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SB169 • 2025

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3, TITLE 6, TITLE 9, TITLE 10, TITLE 11, TITLE 14, TITLE 16, TITLE 19, TITLE 21, TITLE 24, TITLE 26, TITLE 29, TITLE 30, AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE, AND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT, RELATING TO TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3, TITLE 6, TITLE 9, TITLE 10, TITLE 11, TITLE 14, TITLE 16, TITLE 19, TITLE 21, TITLE 24, TITLE 26, TITLE 29, TITLE 30, AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE, AND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT, RELATING TO TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

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2025-06-05
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Plain English Breakdown

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AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3, TITLE 6, TITLE 9, TITLE 10, TITLE 11, TITLE 14, TITLE 16, TITLE 19, TITLE 21, TITLE 24, TITLE 26, TITLE 29, TITLE 30, AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE, AND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT, RELATING TO TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3, TITLE 6, TITLE 9, TITLE 10, TITLE 11, TITLE 14, TITLE 16, TITLE 19, TITLE 21, TITLE 24, TITLE 26, TITLE 29, TITLE 30, AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE, AND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT, RELATING TO TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

What This Bill Does

  • AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3, TITLE 6, TITLE 9, TITLE 10, TITLE 11, TITLE 14, TITLE 16, TITLE 19, TITLE 21, TITLE 24, TITLE 26, TITLE 29, TITLE 30, AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE, AND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT, RELATING TO TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.
  • In December 2024, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with a list of potential technical corrections that they identified as they revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation that was enacted by the 152nd General Assembly in 2024 or as they reviewed titles of the Code.
  • While technical in nature, these changes are beyond the authority of the Code Revisors to make and can only be done by the General Assembly through legislation.
  • This Act also includes technical corrections identified outside of the list provided by the Code Revisors.

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Official Summary Text

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 3, TITLE 6, TITLE 9, TITLE 10, TITLE 11, TITLE 14, TITLE 16, TITLE 19, TITLE 21, TITLE 24, TITLE 26, TITLE 29, TITLE 30, AND TITLE 31 OF THE DELAWARE CODE, AND THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT, RELATING TO TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.
In December 2024, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with a list of potential technical corrections that they identified as they revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation that was enacted by the 152nd General Assembly in 2024 or as they reviewed titles of the Code. While technical in nature, these changes are beyond the authority of the Code Revisors to make and can only be done by the General Assembly through legislation. This Act also includes technical corrections identified outside of the list provided by the Code Revisors.

This Act requires a greater than majority vote for passage to err on the side of caution because some of the sections of the Delaware Code being revised may require a super-majority vote under the Delaware Constitution.

This Act also makes also makes basic technical corrections to conform existing law to the standards of the Delaware Legislative Drafting Manual.

Section 1. This section corrects errors in § 1202 of Title 3 from Senat