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Delaware Code Title 9. Counties § 1127. Local service functions;  change in degree of performance;  notice requirements

Current as of January 01, 2026 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) By August 1 of each year, a municipality shall provide notice to New Castle County if the municipality intends to begin performing, stop performing, or change the degree of performance of a local service function, other than fire protection, during New Castle County's fiscal year beginning the following July 1.

(b) In the notice under subsection (a) of this section, the municipality shall state with specificity which of the following modifications the municipality intends to make to its performance of the local service function:

(1) Initiating performance.

(2) Ceasing performance.

(3) Changing the degree of performance.

(c) New Castle County may request, and the municipality must provide, additional information that may reasonably be needed to understand the municipality's proposed modification.

(d)(1) A municipality must initiate or cease performance of a local service function under § 1102(c) of this title.

(2) A municipality may change the degree of performance of a local service function that the municipality already performs by providing notice to New Castle County under subsection (a) of this section.

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