Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 831

STATE OF DELAWARE

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

DOVER

PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, it has been deemed necessary and advisable that some retail dealers have the option of selling gasoline on Sunday; and

WHEREAS, our sister State of Maryland has made a similar decision.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, SHERMAN W. TRIBBITT, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Governor of the State of Delaware, do hereby amend the Proclamation issued on February 23, 1974, creating the "Delaware Mandatory Gasoline Rationing Program", as amended on February 26 and 28, 1974, as follows:

Section 1. Amend Paragraph IV (B) 3 by striking said subparagraph in its entirety and substituting in lieu thereof a new subparagraph to read as follows:

"3. Purchases of gasoline may be made on Saturday and Sunday to the extent retail dealers are open, without regard to the 'odd-even' or decal system established hereunder."

Section 2. The Order shall be effective immediately.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, SHERMAN W. TRIBBITT, Governor of the State of Delaware, have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the said State to be hereunto affixed at Dover this 1st day of March,

(GREAT SEAL) in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and seventy-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the one hundred and ninety-eighth.

SHERMAN W. TRIBBITT, Governor

Attest: GROVER A. BIDDLE, Assistant Secretary of State