2025 Delaware Code
Title 9 - Counties
Chapter 92. DEPUTIES AND CLERKS
§ 9204. Employment of extra clerks.

§ 9204. Employment of extra clerks.

(a) Except as provided otherwise by law, the Resident Judge of New Castle County may authorize any county officer in his or her County, whose office is a constitutional office, to employ clerks in addition to those specified by law when such Judge deems such employment necessary for the proper performance of the public work required of such officer. In Kent County, the county government may fix the number of clerks employed.

(b) Any additional clerks employed under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, shall receive the same compensation as is fixed by law for the other clerks performing like or similar services, and shall be paid in like manner.

Code 1915, § 1439;  29 Del. Laws, c. 91, § 1;  29 Del. Laws, c. 92, § 1;  30 Del. Laws, c. 91, § 1;  31 Del. Laws, c. 13, § 16;  32 Del. Laws, c. 67, § 1;  35 Del. Laws, c. 79, § 1;  40 Del. Laws, c. 139, § 2;  Code 1935, §§ 1191, 1598;  43 Del. Laws, c. 120, § 1;  44 Del. Laws, c. 100, § 2;  45 Del. Laws, c. 137, § 1;  9 Del. C. 1953, § 9204;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1;  76 Del. Laws, c. 213, § 6;