Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 178

FORMERLY

SENATE BILL NO. 44

AS AMENDED BY HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 3

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 96, TITLE 9, DELAWARE CODE, RELATING TO RECORDATION OF INSTRUMENTS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:

Section 1. Amend §9605, Chapter 96, Title 9, Delaware Code, by adding thereto a new subsection (j) to read as follows:

"(j) The Recorders of New Castle, Kent and Sussex Counties shall not accept for recordation any deed or other instrument affecting real property unless the deed or other instrument contains thereon In a conspicuous place the parcel identification number of the parcel or parcels affected. In cases where the parcel was created by subdivision, the number of the parcel which was subdivided in addition to the number of the newly-created parcel or parcels shall be listed. In cases where the parcel was created by the combining of separated parcels, the numbers of the parcels that were combined in addition to the number of the newly-created parcel or parcels shall also be listed."

Approved March 19, 1990.