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2012 Delaware Code
Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedures
CHAPTER 71. DRUG NUISANCE AND SOCIAL VICES ABATEMENT
- § 7101. Short title.
- § 7102. Purpose; construction.
- § 7103. Definitions.
- § 7104. Maintaining a criminal nuisance.
- § 7105. Action to abate criminal nuisance.
- § 7106. Jurisdiction; complaint; notice of lis pendens.
- § 7107. Affirmative defenses.
- § 7108. Notice to interested parties.
- § 7109. Substitution of plaintiff. (72 Del. Laws, c. 484, § 1; repealed by 78 Del. Laws, c. 161 § 14, eff. Aug. 3, 2011.)
- § 7110. Delay and dismissal of actions.
- § 7111. Temporary abatement hearing; order; procedure.
- § 7112. Enforcing ex parte and temporary abatement orders.
- § 7113. Permanent abatement for all criminal nuisance actions; hearing; admissible evidence.
- § 7114. Duty of Attorney General; proceeds of sale in all criminal nuisance actions.
- § 7115. Lease void if building used for criminal nuisance.
- §§ 7116Civil penalty. (59 Del. Laws, c. 257, § 1; 72 Del. Laws, c. 484, § 1; repealed by 78 Del. Laws, c. 161 § 21, eff. Aug. 3, 2011.)
- § 7117. Immunity. (59 Del. Laws, c. 257, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 72 Del. Laws, c. 484, § 1; repealed by 78 Del. Laws, c. 161 § 22, eff. Aug. 3, 2011.)
- § 7118. Notification and provision of treatment resources.
- § 7119. Premises involving multiple residences or businesses.
- § 7120. Defense application to vacate or modify closing order prior to trial. (72 Del. Laws, c. 484, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; repealed by 78 Del. Laws, c. 161 § 27, eff. Aug. 3, 2011.)
- § 7121. Presumption against closure; vacating closure after abatement of nuisance and proof nuisance is not likely to occur.
- § 7122. Standard of proof.
- § 7123. Admissibility of evidence to prove criminal nuisance.
- § 7124. Relationship to criminal proceedings.
- § 7125. Release of premises upon inspection or repair.
- § 7126. Penalties.
- § 7127. Settlements.
- § 7128. Recovery of costs.
- § 7129. Contempt.
- § 7130. Cumulative remedies.
- § 7131. Liability for damage to closed properties.
- § 7132. Civil immunity.
- § 7133. Civil action for damages resulting from criminal nuisance.
- § 7134. Presumptions.
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