Delaware Code Title 21 Sec. 4414 – Penalty; prima facie evidence of wilful abandonment; jurisdiction
(a) Any person who wilfully abandons a vehicle within the right-of-way of any highway of this State or upon the property of another without consent, and any person who, being the owner of an abandoned vehicle, wilfully fails to remove it pursuant to a directive given under § 4402(b) of this title shall be fined not less than $28.75 nor more than $115.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 21 Sec. 4414
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) For the purposes of this section, the fact that a person voluntarily left a vehicle and did not return to remove it within 7 consecutive days shall be prima facie evidence of the wilful abandonment of such vehicle.
(c) Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction for purposes of this section.
21 Del. C. 1953, § ?4414; 55 Del. Laws, c. 173; 57 Del. Laws, c. 713, § ?7; 58 Del. Laws, c. 119, § ?8; 66 Del. Laws, c. 14, § ?3; 68 Del. Laws, c. 9, § ?51; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;