Delaware General Assembly

CHAPTER 101.

OF DELAWARE COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act establishing The Delaware Commission for the Blind, defining the duties and powers of said Commission and providing for an appropriation to pay the expenses thereof," approved March 31, A. D. 1909, being Chapter 73, of Volume 25, of the Laws of Delaware and the amendments thereto.

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 establishing The Delaware Commission for the Blind, defining the duties and powers of said Commission and providing for an appropriation to pay the expenses thereof," approved March 31, A. D. 1909, being Chapter 73, of Volume 25, of the Laws of Delaware, and the amendments thereto, be amended as follows:

First: By striking out all of Section 8 thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

"Section 8. Said The Delaware Commission for the Blind shall have full power and authority to purchase or otherwise acquire, to hold, own, mortgage, sell or assign real and personal property, to accept and receive any private funds, bequests, legacies or gifts of property, real and personal, to be used for the education and training of blind persons and to hold, manage and invest the same and collect and disburse the income thereof and disburse the principal thereof in accordance with the directions of the parties devising or donating the same; and in default of any such direction, then the said The Delaware Commission for the Blind shall accept, hold, manage and dispose of said property and disburse the income thereof in any manner which it may deem best adapted to promote the education, training and welfare of blind persons residing in the State of Delaware. Said The Delaware Commission for the Blind may hold, own, sell and dispose of any such property real, personal or mixed so purchased or received as aforesaid and may reinvest the proceeds from the sale of any of said property and collect and disburse the income therefrom and the principal thereof in the manner above outlined."

Second: By adding a new section to the said act to be known as Section 14, as follows:

"Section 14. The lands, tenements and property of said The Delaware Commission for the Blind shall be exempt from any and all State, County and Municipal Taxes during such time and to the extent that such lands, tenements and property shall be actually used by said Commission in its work for the blind of this State, provided that said exemption shall not apply to any lands, tenements and property owned by said Commission as investments, and not actually used by said Commission in its work."

Approved February 24, A. D. 1913.