Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 247 - SUNDAY SPORTS

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 153, REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE RELATING TO SABBATH BREAKING, BY LEGALIZING THE PLAYING OF BASEBALL AND FOOTBALL ON SUNDAY.

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

Section 1. That Chapter 153, Revised Code of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by adding at the end of Section 4784, Section 4, as amended by Chapter 269, Volume 37, Laws of Delaware, the following:

"AND, PROVIDED FURTHER that Baseball and Football may be played on Sunday in the State of Delaware, after two o'clock in the afternoon unless and except the same be contrary and in violation of any ordinance enacted by the City Council, Town Commissioners, or the Legislative body of any incorporated city or town in the State of Delaware, prohibiting or otherwise regulating the playing of such sports.

Approved March 25, 1935.