Delaware Code
Chapter 71. CRIMINAL NUISANCE ABATEMENT
§ 7115. Lease void if building used for criminal nuisance.

Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, if a tenant or occupant of a building or tenement, under a lawful title, is found after a hearing at which the tenant or occupant has appeared to have used such place for a criminal nuisance-related purpose, such use makes void the lease or other title under which the tenant or occupant holds, at the option of the owner, and, without any act of the owner, causes the right of possession to revert to vest in such owner.

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Title 10 - Courts and Judicial Procedure

Chapter 71. CRIMINAL NUISANCE ABATEMENT

§ 7101. Short title.

§ 7102. Purpose; construction.

§ 7103. Definitions.

§ 7104. Maintaining a criminal nuisance.

§ 7105. Action to abate criminal nuisance.

§ 7106. Jurisdiction; complaint; notice of lis pendens.

§ 7107. Affirmative defenses.

§ 7108. Notice to interested parties.

§ 7110. Delay and dismissal of actions.

§ 7111. Temporary abatement hearing; order; procedure.

§ 7112. Enforcing ex parte and temporary abatement orders.

§ 7113. Permanent abatement for all criminal nuisance actions; hearing; admissible evidence.

§ 7114. Duty of Attorney General; proceeds of sale in all criminal nuisance actions.

§ 7115. Lease void if building used for criminal nuisance.

§ 7118. Notification and provision of treatment resources.

§ 7119. Premises involving multiple residences or businesses.

§ 7121. Presumption against closure; vacating closure after abatement of nuisance and proof nuisance is not likely to occur.

§ 7122. Standard of proof.

§ 7123. Admissibility of evidence to prove criminal nuisance.

§ 7124. Relationship to criminal proceedings.

§ 7125. Release of premises upon inspection or repair.

§ 7126. Penalties.

§ 7127. Settlements.

§ 7128. Recovery of costs.

§ 7129. Contempt.

§ 7130. Cumulative remedies.

§ 7131. Liability for damage to closed properties.

§ 7132. Civil immunity.

§ 7133. Civil action for damages resulting from criminal nuisance.

§ 7134. Presumptions.