Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 116

STATE BUILDING AND GROUNDS COMMISSION ENLARGING POWERS AND DUTIES.OF COMMISSION

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 211, VOLUME 14, LAWS OF DELAWARE, 1943, RELATING TO THE STATE BUILDING AND GROUNDS COMMISSION BY ENLARGING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF SAID COMMISSION.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. That Chapter 211, Volume 44, Laws of Delaware, 1943, be and the same is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new Section 7, as follows:

Section 7. The Commission shall have the duty to determine and approve the location of all pipes, conduits, cables, wires and other service media, either above or below the ground, which in the opinion of the Commission may be required for the distribution of utility service to or across those lands within the jurisdiction of the Commission. After such determination and approval of location, the Commission is authorized and empowered to grant, in the name of the State, those rights-of-way or easements across or through said State lands which in its opinion is deemed necessary for adequate utility service.

Approved May 18, 1951.