Title 9, Counties

§ 9105. County offices; days open; penalties. (a) County offices shall be open each day except legal holidays, Saturdays and Sundays. (b) If a county officer refuses or neglects to attend at his or her office for the transaction of business, as required in subsection (a) of this …

§ 9106. Saturday as legal holiday for New Castle County and City of Wilmington. Each Saturday shall be a legal holiday for all elective and appointed officials, deputies, clerks, bailiffs and other employees of New Castle County, including all officials and employees of the gover…

§ 9107. Authorization to pay employees on day preceding holiday. Each county government, whenever the pay day for employees falls on a holiday, Saturday or Sunday, may pay the employees their salaries on the day immediately preceding the holiday, Saturday or Sunday.47 Del. Laws, …

§ 9108. Disposition of fees. All the fees, costs, allowances and other perquisites which are taxable and paid to any county officer for any official service rendered by any such officer, shall be for the sole use of the county of such officer, and when received shall be paid to t…

§ 9109. Duty to account for fees. (a) Every county officer in each of the counties shall collect all fees, costs and allowances by law taxable by or payable to such officer, without any deduction, abatement or remission, except fees, costs and allowances payable by the county to …

§ 9110. Fee book; inspection and examination. The fee book mentioned in this chapter shall be a part of the records of the office for which it is kept, and shall be at all times open to inspection and examination.23 Del. Laws, c. 60, § 12; Code 1915, § 1444; Code 1935, § 1603; 9 …

§ 9111. Audit of fees. The Departments of Finance of New Castle County and of Sussex County shall, during the months of January and July in each year, audit, inspect, and examine the books, accounts, papers, records, and dockets of the several county officers and ascertain the am…

§ 9112. Liability for fees. Each county officer is made liable upon his or her respective official bond, for the payment to the receiver of taxes and county treasurer or the department of finance of the county of such officer of all the fees which such officer shall collect. All …

§ 9113. Penalties for failure to collect and pay over fees. (a) If any county officer fails, neglects or refuses for 10 days to pay over all fees, costs, allowances and perquisites he or she receives and collects for use of the county of such officer, or fails to collect the fees…

§ 9114. Bonds of recorder, clerk of the peace and register of wills. (a) Every recorder and clerk of the peace, elected or appointed for any county shall, at the next term of the Superior Court in that county, after their election or appointment, before entering upon the duties o…

§ 9115. Bond of Register in Chancery [Repealed]. Repealed by 73 Del. Laws, c. 91, § 2, effective Jan. 1, 2002.

§ 9116. Cancellation of bonds. The several bonds and recognizances of the several officers provided for in §§ 9114 and [former] 9115 [repealed] of this title as well as the official bond of any constable of the several counties shall be cancelled 3 years after the expiration of t…

§ 9117. Satisfaction of bonds. The bonds filed and recorded in the offices of the recorders of deeds in this State shall at the time designated in § 9116 of this title be marked by the recorder “cancelled” and under the word “cancelled” the recorder shall sign his or her name as …

§ 9118. Bond of sheriffs. (a) Every sheriff elected or appointed in any of the counties of this State, before entering upon that sheriff’s office, shall, with sufficient surety or sureties, become bound to the State, by a joint and several obligation to be, with the surety or sur…

§ 9119. Violation of bond requirements; penalty. Whoever, being an officer within the provisions of §§ 9114 and [former] 9115 [repealed] of this title, neglects to comply with such sections, shall be fined not less than $500 nor more than $1,000, and shall, ipso facto, forfeit hi…

§ 9120. Bonds of officers in Sussex County. Every public officer of Sussex County who is required by law to give a bond for the faithful performance of his or her duties to be approved by the judges of the Superior Court or Court of Chancery shall execute such bond before enterin…

§ 9121. Uniform mileage payments. The authorized mileage rate for officers or employees of the several counties who receive mileage from the respective county governments for miles driven in their private motor vehicles shall be at a rate to be determined by levy court or county …

§ 9122. Posting of fee lists. Every county officer who keeps a public office shall post in some convenient and conspicuous place therein a printed or written list of the fees prescribed in this part, as they relate to him or her.Code 1852, § 2834; Code 1915, § 4887; Code 1935, § …

§ 9123. Construction of fee provisions; time for payment of fees. Fees shall be construed strictly and no fee shall be allowed for any service, except where otherwise expressly provided, until it has been actually performed.Code 1852, § 2836; Code 1915, § 4889; Code 1935, § 5377;…

§ 9124. Payment of salaries. Payment of salaries of all county officers, deputies, clerks and employees payable by New Castle County, shall be paid by warrants drawn by the government of New Castle County on the Department of Finance, in such installments and upon such dates as t…

§ 9125. Chief deputies. (a) The clerk of the peace, Sheriff, Recorder of Deeds and Register of Wills in New Castle County each may select and employ 1 chief deputy who shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing officeholder. The provisions of this section shall not authorize a…