Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 267

FORMERLY

SENATE BILL NO. 353


AS AMENDED BY SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT, BEING CHAPTER 276, VOLUME 65, LAWS OF DELAWARE, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED AN ACT TO REINCORPORATE THE TOWN OF GEORGETOWN" TO ESTABLISH THE MONITION METHOD AS A PROCEDURE FOR THE COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT TAXES AND OTHER CHARGES DUE THE TOWN OF GEORGETOWN.

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. Amend Section 28, Chapter 276, Volume 65, Laws of Delaware, as amended, by adding thereto a new subsection (1) said subsection (1) to read as follows:

"(1) However, should the Town Manager so elect, he is empowered to sell the lands and tenements of the delinquent taxpayer or the lands and tenements of a delinquent taxpayer alienated subsequent to the levy of the tax, by the direction of the Town Council, using any of those procedures specified for the sale of land for the collection of taxes on the part of the taxes for Sussex County, and all such procedures and methods available for the sale of land, as aforesaid, as they are presently enacted and hereafter amended, are included herein and made a part hereof by reference thereto, Including the method of sale by monition, as the same is set forth in the statutes made and provided, substituting the Town of Georgetown for Sussex County therein.

Approved June 27, 1994.