Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 200

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT BEING CHAPTER 42, VOLUME 53, LAWS OF DELAWARE, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "AN ACT AMENDING, REVISING AND CONSOLIDATING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SEAFORD" TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT AUTHORIZED TO BE RAISED AS TAXES.

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

Section 1. Subsection A, Section 27, Chapter 42, Volume 53, Laws of Delaware, as amended, is hereby further amended by striking out all of said Subsection and substituting in lieu thereof the following:

(A) The City Council, after having ascertained the sum necessary to be raised as taxes for the purpose of this Act, which sum shall not in any one year exceed the total sum of $225,000.00, in excess of all delinquencies and expenses of collection, and after having apportioned the sum on the assessment and valuation as hereinbefore set forth, shall annually in the month of May or as soon thereafter as practicable but in no event later than the 30th day of June in any year, cause to be delivered to the City Manager, a list containing the names of the taxables, as well as the owners of real and personal property and opposite the name of each taxable, the amount of assessment on his real and personal property, and his City per capital assessment, and the rate of tax on the real property and on the personal property per hundred dollars of assessment. The list as delivered to the City Manager shall be signed by the Mayor.

Approved December 29, 1967.