HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

152nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HOUSE BILL NO. 315

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 9, TITLE 14, AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

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

Section 1. Amend § 1563, Title 9 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows:

§ 1563. Private welfare agencies.

The County Council may make annual appropriations to the following charitable corporations of this State in aid of their respective objects: Children’s Home, Inc.; The Family Society; St. Michael’s Day Nursery for Colored Children; School and Nursery; and The Prisoners Aid Society of Delaware.

Section 2. Amend § 8106, Title 9 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows:

§ 8106. Specific organizations and purposes.

(a) No real property owned and used by the organizations listed below or for the purposes stated below, except that which is held by way of investment, shall be liable to taxation and assessment for public purposes by any county or other political subdivision of this State.

Layton Home for Aged Colored Persons, Incorporated. [Repealed].

Section 3. Amend § 2116, Title 14 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows:

§ 2116. Taxing power of district.

The authority to issue bonds shall be construed to be authority to provide funds for the payment of the interest and annual payments on such bonds, which without further authority shall be provided for by an additional tax levy on the property subject to taxation for county purposes in the district issuing such bonds and by a poll tax on all persons 21 years of age and upward, residing in the district, of such amount as shall be determined by the school board of the district. the bonds.

Section 4. Amend § 362, Title 31 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and insertions as shown by underline as follows:

§ 362. The Elizabeth W. Murphey School, Inc. — Admission to School. Inc.; admission.

Either parent or, if there are no parents, the guardian or, if there is also no guardian, any relative or the Division of Social Family Services may place any poor and dependent white child, resident in Kent County, between the ages of 2 and 10 years, in and under the charge and control of The Elizabeth W. Murphey School, Inc., and may surrender and deliver such the child to The Elizabeth W. Murphey School, Inc., provided that the School is willing to receive such child; and , when such the child. When the child is surrendered, delivered to and accepted by the School, it shall be the child is subject to all the rules, regulations regulations, and discipline thereof as the same may have been or may hereafter be established by the directors of the School.

SYNOPSIS

This Act makes technical corrections to remove racist language and provisions from the Delaware Code. This Act also makes technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual and the current responsibilities of Delaware agencies.