(a) The Office of Retail Gasoline Sales is established within the Weights and Measures Unit of the Department of Agriculture, and shall have the power to perform and be responsible for the performance of all the administrative, ministerial, clerical and advisory functions involved in the administration and enforcement of this chapter. The Office of Retail Gasoline Sales shall determine the rules and regulations necessary for the proper enforcement of this chapter, but prior to the adoption, amendment or repeal of any rule or regulation the Office shall:

(1) Give at least 20 days’ notice for a public hearing. Such notice shall include a statement of either the terms or substance of the intended action or a description of the subjects and issues involved, and the time when, the place where, and the manner in which interested persons may present their views thereon. The notice shall be mailed to all persons who have made timely request to the Office for advance notice, and shall be published at least once in each county by a daily newspaper of general circulation and at least once in a weekly newspaper in each county.

(2) Afford all interested persons the opportunity to submit data, views or arguments (orally or in writing). The Office shall fully consider all oral and written suggestions respecting the proposed rule or regulation. The Office may make its decision at the public hearing or announce the earliest date as to when it intends to make its decision. Any proceeding to contest a rule or regulation by the Office must be commenced within 6 months from the effective date of the rule or regulation.

Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 2911

  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Person: means a natural person, partnership (whether general or limited), limited liability company, trust (including a common law trust, business trust, statutory trust, voting trust or any other form of trust), estate, association (including any group, organization, co-tenancy, plan, board, council or committee), corporation, government (including a country, state, county or any other governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality), custodian, nominee or any other individual or entity (or series thereof) in its own or any representative capacity, in each case, whether domestic or foreign. See Delaware Code Title 6 Sec. 17-101

(b), (c) [Repealed.]

(d) The Attorney General, the Office or any aggrieved person may institute an action in the Court of Chancery to enjoin any person from engaging in or continuing a practice in violation of this chapter.

59 Del. Laws, c. 556, § ?9; 62 Del. Laws, c. 72, § ?4; 63 Del. Laws, c. 58, § ?3; 68 Del. Laws, c. 290, § ?184; 77 Del. Laws, c. 394, §§ ?10, 11;