Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 472

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1701, CHAPTER 17, TITLE 7, DELAWARE CODE, RELATING TO DOG LICENSES, BY EXEMPTING OWNERS OF SEEING-EYE DOGS AND DOGS WHICH PREVIOUSLY SERVED IN THE ARMED FORCES FROM PAYMENT OF THE LICENSE TAX.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:

Section 1. Title 7, Chapter 17, Section 1701, Delaware Code, is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph to read as follows:

(h) The license tax required by subsection (a) hereof shall not be required to be paid when the dog is one which qualifies as a seeing-eye dog or as a dog which has previously served in a branch of the United States Armed Forces. The commission shall issue a metal license tag in accordance with subsection (b) to such persons without the necessity of the payment of the tax as specified in subsection (a).

Approved May 31, 1970.