Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 322

FORMERLY

SENATE BILL NO. 492

AN ACT AMENDING TITLE 16, CHAPTER 67, DELAWARE CODE, CONCERNING FIRE POLICE.

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

Section 1. Amend §6706, Title 16, Delaware Code, by deleting the period at the end of the paragraph and adding the following phrase:

"at which time the fire police shall take the arrested person before a justice of the peace and charge him with failure to obey the order of a fire policeman".

Section 2. Amend §6707, Title 16, Delaware Code, by deleting the sentence, "Whoever refuses to obey the orders of a fire policeman in the exercise of his duties shall be fined $10.00", and inserting in lieu therefor a new sentence to read as follows: "Whoever refuses to obey the orders of a fire policeman in the exercise of his duties shall be fined no less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars and no more than fifty ($50.00) dollars."

Approved May 21, 1974.