Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 9

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 92, VOLUME 23, LAWS OF DELAWARE, AS AMENDED, BEING AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORGANIZATION AND CONTROL OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON."

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

Section 1. Section 11 of Chapter 92, Volume 23, Laws of Delaware, as amended, being an Act entitled "An Act to Provide For The Organization and Control of the Public Schools of the City of Wilmington" is hereby amended by repealing Section 11 thereof and by substituting and enacting in lieu thereof a new Section 11 as follows:

Section 11. The Council shall, every year, when determining the amount necessary to be raised on the persons and estates in the City of Wilmington for public use, also include the sum necessary to be raised on the persons and estates for executing the foregoing provisions; provided that the amount to be raised by taxation for school expenses in any one year, including all the expenses which the Board of Education is authorized to incur under the provisions of this Act for the maintenance and operation of said schools, but not including interest on bonded debt and retirement of bonds falling due, shall not exceed ten and five tenths (10.5) mills on each one dollar of the value of real and personal property as assessed and taxable for City purposes. The amount collected for school purposes shall be paid into the City Treasury as other taxes are paid.

Approved April 20, 1967