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2025 Delaware Code
Title 9 - Counties
Chapter 87. COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT TAXES
Subchapter IV. Sale of Land for Delinquent Taxes in Kent and Sussex Counties
§ 8778. Costs upon sale of lands.
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§ 8778. Costs upon sale of lands.
(a) In cases of sale of lands, under this subchapter, for the payment of taxes, the following costs shall be allowed to be deducted from the proceeds of sale, or chargeable against the owner:
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(b) In addition the costs of printing handbills and publication of advertisements of sale under this subchapter, together with the miles necessarily traveled by the tax collecting authority in posting the handbills shall be chargeable as costs. Mileage shall be computed and chargeable at the rate provided by [former] § 9115 [repealed] of this title.
(c) The cost of the deed shall not be chargeable as costs, but shall be paid by the purchaser.
28 Del. Laws, c. 82, § 21; 30 Del. Laws, c. 82, § 6; 33 Del. Laws, c. 84, § 16; Code 1935, §§ 1413, 1446; 9 Del. C. 1953, § 8778; 57 Del. Laws, c. 762, § 24G; 71 Del. Laws, c. 401, § 115;
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