Delaware Code
Chapter 71. CRIMINAL NUISANCE ABATEMENT
§ 7134. Presumptions.

(a) The person in whose name the premises involved is recorded in the recorder of deeds office shall be presumed to be the owner thereof.
(b) Whenever there is evidence that a person was the manager, operator, supervisor or was in any other way in charge of the premises involved at the time of any conduct constituting the criminal nuisance is alleged to have been committed, such evidence shall be rebuttably presumptive that such person was an agent or employee of the owner, landlord or lessee of the premises.

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Delaware Code

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.