Delaware Code (Titles 8, 9, 25, 30)
9 Del. C. § 7106
Violation of property maintenance ordinances, rules, and regulations or chapter; notices and orders
# (a)
For the purpose of enforcing compliance with the provisions of the property maintenance ordinances, rules, and regulations, and removing illegal, unhealthy, or unsafe conditions, the Sussex County Council, or its designee, may issue such rules, notices, or orders as may be necessary.
# (b)
Whenever the Sussex County Council, or its designee, is satisfied that a person responsible has committed an offense against the property maintenance ordinances, rules, or regulations, or other provision of the Sussex County Code that constitutes a threat to the public health, safety, or welfare, or of an order of the Sussex County Council, or its designee, the Sussex County Council, or its designee, may serve a written notice or order upon the person responsible, directing discontinuance of each illegal action and the remedying of the condition that is in violation of the ordinances, rules, or regulations, as adopted by the Sussex County Council.
# (c)
No person, having been served with such a notice or order, shall fail to comply with the requirements thereof within the time stated therein, or within 15 days if no time is provided, unless the Sussex County Council, or its designee, determines that such violation cannot be cured within such time and clearly delineates additional time for compliance.
Amendment history
82 Del. Laws, c. 222, § 1
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In this title (40 sections)
- 9-6957 · State responsibilities to local planning agencies
- 9-6958 · Evaluation and appraisal of comprehensive plan
- 9-6959 · Legal status of comprehensive plan
- 9-6960 · County comprehensive plan
- 9-6961 · Information from state and local agencies and school districts
- 9-6962 · Highway capacity
- 9-6999 · Court review of land use actions; limitations on liability of…
- 9-7001 · Powers of the government of Sussex County
- 9-7002 · County government
- 9-7003 · County Administrator
- 9-7004 · Department of Finance
- 9-7005 · Department of Law
- 9-7006 · Personnel system
- 9-7007 · County Advisory Retirement Board
- 9-7008 · Pension program for Sussex County employees
- 9-7101 · Definitions
- 9-7102 · Promulgation of property maintenance ordinances, rules, and…
- 9-7103 · Administration and enforcement
- 9-7104 · Removal of weeds, grasses, refuse, rubbish, trash, or other…
- 9-7105 · Fees
- 9-7106 · Violation of property maintenance ordinances, rules, and…
- 9-7107 · Abatement; creation of tax lien
- 9-7108 · Penalties
- 9-7109 · Additional remedies
- 9-7110 · Existing ordinances, rules, and regulations
- 9-7111 · Exceptions
- 9-8001 · Budget of estimated expenditures
- 9-8002 · Tax rate [For application of this section, see 85 Del. Laws,…
- 9-8003 · Time and method of levying county tax [For application of this…
- 9-8004 · Duplicate assessment lists in Kent County
- 9-8005 · Tax collection warrants; form [For application of this…
- 9-8101 · Property subject to county taxation [For application of this…
- 9-8102 · Transfers of real property subject to county taxation [For…
- 9-8103 · Personal property
- 9-8104 · Placement of mobile homes subject to Sussex County taxation
- 9-8105 · Property owned by governmental, religious, educational or…
- 9-8106 · Specific organizations and purposes
- 9-8106A · New Castle County property tax exemptions; applications;…
- 9-8107 · Motion picture studios and plants
- 9-8108 · Railroad property