Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 222 - MOTOR VEHICLES

AN ACT TO MAKE UNLAWFUL THE FRAUDULENT SETTING BACK OR DISCONNECTING OR FAILURE TO CONNECT OR CAUSING THE FRAUDULENT SETTING BACK OR DISCONNECTING OR FAILURE TO CONNECT SPEEDOMETERS ON MOTOR VEHICLES FOR THE PURPOSE OF EFFECTING A SALE OF SUCH VEHICLES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. If any dealer in motor vehicles, or any other person, shall fraudulently change, set back, or disconnect, or fail to connect, or cause to be changed, set back or to be disconnected, or cause the failure to connect the speedometer of any motor vehicle, for the purpose of effecting the sale of such motor vehicle or vehicles, he shall upon conviction thereof be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in the sum of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dollars for each and every separate offense.

Approved May 17, 1937.