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LAWS OF DELAWARE
VOLUME 84
CHAPTER 31
152nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY
FORMERLY
SENATE BILL NO. 34
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 24 AND TITLE 28 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:
Section 1. Amend § 1501, Title 24 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows:
§ 1501. Exclusion of customers.
No keeper of an inn, tavern, hotel or restaurant or other place of public entertainment or refreshment of travelers, guests or customers shall be obliged, by law, to furnish entertainment or refreshment to persons whose reception or entertainment by the proprietor would be offensive to the major part of the proprietor’s customers and would injure business.
As used in this section, “customers” includes all who have occasion for entertainment or refreshment. [Repealed.]
Section 2. Amend § 902, Title 28 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows:
§ 902. Exclusion of offensive patrons.
The proprietor of a theatre or other public place of amusement is not obliged to receive into the proprietor’s show, or admit into the place where the proprietor is pursuing the proprietor’s occupation, any person whose presence there would be offensive to the major part of the proprietor’s spectators or patrons and thereby injure the proprietor’s business. [Repealed.]
Approved May 16, 2023