Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 1125 – Local service functions; New Castle County property tax rates in …
(a) In determining the New Castle County property tax rate for real property in a municipality, New Castle County shall consider the degree that a local service function is fully or partially performed or financially supported by the municipality instead of New Castle County under § 1102 of this title.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 9 Sec. 1125
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- real property: is synonymous with the phrase "lands, tenements and hereditaments. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) New Castle County shall establish a property tax rate for real property in a municipality based on the degree of any local service function fully or partially performed or financially supported by the municipality instead of New Castle County under § 1102 of this title.
(c) A property tax rate for real property in a municipality does not have to be either of the following:
(1) The same as a property tax rate for property located in other municipalities or in the unincorporated area of New Castle County.
(2) The same as a property tax rate set in a prior year.
(d) [Repealed.]