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2014 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
CHAPTER 5. SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Subchapter VII Offenses Against Public Health, Order and Decency
§ 1340. Desecration of burial place
2 DE Code § 1340 (2014 through 146th Gen Ass) What's This?
A person is guilty of desecration of a burial place if the person intentionally defaces, damages, pollutes or otherwise physically mistreats any such burial place. Any person who desecrates a burial place is guilty of a class A misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000.
65 Del. Laws, c. 463, § 2; 67 Del. Laws, c. 130, § 8; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;
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