Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 54

FORMERLY

SENATE BILL NO. 92

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT BEING CHAPTER 277, VOLUME 49, LAWS OF DELAWARE, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO RE-INCORPORATE THE TOWN OF LAUREL" TO PROVIDE FOR ABSENTEE VOTING IN THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE (Two-thirds of all members elected to each House thereof concurring therein):

Section 1. Section 18, Chapter 277, Volume 49, Laws of Delaware, as amended, be and the same is hereby further amended by adding at the end of said Section 18 of the following sentence:

The Town Council may, by Ordinance, provide for a qualified voter, duly registered, who shall be unable to appear to cast his or her ballot at any General Municipal Election either because of his or her being in the public service of the United States or of this State, or because of the nature of his or her business or occupation, or because of his or her sickness or physical disability, or because of being unavoidably absent from the Town of Laurel on the day of the General Municipal Election, to vote by absentee ballot.

Approved June 25, 1981.