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2025 Delaware Code
Title 9 - Counties
Chapter 94. CLERKS OF THE PEACE
§ 9417. Destruction of county papers.
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§ 9417. Destruction of county papers.
The clerk of the peace shall, on and after the expiration of 5 years from their date, destroy poll lists of elections, individual bills settled and paid by the county, and such papers as may and do not become a matter of permanent record of the county or State in the office. The destruction of the papers shall be under and by the supervision of the prothonotary and the register of wills of each county.
14 Del. Laws, c. 38, §§ 1, 2; Code 1915, § 1308; Code 1935, § 1501; 9 Del. C. 1953, § 9417;
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