Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 95 - STATE FORESTRY DEPARTMENT.

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE STATE FORESTRY DEPARTMENT TO ENTER INTO COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR PRIVATE PERSONS IN RELATION TO FOREST LANDS LOCATED IN DELAWARE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That the State Forestry Department is hereby authorized, subject to the approval of the Governor, to receive gifts, donations, contributions or leases of land and to enter into long term leases or cooperative agreements with private persons or groups of persons or with the Federal Government through any of its Agencies or Departments for desirable lands now or hereafter. held by them or any of them, and to make expenditures from any funds available to the State Forestry Department, not otherwise allocated, for managing and developing such State Forest or State Park areas as in the judgment of the State Forestry Commission shall further the Forest or Park interests of the State.

Section 2. All lands and /or rights appertaining thereto now acquired or hereafter acquired in the name of the State of Delaware by the State Forestry Department and all lands turned over to the said Department by gift, devise, grant, lease, agreement, or otherwise shall be held, managed, regulated and controlled by the said Department under the provisions of Chapter 50, Volume 35, Laws of Delaware, 1927 and Acts supplemental thereto as State Forest, State Forest Parks, public hunting grounds and public recreational areas in accordance with said law and such grant, devise, lease or agreement as may be entered into by the State Forestry Commission as in its judgment will be to the best interest of the people of this State.

Section 3. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with or which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Approved April 1, 1935.