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2024 Delaware Code
Title 30 - State Taxes
Chapter 54. REALTY TRANSFER TAX
Subchapter I. Realty Transfer Tax
§ 5405. Documentary stamps; affixing; cancellation; other methods.

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30 DE Code § 5405 (2024)
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§ 5405. Documentary stamps; affixing; cancellation; other methods.

(a) The payment of the tax imposed by this subchapter shall be evidenced by the affixing of a documentary stamp or stamps to every document by the person making, executing, delivering or presenting such document for recording. Such stamps shall be affixed in such manner that their removal will require the continued application of steam or water and the person using or affixing such stamps shall write, stamp or cause to be written or stamped thereon the initials of the person's name and the date upon which such stamps are affixed or used so that such stamps may not again be used; provided, that the Department of Finance may prescribe such other method of cancellation as it may deem expedient.

(b) The Department of Finance may, by regulation, provide for the evidence of the payment of the tax to be shown on the document by means other than the affixing of documentary stamps.

30 Del. C. 1953, § 5405;  55 Del. Laws, c. 109, § 1;  57 Del. Laws, c. 741, § 17A;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 
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