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2022 Delaware Code
Title 11 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 85. STATE BUREAU OF IDENTIFICATION
Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 8522. Authority to take fingerprints, photographs and other data.

Universal Citation:
11 DE Code § 8522 (2022)
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§ 8522. Authority to take fingerprints, photographs and other data.

(a) To the end that the officers and officials described in §§ 8507, 8509, 8510 and 8525 of this title may be enabled to transmit the reports required of them, such officers and officials shall have the authority and duty to take, or cause to be taken, fingerprints, photographs and other data of persons described in such section. A like authority shall be had by employees of the Bureau who are authorized to enter any institution under § 8512 of this title, as to persons confined in such institutions.

(b) Every person arrested for a crime or crimes enumerated in § 8507 of this title shall submit to being fingerprinted, photographed and shall supply such information as required by the Superintendent. Whoever shall fail to comply with this section shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor and shall be punished according to Chapter 42 of this title. The Justice of the Peace Court shall have jurisdiction over violations of this section.

42 Del. Laws, c. 181, § 19;  11 Del. C. 1953, § 8519;  63 Del. Laws, c. 188, § 1;  74 Del. Laws, c. 322, § 6; 
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