Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 408

FORMERLY

HOUSE BILL NO. 48

AS AMENDED BY SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 5, TITLE 11, DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO RECEIVING STOLEN PROPERTY.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:

Section 1. Amend Section B52, Chapter 5, Title 11 of the Delaware Code by adding a second sentence to said section, to read as follows:

"In addition, knowledge that property has been acquired under circumstances amounting to theft shall be presumed in the case of a person or dealer who acquires it for a consideration, when such property consists of traffic signs, other traffic control devises, or historical markers and the acquisition is not accompanied by a written authorization for the property's disposition from the Department of Transportation, Department of State, or other entity which owns the property."

Approved July 14, 1994.