Continuous Code Revision

Del. Code tit. 1, ch. 2
in effect

Del. Code tit. 1, § 201 Appointment; composition.

The Delaware Code Revisors (the Revisors) shall consist of 2 attorneys-at-law licensed to practice law before the Supreme Court of the State who shall be appointed by the Governor. At the time of appointment, the 2 attorneys shall not be members of the same political party. One shall be appointed for a period terminating with the 126th General Assembly and one shall be appointed for a period terminating with the 127th General Assembly. Thereafter all appointments shall be for a term of 4 years. In case of a vacancy the Governor shall make an appointment for the unexpired term.

Del. Code tit. 1, § 202 Compensation and expenses.

The Legislative Council shall determine the compensation to be paid to a Revisor and reimburse a Revisor for necessary out-of-pocket and travel expenses incurred in performing the Revisor’s duties under this chapter. The Legislative Council may not set the yearly compensation to be paid to a Revisor at less than $5,000.

Del. Code tit. 1, § 210 Duties and powers of Revisors.

(a) At the close of each regular, annual session of the General Assembly, the Revisors shall prepare or cause to be prepared supplements to the Delaware Code and all other general and permanent laws which have become law since the publication of the last supplements, noting the sections that have been repealed, generally updating the Code and including, in the discretion of the Revisors, updated annotations of court decisions. The supplements are to be completed and delivered to the State not later than 6 months after the close of such legislative session. (b) From time to time, after consultation with the Legislative Council, the Revisors shall prepare or cause to be prepared a revised, recompiled, or revised and recompiled Delaware Code, or replacement or supplemental volume or volumes thereof, which may, in the discretion of the Revisors, include updated annotations of court decisions. (c) The Revisors may make and enter into all contracts and agreements, and execute, acknowledge and deliver all instruments and assurances, necessary or incidental to the performance of their duties and the execution of their duties and powers under this chapter. (d) The Revisors may sue and be sued in their own name. (e) The Revisors shall annually publish or cause to be published the Rules and, 6 months later, shall publish or cause to be published supplements to the Rules. The Revisors shall consult with the state and federal courts of Delaware in publishing or causing to be published the Rules and Rules supplements. The Revisors may include annotations of court decisions and other aides in the Rules and Rules supplements.

Del. Code tit. 1, § 211 Scope of editorial revision; omissions.

(a) In performing their duties and powers under § 210 of this title, the Revisors shall not alter the sense, meaning or effect of any act of the General Assembly but they may: (1) Renumber and rearrange sections or parts of sections; (2) Transfer sections or divide sections so as to give to distinct subject matters a separate section number, but without changing the meaning; (3) Insert or change the wording of headnotes; (4) Change reference numbers to agree with renumbered chapters or sections; (5) Substitute the proper section or chapter number for the terms “this act,” “the preceding section” and the like; (6) Strike out figures where they are merely a repetition of written words and vice versa; (7) Change capitalization for the purpose of uniformity; (8) Correct manifest typographical and grammatical errors; and (9) Make any other purely formal or clerical changes in keeping with the purpose of the revision. (b) The Revisors shall omit all titles of acts, all enacting, resolving, and repealing clauses, all appropriation measures, all temporary or local statutes, all declarations of emergency, and all validity, declaration of policy, and construction clauses, except when the retention thereof is necessary to preserve the full meaning and intent of the law. (c) (1) The Revisors shall use gender silent techniques to ensure that masculine and feminine pronouns are not used and shall ensure that a solely masculine or feminine designation occurs only when it applies to 1 gender. (2) The Revisors shall apply paragraph (c)(1) of this section to all laws enacted on or after May 31, 2023, and may apply paragraph (c)(1) of this section to laws enacted before May 31, 2023. (3) If the Revisors cannot determine how to apply paragraph (c)(1) of this section to masculine and feminine pronouns used in a law, the Revisors shall report this to the Director of the Division of Legislative Services for possible correction through the legislative process. (4) “Gender silent techniques” include substituting the nouns to which the masculine and feminine pronouns refer.

Del. Code tit. 1, § 212 Bids; contract.

The Revisors shall, after consultation with the Legislative Council, upon such specifications and conditions as they shall determine, duly and sufficiently advertise for bids for the compilation, revision, annotation, printing and binding of the Code supplements and the revised or recompiled Delaware Code, along with the Rules and Rules supplements, and shall award a contract for such work to the lowest and best legal publisher of recognized standing as such. The contract for Code supplements may, in the discretion of the Revisors, cover the Code supplements for 1 or more of the sessions of the General Assembly.

Del. Code tit. 1, § 213 Number of Code supplements, Rules, and Rules supplements; sale rights.

The Revisors shall consult with Legislative Council to determine the number of Code supplements, Rules, and Rules supplements to be printed and delivered to the State by the publisher each year. The Revisors are authorized in awarding the contract for the printing of the Code supplements, Rules, and Rules supplements, to grant the publisher such sales rights as in the judgment of the Revisors would be advantageous to the State.

Del. Code tit. 1, § 220 Distribution of the Code and the Rules.

Completed Code supplements, Rules, and Rules supplements shall be delivered to each state entity or agency in accordance with the directive of Legislative Council.
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