriate land development regulations or elements thereof. In furtherance of the authority to adopt, amend and implement comprehensive plans or elements or portions thereof to guide and control future growth, counties are expressly granted the authority to develop and adopt regulations governing the transfer of development rights from identified districts, zones or parcels of land to districts, zones or areas designated to receive such development rights. Such regulations may provide for the establishment of development right banking. Whenever a county exercises its authority to provide for the transfer of development rights it shall:

a. Comply with all requirements of this subchapter pertaining to the amendment of a comprehensive plan;

b. Provide for the transfer of development rights as an option to the use and development of the subject property according to the otherwise applicable zoning ordinance;

c. Limit designation of receiving areas to locations where the county has determined that growth should be encouraged and where a transfer of development rights would not result in the inability of either the existing or planned public facilities which serve the area to accommodate such growth;

d. Demonstrate that the creation and regulation of both sending and receiving districts are otherwise consistent with promotion of the policies expressed by the comprehensive plan and statewide planning goals and objectives established pursuant to Chapter 91 of Title 29; and

e. Consider appropriate incentives for the transfer of development rights, including bonuses for the use of transferred development rights and intergovernmental agreements with other counties or municipalities which would permit the transfer and use of development rights between counties and municipalities.

(4) To establish, support and maintain administrative instruments and procedures to carry out the provisions and purposes of this subchapter.

(b) Each county government shall prepare a comprehensive plan of the type and in the manner set out in this subchapter or amend its existing comprehensive plan to conform to the requirements of this subchapter.
9 Del. C. § 6960 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 69 / Subchapter II / Section 6960
§ Â
        6960. County comprehensive plan.
Status: in_force

(a) The County shall submit a final comprehensive plan for submission to the Cabinet Committee on State Planning Issues no later than 5 years after the adoption of the current plan; provided, however, that the County may request an extension of such date by forwarding a written request to the Cabinet Committee at least 90 days prior to the deadline. The basis for the request shall be clearly indicated. The decision whether to grant a request an extension, and the duration of such extension, shall be at the discretion of the Cabinet Committee. Upon completion of the comment period set forth in this subchapter, the County shall solicit public comment and adopt a comprehensive plan for zoning, subdivision and other land use decisions. Such plan shall be updated every 10 years thereafter.

(b) Once the county government shall have in place said comprehensive plan, the County shall not be permitted to amend such plan without a simple majority of the entire membership thereof voting to do so.

(c) Within 1 year of the date of adoption of the county plan, the County shall initiate an implementation program regarding subdivision and development controls. The County shall report the status of the implementation program in the monitoring report as required by this subchapter. This report should include progress to date, problems, issues and opportunities.

(d) Subsequent amendments to the county comprehensive plan required by this chapter shall be submitted to the Cabinet Committee on State Planning Issues for review and certification pursuant to § 9103 of Title 29.

(e) Within 18 months of the date of adoption of the county comprehensive plan or revisions thereof, Sussex County shall amend its official zoning map or maps to rezone all lands in accordance with the uses and intensities of uses provided for in the future land use element for the County. In the event that the comprehensive plan includes provisions governing the rate of growth of particular planning districts or sub-areas of the County, the County’s zoning district regulations shall be amended to reflect the timing elements of the comprehensive plan.
9 Del. C. § 5416 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 54 / Section 5416
§ Â
        5416. Referendum.
Status: in_force

Neither the ordinance authorizing the bonds referred to herein, nor any ordinance, resolution or order passed or adopted in furtherance thereof, nor the bonds themselves or the designation of a TIF District, shall be subject to any referendum by reason of any other state or local law.
9 Del. C. § 920 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 9 / Subchapter II / Section 920
§ Â
        920. Definitions [Transferred].
Status: in_force

Transferred to § 3071F of Title 16 by 80 Del. Laws, c. 248, § 6, effective May 25, 2016.
9 Del. C. § 4920 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 49 / Subchapter I / Section 4920
§ Â
        4920. Nonconforming uses of land or buildings.
Status: in_force

(a) The lawful use of a building or structure, or the lawful use of any land, as existing and lawful at the time of the enactment of a zoning regulation, or in the case of a change of regulations, then at the time of such change, may, except as hereinafter provided, be continued although such use does not conform with the provisions of such regulations or change, and such use may be extended throughout the same building, provided no structural alteration of such building is proposed or made for the purpose of such extension. The county government in any zoning regulations may permit the restoration, reconstruction, extension or substitution of nonconforming uses upon such terms and conditions as may be set forth in the zoning regulations.

(b) If the County acquires title to any property by reason of tax delinquency and such properties are not redeemed as provided by law, the future use of such property shall be in conformity with the then existing provisions of the zoning regulations of the County, or with any change of such regulations, equally applicable to other like properties within the district in which the property acquired by the County is located.
9 Del. C. § 2215 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 22 / Subchapter I / Section 2215
§ Â
        2215. Contract with city or town for disposal or treatment of sewage.
Status: in_force

The County Council may make a contract with any city or town within the territorial limits of the County to dispose of or treat by means of any sewerage system of the County the sewage originating in such city or town. Any such contract may be authorized by resolution duly adopted by the County Council and may be made with or without consideration and may contain provisions obligating the County to dispose of and treat all or any part of the sewage originating in such city or town and obligating such city or town to permit the County to dispose of or treat such sewage, either for a specific period of time or for an unlimited time. Any such contract may contain other and different provisions relative to the kind and character of sewage to be disposed of and treated and the compensation, if any, to be paid for such services.
9 Del. C. § 8105 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 81 / Subchapter I / Section 8105
§ Â
        8105. Property owned by governmental, religious, educational or charitable agency.
Status: in_force

Property belonging to this State, or the United States, or any county of this State, or owned by any municipality of this State and held for public use, or any church or religious society, and not held by way of investment, or any college or school and used for educational or school purposes, except as otherwise provided, shall not be liable to taxation and assessment for public purposes by any county or other political subdivision of this State. Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to ditch taxes, sewer taxes and/or utility fees. Corporations created for charitable purposes and not held by way of investment that are in existence on July 14, 1988, together with existing and future charitable affiliates of such corporations that are also not held by way of investment, shall not be liable to taxation and assessment for public purposes by any county, municipality or other political subdivision of this State.
9 Del. C. § 908 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 9 / Subchapter I / Section 908
§ Â
        908. Dogs running at large [Transferred].
Status: in_force

Transferred to § 3048F of Title 16 by 80 Del. Laws, c. 248, § 5, effective May 25, 2016.
9 Del. C. § 4153 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 41 / Subchapter V / Section 4153
§ Â
        4153. Functions.
Status: in_force

The Parks and Recreation Commission shall perform the following functions:

(1) Plan, supervise and conduct a comprehensive and coordinated program of cultural and physical recreation for the County;

(2) Plan, supervise and conduct a program of parks and park related activities for all of the parks of the County including any suburban parks which may hereafter be established pursuant to Chapter 6 of this title;

(3) Promote, and, to the extent feasible, execute a cooperative recreational program with the public schools, other public agencies, private agencies, and local citizen recreation councils;

(4) Develop plans for parks, recreation areas, and for the preservation of open space within the County and recommend to the county government appropriate courses of action in regard thereto;

(5) Employ by and with the consent of the county government trained personnel in recreational programs and staff, including a Director of Parks and Recreation;

(6) Make and enforce rules and regulations relating to the protection, care, and use of the areas it administers. No rules and regulations shall become effective until such rules and regulations have been adopted by the county government after a public hearing thereon, the time and place of which at least 30 days’ notice shall have been given by 1 publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the County. Such notice should state the place at which copies of the rules and regulations may be obtained;

(7) Recommend to the county government such fees as it deems reasonable for the use of such facilities as may be provided in the areas it administers, and the county government may establish and collect such fees from the users of the said areas.
9 Del. C. § 3503 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 35 / Section 3503
§ Â
        3503. Definitions.
Status: in_force

The following words and phrases when used in this Chapter shall have the meanings provided herein:

(1) “Benefited property” means a nonexempt specially-assessed property located within a neighborhood improvement district that benefits from enhanced services and related programs based on a rational nexus test. Properties need not benefit equally to be considered to have benefited.

(2) “Cost of services” includes consulting fees, professional fees, preliminary planning expenditures, feasibility study expenditures, financing costs, administrative costs, and any other expenditures necessary or incidental to the development or provision of enhanced services and related programs.

(3) “District advisory council” means an optional advisory committee comprised of property owners and residents from the neighborhood improvement district that may be established under § 3507 of this title for the purpose of providing recommendations to the neighborhood improvement district management association regarding needed enhanced services within the district.

(4) “Enhanced services” means additional or increased services aimed at improving the ability of property owners and residents to enjoy a safer and healthier neighborhood due to the provision of expanded services, which include services such as district-wide street cleaning, district-wide snow removal, district-wide trash removal, and maintenance of open space.

(5) “Neighborhood” means a limited geographic area situated within an unincorporated area of New Castle County and located in a residential district, the limits of which form the neighborhood improvement district boundaries, as identified on a filed record plan.

(6) “Neighborhood improvement district” means a neighborhood, as identified on a filed record plan, in which a special assessment is levied on designated property, other than exempt property, for the purpose of promoting the general health and welfare of the district, hereinafter referred to as a “NID.”

(7) “Neighborhood improvement district management association” means the corporate body that oversees the management of each neighborhood improvement district established pursuant to § 3506 of this title, which hereinafter shall be referred to as a “NIDMA.”

(8) “Neighborhood improvement district plan” means the strategic plan for enhanced neighborhood services and related programs required under § 3505 of this title, hereinafter referred to as a “NIDP,” to be provided within the district pursuant to the plan implemented and administered by the NIDMA.

(9) “Rational nexus” means that there is a rational, definable benefit that accrues to any nonexempt property owner assessed a special assessment fee for said benefit in a NID created under this chapter.

(10) “Residential district” means, for purposes of this chapter, a limited geographical area comprised of real property consisting predominantly of buildings and structures for housing individuals and families, including single-family detached homes, single-family semi-detached homes, townhouses, condominiums, apartments, manufactured homes, modular homes, and any combination of the above.

(11) “Service area” means the area within the boundaries of the NID in which the NIDMA provides or administers enhanced services.

(12) “Special assessment” or “special assessment fee” means the fee assessed on nonexempt properties within a NID levied by the county for purposes of providing enhanced services in a district under § 3508 of this title.

(13) “Sunset provision” means a provision in the NIDP which, under § 3505 of this title, provides for the dissolution of the NID, unless re-enacted by County Council, on a date up to 5 years from commencement as identified in the approved Final NIDP and in the county ordinance establishing a NID. The NID may be continued beyond such initial date, provided the County adopts an ordinance extending the lifespan of the NID, following a review by County Council of the NID and the enhanced services provided therein.
9 Del. C. § 8774 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 87 / Subchapter IV / Section 8774
§ Â
        8774. Adjustment of tax sale proceedings upon change of office of tax collecting authority.
Status: in_force

(a) In the event of the death, resignation or removal from office of the tax collecting authority, before the proceedings for the sale of land shall have been completed, the successor in office shall succeed to all of the officer’s powers, rights and duties in respect of the sale.

(b) In case the term of office of any tax collecting authority shall expire before the proceedings for the sale of lands shall have been completed, the tax collecting authority shall continue in the powers, duties and responsibilities in respect of the sale until the same shall have been finally approved by the Court.

(c) If any outgoing tax collecting authority shall die or remove from this State before any sale of lands conducted by such authority shall have been approved by the Court, the Superior Court of the county shall have jurisdiction to direct the tax collecting authority then in office to make and complete returns of sale, and to execute and deliver deeds for the land so sold.
9 Del. C. § 4514 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 45 / Subchapter I / Section 4514
§ Â
        4514. Discontinuance of water supply for failure to pay service charge.
Status: in_force

Each city or town or other public corporation owning or operating any water distribution system serving 3 or more parcels of real property in the County, and every other person owning or operating any such system may enter into and perform a contract with the County that it will, upon request by the county government specifying a parcel of real property in the County charged with any unpaid service charge under § 4509 of this title, cause the supply of water from its system to such parcel of real property to be stopped or restricted, as the county government may request, until the service charge and any subsequent service charge charged to such parcel and the interest accrued thereon is fully paid or until the county government directs otherwise. No such city or town or other public corporation or other person shall be liable for any loss, damage or other claim based on or arising out of the stopping or restricting of such supply, and the county government shall pay the reasonable cost of so stopping or restricting such supply and of restoring the same and may agree to indemnify such city or town or other public corporation or other person from loss or damage by reason of such stopping or restriction, including loss of profits.
9 Del. C. § 4904 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 49 / Subchapter I / Section 4904
§ Â
        4904. Kent County Zoning Commission; consolidation with Regional Planning Commission.
Status: in_force

(a) In order to avail itself of the powers conferred by this subchapter, the county government shall appoint a commission of 5 members which shall be known as the Kent County Zoning Commission. Each member shall be appointed for a term of 6 years except that a member appointed to fill a vacancy occurring for any reason other than expiration of term, shall be appointed for the unexpired term.

(b) Each member shall be a freeholder and resident of Kent County, 4 of whom shall live outside any incorporated city or town. No more than 3 of the members of the Commission shall be of the same political party. Originally 3 members shall be appointed for 3 years, and the remaining 2 for 6 years so that at any biennial election, no more than 3 members shall be up for appointment. Members of the Regional Planning Commission otherwise qualified, shall be eligible for appointment to the Kent County Zoning Commission.

(c) Upon adoption of permanent zoning regulations by the county government, the Zoning Commission shall cease to exist and the members of the Zoning Commission shall become voting members of and shall serve out their terms on the Kent County Regional Planning Commission. Upon expiration of the said original terms, reappointment or appointment of new members shall be in accordance with the terms established for members of the Regional Planning Commission. Following consolidation with the Zoning Commission, the Kent County Regional Planning Commission shall henceforth exercise all of the powers and duties herein set forth for the Zoning Commission.
9 Del. C. § 8332 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 83 / Subchapter I / Section 8332
§ Â
        8332. Forest use land.
Status: in_force

Land shall be deemed to be in forest use when devoted to tree growth in such quantity and so spaced and maintained as to constitute in the opinion of the State Forester a forest area.
9 Del. C. § 6510 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 65 / Section 6510
§ Â
        6510. Adjustment of assessment for cost of existing sewers included in a district.
Status: in_force

In the case where a sanitary sewer or water district shall include areas wherein sanitary sewers or water systems have been constructed under the authority of the county government, or by municipalities, corporations or individuals, the necessary adjustments shall be made with each property owner for those costs already incurred by the property owner when those sewers or water systems were constructed. Such excess costs shall be credited to future assessments levied by the district.
9 Del. C. § 765 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 7 / Subchapter V / Section 765
§ Â
        765. Use of funds.
Status: in_force

Moneys raised by the issuance of notes in anticipation of the issuance of bonds shall be used only to finance the purpose or purposes for which the proceeds of the bonds may be used and such proceeds shall be applied, to the extent necessary, to pay and retire such notes.
9 Del. C. § 4526 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 45 / Subchapter II / Section 4526
§ Â
        4526. Issuance and form of writ of venditioni exponas.
Status: in_force

(a) At any time after the expiration of 20 days following the return of the sheriff upon the monition, unless before the expiration of the 20 days the judgment and cost on the judgment shall be paid or evidence of the payment of such service charges evidenced by a receipted service charge bill or a duplicate thereof bearing date therefore prior to the filing of the lien for record in the office of the prothonotary, upon application in writing by the tax collecting authority, a writ of venditioni exponas shall issue out of the office of the prothonotary directed to the sheriff commanding the sheriff to sell the property mentioned or described in the writ and make due return of such proceedings thereunder in the same manner as is now applicable with respect to similar writs of venditioni exponas issued out of the Superior Court. The property shall be described in the writ under the description thereof as it appears on the assessment rolls and by metes and bounds where obtainable, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to invalidate a writ or a sale pursuant thereto containing only the description as it appears on the assessment rolls or a writ bearing only a description by metes and bounds.

(b) The writ shall be substantially in the following form:

“KENT COUNTY, SS.

The State of Delaware.

TO THE SHERIFF OF KENT COUNTY,

GREETINGS:

WHEREAS, by a Monition issued out of the Superior Court dated at ________________, the ________________ day of ________________________________ A.D. 20 ________, IT WAS COMMANDED, that you should post the said Monition or copy thereof upon the real estate therein mentioned and described, and make a return to the said Superior Court within 10 days after said posting. That on the ________________ day of ________________________________ A.D. 20 ________, you returned that a copy of the said Monition was posted on the real estate therein mentioned and described on the ________________ day of ________________________________, A.D. 20 ________

We therefore now command you to expose to public sale, the real estate mentioned and described in said Monition as follows: ________________________________ And that you should cause to be made as well a certain debt of ________________ Dollars ($ ________________) lawful money of the United States, which to the said Receiver of Taxes for Kent County, is due and owing, as also the sum of ________________ Dollars ($ ________________) lawful money as aforesaid, for its costs, which it has sustained by the detaining of that debt, whereof the said ________________________________ was convicted as it appears of record and against which said property it is a lien:

And have you that money before the Judges of our Superior Court at ________________________________, on Monday the ________________________________ day of Next, to render to the Receiver of Taxes for Kent County as aforesaid, for its debt and costs as aforesaid, and this writ:

WITNESSETH, the Honorable ________________________________ at ________________, the ________________ day of ________________ A.D. 20 ________.

________________________________________________________________Prothonotary

Issued:”

(c) The description contained in such monition shall be a sufficient description of the real estate to be sold under such writ.
9 Del. C. § 4727 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 47 / Subchapter II / Section 4727
§ Â
        4727. Administration of funds.
Status: in_force

All amounts collected pursuant to this subchapter shall be paid into the general fund of Kent County and all payments for garbage collection shall be paid out of the general fund of Kent County. Should Kent County fail in any 1 year to collect all of the taxes in the garbage collection district necessary to pay the contract price for garbage collection in any year, the county government may pay the deficit out of the general fund pending enforcement of the tax lien. The county government may make payments out of the general fund in anticipation of collection of the garbage collection tax.
9 Del. C. § 1406 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 14 / Section 1406
§ Â
        1406. Assistance to County Council.
Status: in_force

The County Auditor shall provide such assistance to the County Council as the County Council may require of the County Auditor through request of a majority of Council or in the job description in any matter before it, including but not limited to any measure relating to the appropriation of funds by the County Council.
9 Del. C. § 6962 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 69 / Subchapter II / Section 6962
§ Â
        6962. Highway capacity.
Status: in_force

The county government shall not approve any proposed change in the zoning classification for land (i.e., any “rezoning request”) without first complying with either the procedures contained in paragraphs (1)a. through (1)d. of this section or the procedures contained in paragraphs (2)a. through (2)c. of this section:

(1) a. As soon as possible, but in any event no later than June 30, 1988, the county government, through its designated planning agency, shall establish an agreement with the Department of Transportation to provide a procedure for analysis by the Department of Transportation of the effects on traffic of each rezoning application.

b. Each agreement under paragraph (1)a. of this section shall be approved by a resolution or ordinance, consistent with county procedures, and shall establish traffic level of service suitable to the County and the Department of Transportation.

c. The purpose of the agreement under paragraph (1)a. of this section shall be to ensure that traffic analyses are conducted as part of the zoning reclassification process within the County.

d. The agreement under paragraph (1)a. of this section shall provide for the review of traffic impacts according to nationally recognized traffic criteria and shall, at a minimum, consider the effects of existing traffic, projected traffic growth in areas surrounding a proposed zoning reclassification, and the projected traffic generated by the proposed site development for which the zoning reclassification is sought.

(2) a. The County Council, through its designated planning agency, shall establish an agreement with the Department of Transportation to designate a Complete Community Enterprise District as described in §§ 2103 and 2104 of Title 2.

b. The local planning agency shall hold at least 1 public hearing on the proposed agreement created under paragraph (2)a. of this section and public comment must be permitted at the public hearing.

c. The local planning agency shall provide due public notice of the public hearing required by paragraph (2)b. of this section at least twice, the first notice at least 60 days prior to the public hearing and the second notice at least 30 days prior to the public hearing.
9 Del. C. § 750 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 7 / Subchapter IV / Section 750
§ Â
        750. General taxes; levy.
Status: in_force

(a) Each park district shall have the power to levy and collect taxes on all the taxable property in said district for all corporate purposes.

(b) All taxes proposed by the board to be levied upon the taxable property within said district shall be levied by ordinance passed not less than 10 days after publication of its appropriation ordinance. A certified copy of such levy ordinance shall be filed with the department of finance or receiver of taxes and county treasurer not later than the second Tuesday in May in each year. Thereupon, the department of finance or receiver of taxes and county treasurer shall collect said tax; provided, the aggregate amount of taxes levied for any 1 year inclusive of the amount levied for the payment of the principal and interest on bonded indebtedness of said district shall not exceed the rate of $.05 per $100 of assessed valuation.
9 Del. C. § 1395 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 13 / Subchapter V / Section 1395
§ Â
        1395. Compensation of County Attorney.
Status: in_force

The annual salary of the County Attorney and each Assistant County Attorney shall be determined by the County Executive.
9 Del. C. § 2660 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 26 / Subchapter II / Section 2660
§ Â
        2660. County comprehensive plan.
Status: in_force

(a) The County shall submit a final comprehensive plan for submission to the Cabinet Committee on State Planning Issues no later than 5 years after the adoption of the current plan; provided, however, that the County may request an extension of such date by forwarding a written request to the Cabinet Committee at least 90 days prior to the deadline. The basis for the request shall be clearly indicated. The decision whether to grant a request an extension, and the duration of such extension, shall be at the discretion of the Cabinet Committee. Upon completion of the comment period set forth in this subchapter, the County shall solicit public comment and adopt a comprehensive plan for zoning, subdivision and other land use decisions. Such plan shall be updated every 10 years thereafter.

(b) Once the County Council shall have in place said comprehensive plan, the County shall not be permitted to amend such plan without a simple majority of the entire membership thereof voting to do so.

(c) Within 1 year of the date of adoption of the county plan, the County shall initiate an implementation program regarding subdivision and development controls. The County shall report the status of the implementation program in the monitoring report as required by this subchapter. This report should include progress to date, problems, issues and opportunities.

(d) Subsequent amendments to the county comprehensive plan required by this chapter shall be submitted to the Cabinet Committee on State Planning Issues for review and certification pursuant to § 9103 of Title 29.

(e) Within 18 months of the date of adoption of the county comprehensive plan or revisions thereof, New Castle County shall amend its official zoning map or maps to rezone all lands in accordance with the uses and intensities of uses provided for in the future land use element for the County. In the event that the comprehensive plan includes provisions governing the rate of growth of particular planning districts or sub-areas of the County, the County’s zoning district regulations shall be amended to reflect the timing elements of the comprehensive plan.
9 Del. C. § 6809 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 68 / Section 6809
§ Â
        6809. Official map of the County.
Status: in_force

(a) There is established an official map of the County. The Commission shall be the maker and custodian of such map. The map shall show the location and lines of the public roads, easements, water courses and public lands within the County existing and/or established by law at the time of the preparation and setting up of the map by the Commission; and shall show the location of the lines of the roads, easements, water courses and public lands on plats which shall have been approved by the Commission at or previous to that time.

(b) Whenever the Commission has prepared an approved official map or any amendment, extension or addition thereto, it shall submit, after public hearing, the approved official map or such amendment, extension or addition thereto, to the county government for its adoption. If the official map or amendment, extension or addition thereto shall pertain to the road system of or any road in Sussex County, the official map or any amendment, extension or addition thereto shall also be submitted to the Department of Transportation for its review and recommendation. Upon receipt of the recommendation from the Department of the official map or such amendment, extension or addition thereto, it shall be returned to the county government for its adoption. If adopted by the county government, the map shall be recorded in the Recorder’s office within 30 days after such action.

(c) The Commission may, from time to time, amend, extend, add to or remove from the official map all roads established or vacated by law, or as established by subsection (b) of this section.
9 Del. C. § 3304 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 33 / Section 3304
§ Â
        3304. Bonds payable from special fund; complementary powers of governing body; proceeds.
Status: in_force

(a) Bonds shall be payable from the special fund required under § 3305 of this title.

(b) If the county council issues bonds under this section, the county council may also:

(1) Establish sinking funds;

(2) Establish debt service reserve funds;

(3) Pledge other assets and revenues towards the payments of the principal, premium, if any, and interest; or

(4) Provide for bond insurance or any other type of credit enhancement or liquidity support of the bonds.

(c) All proceeds received from any bonds issued and sold shall be applied solely to pay costs, including:

(1) Costs of design, construction, establishment, extension, alteration, or acquisition of improvements, including infrastructure improvements;

(2) Costs of issuing bonds;

(3) Permissive costs of issuing and servicing the bonds, which may include up to 0.5% of the bond issue as origination costs incurred by the county, and up to 2.0% of the bond debt service payments as administrative costs if administered by the county;

(4) Payment of the principal and interest on loans, development loans, money advances, or any indebtedness for any of the purposes stated in § 3302(b) of this title, including the refunding of bonds previously issued under this section;

(5) Funding of a debt service reserve fund or payment of interest prior to, during, or for a limited period of time after construction; and

(6) Purposes described in §§ 3205 and 3302(b) of this title.
9 Del. C. § 1563 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 15 / Subchapter III / Section 1563
§ Â
        1563. Private welfare agencies.
Status: in_force

The County Council may make annual appropriations to the following charitable corporations of this State in aid of their respective objects: Children’s Home, Inc.; The Family Society; St. Michael’s School and Nursery; and The Prisoners Aid Society of Delaware.
9 Del. C. § 625 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 6 / Subchapter III / Section 625
§ Â
        625. Petition to county government; who may petition; contents.
Status: in_force

Fifty percent of the freeholders resident in a proposed suburban park community consisting of less than 500 persons, or 250 freeholders resident in a proposed suburban park community consisting of 500 persons or more, may present a petition to the county government to submit the question of organizing a suburban park community to a vote of electors residing in that community.
9 Del. C. § 5204 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 52 / Section 5204
§ Â
        5204. Creation of stormwater maintenance district.
Status: in_force

(a) If the county government determines, after a public hearing, that it is in the public interest to create the proposed stormwater maintenance district, it shall pass a resolution to that effect.

(b) The creation of a stormwater maintenance district and the resulting infrastructure maintenance managed by the County shall take precedence over any homeowner obligation for stormwater management included in declarations of restrictions or similar development agreements. Any common open space or infrastructure within a community not maintained as part of a stormwater maintenance district shall remain the responsibility of the homeowners.
9 Del. C. § 812 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 8 / Subchapter II / Section 812
§ Â
        812. Adoption of resolution.
Status: in_force

The Kent County Levy Court shall adopt a resolution to the effect that it deems it advisable that a specified sum of money be borrowed for some specified purpose or purposes and whether the borrowing is to be for a countywide or district library.
9 Del. C. § 1163 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 11 / Subchapter IV / Section 1163
§ Â
        1163. Creation of debt.
Status: in_force

(a) (1) The County Council shall exercise all power vested in the Levy Court of New Castle County prior to January 3, 1967, in connection with the creation of debt, and in addition, shall have the power to authorize the issuance of bonds of New Castle County to finance the cost of any object, program or purpose for which New Castle County, or any officer, department, board or agency thereof, is by this title or by any other law, authorized to raise, appropriate or expend money, or for the implementation and performance of functions, programs and purposes specified in this title, or in any other law, applicable to New Castle County; provided, however, that the County Council shall not have authority to create or to authorize the creating of any bonded indebtedness for the following purposes: The payment of any operating expenses; the payment of any judgment resulting from the failure of the County to pay any item of operating expense; the payment for any equipment or any public improvement of a normal life of less than 3 years. The foregoing limitations shall not apply should the County Council unanimously declare the existence of an emergency due to public calamity.

(2) The powers conferred by this chapter shall be in addition to and not in substitution for or in limitation of the powers conferred by any other law. Bonds may be issued under this section for any object or purpose for which the County is by this chapter or any other law authorized to raise or appropriate or expend money notwithstanding that any other law may provide for the issuance of bonds for the same or like purposes and without regard to the requirements, restrictions or other provisions contained in any other law. Bonds may be issued under this chapter notwithstanding any debt or other limitation prescribed by any other law, and the mode and manner of procedure for the issuance of bonds and the adoption of the ordinance authorizing issuance of the bonds under this chapter need not conform to the provisions of any other law or any other provision of this chapter.

(3) Bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be authorized by an ordinance passed by the County Council with the concurrence of 5/7 of all of the members elected to the County Council. However, when County Council has more than 7 members, bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be authorized by an ordinance passed by the County Council with the concurrence of 3/4 of all the members elected to the County Council. Each such ordinance shall state in brief and general terms the objects or purposes for which the bonds are to be issued and the maximum aggregate principal amount of bonds to be issued for each such object or purpose. Such ordinance, or a subsequent resolution of the County Council, shall specify, or may delegate authority to the County Executive to determine, the following: The date or dates of such bonds; the maturity of such bonds; provisions for either serial or term bonds; sinking fund or other reserve fund requirements, if any; due dates of the interest thereon; the form of such bonds; the denominations and designation of such bonds; registration, conversion and transfer privileges; provisions for redemption prior to maturity, if any, with or without premium; limitations with respect to the interest rate or rates on such bonds; the times and place or places within or without this State for the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds; the method of execution of the bonds; provisions for the consolidation of bonds authorized for several objects and purposes pursuant to 1 or more ordinances into 1 consolidated issue; provisions for the receipt and deposit or investment of the good faith deposit pending delivery of such bonds; provisions for the public or private sale of the bonds as hereinafter provided; provisions for the replacement of lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed bonds; and such other terms and conditions of such bonds and of the issuance and sale thereof as the County Council may determine to be in the best interests of the County. Debt incurred by the County Council pursuant to this chapter may be represented by uncertificated obligations of the County Council which may be authorized in accordance with the same procedures applicable to bonds which are permitted to be issued under this chapter, and the County Council by resolution may determine, or it may delegate authority to the County Executive to determine, all procedures appropriate to the establishment of a system of issuing uncertificated debt.

(4) The bonds authorized by each ordinance shall mature as may be determined by the County Council but in any event not later than 30 years after the date of the bonds; provided, however, that the last maturity of bonds issued to finance any single water, sewer or wastewater improvement costing over $5,000,000 may mature not later than 40 years after the date of such bonds.

(5) Bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be sold by the County Executive at public sale upon sealed proposals after at least 10 days’ notice published at least once in 1 newspaper of general circulation published in New Castle County and on the website of New Castle County, at such price and upon such terms, conditions and regulations as the County Council may prescribe; provided, that the County Council may authorize the County Executive to sell such bonds at public or private sale upon such terms, conditions and regulations as it may prescribe.

(6) The proceeds of the sale of bonds issued under this chapter shall be used only for the object or purpose or objects or purposes specified in the ordinance authorizing such bonds or for the payment of the principal of and interest on temporary loans made in anticipation of the sale of such bonds. If for any reason any part of such proceeds are not applied to or are not necessary for such purposes, such unexpended part of such proceeds shall be applied to the payment of the principal of or interest on such bonds.

(7) a. Bonds shall not be issued pursuant to this chapter if their issuance would increase the aggregate principal amount of all bonds of the County then outstanding to an amount in excess of 3% of the assessed valuation of the real estate taxable by the County. Provided, however, that in computing the outstanding bonds under the previous sentence of this paragraph, there shall not be included therein any bond, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued, or which may be issued, after January 8, 1968:

1. Under Chapter 23 of this title for the purpose of financing facilities for sanitary districts or under Chapter 5 of this title for the purpose of financing suburban community improvements;

2. Under this chapter or any other provision of law for the purpose of financing the construction or acquisition of sewer or sewage systems, airport facilities or water improvements or supply systems;

3. To the extent of any sinking fund or other reserve fund which will be available for the payment of, and which is pledged to secure, said debt;

4. In anticipation of tax or other revenues pursuant to subsection (c) of this section; or

5. Which do not pledge the full faith and credit of the County.

b. For the purposes of calculating under paragraph (a)(7)a.3. of this section, above, the amount of any sinking or reserve fund which will be available for payment of a debt, such fund shall be counted only to the extent that it is invested in obligations of, or guaranteed by, the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof and, to the extent that the rate of investment earnings thereon is not fixed or guaranteed, such rate shall be assumed to be 6% per annum.

(8) Whenever the County Council shall have authorized the issuance of bonds by an ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter, the County may borrow money in anticipation of the issuance of such bonds so authorized and, for such purpose, may issue, and may from time to time, renew negotiable bond anticipation notes of the County, of an aggregate principal amount not exceeding the principal amount of such bonds authorized by such resolution. The County may also borrow money in anticipation of the receipt of grants either from the federal or state government or from any of their agencies, and for such purpose, may issue, and may from time to time, renew negotiable grant anticipation notes of the County in an aggregate amount, including interest thereon to the date of maturity, not greater than the grant or grants in anticipation of the receipt of which the notes are issued. The principal of and interest on the grant anticipation notes shall be payable out of the proceeds of the grant or grants, and the County shall so covenant. With respect to bond anticipation notes and grant anticipation notes, the County Council shall authorize such notes by a resolution or resolutions which shall determine the date of the notes, the date on which such notes are to be payable, the maximum principal amount thereof and the rate or maximum rate of interest to be borne thereby and the manner of their signing. The County Council in such resolution may delegate to the County Executive authority to sell the notes thereby authorized, either at public or private sale, and to determine within the limitations prescribed by such resolution the rate of interest to be borne by such notes and the principal amount thereof. Moneys raised by the issuance of notes in anticipation of the issuance of bonds or in anticipation of the receipt of grants shall be used only to finance the object or purpose for which the proceeds of the bonds or grants, respectively, may be used and such proceeds shall be applied, to the extent necessary, to pay and retire such notes. Notwithstanding any provisions of paragraph (a)(10) of this section, and notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or any provision of any other law, grant anticipation notes may be made payable only from the proceeds of grants and need not pledge the faith and credit or taxing power of the County, and in that case, the notes may not be deemed to constitute an indebtedness of or a charge against the general credit or taxing power of the County within the meaning of any debt or other limitation or any provision of any other law.

(9) The full faith and credit of the County shall be deemed to be pledged for the punctual payment of the principal of and interest on every bond and note issued under this chapter. The County Council shall annually levy and collect a tax ad valorem upon all property taxable by the County sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on each such bond or note as such principal and interest become due; provided, however, such tax may be reduced by the amount of other moneys appropriated and actually available for such purpose or provided for by local or special assessments or local service taxes. Nothing in this subsection shall relieve the government of New Castle from any requirement to levy any local or special assessment or local service tax.

(10) All bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued pursuant to this chapter shall recite that they are issued for a purpose or purposes as specified in the authorizing ordinance or resolution and that they are issued pursuant to the terms of the Constitution and laws of this State and the County. Upon the sale and delivery of any such bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness against payment, such recitals shall be conclusive as to the right, power and authority of the County to issue the same and of the legality, validity and enforceability of the obligation of the County to pay principal of and interest on the same. In case any county official whose signature or a facsimile thereof shall appear on any such bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness shall cease to be such officer before the delivery of such obligation, or in case the seal of the County which appears on any such obligation shall change before the delivery of such obligation, such signature, seal or facsimile thereof shall nevertheless be valid and sufficient for all purposes as if such officer had remained in office and as if such seal had not changed. The legality, validity and enforceability of such bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness shall never be questioned in any court of law or equity by the County or any person after the issuance, execution and delivery against payment for the same. All such bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness are hereby declared to have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments under the commercial code of this State.

(b) The County Council may authorize the Chief Financial Officer to issue bonds or certificates of indebtedness to finance assessable public improvements in the manner provided by law.

(c) The County Council, subject to such limitations as may be imposed by the Constitution or laws of the State, may borrow in any fiscal year in the anticipation of the collection of taxes or other revenue budgeted for such year, and for any purposes for which such taxes are levied, such sums as shall not be in excess of 50% of the amount of uncollected taxes of such fiscal year.
9 Del. C. § 9109 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 91 / Section 9109
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        9109. Duty to account for fees.
Status: in_force

(a) Every county officer in each of the counties shall collect all fees, costs and allowances by law taxable by or payable to such officer, without any deduction, abatement or remission, except fees, costs and allowances payable by the county to such officers, and shall keep in a properly indexed fee book an itemized account showing the amount of each fee, item of cost and allowance by law taxable by or payable to such officer, and the service for which the same was rendered or charged, the date of payment and the name of the person paying the same. On or before the fifteenth day in each month, every such officer shall file with the receiver of taxes and county treasurer or department of finance and with the government of the officer’s county an account of all fees, costs and allowances received by that officer in the preceding month, which account shall be so itemized that it may be compared with the fees, costs and allowances as entered in the fee book.

(b) The correctness of the accounts so rendered shall be verified by the affidavit of the officer rendering the same. Each of the officers shall also, on or before the fifteenth day in each month, pay over to the receiver of taxes and county treasurer or department of finance all the fees, costs and allowances so received from any source, which shall be payable to the receiver of taxes and county treasurer or department of finance as provided in § 9108 of this title.
9 Del. C. § 105 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 1 / Section 105
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        105. Hundreds in New Castle County; boundaries.
Status: in_force

(a) New Castle County is divided into 11 hundreds, as follows: Appoquinimink, Blackbird, Brandywine, Christiana, Mill Creek, New Castle, Pencader, Red Lion, St. Georges, White Clay Creek and Wilmington.

(b) Brandywine Hundred comprises that part of New Castle County which is bounded as follows:

Beginning at the point where low watermark on the westerly side of the Delaware River is intersected by the northerly boundary line of the State of Delaware; thence by the boundary line, crossing the Delaware River, to low watermark on the easterly side of the Delaware River; thence by the last mentioned low watermark to the point where the last mentioned low watermark is intersected by the northerly boundary line of the City of Wilmington; thence by the present boundary lines dividing Brandywine Hundred from the City of Wilmington, Christiana Hundred, and the State of Pennsylvania, to the place of beginning.

(c) Wilmington Hundred comprises that part of New Castle County described as follows:

(1) All that part of New Castle County which is included within the corporate limits of the City of Wilmington;

(2) All territory which shall hereafter be added to and included within the City of Wilmington shall become part of Wilmington Hundred;

(3) Whenever by the extension of the limits of the City of Wilmington, territory forming part of any hundred as hereby established, shall be included within the limits of the City, such hundred shall thereafter consist of the residue thereof not so included within the limits.

(d) New Castle Hundred comprises that part of New Castle County which is bounded as follows:

Beginning at the point where low watermark on the westerly side of the Delaware River is intersected by the southerly boundary line of the City of Wilmington; thence by the boundary line, crossing the Delaware River to the low watermark on the easterly side of the Delaware River; thence by the last mentioned low watermark to a point which is due east of the point where the boundary line between New Castle Hundred and Red Lion Hundred intersects the low watermark on the westerly side of the Delaware River; thence due west to low watermark on the westerly side of the Delaware River; thence by the present boundary lines dividing New Castle Hundred from Red Lion Hundred, Pencader Hundred, White Clay Creek Hundred, Christiana Hundred and the City of Wilmington, to the place of beginning.

(e) Red Lion Hundred comprises that part of New Castle County which is bounded as follows:

Beginning at a point where low watermark on the westerly side of the Delaware River is intersected by the present boundary line between New Castle Hundred and Red Lion Hundred; thence due east and crossing the Delaware River to low watermark on the easterly side of the Delaware River; thence by the last mentioned low watermark to a point which is due east of the point where the boundary line between Red Lion Hundred and St. Georges Hundred intersects the low watermark on the westerly side of the Delaware River; thence due west to low watermark on the westerly side of the Delaware River; thence by the present boundary lines dividing Red Lion Hundred from St. Georges Hundred, Pencader Hundred and New Castle Hundred to the place of beginning.

(f) St. Georges Hundred comprises that part of New Castle County which is bounded as follows:

Beginning at a point where low watermark on the westerly side of the Delaware River is intersected by the present boundary line between Red Lion Hundred and St. Georges Hundred; thence due east and crossing the Delaware River to low watermark on the easterly side of the Delaware River; thence by the last mentioned low watermark to a point where the last mentioned low watermark is intersected by the 12 mile circle; thence westerly and southerly by the boundary line dividing the State of Delaware from the State of New Jersey to a point which is due east of the point where the boundary line between St. Georges Hundred and Appoquinimink Hundred intersects the low watermark on the westerly side of the Delaware River; thence due west to low watermark on the westerly side of the Delaware River; thence by the present boundary lines dividing St. Georges Hundred from Appoquinimink Hundred, the State of Maryland, Pencader Hundred and Red Lion Hundred to the place of beginning.
9 Del. C. § 751 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 7 / Subchapter IV / Section 751
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        751. Assessment list.
Status: in_force

The park board of the park district in which a park district tax is to be levied shall use the assessment list of the county in which that district is located as a basis for any park district tax.
9 Del. C. § 4408 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 44 / Section 4408
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        4408. Notice of violation.
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever the Chief of Building Inspections is satisfied that a building is being constructed without a permit first being issued therefor, the Chief of Building Inspections may serve a written notice or order upon the person responsible therefor, directing discontinuance of the construction until a permit has been obtained from the Chief of Building Inspections.

(b) No person having been served with such notice or order shall fail within 5 days to comply with the requirements thereof.
9 Del. C. § 2303 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 23 / Section 2303
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        2303. Establishment of sanitary sewer district upon petition of voters.
Status: in_force

Fifty or more legal voters who are residents of a proposed sanitary sewer district, may petition the County Council to submit the question of organizing a sanitary sewer district to a vote of electors residing in that district. The petition shall contain a description of the proposed district and shall be accompanied by a map drawn to scale showing the boundaries of the proposed district together with the limits of any incorporated areas which may be included in the district. The execution of the petition by an elector shall be acknowledged by the elector or it may be proved by the oath of a witness who shall swear that the witness knows the elector and that the petition was signed by the elector in the presence of the witness.
9 Del. C. § 4724 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 47 / Subchapter II / Section 4724
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        4724. Contracts for garbage collection authorized.
Status: in_force

The county government may enter into a contract with any private or public garbage collector to collect the garbage of each garbage collection unit located within the garbage collection district. The mere creation of a garbage collection district pursuant to § 4723 of this title shall not obligate the county government to enter into a contract hereunder if in its opinion the bids received pursuant to § 4725 of this title are too costly.
9 Del. C. § 4601 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 46 / Section 4601
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        4601. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:

(1) The term “County” shall mean Kent County.

(2) The term “district” or the term “county sewer district” shall mean any sewage disposal district or sanitary district established pursuant to this chapter.

(3) The term “sanitary district” shall mean a county sewer district established to provide 1 or more facilities necessary or convenient for the collection of sewage, the treatment of such sewage and delivery of such treated effluent into the facilities of a sewage disposal district for final treatment.

(4) The term “sewage” shall mean all types of human or animal waste, industrial or commercial waste or any other waste suitable for treatment and disposal through the facilities of sewage treatment plants.

(5) The term “sewage disposal district” shall mean a county sewer district established to provide 1 or more sewer facilities necessary or convenient for the transmission, final treatment and disposal of effluent received from the sewage collection facilities of a sanitary sewer district or from any other source as specifically provided herein.
9 Del. C. § 2210 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 22 / Subchapter I / Section 2210
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        2210. Penalties for failure to pay charges.
Status: in_force

(a) In the event that a service charge with regard to any parcel of real property is not paid as and when due, a penalty shall accrue and be due to the County on the unpaid balance at a rate and in a manner to be set by ordinance of County Council.

(b) In the event that any service charge with respect to any parcel of real property is not paid as and when due, the Chief Financial Officer of the County may, at his or her discretion, enter upon such parcel and cause the connection thereof leading directly or indirectly to the sewerage system to be cut and shut off until the service charges and any subsequent charges with regard to such parcel and all penalties thereon are fully paid.

(c) The Office of Finance of New Castle County may at any time notify in writing the person or corporation employing any person responsible for the payment of delinquent service charges hereunder that the charges are due, delinquent and unpaid and thereupon the employer shall deduct from the wages, or from any sum due such employee, the amount of the charges due from such employee, and charge the same against the employee. If such employer refuses or neglects to comply with this section within 3 months from the time of receiving such notice, the employer shall be personally liable for the charges of such person as to whom notice has been given. The Office of Finance may recover the amount of the charges from such employer in an action of debt before any Justice of the Peace. When the amount of such charges is held by any employer under this section, the employer shall pay the same to the Office of Finance within 30 days thereafter. A copy of this section shall accompany all written notices to employers.
9 Del. C. § 6512 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 65 / Section 6512
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        6512. Sale of bonds.
Status: in_force

(a) Any bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be sold at either public or private sale, upon such terms, conditions and regulations as the county government may prescribe; provided, that the county government may authorize the County Administrator to sell such bonds at public or private sale upon such terms, conditions and regulations as it may provide.

(b) If the county government determines to sell such bonds at public sale, then the county government shall advertise the bonds for sale at least once, 10 or more days before the date of sale, in at least 1 newspaper of general circulation published in the County, and in a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of New York, inviting bids for the bonds. The advertisements shall state the total amount of the proposed issue, the denominations of the bonds, the place of payment of the bonds and interest, the place and date of opening bids, the conditions under which the bonds are to be sold and such other matters as the county government may determine. The county government may give notice of the sale of the bonds in such other manner as it may decide.

(c) The county government may require each bid for the bonds to be accompanied by a certified check in the amount of the bid. After the bonds are awarded or sold to the successful bidder or bidders therefor, the county government shall return to the unsuccessful bidder or bidders the certified check or checks submitted with the bid or bids.

(d) The county government may reject any and all bids, but in awarding the sale of the bonds, or any of them, they shall be sold to the purchaser or purchasers which, in the judgment of the county government, offers the most advantageous terms.

(e) The county government shall direct and effect the preparation and printing of the bonds authorized by this chapter, shall determine whether such bonds shall be registered or bearer with coupons convertible into fully registered bonds, and shall prescribe the form of the bonds and, in the case of bearer bonds with coupons, the form of the coupons for the payment of interest thereto attached. The bonds shall state the conditions under which they are issued, the face amount of the bonds and, in the case of bearer bonds with coupons, the coupons thereto attached shall be payable at such place or places as may be designated by the county government. The bonds shall be executed, sealed and delivered as prescribed by the county government.
9 Del. C. § 552 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 5 / Subchapter II / Section 552
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        552. Bonds; power of county government to issue; terms of; faith and credit of county pledged to payment of bonds.
Status: in_force

(a) In order to carry out the provisions of this subchapter, the county government of any county of this State may issue bonds in an amount or amounts, and under such terms and conditions, not inconsistent with this subchapter, as may be determined by the county government.

(b) The bonds shall mature not later than 20 years after the date of the issue, shall bear interest at the most advantageous rate attainable by the county government and the income therefrom shall not be subject to state taxation. The bonds shall be issued in the form prescribed by the county government and shall be either registered bonds or bearer with coupons convertible into fully registered bonds. The bonds may, at the discretion of the county government, be made redeemable at par plus accrued interest on any interest payment date upon terms and conditions to be stated in the bonds. Debt incurred by the county government pursuant to this subchapter may be represented by uncertificated obligations of the county government which may be authorized in accordance with the same procedures applicable to bonds which are permitted to be issued under this subchapter, and the county government may determine all procedures appropriate to the establishment of a system of issuing uncertificated debt.

(c) The full faith and credit of the county is pledged to insure the payment of any bond issue, and all interest thereon, created and sold under this subchapter.

(d) The county government may raise by the levy of taxes upon all the property taxable by the county such moneys, in addition to available moneys held in the sinking fund provided for in § 578 of this title, as are needed to pay the bonds and the interest thereon as the same become due and payable.
9 Del. C. § 5104 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 51 / Section 5104
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        5104. Removal of lights.
Status: in_force

Lights installed under the provisions of § 5101 of this title shall be removed by the county government or at its direction only upon receipt of a petition signed by a majority of the property owners within the bounds of any lighted community or village requesting such removal.
9 Del. C. § 9111 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 91 / Section 9111
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        9111. Audit of fees.
Status: in_force

The Departments of Finance of New Castle County and of Sussex County shall, during the months of January and July in each year, audit, inspect, and examine the books, accounts, papers, records, and dockets of the several county officers and ascertain the amounts due to the county in fees. During those months, the Departments of Finance of New Castle County and of Sussex County shall report in writing to their respective county governments, which shall cause the same to be entered at large upon their minutes and published for public distribution.
9 Del. C. § 6956 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 69 / Subchapter II / Section 6956
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        6956. Required and optional elements of comprehensive plan; studies and surveys [Effective until Nov. 15, 2026].
Status: in_force

(a) The comprehensive plan shall consist of materials in such descriptive form, either written or graphic, as may be appropriate to the prescription of principles, guidelines and standards for the orderly and balanced future economic, social, physical, environmental and fiscal development of the area.

(b) Coordination of the several elements of the local comprehensive plan shall be a major objective of the planning process.

(c) A capital improvements plan covering at least a 5-year period shall be developed in accordance with the adoption of, and be consistent with, the comprehensive plan. The capital improvements plan shall be designed to consider the need for and the location of public facilities in order to encourage the efficient utilization of such facilities and set forth:

(1) Principles for construction, extension or increase in capacity of public facilities, as well as principles for correcting existing public facility deficiencies, which are necessary to implement the comprehensive plan.

(2) Estimated public facility costs, including a delineation of when facilities will be needed, the general location of the facilities and projected revenue sources to fund the facilities.

(3) Standards to ensure the availability of public facilities and the adequacy of those facilities.

(4) To the extent provisions of the Capital Improvements Plan anticipate state financial assistance, involvement or cooperation, such provisions shall be developed in conjunction with the State Capital Improvement Plan and Annual Capital Budget.

(d) The capital improvements plan shall be reviewed on an annual basis and modified as necessary. Corrections, updates and modifications concerning costs, revenue sources, acceptance of facilities pursuant to dedications which are consistent with the plan, or the date of construction of any facility enumerated in the capital improvements plan may be accomplished by ordinance and shall not be deemed to be amendments to the local comprehensive plan. All proposed improvements to public facilities shall be consistent with the capital improvements plan.

(e) Coordination of the comprehensive plan with the comprehensive plans of municipalities within the county, adjacent counties and applicable state regulations and policy shall be an objective of the comprehensive planning process. To that end, in the preparation of a comprehensive plan or element thereof, and in the comprehensive plan or element as adopted, the planning agency shall include a specific policy statement or coordinated mapping element indicating the relationship of the proposed development of the area to the comprehensive plans of municipalities within the county, adjacent counties and applicable state regulations and policy as the case may require. Such policy statement or coordinated mapping element shall specifically identify the coordination process undertaken and the official action taken by affected municipalities regarding the county comprehensive plan. Such statement or element shall also set forth the procedures to be followed to ensure continuing coordination with municipalities, regional agencies and the State. In addition, the comprehensive plan shall provide for coordination with state agencies regarding land use and development policies and shall provide for review and consideration by the Cabinet Committee on State Planning Issues at such times as required by this subchapter.

(f) The comprehensive plan and its elements shall contain policy recommendations for the implementation of the plan and its elements.

(g) The comprehensive plan shall include:

(1) A future land use plan element designating proposed future general distribution, location and extent of the uses of land for such activities as residential uses, commercial uses, industry, agriculture, recreation, conservation, education, public buildings and grounds, other public facilities and other categories of the public and private uses of land. The plan shall include standards to be followed in the control and distribution of population densities and building and structure intensities. The proposed distribution, location and extent of the various categories of land use shall be shown on a land use map or map series which shall be supplemented by goals, policies and measurable objectives. Each land use category shall be defined in terms of the types of uses included and standards for the density or intensity of use. The future land use plan shall be based upon surveys, studies and data regarding the area, including the amount of land required to accommodate anticipated growth, the projected population of the area, the character of undeveloped land and the availability of public services. The future land use plan may designate areas for future planned development use involving combinations of types of uses for which special regulations may be necessary to ensure development in accord with the principles and standards of the comprehensive plan and this subchapter. The land use maps or map series shall generally identify and depict historic district boundaries and shall designate historically significant properties meriting protection. Population, demographic, environment and economic data and projections used to determine present conditions, future land use and public facility requirements shall be developed in conjunction with the State and municipalities, and shall, as a minimum, be based on [consistent with] projections officially adopted by the Delaware Population Consortium. The sources and assumptions used to develop such projections shall be clearly identified.

(2) A mobility element which is consistent with the approved Area-wide Transportation Plan and has been developed in conjunction with the Delaware Department of Transportation. The mobility element shall provide a balanced transportation system addressing the movement of people and goods while showing existing and proposed rights-of-way, sidewalks, bikeways, rail facilities, terminals and related facilities. The mobility element shall include recommendations for land use regulations that promote a range of sustainable transportation choices for future transportation needs. The mobility element shall be consistent with the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for air quality attainment.

(3) A water and sewer element correlated to principles and guidelines for future land use, indicating ways to provide for future potable water, and wastewater disposal for the area. County government, in conjunction with the State, shall assess their current, as well as projected, water needs and sources. The element shall describe the problems and needs and the general facilities that will be required for solution of the problems and needs. The water and sewer element shall be developed in consultation with and reviewed by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. The water and sewer element shall include an assessment of fiscal considerations and shall be consistent with approved Area-wide Wastewater Treatment Plans.ion, the comprehensive plan shall provide for coordination with state agencies regarding land use and development policies and shall provide for review and consideration by the Cabinet Committee on State Planning Issues at such times as required by this subchapter.

(f) The comprehensive plan and its elements shall contain policy recommendations for the implementation of the plan and its elements.

(g) The comprehensive plan shall include:

(1) a. A future land use plan element designating proposed future general distribution, location and extent of the uses of land for such activities as residential uses, commercial uses, industry, agriculture, recreation, conservation, education, public buildings and grounds, other public facilities and other categories of the public and private uses of land. The plan shall include standards to be followed in the control and distribution of population densities and building and structure intensities. The proposed distribution, location and extent of the various categories of land use shall be shown on a land use map or map series which shall be supplemented by goals, policies and measurable objectives. Each land use category shall be defined in terms of the types of uses included and standards for the density or intensity of use. The future land use plan shall be based upon surveys, studies and data regarding the area, including the amount of land required to accommodate anticipated growth, the projected population of the area, the character of undeveloped land and the availability of public services. The future land use plan may designate areas for future planned development use involving combinations of types of uses for which special regulations may be necessary to ensure development in accord with the principles and standards of the comprehensive plan and this subchapter. The land use maps or map series shall generally identify and depict historic district boundaries and shall designate historically significant properties meriting protection. Population, demographic, environmental and economic data and projections used to determine present conditions, future land use and public facility requirements shall be developed in conjunction with the State and municipalities, and shall, as a minimum, be based on [consistent with] projections officially adopted by the Delaware Population Consortium. The sources and assumptions used to develop such projections shall be clearly identified.

b. The future land use plan must reflect strategies which consider community resiliency and reduce the vulnerability of property, agriculture, infrastructure, and cultural and natural resources to the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise, changes in rainfall patterns, and extreme weather events. The strategies must be informed by the Delaware Climate Action Plan and implementation reports as amended and in consultation with the Office of State Planning and Coordination.

(2) A mobility element which is consistent with the approved Area-wide Transportation Plan and has been developed in conjunction with the Department of Transportation. The mobility element shall provide a balanced transportation system addressing the movement of people and goods while showing existing and proposed rights-of-way, sidewalks, bikeways, walking trails, rail facilities, terminals and related facilities. The mobility element shall include recommendations for land use regulations that promote a range of sustainable transportation choices and consider alternatives to auto-centric development patterns, including transit services, where applicable for future transportation needs. The mobility element shall be consistent with the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for air quality attainment and consider the designated evacuation routes as set forth by the appropriate state agencies.nd the general facilities that will be required for solution of the problems and needs. The water and sewer element shall be developed in consultation with and reviewed by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. The water and sewer element shall include an assessment of fiscal considerations and shall be consistent with approved Area-wide Wastewater Treatment Plans.

(4) A conservation element for the conservation, use and protection of natural resources in the area and which results in the identification of these resources. At a minimum, the element shall consist of such natural area classifications as wetlands, wood uplands, habitat areas, geological areas, hydrological areas, floodplains, aquifer recharge areas, ocean beaches, soils and slopes. The land use map or map series contained in the future land use element shall generally identify and depict natural areas classifications, such as those enumerated in this section. The land uses identified on said maps shall be consistent with applicable state laws and regulations. Identification and depiction of the above shall be based on the best topographic maps and other information available from state and federal agencies or other sources that the County deems appropriate. The conservation element shall also consider areas most suited for agricultural uses, silvacultural uses and watershed protection. The conservation element shall be developed in consultation with and reviewed by the Delaware Department of Agriculture and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.

(5) A recreation and open space element indicating a comprehensive system of public and private sites for recreation including, but not limited to, nature preserves, parks and playgrounds, parkways, water bodies including beaches and public access to beaches, open spaces and other recreational facilities. A county recreation and open space plan is acceptable in lieu of a recreation and open space element. The recreation and open space element shall be consistent with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan. The element shall be developed in consultation with and reviewed by the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and shall reflect the State’s open space preservation and outdoor recreation planning activities.

(6) A housing element that is consistent with county housing plans, standards and principles. Such housing plans shall be in accordance with state and federal rules and regulations and the housing plan or housing element of the comprehensive plan shall include the following:

a. The provision of housing for existing residents and the anticipated growth of the area.

b. The elimination of substandard dwelling conditions.

c. The structural and aesthetic improvement of existing housing.

d. The provision of adequate sites for future housing, including housing for low-income and moderate-income families, group home facilities and foster care facilities, with supporting infrastructure and public facilities.

e. Provision for relocation housing and identification of historically significant and other housing for purposes of conservation, rehabilitation or replacement.

f. The formulation of housing implementation programs.

g. Demonstrated coordination with the State Housing Authority including but not limited to guidelines to insure that sites for publicly assisted housing are located where adequate transportation opportunities, health and social services and other community services are available.

(7) An intergovernmental coordination element of the comprehensive plan shall demonstrate consideration of the particular effects of the plan, when adopted, upon the development of municipalities within the County, adjacent counties or on the applicable state regulations.t promote a range of sustainable transportation choices and consider alternatives to auto-centric development patterns, including transit services, where applicable for future transportation needs. The mobility element shall be consistent with the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for air quality attainment and consider the designated evacuation routes as set forth by the appropriate state agencies.

(3) A water and sewer element correlated to principles and guidelines for future land use, indicating ways to provide for future potable water, and wastewater disposal for the area. County government, in conjunction with the State, shall assess their current, as well as projected, water needs and sources. The element shall describe the problems and needs and the general facilities that will be required for solution of the problems and needs. The water and sewer element shall be developed in consultation with and reviewed by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control. The water and sewer element shall include an assessment of fiscal considerations and shall be consistent with approved Area-wide Wastewater Treatment Plans.

(4) A conservation element for the conservation, restoration where appropriate, use and protection of natural resources in the area and which results in the identification of these resources. At a minimum, the element shall consist of such natural area classifications as wetlands, forests, uplands, habitat areas, and wildlife corridors, geological areas, hydrological areas, floodplains, aquifer recharge areas, ocean beaches, soils and slopes. The land use map or map series contained in the future land use element shall generally identify and depict natural areas classifications, such as those enumerated in this section. The land uses identified on said maps shall be consistent with applicable state laws and regulations. Identification and depiction of the above shall be based on the best topographic maps and other information available from state and federal agencies or other sources that the County deems appropriate. The conservation element shall also consider areas most suited for agricultural uses, silvicultural uses and watershed protection. The conservation element shall be developed in consultation with and reviewed by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.

(5) A recreation and open space element indicating a comprehensive system of public and private sites for recreation including, but not limited to, nature preserves, parks and playgrounds, parkways, water bodies including beaches and public access to beaches, open spaces and other recreational facilities. A county recreation and open space plan is acceptable in lieu of a recreation and open space element. The recreation and open space element shall be consistent with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan. The element shall be developed in consultation with and reviewed by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and shall reflect the State’s open space preservation and outdoor recreation planning activities.re located where adequate transportation opportunities, health and social services and other community services are available.

(7) An intergovernmental coordination element of the comprehensive plan shall demonstrate consideration of the particular effects of the plan, when adopted, upon the development of municipalities within the County, adjacent counties or on the applicable state regulations.

(8) A recommended community design element to assist in the achievement of the objectives of the comprehensive plan which may consist of design recommendations for land subdivision, neighborhood development, neighborhood redevelopment, design of open space locations and similar matters. To that end, such recommendations may be made available as aids and guides to developers in the future planning and development of land in the area.

(9) An historical preservation element which sets out plans and programs for those structures or lands in the area having historical, archaeological, architectural or similar significance. The historical preservation element shall be developed in consultation with and reviewed by the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs of the Delaware Department of State.

(10) An economic development element setting forth principles and guidelines for the commercial and industrial development, if any, and the employment and personnel utilization within the area. The element may detail the type of commercial and industrial development sought while correlating the present and projected employment needs of the area to other elements of the plan and may set forth methods by which a balanced and stable economic base will be pursued. The economic development element shall include a general area redevelopment component consisting of plans, criteria and programs for community redevelopment, including reuse of housing sites, business sites, industrial sites, central business districts, public building sites, recreational facilities and other locations. The economic development element shall be developed in consultation with and reviewed by the Division of Small Business.

(11) An educational element consistent with the plans of the local school districts which guide the construction and allocation of school facilities within the districts, if such plans exist. This element will be developed with input from the local school districts, the Department of Education, and the Office of State Planning and Coordination. The educational element shall include recommendations for promoting coordination between residential development and adequate school capacity and must take into account any adequate public facilities ordinance or other county code provisions related to school capacity.

(h) The comprehensive plan may include such other elements as may be peculiar to and/or necessary for the area concerned and as are added by the governing body upon the recommendation of the local planning agency.

(i) Transferred.pen space plan is acceptable in lieu of a recreation and open space element. The recreation and open space element shall be consistent with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan. The element shall be developed in consultation with and reviewed by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and shall reflect the State’s open space preservation and outdoor recreation planning activities.

(6) A housing element that is consistent with county housing plans, standards and principles. Such housing plans shall be in accordance with state and federal rules and regulations and the housing plan or housing element of the comprehensive plan shall include the following:

a. The provision of housing for existing residents and the anticipated growth of the area. Anticipated growth scenarios must be in conformance with the strategies reflected in the future land use plan and encourage development of new housing growth away from areas vulnerable to inland and coastal flooding.

b. The elimination of substandard dwelling conditions.

c. The structural and aesthetic improvement of existing housing.

d. The provision of adequate sites for future housing, including housing for low-income and moderate-income families, group home facilities and foster care facilities, with supporting infrastructure and public facilities.

e. Provision for relocation housing and identification of historically significant and other housing for purposes of conservation, rehabilitation or replacement.

f. The formulation of housing implementation programs.

g. Demonstrated coordination with the State Housing Authority including, but not limited to, guidelines to ensure that sites for publicly assisted housing are located where adequate transportation opportunities, health and social services and other community services are available.

(7) An intergovernmental coordination element of the comprehensive plan shall demonstrate consideration of the particular effects of the plan, when adopted, upon the development of municipalities within the County, adjacent counties or on the applicable state regulations.

(8) A recommended community design element to assist in the achievement of the objectives of the comprehensive plan which may consist of design recommendations for land subdivision, neighborhood development, neighborhood redevelopment, design of open space locations and similar matters. To that end, such recommendations may be made available as aids and guides to developers in the future planning and development of land in the area.

(9) An historical preservation element which sets out plans and programs for those structures or lands in the area having historical, archaeological, architectural or similar significance. The historical preservation element shall be developed in consultation with and reviewed by the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs of the Delaware Department of State.

(10) An economic development element setting forth principles and guidelines for the commercial and industrial development, if any, and the employment and personnel utilization within the area. The element may detail the type of commercial and industrial development sought while correlating the present and projected employment needs of the area to other elements of the plan and may set forth methods by which a balanced and stable economic base will be pursued. The economic development element shall include a general area redevelopment component consisting of plans, criteria and programs for community redevelopment, including reuse of housing sites, business sites, industrial sites, central business districts, public building sites, recreational facilities and other locations. The economic development element shall be developed in consultation with and reviewed by the Division of Small Business.

(11) An educational element consistent with the plans of the local school districts which guide the construction and allocation of school facilities within the districts, if such plans exist. This element will be developed with input from the local school districts, the Department of Education, and the Office of State Planning and Coordination. The educational element shall include recommendations for promoting coordination between residential development and adequate school capacity and must take into account any adequate public facilities ordinance or other county code provisions related to school capacity.

(h) The comprehensive plan may include such other elements as may be peculiar to and/or necessary for the area concerned and as are added by the governing body upon the recommendation of the local planning agency.

(i) Transferred.
9 Del. C. § 1524 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 15 / Subchapter II / Section 1524
§ Â
        1524. Dumping of garbage, rubbish, ashes or other waste material; penalty for violation.
Status: in_force

(a) The County Council may regulate or prohibit the dumping of rubbish, garbage, ashes or any other waste material in or upon land within the County outside of any incorporated municipality and, for that purpose, adopt and from time to time amend or rescind, suitable ordinances, rules or regulations; provided however, that this section shall not apply to the Appoquinimink Hundred and Blackbird Hundred of New Castle County.

(b) The County Council shall have power to license public garbage collectors who comply with and meet the requirements of the rules, regulations and ordinances adopted by the County Council. The County Council shall charge each public garbage collector $100 per year for said license.

(c) Whoever violates the regulations of the County Council established under this section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $200, or imprisonment not exceeding 30 days, or both. In the case of continuing violations, each day of such violation shall constitute a separate offense.

(d) The County Council or any owner of real estate within New Castle County injured by a violation of any ordinance, rule or regulation adopted by the County Council pursuant to this section, may, in addition to other remedies provided by law, institute injunction, mandamus, abatement or any other appropriate action or actions, proceeding or proceedings, to prevent, enjoin, abate or remove any violations against regulations adopted pursuant to this section.
9 Del. C. § 913 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 9 / Subchapter I / Section 913
§ Â
        913. Liability of dog owner for damages [Transferred].
Status: in_force

Transferred to § 3053F of Title 16 by 80 Del. Laws, c. 248, § 5, effective May 25, 2016.
9 Del. C. § 4612 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 46 / Section 4612
§ Â
        4612. Powers of the county government.
Status: in_force

In addition to other powers which it has in reference to a district or extension thereof, the county government may:

(1) Plan, construct, reconstruct, improve, better or extend a sewage system or systems, acquire by gift, purchase, lease or the exercise of the right to eminent domain, a sewage system or lands or rights in land in connection therewith; on behalf of a district, acquire by purchase or lease any sewage collection, treatment or disposal facilities owned, maintained or operated by any municipal, public or district corporation, or special district, and such agencies shall have the power to sell or lease such facilities to a county sewer district, notwithstanding that such sewage facilities have already been devoted to and are held for public use; and may, instead of making any cash payment agreed or required to be made to the municipal, public or district corporation or special district, as compensation for such sewage facilities, agree to pay the principal of and interest on outstanding bonds issued by or on behalf of such municipal, public or district corporation or special district, of a principal amount not exceeding any lump sum amount agreed upon as consideration for such purchase or lease, as such principal and interest shall become due and payable;

(2) Operate and maintain a sewage system or systems, and furnish the services and facilities rendered or afforded thereby;

(3) Enter into and perform contracts, whether long term or short term, with any industrial establishment, municipality, district or agency of the state or federal government for the provision and operation by the county sewer district of a sewage system to abate or reduce the pollution of waters caused by discharges of sewage and industrial wastes by such industrial establishment, municipality, district or agency of the state or federal government; and such contract may provide for the payment periodically by the industrial establishment, municipality, district or agency of the state or federal government to the county sewer district of amounts to compensate the county sewer districts for the cost of providing (including payment of principal and interest charges, if any) and of operating and maintaining the sewage system or part thereof serving such industrial establishments, municipality, district or agency of the state or federal government;

(4) After appropriate notice, require a municipality, public or district corporation or special district which maintains or operates any sewage collection treatment or disposal facilities within the area of a county sewage disposal district, established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, to connect to and utilize the sewage system and facilities of such county sewage disposal district in order to abate or reduce the pollution of waters caused by discharges of sewage and industrial waste;

(5) Accept from any authorized agency of the state or federal government, or from persons, firms or corporations, loans, grants or contribution for the planning, construction, acquisition, lease, reconstruction, improvement, betterment or extension of any sewage system and enter into agreements respecting such loans, grants and contributions;

(6) Accept grants or loans of money, labor, materials, equipment or technical assistance from agencies of the federal or state government or from interstate agencies established by law to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, and may pay the interest and amortization of such loans;

(7) Enter into and perform contracts with any person for the sale of effluent products;

(8) After a public hearing called and held in a manner provided in § 4604 of this title, adopt, amend, and repeal from time to time ordinances, resolutions, and rules and regulations for the operation of a county sewer district and the use of the sewerage system therein, including regulation of the manner of making connections and the construction to the system and all facilities and appurtenances associated therewith; and

(9) Impose a fine of not less than $500 or more than $10,000 for a violation of any ordinance, resolution or rule or regulation, so adopted by the county government relating to operation of a county sewer district and the use of the sewerage system therein, including regulation of the manner of making connections and the construction to the system and all facilities and appurtenances associated therewith.
9 Del. C. § 8422 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 84 / Subchapter II / Section 8422
§ Â
        8422. Collection of school taxes.
Status: in_force

The receiver of taxes and county treasurer or director of finance for each county shall collect all school taxes assessed and levied therein except as otherwise provided by law.
9 Del. C. § 6811 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 68 / Section 6811
§ Â
        6811. Approval or disapproval of plat by Commission; appeal.
Status: in_force

The Commission shall approve or disapprove a plat within 45 days after the submission thereof; otherwise such plat shall be deemed to have been approved and a certificate to that effect shall be issued by the Commission upon demand. Such period may be extended by mutual agreement between the Commission and the applicant for the Commission’s approval. The grounds of disapproval of any plat shall be stated upon the records of the Commission and a copy of such statement shall be furnished to the applicant. No plat shall be acted upon by the Commission without affording a hearing thereon as outlined in § 6812 of this title and notice of the time and place of which shall be sent by registered mail to such applicant not less than 5 days before the date fixed therefor. Any approval or disapproval may be appealed to the county government within 30 days of the official action of the county government.
9 Del. C. § 2217 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 22 / Subchapter I / Section 2217
§ Â
        2217. Licensed plumber to connect property with sewers.
Status: in_force

All necessary plumbing work to be done in connecting any property with a county sewer shall be done by a plumber licensed to do business in this State in a good and workmanlike manner and with good and proper materials, and shall be subject to the approval of the Department of Public Works.
9 Del. C. § 1101 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 11 / Subchapter I / Section 1101
§ Â
        1101. General powers.
Status: in_force

(a) Granted. — The Government of New Castle County as established by this chapter shall assume and have all powers which, under the Constitution of this State, it would be competent for the General Assembly to grant by specific enumeration, and which are not denied by statute, including, but not limited to, any powers conferred prior to May 26, 1965, by the General Assembly upon New Castle County, or upon the Levy Court of New Castle County, or upon the Levy Court Commissioners of New Castle County, or upon the officers or employees of New Castle County, or upon counties generally, or upon Levy Court Commissioners generally. This grant of power includes the power to fix the tax rate upon the assessed valuation of all real property in New Castle County subject to assessment by the County. This grant of power further includes the power to fix the fees of the Recorder of Deeds in New Castle County for services, any statute denying such right to the contrary notwithstanding. This grant of power further includes the power to impose a surcharge on any application for a building permit issued by New Castle County in an amount not to exceed .5% of the residential construction value and of the first million dollars of commercial construction value applicable to said building permit application, to provide funding for volunteer fire companies except that this surcharge shall not be added to building permits applied for by an organization exempt from tax under § 501(c)(3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code [26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)] which provides owner-occupied housing to low and moderate income households by rehabilitating residential properties and reselling said properties without profit, nor to the Delaware State Housing Authority nor to any applicant funded by the Delaware State Housing Authority. This grant of power does not include the power to enact private or civil law concerning civil relationships, except as incident to the exercise of an expressly granted power, and does not include the power to define and provide for the punishment of felonies. This grant of power shall also include the power to impose and collect by ordinance a tax upon the transfer of real property situate within the unincorporated areas of the County, subject to the conditions and limitations provided in § 8102 of this title.

(b) Construction. — The powers of New Castle County shall be construed liberally in favor of the County, and specific mention of particular powers in this title shall not be construed as limiting in any way the general powers stated herein.
9 Del. C. § 713 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 7 / Subchapter II / Section 713
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        713. Form of ballot.
Status: in_force

The question for establishment of a park district and for election of park commissioners shall be presented in the following form:

(1) The question shall be stated as follows:

(Insert name of district) Park District

In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 7, Title 9, of the Delaware Code a petition has been filed to submit to the voters of the proposed (insert name of district) Park District the following question,

“Shall the (insert name of district) Park District be established?”

________________________________ For

________________________________ Against

(2) The park commissioners shall be voted upon as follows:

a.

1. If the territory of the proposed park district includes no more than 1 hundred or more than 7 hundreds then all commissioners shall be voted upon at large and the 7 candidates with the greatest number of votes shall be declared elected.

2. If the proposed park district includes part or all of the territory of 2 hundreds but no more than 2, then 3 of the commissioners shall be elected from among nominees from each hundred and 1 shall be elected from among nominees for commissioner-at-large.

3. If the proposed park district includes territory of 3 hundreds then 2 commissioners shall be elected from each hundred and 1 at large.

4. If the district includes territory of 4, 5, 6, or 7 hundreds, then 1 commissioner shall be elected from each hundred and the remainder, if any, 3, 2, 1, or none, respectively, shall be elected at large.

b. All voters may vote for 7 candidates, whether or not the voter is a resident of the hundred or hundreds from which the candidates have been nominated but a voter may vote for only as many candidates from each hundred or at large as there are commissioners to be elected from each hundred or at large. Where 1, 2, or 3 commissioners are to be elected from nominees from a particular hundred or at large, then the person or 2 or 3 persons respectively with the highest number of votes from among the nominees from that hundred or at large shall be declared elected.

c. The voting for commissioners shall be set up about as follows:

For Park Commissioner(s) From (insert name)

Hundred Vote for (insert number)

________________________________ (Here insert names of nominees if any, in the order

________________________________ in which the nominating petitions are received. No

________________________________ party symbols, slogans or other identification may

________________________________ be used.)

(Provide 5 additional blank lines for voters to write in names if desired.)

For Park Commissioner(s)-At-Large

Vote for (insert number)

________________________________ (Here insert names of nominees, if any, in the order

________________________________ in which the nominating petitions are received. No

________________________________ party symbols, slogans, or other identification may

________________________________ be used.)

(Provide 5 additional blank lines for voters to write in names if desired.)

(3) Said ballot shall be authenticated by facsimile signature of the clerk of the county government or clerk of the peace upon the reverse side thereof.
9 Del. C. § 6921 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 69 / Subchapter I / Section 6921
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        6921. List of nonconforming structures and uses.
Status: in_force

Immediately after the adoption of any zoning regulations or changes by the county government, the Commission shall prepare and publish a complete list of all nonconforming structures and uses in the affected area and existing at the time of the adoption of the regulations. Such lists shall contain the names and addresses of the owner or owners of such nonconforming structures and uses and of any occupant, other than the owner, and list the nonconforming structure or use and applicable section of the zoning regulation. Any necessary corrections shall be made under a procedure prescribed by the county government, and copies of such list shall, when approved by the county government, be filed for record in the offices of the Commission and the Board of Adjustment.
9 Del. C. § 8432 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 84 / Subchapter II / Section 8432
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        8432. Power to require assistance in New Castle County.
Status: in_force

The Director of Finance for New Castle County shall have the same right to require the aid or assistance of the person or persons, in the performance of the Director’s duties, which a sheriff has by law.
9 Del. C. § 512 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 5 / Subchapter I / Section 512
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        512. Notification to Director if bond issue authorized.
Status: in_force

If the certificate of the judge of election reveals that a majority of the votes cast at the election is in favor of the issuance of bonds by the county government to cover the cost of the improvement or improvements contemplated, the county government shall promptly notify, in writing, the Director of the Division of Highways of the Department of Transportation.
9 Del. C. § 2904 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 29 / Section 2904
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        2904. Removal of weeds, grasses, refuse, rubbish, trash or other waste material.
Status: in_force

No person shall permit weeds or grass to grow, or refuse, rubbish, trash or other waste material to be placed or to accumulate upon, land or improved premises so as to create a nuisance detrimental to adjoining properties or the health or safety of other persons.
9 Del. C. § 339 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 3 / Subchapter II / Section 339
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        339. Rules.
Status: in_force

The governing body of each county may make rules for its government not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of the State.
9 Del. C. § 521 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 5 / Subchapter I / Section 521
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        521. Supervision of work.
Status: in_force

After the awarding of the contract or contracts, all work performed under the contract or contracts shall be under the direct supervision and direction of the Director of Operations of the Department of Transportation, which Department shall be reimbursed at the rate of 10 percent of the contract bid.
9 Del. C. § 2306 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 23 / Section 2306
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        2306. Election on question of establishment of district.
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever the determination on the question of establishing the district, as required by § 2305 of this title, is in the affirmative, and after the other requirements of that section have been complied with, the County Council then shall cause an election to be held within 6 months following the date of the hearing, at which the question shall be submitted to the voters residing within the boundaries of the sanitary sewer district as fixed by the County Council as to whether the district shall be established or not. Notice of the election shall be advertised in the same manner as provided in § 2304 of this title for advertising the public hearing. The cost of the election shall be borne by the County Council, which shall be reimbursed for such cost by the district, if established by the election.

(b) The proposition shall be submitted to the voters substantially in the following form:

FOR THE SANITARY SEWER DISTRICT

AGAINST THE SANITARY SEWER DISTRICT

(c) The majority of votes cast shall decide the matter.

(d) The election shall be managed and the votes canvassed in such manner as may be prescribed by the County Council. Every citizen who resides in the proposed sanitary sewer district in which the election is being held and who would be entitled at the time of the holding of such election to register and vote in any election district in which the proposed sanitary sewer district is a part, at a general election, if such general election were held on the day of such election in the proposed sanitary sewer district, may vote at such election whether or not the citizen is at the time a registered voter.
9 Del. C. § 4403 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 44 / Section 4403
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        4403. Reports on permits issued by incorporated cities or towns.
Status: in_force

Building inspectors or other officers authorized by law to issue permits for construction of any buildings, in any incorporated city or town in Kent County, shall report to the Board of Assessment of Kent County, within 10 days of the date of finalization and/or date of issuance of a certificate of occupancy, every permit issued by them respectively. Every permit shall specify the estimated cost of the proposed construction, and date the permit was finalized and/or a certificate of occupancy was issued.
9 Del. C. § 5404 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 54 / Section 5404
§ Â
        5404. Payment of bonds.
Status: in_force

Bonds shall be payable from the special fund described in this chapter, and the Levy Court may also establish sinking funds, establish debt service reserve funds, or pledge other assets and revenues towards the payment of the principal, premium, if any, and interest, including special taxes levied and collected pursuant to Chapter 55 of this title.
9 Del. C. § 526 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 5 / Subchapter I / Section 526
§ Â
        526. Lien book; preparation and distribution.
Status: in_force

(a) Within 30 days after the passage of the resolution mentioned in § 525 of this title, the county government shall prepare books, in triplicate, containing the following information:

(1) The name of each freeholder in the suburban community;

(2) The amount of foot frontage of each freeholder abutting on the improvement or improvements so contemplated;

(3) The total amount, in dollars, of the special assessment or levy against the property of each freeholder; and

(4) The proportionate annual amount of payment in dollars, of the special assessment or levy.

(b) The books shall be entitled “Suburban Community Lien Book,” specifying the name of the suburban community.

(c) One of the books shall be retained by the county government, 1 shall be placed in the office of the prothonotary of the county in which the suburban community is situated, and another shall be placed in the office of the receiver of taxes and county treasurer in the county.
9 Del. C. § 4507 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 45 / Subchapter I / Section 4507
§ Â
        4507. Authorization of covenants in bonds.
Status: in_force

(a) In the event that the County issues bonds, the resolutions authorizing the issuance of such bonds may contain covenants as to:

(1) The purpose to which the proceeds of sale of the bonds may be applied and the use and disposition thereof;

(2) The use and disposition of the revenue of the water systems, the revenues of which are pledged to the payment of such bonds, including the creation and maintenance of reserves;

(3) The issuance of other or additional bonds payable from the revenues of such water systems;

(4) The operation and maintenance of such water systems;

(5) The insurance to be carried thereon and the use and disposition of insurance moneys;

(6) Books of account and the inspection and audit thereof;

(7) The terms and conditions upon which the holders of the bonds or any proportion of them, or any trustee therefor, shall be entitled to the appointment of a receiver by the appropriate court, which court shall have jurisdiction in such proceedings, and which receiver may enter and take possession of the water systems, operate and maintain them, prescribe service charges therefor, and collect, receive and apply all revenue thereafter arising therefrom in the same manner as the County itself might do.

(b) This chapter and any such resolution or resolutions shall be a contract with the holders of the bonds, and the duties of the County and of the county government and officers under this chapter, and any such resolutions shall be enforceable by any bondholder, by mandamus or other appropriate suit, action or proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction.
9 Del. C. § 804 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 8 / Subchapter II / Section 804
§ Â
        804. Payment of costs of countywide library system.
Status: in_force

In the event that a countywide library system is established in Kent County, the cost of establishment, maintenance, operation and all other costs thereof shall be paid from the general fund of the County out of general county tax proceeds.
9 Del. C. § 8753 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 87 / Subchapter III / Section 8753
§ Â
        8753. Purchase at Sheriffâs Sale by agent of County.
Status: in_force

New Castle County Council may authorize any person to bid at the sale of any real estate under this chapter and, in the event that such person is the highest and best bidder therefor, title thereto shall be taken in the name of New Castle County. County Council shall not authorize anyone to bid in excess of the aggregate amount of all taxes, service charges, penalties and obligations due to New Castle County, including costs incurred in the collection process.
9 Del. C. § 4925 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 49 / Subchapter I / Section 4925
§ Â
        4925. Changes in zoning.
Status: in_force

In the case of a rezoning application the county government shall determine its voting requirement necessary to take action thereon, which shall not be less than a majority of all members elected to Levy Court.
9 Del. C. § 2515 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 25 / Section 2515
§ Â
        2515. Exceptions.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not apply to any of the following:

(1) A building or structure devoted to agricultural use as defined in Chapter 26 of this title.

(2) A property, building, or structure located within a municipality unless New Castle County has any responsibility for the local service function under § 1102 of this title.
9 Del. C. § 2505 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 25 / Section 2505
§ Â
        2505. Fees.
Status: in_force

The County Council shall adopt rules and regulations providing for the charge of reasonable fees for the administration and enforcement of the New Castle County Building Code including fees for the issuance of permits, inspections and registration. The basis for establishing building permit costs shall be limited to the building or structure and its functional parts including its mechanical system, fuel gas system, plumbing system, building sewer system or any other similar system within or about such building or structure.
9 Del. C. § 2910 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 29 / Section 2910
§ Â
        2910. Exceptions.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not apply to a property, building, or structure located within a municipality unless New Castle County has any responsibility for the local service function under § 1102 of this title.
9 Del. C. § 745 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 7 / Subchapter III / Section 745
§ Â
        745. Publication of appropriation ordinances.
Status: in_force

All ordinances of any park district making appropriations shall within 10 days after their passage, be published at least once in 1 or more newspapers published in the park district, or if no newspaper is published therein, then in 1 or more newspapers of general circulation within the park district; and no such ordinance shall take effect until 10 days after it is so published.
9 Del. C. § 2506 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 25 / Section 2506
§ Â
        2506. Department of Land Use; administration and enforcement.
Status: in_force

The Department of Land Use shall have the power and authority to administer and enforce all provisions of the New Castle County Building Code as promulgated by the County Council except as otherwise provided for by this chapter or by rule and regulation adopted by County Council.
9 Del. C. § 809 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 8 / Subchapter II / Section 809
§ Â
        809. Library districts â Tax collection warrant.
Status: in_force

(a) At the time of delivery of the duplicate assessment lists to the Receiver of Taxes and County Treasurer there shall be attached to each list a tax collection warrant which shall be executed in the manner and substantially in the form prescribed by subsections (b) and (c) of this section.

(b) Each warrant shall be dated as of the date on which the taxes referred to therein were levied and shall be signed by at least 2 elected officials of the Kent County Levy Court and sealed with the seal of the County and attested by the Clerk of the Peace.

(c) The warrants shall be substantially in the following form:

STATE OF DELAWARE

 SS.

KENT COUNTY

To the Receiver of Taxes and County Treasurer of Kent County, greetings:

We command you that you collect from the persons named in the duplicate assessment list annexed hereto, for their library district taxes payable to Kent County for the year beginning July first next, __________ percent as a rate upon every one hundred dollars on the amount of their respective assessments; and if any person named in the annexed duplicate assessment list shall not pay that person’s tax after you have demanded payment, we command you in such case that you collect the tax, or the part thereof remaining unpaid, with lawful costs, in the manner prescribed by law. And we further command you that you pay the amount which, according to this warrant and the annexed duplicate assessment list you are required to collect, in the manner and within the times appointed by law in this behalf. Hereof fail not at your peril.

Given at Dover by the order of Kent County, under the hands of us, members of said county governing body, the ________________ day of ________________, A.D. ________

Seal of Office of the ________________________________________________________________

Clerk of Peace ________________________________________________________________Commissioners

ATTEST :________________Clerk of the Peace
9 Del. C. § 5515 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 55 / Section 5515
§ Â
        5515. Special development district consistency with certified comprehensive plan.
Status: in_force

The use of lands in a special development district shall be consistent with the comprehensive plan for the area as certified pursuant to § 9103(f) of Title 29.
9 Del. C. § 8752 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 87 / Subchapter III / Section 8752
§ Â
        8752. Exemption laws do not apply; those liable as garnishee.
Status: in_force

The defendant in any writ of attachment under this subchapter shall not be entitled to the benefit of any of the exemption laws of this State. All persons, firms, associations, corporations, public and private, including banks, trust companies, savings institutions, loan associations and insurance companies and public officers and the agents, servants and trustees of the defendant shall be liable to be summoned as garnishee for which purpose service of the summons as provided in other attachment cases shall be sufficient to render the persons and the officers of the corporations subject to all the liabilities provided by law and the answer of such persons and of such officers so served with the attachment shall be enforced in the same manner as is now provided by law in other cases.
9 Del. C. § 4906 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 49 / Subchapter I / Section 4906
§ Â
        4906. Personnel and office facilities of Zoning Commission.
Status: in_force

The Zoning Commission may employ such experts, trained personnel, and staff as the funds provided therefor may permit. The county government shall furnish the Zoning Commission with appropriate office space and other facilities. The county government may pay to the Regional Planning Commission of Kent County for salaries and other expenses of the Zoning Commission an amount based upon a proportionate use of personnel and facilities of the Regional Planning Commission by the Zoning Commission.
9 Del. C. § 535 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 5 / Subchapter I / Section 535
§ Â
        535. Suburban community streets and roads.
Status: in_force

All roads and streets situated in unincorporated suburban communities throughout the State shall henceforth be constructed or reconstructed in accordance with the requirements of Title 17 and any rules, regulations or standards adopted pursuant thereto, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
9 Del. C. § 1312 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 13 / Subchapter I / Section 1312
§ Â
        1312. Regulations governing organization, procedure and jurisdiction of the Board of Adjustment.
Status: in_force

The Board of Adjustment shall adopt regulations to govern the organization, procedure and jurisdiction of the Board. The regulations shall not be inconsistent with this title and shall not become effective unless and until approved by the County Executive.
9 Del. C. § 9607 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 96 / Section 9607
§ Â
        9607. Collection of recording fees; certain taxes; Housing Development Fund surcharge; Delaware Cultural Access Fund fee.
Status: in_force

(a) The recorder may require the payment of fees for recording any instrument as soon as the recorder shall have noted the date of reception on such instrument.

(b) The recorder of each county shall collect, for each document or paper recorded or filed, a surcharge of $5.00 for the support of the Housing Development Fund and an additional $25 fee for the support of the Delaware Cultural Access Fund. The surcharge of $5.00 and the additional $25 fee is included in the assessment fee collected by each county in accordance with § 103(c)(6) of Title 8. Any instrument for which an assessment fee is charged shall be considered 1 document for purposes of determining the surcharge of $5.00 and the $25 fee. If a county, by ordinance, waives county recording fees for common interest communities or civic associations, the recorder for that county shall not collect the surcharge of $5.00 or fee of $25 under this subsection for any document or paper recorded or filed by a common interest community or civic association.

(c) Not later than the twentieth day of each month, each recorder of deeds shall remit to the State Treasurer 95% of the amount of the surcharge collected under subsection (b) of this section. The State Treasurer shall deposit such funds into the Housing Development Fund established under subchapter V of Chapter 40 of Title 31. Each recorder of deeds shall retain 5% of the amount of the surcharge as compensation for the expenses of the recorder of deeds in collecting and remitting the surcharge provided in subsection (b) of this section.

(d) Not later than the twentieth day of each month, each recorder of deeds shall remit to the State Treasurer 99% of the amount of the Delaware Cultural Access Fund fees collected under subsection (b) of this section. The State Treasurer shall deposit such funds into the special fund established under subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 29. The 1% of the amount of the fees which are retained by the recorders of deeds shall be used by the respective county governments to cover costs associated with collection and remitting of the fee, and as funding to support records management and preservation activities within those county governments.

(e) (1) Pursuant to §§ 1126, 1606 and 1909 of Title 30, before the recorder shall record a deed conveying title in Delaware real estate by a nonresident individual, a nonresident pass-through entity, or a nonresident corporation, as those terms are defined the relevant sections of Title 30, the recorder shall receive the tax return or report, and collect the estimated income tax reported due, if any. The estimated taxes collected under this subsection shall be accounted for and remitted with the tax return or report to the Secretary of Finance no later than the twentieth day of the month following the recording of the deed.

(2) The tax returns or reports and the amounts of tax collected pursuant to § 1126, § 1606 or § 1909 of Title 30, and the recorders and their employees or agents, shall be subject to the secrecy provisions and penalties of § 368 of Title 30.
9 Del. C. § 8154 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 81 / Subchapter III / Section 8154
§ Â
        8154. Conditions for charitable exemptions; penalty for false statement or certification.
Status: in_force

No church, religious society, charitable corporation or other nonprofit organization shall be entitled to the exemption granted pursuant to this subchapter unless the following additional conditions are satisfied:

(1) An affidavit must be filed with the taxing authorities of the county and other political subdivisions by the president of the organization or the executive director or presiding authority of the organization, certifying that said organization is nonprofit and that the project for which exemption is sought is operated on a nonprofit basis and is principally devoted to housing for the elderly as defined in § 8152 of this title. The affidavit must further state the name and address of the officers of the organization, the purposes of the organization, and the basis for the authority of the officer to make and file such affidavit on behalf of the organization;

(2) A certified financial statement must be filed with the taxing authorities showing all income received by the organization from any source in connection with the project and all expenditures made to any person in connection with the project for which exemption is sought; the statement must be certified by a certified public accountant authorized and licensed to practice in this State. The statement must be filed on or before July 1 of each calendar year; a projected statement must be filed for the first year of operation;

(3) A certification must be filed with the taxing authorities of the county and other political subdivision by the authorized officials of the organization certifying, warranting and covenanting that the project for which exemption is sought will be operated on a nonprofit basis during its entire existence and that it will not be sold, transferred, or conveyed except to another nonprofit church, religious society, charitable corporation or nonprofit organization qualifying for exemption under this subchapter and will not be principally devoted to any purpose other than housing for elderly persons as defined in § 8152 of this title. This certification shall bind the organization filing it in perpetuity and shall be enforceable in law and at equity by the county and other political subdivision of this State in which the project is situate;

(4) Any person, officer or director acting on behalf of any church, religious society, charitable corporation or nonprofit organization filing a false statement or certification shall be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000 and/or be imprisoned for not more than 10 years.
9 Del. C. § 5510 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 55 / Section 5510
§ Â
        5510. Bonds issued are  securities.
Status: in_force

Bonds issued under this chapter are securities in which all public officers and public bodies of the State and its political subdivisions, all insurance companies, state banks and trust companies, national banking associations, savings banks, savings and loan associations, investment companies, executors, administrators, trustees, and other fiduciaries may properly and legally invest funds, including capital in their control or belonging to them.
9 Del. C. § 2608 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 26 / Subchapter I / Section 2608
§ Â
        2608. Zoning coordination and integration; committees and rules of Department of Land Use.
Status: in_force

(a) The New Castle County Department of Land Use may cooperate with other planning and zoning commissions within New Castle County and within other counties and states, and with the planning, zoning, legislative and administrative authorities of incorporated or unincorporated municipalities, either within or without such County, with a view to coordinating and integrating the zoning of the County with the planning and zoning of other counties or of municipalities.

(b) The Department of Land Use may appoint committees and adopt such rules for the conduct of its business as it deems proper to effect such cooperation or to more expeditiously and effectively perform its functions.
9 Del. C. § 1323 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 13 / Subchapter I / Section 1323
§ Â
        1323. Obligations and rights of property owners.
Status: in_force

The adoption of this subchapter shall in no manner increase the responsibility of such property owner nor deny the property owner of any right possessed prior to May 26, 1965, except to the extent specifically provided in this subchapter.
9 Del. C. § 6308 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 63 / Section 6308
§ Â
        6308. Notice of violation.
Status: in_force

(a) Whenever the Department of Finance is satisfied that a building is being constructed without a permit first being issued therefor, it may serve a written notice or order upon the person responsible therefor, directing discontinuance of the construction until a permit has been obtained from the Department.

(b) A person served with such notice or order shall, within 5 days, comply with the requirements thereof.
9 Del. C. § 101 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 1 / Section 101
§ Â
        101. Division of State into counties.
Status: in_force

The State is divided into 3 counties: New Castle, Kent and Sussex.
9 Del. C. § 2208 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 22 / Subchapter I / Section 2208
§ Â
        2208. Service charges; amount and application.
Status: in_force

(a) If the County issues revenue bonds under this chapter, the County Council shall prescribe and collect reasonable service charges for the services and facilities rendered or afforded by the sewerage systems, the revenues of which are pledged to the payment of such bonds, and shall revise such service charges from time to time whenever necessary.

(b) The service charges prescribed shall be such as will procure revenue at least sufficient:

(1) To pay when due all revenue bonds and interest thereon, for the payment of which such revenue is or shall have been pledged, charged or otherwise encumbered, including reserves therefor; and

(2) To provide for all expenses of operation and maintenance of such sewerage systems, including reserves therefor.

(c) The service charges when collected shall be applied to the payment of the revenue bonds and interest and to the expenses of such operation and maintenance in accordance with the resolutions authorizing the revenue bonds.
9 Del. C. § 6514 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 65 / Section 6514
§ Â
        6514. Collection of assessments.
Status: in_force

The annual assessments, shall be collected by the county government as are other county taxes. The properties against which such assessments are levied shall be liable for the payment of the assessments in the same manner as they are liable for other county taxes. Such assessment charges shall, as near the county government deems practicable and equitable, be uniform throughout the area served by the sanitary sewer district, and may be based or computed either on the consumption of water or in connection with the real property, making due allowances for commercial use of water, or on the number and kind of water outlets on or in connection with the real property, or on the number and kind of plumbing fixtures or facilities on or in connection with the real property, or on the number of persons residing or working on or otherwise connected or identified with the real property, or on a front footage basis, or on other factors determining the type, class and amount of use or service of the sanitary sewer system, or on any combination of such factors. No assessment shall be made against any property which is not subject to taxation and assessment for county and municipal purposes.
9 Del. C. § 9614 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 96 / Section 9614
§ Â
        9614. Report of real estate transfers to boards of assessment and taxing authorities of incorporated towns and cities; to Wilmington Department of Surveys.
Status: in_force

(a) Each recorder shall furnish to the board of assessment or department of finance a proper description of each parcel of real estate which is conveyed by deed and, in addition, shall furnish to the taxing authorities of incorporated towns and cities, copies of the descriptions of such parcels of real estate conveyed which are located within the boundaries of such towns and cities. The recorder shall also furnish to the board of assessment or department of finance and to the taxing authorities of incorporated towns and cities, in proper cases, the date of conveyance, the names of the grantor and grantee and, if known to the recorder, the address of the grantee. The information shall be furnished within a reasonable time after the deed is lodged with the recorder. Such information need not be supplied to the board of assessment or department of finance if it is noted on the deed by the board of assessment or department of finance that the purchaser has supplied the required information to the board of assessment or department of finance.

(b) When a deed conveys real estate within the City of Wilmington, the Recorder for New Castle County shall furnish certificates thereof to the Department of Surveys of that City.

(c) In addition to all other information provided by each recorder to the Division of Revenue or such other state agency or department which is assigned the responsibility of the collection of income taxes by the State, each recorder shall also, within 30 days of the date of recording any deed or other instrument purporting to convey title to real estate as to which an affidavit of residence and gain was filed pursuant to § 9605(h) of this title, forward to the Division of Revenue or such other state department or agency a copy of the said affidavit of residence and gain filed as part of that transaction.
9 Del. C. § 9610 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 96 / Section 9610
§ Â
        9610. Recording of official obligations; notation of cancellation.
Status: in_force

(a) Each recorder shall record the official obligations of constables, registers of wills, Prothonotaries, clerks of the peace, Registers in Chancery, and preserve the original in his or her office, those for each year, in a separate bundle, with the label of the year. Each recorder shall also record the official obligation of the Oyster Revenue Collector. The obligations of the Secretary of State and the Clerk of the Supreme Court shall be filed, recorded, and the original thereof preserved in the Recorder’s office of Kent County.

(b) The recorder shall keep a separate index book in which shall be indexed the name of each official whose obligation is recorded. Upon cancellation of any official obligation in accordance with § 9116 of this title or § 122 of Title 10, the recorder shall write the word “cancelled” and sign his or her name as recorder opposite or alongside of the name of the official whose bond has been so cancelled.
9 Del. C. § 8338 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 83 / Subchapter I / Section 8338
§ Â
        8338. Supplemental assessments permitted quarterly.
Status: in_force

In addition to the annual assessment provided for in § 8301 of this title, each Board of Assessment Review of Kent and Sussex Counties and the Office of Finance of New Castle County may, at its option, prepare quarterly supplemental assessment rolls for the purpose of:

(1) Adding property not included on the last assessment; or

(2) Increasing the assessed value of property which was included on the last assessment.

The supplemental assessment roll may be used to correct errors on the prior assessment rolls and to remove or modify any exemption from taxation applicable to property in the county.
9 Del. C. § 8104 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 81 / Subchapter I / Section 8104
§ Â
        8104. Placement of mobile homes subject to Sussex County taxation.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any statute to the contrary, the Sussex County government shall have the power by ordinance to impose and collect a tax, to be paid by the applicant, upon the application for a permit for the placement of a mobile home within the unincorporated areas of the county; provided, however, that any tax upon the placement of a mobile home shall not be greater than 1 percent of the value of the mobile home as represented by the permit application; and further provided, that nothing herein shall limit or otherwise affect the power of the county to impose and collect by ordinance fees for placement permits for mobile homes; and further provided, that the county government shall by ordinance exempt from taxation mobile homes owned by those organizations contained in §§ 8105 and 8106 of this title; and further provided, that the county government shall by ordinance exempt from taxation mobile homes which are not subject to taxation pursuant to § 8363 of this title. The funds realized by the county pursuant to this tax shall be segregated from the county’s general fund and the funds, and all interest thereon, shall be expended solely for the benefit of the county’s independent libraries. The government of Sussex County may adopt by ordinance or ordinances to provide for the effective administration and regulation of any taxes adopted pursuant to the authority conferred by this section.
9 Del. C. § 773 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 7 / Subchapter VI / Section 773
§ Â
        773. Approval of the General Assembly.
Status: in_force

When land has been acquired under the provisions of this chapter, it is to be considered as a public trust and may not be sold or otherwise disposed of without prior approval by an act of the General Assembly.
9 Del. C. § 6704 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 67 / Section 6704
§ Â
        6704. Authorization of bonds; terms; sale and interest rate; borrowing in anticipation of issuance of bonds.
Status: in_force

(a) The planning, acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment or extension of any sewerage or water system may be authorized under this chapter, and bonds may be authorized to be issued under this chapter to provide funds for such purpose by ordinance or resolution of the county government.

(b) The county government, in determining the cost of acquiring or constructing any sewerage or water system, may include all costs and estimated costs of the issuance of the bonds, all planning, engineering, inspection, fiscal and legal expenses, and interest which it is estimated will accrue during the construction period and for 6 months thereafter on money borrowed or which it is estimated will be borrowed pursuant to this chapter.

(c) The bonds shall bear interest at such rates, may be in 1 or more series, may bear such dates, may mature at such times not exceeding 40 years from their respective dates, may be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, may carry such registration privileges, may be subject to such terms of redemption, may be executed in such manner, may contain such terms, covenants and conditions and may be in such form, either coupon or registered as the ordinance or resolution provides. The reasonable expense of issuing such bonds shall be deemed part of the cost of constructing the sewer or water facilities.

(d) Bonds issued pursuant to this chapter may be sold at either public or private sale, upon such terms, conditions and regulations as the county government may prescribe; provided, that the county government may authorize the County Administrator to sell such bonds at public or private sale upon such terms, conditions and regulations as it may provide.

(e) If the county government determines to sell such bonds at public sale, then the county government shall advertise the bonds for sale at least once, 10 or more days before the date of sale, in at least 1 newspaper of general circulation published in the County, and in a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of New York, inviting bids for the bonds. The advertisements shall state the total amount of the proposed issue, the denominations of the bonds, the place of payment of the bonds and interest, the place and date of opening bids, the conditions under which the bonds are to be sold and such other matters as the county government may determine. The county government may give notice of the sale of the bonds in such other manner as it may decide.

(f) The county government may require each bid for the bonds to be accompanied by a certified check in the amount of the bid. After the bonds are awarded or sold to the successful bidder or bidders therefor, the county government shall return to the unsuccessful bidder or bidders the certified check or checks submitted with the bid or bids.

(g) The county government may reject any and all bids, but in awarding the sale of the bonds, or any of them, they shall be sold to the purchaser or purchasers, which, in the judgment of the county government, offers the most advantageous terms.

(h) The county government shall direct and effect the preparation and printing of the bonds authorized by this chapter, shall determine whether such bonds shall be registered or bearer with coupons convertible into fully registered bonds, and shall prescribe the form of the bonds and, in the case of bearer bonds with coupons, the form of the coupons for the payment of interest thereto attached. The bonds shall state the conditions under which they are issued, the face amount of the bonds and, in the case of bearer bonds with coupons, the coupons thereto attached shall be payable at such place or places as may be designated by the county government. The bonds shall be executed, sealed and delivered as prescribed by the county government.

(i) Pending the preparation of the definitive bonds, interim receipts or certificates in such form and with such provisions as the county government determines may be issued to the purchasers of bonds sold pursuant to this chapter.

(j) In anticipation of issuance of bonds, the county government may, by resolution, borrow money in such amounts as it may find necessary and authorize the issuance of negotiable notes therefor.
9 Del. C. § 7107 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 71 / Section 7107
§ Â
        7107. Abatement; creation of tax lien.
Status: in_force

(a) If after due notice, either actual or constructive, is given by the Sussex County Council, or its designee, to the person responsible for the property, and where such person has had the opportunity to be heard by an administrative tribunal or a court of competent jurisdiction, such person fails to comply with the notice or order, and the illegal action or condition continues to exist, the Sussex County Council, or its designee, may cause such violation to be removed, corrected, abated, or otherwise made safe and sanitary. The Sussex County Council, or its designee, may incur any expense of razing, demolishing, removing, or repairing unsafe or illegal buildings and structures, and may incur any expense necessary or incidental to abating violations of the property maintenance ordinances, rules, and regulations or other provisions of the Sussex County Code that constitute a threat to the public health, safety, or welfare or to provide for the sanitary condition, safety, or security of the property, structure or building.

(b) All expenses incurred by the Sussex County Council, or its designee, pursuant to this section shall be a tax lien on the parcel of real property that the expense is incurred upon or which is the subject of the notice or order. Upon certification of a tax lien by the Sussex County Council, or its designee, the amount of such lien shall be recorded and collected in the same manner as other county real estate taxes, and paid to Sussex County, when collected.

(c) Any unpaid fine or civil penalty associated with violation of the property maintenance ordinances, rules, or regulations, or any other provision of the Sussex County Code that provides for the sanitary condition, safety, or security of a property, structure, or building, such fine or civil penalty being final and nonappealable, may be added to local property tax billings for the property, which was the subject of said notice or order and collected in the same manner as other county real estate taxes, and paid to Sussex County, when collected.

(d) Sussex County may maintain any action at law or in equity for the recovery of expenses incurred by the Sussex County Council, or its designee, for the collection of charges, fees, fines, and penalties assessed pursuant to this chapter, including, without limitation, proceedings pursuant to a writ of monition.
9 Del. C. § 8777 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 87 / Subchapter IV / Section 8777
§ Â
        8777. Action against personal representative of taxable.
Status: in_force

The death of any taxable shall not prevent the recovery under this subchapter of any tax due and owing, but the tax collecting authority shall proceed for the collection thereof against the personal representative of such deceased taxable. If the lands and tenements of a deceased taxable are to be sold, it shall be sufficient for the tax collecting authority to suggest the death upon the record and give notice as described in this subchapter to the heirs at law or devisees of the land, as the case may be, and the executor or administrator of such deceased taxable, if any there be within the county.
9 Del. C. § 6708 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 67 / Section 6708
§ Â
        6708. Service charges; amount and application; repayment for borrowed funds.
Status: in_force

(a) If the County issues bonds under this chapter, the county government shall prescribe and collect reasonable service charges for the services and facilities rendered or afforded by the sewerage or water systems, the revenues of which are pledged to the payment of such bonds, and shall revise such service charges from time to time whenever necessary.

(b) The service charges prescribed shall be such as will procure revenue at least sufficient to:

(1) Pay when due all bonds and interest thereon, for the payment of which such revenue is or shall have been pledged, charged or otherwise encumbered, including reserves therefor; and

(2) Provide for all expenses of operation and maintenance of such sewerage or water systems, including reserves therefor.

(c) The service charges when collected shall be applied to the payment of the bonds and interest and to the expenses of such operation and maintenance in accordance with the ordinance or resolution authorizing the bonds.

(d) The County may borrow funds up to $1,000,000 to pay as due the necessary expenses of the operation and maintenance of any sewer or water system to be repaid from sums received for service charges of each respective sewer or water district. Section 6102 of this title is not applicable to this chapter.
9 Del. C. § 6915 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 69 / Subchapter I / Section 6915
§ Â
        6915. Board of Adjustment â Rules governing organization, procedure and jurisdiction.
Status: in_force

The county government shall provide and specify in its zoning or other regulations, general rules to govern the organization, procedure and jurisdiction of the Board of Adjustment, which rules shall not be inconsistent with this subchapter, and the Board of Adjustment may adopt supplemental rules of procedure not inconsistent with this subchapter or such general rules.
9 Del. C. § 4152 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 41 / Subchapter V / Section 4152
§ Â
        4152. Establishment by county government.
Status: in_force

The county government may, by ordinance, establish a Parks and Recreation Commission and determine the membership, terms, qualifications and compensation of said Commission.
9 Del. C. § 8106A — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 81 / Subchapter I / Section 8106A
§ Â
        8106A. New Castle County property tax exemptions; applications; refunds [For application of this section, see 83 Del. Laws, c. 468, Â 3].
Status: in_force

(a) (1) This section applies to property in New Castle County that is entitled to an exemption as any of the following:

a. Owned by a religious, educational, or charitable agency, under § 8105 of this title or under New Castle County Code § 14.06.101.

b. Owned by a specific organization or for a specific purpose, under § 8106(a) of this title.

c. Parkland owned by a civic association, under § 8110 of this title.

d. Recreational properties, under New Castle County Code § 14.06.601.

e. Cemetery properties, under New Castle County Code § 14.06.701.

(2) No exemption from taxation for any property under paragraph (a)(1) of this section is allowed except after written application and the approval of New Castle County.

(b) An application for exemption must be filed with the Assessment Division of the New Castle County Office of Finance (Assessment Division), using the form provided by the Assessment Division. The date of the application is the date the application is received by the Assessment Division.

(c) (1) An exemption under this section is effective the later of the following:

a. The date the property owner met the criteria for the exemption.

b. Three years before the date of the application.

(2) If reviewing an application for exemption under this section that was decided on or after January 1, 2017, New Castle County shall determine and process any refund of New Castle County taxes to the property owner, regardless of who paid the property taxes, based on all of the following:

a. The effective date of the exemption under paragraph (c)(1) of this section.

b. Proration calculated under § 8111A of this title.

(3) If property is transferred from an owner eligible for an exemption under this section while that owner’s exemption application is pending, New Castle County shall refund county taxes paid for the period of the exempt transferor’s ownership, as prorated using the calculations under § 8111A(b) of this title.

(4) Interest does not accrue and is not owed on any credit or refund issued under this section.

(5) Paragraphs (c)(2) and (c)(3) of this section do not apply to school taxes levied under Title 14, and New Castle County may not refund school taxes under this section.

(d) Governmental entities entitled to exemption under this subchapter are not required to submit an application under this section.
9 Del. C. § 1003 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 10 / Section 1003
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        1003. Maintenance of for-profit cemeteries.
Status: in_force

(a) The government of each county may establish regulations regarding maintenance of for-profit cemeteries, including:

(1) Trimming or mowing grass, pruning shrubs, or trimming trees in and around the cemetery.

(2) Trimming or mowing grass to a level where flat markers of individual graves can be seen.

(3) Suppressing or removing weeds on cemetery property.

(4) Repairing or restoring improvements, structures, or fences on cemetery property.

(5) Maintaining cemetery roads accessible to the public and repairing road and sidewalk surfacing that presents safety hazards.

(6) Maintaining occupied crypts and niches properly sealed or closed.

(7) Refilling or resetting settled graves or markers annually or within 120 days of the cemetery operator or cemetery employees becoming aware of the issue.

(8) Repairing any grave markers, monuments, or burial vaults that are damaged by the negligence of the cemetery, the cemetery employees, or contractors employed by the cemetery.

(9) Supplying and emptying trash receptacles when filled.

(10) Maintaining public areas of the cemetery grounds and water features on cemetery property to ensure they are free of trash and debris.

(11) Providing clear delineation of undeveloped cemetery property with the use of signage.

(12) Controlling vermin and insect problems on cemetery property.

(b) Nothing contained in the recommended maintenance requirements of subsection (a) of this section should be construed to require specific topography, structures or other cemetery-related items on the property.

(c) Sections within a cemetery that are specifically established and intended to be maintained in a natural condition are not subject to the recommended maintenance requirements of subsection (a) of this section.

(d) Sections of a cemetery that do not include burial lots that have been sold, transferred, or are available for sale with perpetual care should be exempt from the recommended maintenance requirements of subsection (a) of this section.

(e) Any person, partnership or corporation engaged in the business of selling burial lots with perpetual care for profit should maintain written minimum standards for the maintenance of the cemetery property that conform with or exceed the recommended maintenance requirements of paragraphs (a)(1)-(10) of this section.

(f) Consumers should be furnished with a copy of the maintenance standards prior to settlement on a burial lot or lots.

(g) A written copy of the maintenance standards should be kept on file at the cemetery office and should be made available within 30 days upon request.

(h) Each county may impose penalties upon a for-profit cemetery who fails to comply with the county’s maintenance requirements.
9 Del. C. § 9121 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 91 / Section 9121
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        9121. Uniform mileage payments.
Status: in_force

The authorized mileage rate for officers or employees of the several counties who receive mileage from the respective county governments for miles driven in their private motor vehicles shall be at a rate to be determined by levy court or county council.
9 Del. C. § 633 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 6 / Subchapter III / Section 633
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        633. Tabulating votes; certificate of result.
Status: in_force

Promptly after the holding of the election, the judge of election shall tabulate the ballots and certify the results to the county government under his or her hand and seal. The ballots shall be retained in the safekeeping of the county government for 1 year before being destroyed.
9 Del. C. § 2315 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 23 / Section 2315
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        2315. Preparation, form and execution of bonds.
Status: in_force

The County Council shall direct and effect the preparation and printing of the bonds authorized by this chapter, shall determine whether such bonds shall be registered or bearer with coupons convertible into fully registered bonds and shall prescribe the form of the bonds and, in the case of bearer bonds with coupons, the form of the coupons for the payment of interest thereto attached. The bonds shall state the conditions under which they are issued, the face amount of the bonds and, in the case of bearer bonds with coupons, the coupons thereto attached shall be payable at such place or places as may be designated by the County Council. The bonds shall be signed as prescribed by the County Council.
9 Del. C. § 2803 — Delaware Code / Title 9 / Chapter 28 / Section 2803
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        2803. Costs; authorization, amount, terms, sale, interest rate, etc., of bonds.
Status: in_force

(a) The planning, acquisition, purchase, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment or extension of any water supply system to be used in connection with the White Clay Creek Watershed, including costs of land, rights in lands and relocation of utilities and other improvements may be authorized under this chapter and bonds to provide funds for such purposes, may be authorized to be issued under this chapter by resolution of the County Council.

(b) The County Council in determining the costs of acquiring or constructing any such water supply system may include all costs and estimated costs of the issuance of the bonds, all planning, engineering, inspection, fiscal and legal expenses, and interest or estimated interest upon the bonds or other money borrowed pursuant to this chapter during the planning and construction period and for 6 months after completion.

(c) The bonds shall bear interest at such rates, may be in 1 or more series or issues, may bear such dates, may mature at such time, not exceeding 40 years from their respective dates of issue, may be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, may carry such registration privileges, may be subject to such terms of redemption, may be executed in such manner, may contain such terms, covenants and conditions, and may be in such form, either coupon or registered, as the resolution or subsequent resolutions provide. Debt incurred by the County Council pursuant to this chapter may be represented by uncertificated obligations of the County Council which may be authorized in accordance with the same procedures applicable to bonds which are permitted to be issued under this chapter, and the County Council by resolution may determine, or it may delegate authority to the County Executive to determine, all procedures appropriate to the establishment of a system of issuing uncertificated debt.

(d) The bonds shall be sold at public sale upon sealed proposals after at least 10 days’ notice published at least once in a newspaper published in the City of Wilmington at such price and upon such terms as the County Council may prescribe; provided, that the County Council may authorize the County Executive to sell such bonds at public or private sale upon such terms, conditions and regulations as it may prescribe.

(e) Pending the preparation of the definitive bonds, interim receipts or certificates in such forms and with such provisions as the County Council determines may be issued to the purchasers of bonds sold pursuant to this chapter.

(f) The rate of interest may be determined in advance of sale or the bonds may be offered for sale at a rate of interest to be fixed by the successful bidder for such bonds.

(g) The County Council may advance funds for planning, engineering, acquisition of land, etc., from other funds of the County to be reimbursed from time to time by sale of water supply bonds.