Delaware Code Title 9. Counties § 5602. Promulgation of property maintenance code
Current as of January 01, 2022 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
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The Kent County Levy Court, in order to provide for the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of Kent County, may promulgate rules and regulations to be known as the Kent County Property Maintenance Code, regulating and governing the condition and maintenance of all property, structures, and buildings to eliminate or prevent unsafe, unhealthy, unsanitary, or substandard conditions. Said rules and regulations shall provide standards for: the condition and maintenance of property, structures, and buildings; supplied utilities, facilities, and other physical things and conditions essential to ensure that property, structures, and buildings are safe, sanitary, and fit for occupation and use and do not adversely affect the welfare of the public; condemnation of structures and buildings unfit for human occupancy and use; and the demolition of structures and buildings unfit for human occupancy and use.
(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, on January 15, 2011, all duties of the department of mental health and substance abuse services and the department of finance and administration, whose duties fall within those duties required to be performed by the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities pursuant to 2010 Pub.Acts, c. 1100, shall be transferred to the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities.
(b) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, on January 15, 2011, all employees of the department of mental health and substance abuse services and the department of finance and administration, whose duties fall within those duties transferred to the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities pursuant to 2010 Pub.Acts, c. 1100, shall be transferred to the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities.
(c) All reports, documents, surveys, books, records, papers or other writings in the possession of the department of mental health and substance abuse services or the department of finance and administration with respect to administering the provisions of title 33, chapter 5, assigned to the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities by 2010 Pub.Acts, c. 1100, shall be transferred to and remain in the custody of the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities. The transfer of all such reports, documents, surveys, books, records, papers or other writings shall be subject to any necessary consent by a federal court due to the requirements of litigation.
(d) All leases, contracts and all contract rights and responsibilities in existence with the department of mental health and substance abuse services and the department of finance and administration with respect to the duties transferred by this act to the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities shall be preserved and transferred to the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities.
(e) All assets, liabilities and obligations of the department of mental health and substance abuse services and the department of finance and administration with respect to the duties transferred by 2010 Pub.Acts, c. 1100 to the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities shall become the assets, liabilities and obligations of the department of intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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