Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 124 - DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIONS FOR NEW CASTLE COUNTY

AN ACT TO FURTHER AMEND PARAGRAPH 1759. SEC. 15. CHAPTER 57, REVISED CODE OF DELAWARE, 1935, AS AMENDED BY SECTION 10, CHAPTER 115, VOLUME 42, LAWS OF DELAWARE, AND FURTHER AMENDED BY SECTION 1, CHAPTER 116, VOLUME 42, LAWS OF DELAWARE, IN REFERENCE TO PLACES OF REGISTRY AND ELECTION.

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

Section 1. That paragraph 1759. Sec. 15. Chapter 57, of the Revised Code of Delaware, 1935, as amended by Section 10, Chapter 115, Volume 42, Laws of Delaware, and further amended by Section 1, Chapter 116, Volume 42, Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby further amended, to read as follows:

1759. Sec. 15. Places of Registry and Election Designated, Furnished, &c.; Places Excluded:—The said Department of Elections for New Castle County shall designate and appoint a place of registry and polling place in each Election District in New Castle County; at the places so designated, all elections shall be held and the work of registration performed. The said Department shall hire all such places and cause the same to be fitted up, warmed, lighted and cleaned; such place shall be in the most public, orderly and convenient portion of the district; no building or part of a building shall be designated or used as a place of registration or palling place in which, or in any part of which, spirituous or intoxicating liquor is or has been sold within sixty days next preceding the time of using the same. The said Department shall furnish for each of such places of registry and places of election a white muslin flag, preferably staffed, of suitable size for the lettering thereon in four-inch black letters, the following words:

Registration and Polling Place

Election District

Representative District

At every registry and at every election, including Primary Election, during the time the aforesaid places are to be open in accordance with the law, the said white flag hereinbefore provided for shall be displayed at or near the entrance to such place of registry and election, so as to be readily seen.

Section 2. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions, or any of the provisions, of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent, and only to the extent, of any such inconsistency.

Approved May 12, 1941.