Delaware Code (Titles 8, 9, 25, 30)
9 Del. C. § 4523
Praecipe; judgment; monition
# (a)
The tax collecting authority may file a praecipe in the office of the prothonotary of the Superior Court in and for the county where the property is located.
# (b)
The praecipe shall contain the name of the person against whom the service charges sought to be collected were assessed, a copy of the bill or bills showing the amount of service charges due, and the property against which the service charges were assessed. The description of the property, as the same appears upon the assessment rolls of the county where the property is located, shall be a sufficient identification and description of the property. Thereupon the prothonotary shall make a record of the same on a special judgment docket of the Superior Court against the property mentioned or described in the praecipe which record shall consist of the following:
# (1)
The name of the person in whose name the assessment was made;
# (2)
The description of the property as the same shall appear upon the assessment rolls;
# (3)
The year or years for which the service charges are due and payable;
# (4)
The date of the filing of such praecipe;
# (5)
The amount of the judgment, the same being the amount set forth in the praecipe.
Such judgment shall be indexed in the judgment docket itself under the hundred in which the property is located as the location appears upon the assessment rolls so prepared, and under the hundred by communities where the name of the community appears upon the assessment rolls so prepared, and by referring to the page in the judgment docket whereon the record shall appear.
# (c)
Thereafter upon a praecipe for monition filed in the office of the prothonotary by the tax collecting authority, a monition shall be issued by the prothonotary to the sheriff of the county where the property is located, which monition shall briefly state the amount of the judgment for the service charges due and the years thereof, including accrued penalty thereon, together with a brief description of the property upon which the service charges are a lien. A description of the property as it appears upon the assessment rolls shall be sufficient.
Amendment history
75 Del. Laws, c. 26, § 1
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In this title (40 sections)
- 9-4503 · Water system within city or town
- 9-4504 · Bonds; authorization, amount, terms, sale and interest rate
- 9-4505 · Authorized signatures on bonds; validity of issuance
- 9-4506 · Payment of bonds, faith and credit of County; tax levy
- 9-4507 · Authorization of covenants in bonds
- 9-4508 · Service charges; amount and application
- 9-4509 · Power to make charges; liability of users; computation of rates
- 9-4510 · Penalties for failure to pay charges
- 9-4511 · Lien of service charges on real estate
- 9-4512 · Water lien docket
- 9-4513 · Water consumption statement and other information for county…
- 9-4514 · Discontinuance of water supply for failure to pay service…
- 9-4515 · Contract with municipality for the filtering, purifying or…
- 9-4516 · Connection of property with water mains
- 9-4517 · Licensed plumber to connect property with water mains
- 9-4518 · Misrepresentations in application and unauthorized connections…
- 9-4519 · Surveys and inspections by county government; penalty for…
- 9-4520 · Construction of chapter with other laws
- 9-4521 · Annexation
- 9-4522 · Established
- 9-4523 · Praecipe; judgment; monition
- 9-4524 · Form of monition
- 9-4525 · Posting of monition; sheriff’s return; alias or pluries…
- 9-4526 · Issuance and form of writ of venditioni exponas
- 9-4527 · Sales subject to approval of department of finance or chief…
- 9-4528 · Title of property sold
- 9-4529 · Petition by purchasers for deed of conveyance
- 9-4530 · Redemption by owner
- 9-4531 · Petition by owner after redemption for entry on judgment record
- 9-4532 · Regularity of proceedings under venditioni exponas
- 9-4533 · No proceedings unless tax is a lien upon property;…
- 9-4534 · Fees and costs
- 9-4535 · Purchase at sheriff’s sale by agent of county
- 9-4601 · Definitions
- 9-4602 · Purpose
- 9-4603 · Planning
- 9-4604 · Public hearing
- 9-4605 · Representation by municipalities and districts
- 9-4606 · Establishment of the county district
- 9-4607 · Referendum upon petition