Delaware General Assembly

CHAPTER 216

FREE SCHOOLS

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to Provide for the establishment and maintenance of a General and Efficient System of Free Public Schools.'"

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

Section 1. That the Act entitled "An Act to Amend an Act entitled, 'An Act to Provide for the Establishment and Maintenance of a General and Efficient System of Free Public Schools' ", being Chapter 173, Volume 34, Laws of Delaware, be and the same is hereby amended by inserting after the period in the twenty-seventh line of the seventh paragraph of Section1 of said Act the following additional sentence : "The said Board shall at the same time send a copy of the said list to the Auditor of Accounts at Dover."

Section 2. Further amend said Act by inserting between the seventh and eighth paragraphs of Section 1 of said Act the following new paragraph:

"The officials collecting the taxes herein provided and designated, except those officials known by the title of "County Treasurer" or "County Treasurer and Receiver of Taxes", shall on the first day of each month make reports, to the respective Boards of Education or Boards of School Trustees for whom they are collecting taxes, on forms to be supplied by the Auditor of Accounts, of all taxes collected in the previous month and said Boards shall within thirty days thereafter forward such reports to the Auditor of Accounts at Dover."

Section 3. Further amend said Act by striking out in the thirtieth line of the seventh paragraph of Section 1 of said Act the word "school".

Section 4. If a collector appointed by any Board of School Trustees or Board of Education, or any member or members of any Board of School Trustees or Board of Education shall fail, neglect or refuse to perform all or any of the duties imposed upon him or them by this Act, he or they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace shall be fined not less than Ten Dollars and not more than One Hundred Dollars.

Approved April 17, 1929.