Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 632

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 21, DELAWARE CODE, CHAPTER 21, SUBCHAPTER I BY PROVIDING FOR REFUNDS OF FEES PAID FOR UNUSED REGISTRATIONS OF MOTOR VEHICLES BY PERSONS ENTERING THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OR PERSONS 65 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER WHO VOLUNTARILY SURRENDER THEIR OPERATOR'S LICENSE.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Delaware:

Section 1. Title 21, Delaware Code, Chapter 21, Subchapter I, is hereby amended by adding a new section to be designated and to read as follows:

§ 2117. Refunds of fees paid for certain unused registrations

Upon the surrender to the Department of the number plates or plate issued for a vehicle registered under the provisions of this Title and the furnishing of proof satisfactory to the Commissioner and the State Treasurer that (a) the owner of the vehicle entered the Armed Forces of the United States after such vehicle was registered or (b) that the owner of such vehicle is sixty-five years of age or older and that he voluntarily surrendered his operator's license following his attainment of such age and the registration or re-registration of such vehicle, and that the registration of such vehicle is in full effect, there shall be refunded to such owner, from the General Fund of the State of Delaware from funds not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to as many twelfths of the fee paid for the registration of the vehicle as there are full calendar months in the registration year following the date of the receipt of the number plates or plate, less the sum of one dollar.

Section 2. This Act shall take effect October 1, 1970.

Approved June 30, 1970.