§ 203 — Penalty for removing, damaging or possessing monument

Delaware § 203

• Jurisdiction: Delaware
• Title: 29
• Part: General Provisions
• Ch. 2: STATE BOUNDARIES

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(a) Whoever moves, removes, breaks, mutilates, defaces, destroys or otherwise injures any monument marking any boundary between this State and any adjacent state or commonwealth shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

(b) Any person who has in possession any monument heretofore placed or prepared to be placed upon any of the boundary lines specified in subsection (a) of this section shall, upon demand being made for the monument by the Director of the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs, surrender and deliver the monument to the Director of the Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs, or to the Director’s authorized agents or employees.

(c) Whoever fails on demand to surrender and deliver the monument as required by subsection (b) of this section shall be guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

Legislative History

48 Del. Laws, c. 256, § 2 ; 29 Del. C. 1953, § 303; 53 Del. Laws, c. 255 ; 58 Del. Laws, c. 102, § 3 ; 65 Del. Laws, c. 475, §§ 1, 2 ; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1