Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 138

FORMERLY

HOUSE BILL NO. 60

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO COUNTIES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE :

Section 1. Amend Chapter 87, Title 9 of the Delaware Code by redesignating Sections 8726 through 8732 as Sections 8727 through 8733 respectively and by adding thereto a new section, designated as Section 8726, which new section shall read as follows:

Ҥ 8726. Sales subject to approval of Department of Finance or Chief County Financial Officer.

The Department of Finance or the chief county financial officer as designated by the county governing body may approve or disapprove the final bid at a sale made by the Sheriff under this subchapter provided that the notice of the public sale includes that such sale is ‘subject to the approval of the Department of Finance or the chief county financial officer’ in the terms of sale. In the event the Department of Finance or the chief county financial officer does not approve the final bid at such sale, the said Department of Finance or chief county financial officer may expose the property to another and as many succeeding sales as it chooses.”

Approved July 12,1999