Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5163 – Time and method of computation
(a) The Department of Transportation shall compute annually no later than 15 calendar days from the adoption of the Bond and Capital Improvements Act by the General Assembly of each year or at the end of the state fiscal year the moneys due each participating municipality from the state Municipal Street Aid Fund. Such computation shall be based upon the share of the proceeds of the motor fuel tax imposed by this chapter and appropriated by this subchapter.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5163
- Department: means Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Municipal Street Aid Fund: means the funds set up under this subchapter from money received under this subchapter. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5161
- Municipality: means any incorporated city or town having been in existence for a period of 1 year. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5161
- State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, The United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
- Streets: includes streets, highways, avenues, boulevards, bridges, tunnels, alleys or other public ways dedicated to public use and maintained for general vehicular travel lying within a municipality's corporate boundary, except that this term does not include state or federal highways within municipalities maintained by the Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5161
- Tax: shall be deemed also to refer to license fees imposed under Part III of this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
- Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) Each annual computation by the Department shall be made as follows:
(1) Forty percent of the state Municipal Street Aid Fund shall be distributed in the proportion that the population of each municipality bears to the total population of all participating municipalities. Population shall be ascertained in accordance with § 5165(b)(4) of this title.
(2) Sixty percent of the state Municipal Street Aid Fund shall be distributed in the proportion that the mileage of usable streets not maintained by the State in each municipality bears to the total mileage of said streets in all municipalities.
(c) [Repealed.]
30 Del. C. 1953, § ?5163; 51 Del. Laws, c. 55, § ?1; 51 Del. Laws, c. 243; 59 Del. Laws, c. 216, § ?2; 61 Del. Laws, c. 414, § ?2; 81 Del. Laws, c. 336, § 1;