Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 244

SMYRNA

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 192, VOLUME 36, LAWS OF DELAWARE, BEING AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO REINCORPORATE THE TOWN OF SMYRNA" BY PROVIDING FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE TIME THE POLLS SHALL BE OPEN AT ANNUAL ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN OF SMYRNA.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met (two-thirds of all the members elected to each House of the Legislature concurring therein):

Section 1. That Chapter 192, Volume 36, Laws of Delaware, be amended by striking out the following part of the second paragraph of Section 3 which now reads as follows:

"Such election shall be held on the last Monday in February in each year at the Town Hall in said Town, or at such other convenient place in said Town as shall be appointed by Council by a majority vote, and the polls shall be open from two o'clock P. M. until five o'clock P. M. standard time",

and by inserting in lieu thereof the following new part of said second paragraph of Section 3 as follows, to-wit:

"Such election shall be held on the last Monday in February in each year at the Town Hall of said Town, or at such other convenient place in said Town as shall be appointed by the Mayor and Council by a majority vote, and the polls shall be open from two o'clock P. M. until seven o'clock P. M. Eastern Standard Time".

Approved April 9, 1947.