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2021 Delaware Code
Title 29 - State Government
Chapter 7. General Provisions
§ 704. Powers respecting elections and election contests.
Universal Citation: 29 DE Code § 704. (2021)
§ 704. Powers respecting elections and election contests.
(a) The Senate and House of Representatives may compel the delivery of ballot boxes to either House, as provided by § 5716 of Title 15.
(b) Whenever there shall be a vacancy in either House of the General Assembly, when the same shall be in session, the Presiding Officer of the House in which the vacancy exists shall issue a writ of election to fill the vacancy, as prescribed by §§ 7101-7109 of Title 15.
(c) [Repealed.]
(d) Any order for the payment of costs by the contestant, in case of a contested election for members of the General Assembly, shall be enforced by a writ issued by the Speaker or President, as the case may be, of the House in which such election was contested, as provided by § 5908 of Title 15.
Code 1852, §§ 379, 404-407, 434; 21 Del. Laws, c. 38, § 31; Code 1915, § 365; Code 1935, § 336; 29 Del. C. 1953, § 704; 82 Del. Laws, c. 141, § 23;
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