Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 211

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT BEING CHAPTER 196, VOLUME 22, LAWS OF DELAWARE, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMISSIONERS OF LEWES TO APPOINT A BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS FOR THE TOWN OF LEWES WHICH SHALL ESTABLISH, CONTROL AND REGULATE AN ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANT, WATER WORKS AND A SEWER SYSTEM FOR SAID TOWN; PRESCRIBING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF SAID BOARD AND PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF THEIR SUCCESSORS" BY EXTENDING THE TERRITORY TO WHICH WATER AND SEWER MAY BE SUPPLIED BY SAID BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS AND PERMITTING THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS TO ADOPT REGULATIONS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Delaware, in General Assembly met (two-thirds of all the Members of each Branch thereof concurring therein):

Section 1. Section 3, Chapter 196, Volume 22, Laws of Delaware, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph, as follows:

The Board of Public Works of the Town of Lewes is hereby authorized and permitted to supply water and sewer service to those properties which are located within one (1) mile of the corporate limits of the Town of Lewes as presently constituted or hereafter extended under such terms and conditions as the said Board shall deem proper. The Board of Public Works is hereby authorized and permitted to enact and adopt such rules and regulations as the said Board may deem proper in order to supply said water and sewer service.

Approved December 23, 1963.