Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 132

OCEAN VIEW

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF OCEAN VIEW IN SUSSEX COUNTY, DELAWARE," BEING CHAPTER 645, VOLUME 18, LAWS OF DELAWARE AND ALL ACTS AMENDATORY THEREOF AND SUPPLEMENTARY THERETO.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware (two-thirds of all Members elected to each House concurring therein):

Section 1. That Section 9 of Chapter 649, Volume 18, Laws of Delaware be and the same is hereby amended by adding new sentences at the end of said section as. follows :

The Town Council shall have power to regulate and control the manner of building or removal of dwelling houses or other buildings and to provide for granting permits for the same. To establish a building line for buildings hereafter to be erected; provided that such building line shall not be more than ten (10) feet back from the front line of the lots. To prohibit within certain limits, to be from time to time prescribed by ordinance, the building or erecting of stables ; to regulate the construction of chimneys, to compel the sweeping thereof, to prevent the setting up or construction of furnaces, stoves, boilers, ovens or other things in such manner as to be dangerous.