Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 426

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE RELATING TO THE ORPHANS' COURT.

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

Section 1. Article 4 of the Constitution of the State of Delaware, is amended by adding the following section thereto:

Section 36. The General Assembly shall have power to transfer to such court or courts as it deems appropriate all or any part of the jurisdiction, powers and functions of the Orphans' Court and all or any part of the matters pending before the Orphans' Court, and to abolish the Orphans' Court.

Proposed: June 6, 1966.