CHAPTER 163.
GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING TRADE.
AN ACT for the Protection of Persons under the Influence of Intoxicating Liquors and Drugs, in the Disposal of Wearing Apparel and Household Goods.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:
Section 1. No person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of dealing in second-hand goods shall knowingly purchase, and no person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of a pawn-broker shall knowingly accept in pledge or pawn, from any person under the influence of any intoxicating liquor or drug, any wearing apparel or household goods. Any person, whether acting for himself or for any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business aforesaid, violating this law shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine not exceeding Fifty Dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding three months, or both.
Approved February 14, A. D. 1907.