Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 13

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 29, ARTICLE IV, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, RELATING TO JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware (two-thirds of all the Members elected to each House concurring therein):

Section 1. Section 29, Article IV of the Constitution of the State of Delaware, is amended by striking out all of said Section 29, Article IV as presently constituted and substituting in lieu thereof. the following new Section 29, Article IV:

Section 29. There shall be appointed, as hereinafter provided, such number of persons to the office of Justice of the Peace as shall be directed by law, who shall be commissioned for six years. The qualifications of all Justices of the Peace who shall be appointed after the effective date of this amended section, shall be as directed by law.