Delaware Code Title 12 Sec. 3984 – Staff; budgeting; finance
The Public Guardian may appoint subordinates and delegate the appointed authority to subordinates to assist in carrying out the purposes of this subchapter. Subordinates may include such nonprofit organizations as the Public Guardian shall deem to be qualified in carrying out the duties as a subordinate guardian. The Public Guardian shall prepare an annual fiscal budget for the operation of the Office of the Public Guardian.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 12 Sec. 3984
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Court: means the Court of Chancery. See Delaware Code Title 12 Sec. 39A-101
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Guardian: is a "guardian of the person" as that term is used in this title. See Delaware Code Title 12 Sec. 39A-101
The General Assembly may annually appropriate such sums as it may deem necessary for the payment of the salary of the Public Guardian, the staff, and for the payment of actual expenses incurred by the Office of the Public Guardian. The Office of the Public Guardian shall be operated within limitation of the annual appropriation and any other funds appropriated by the General Assembly or designated for that purpose from the estate of the person with a disability by the court.
Special funds may be used in accordance with approved programs, grants, and appropriations.
59 Del. Laws, c. 579, § ?9; 60 Del. Laws, c. 511, § ?50; 60 Del. Laws, c. 570, § ?9; 60 Del. Laws, c. 722, § ?3; 69 Del. Laws, c. 109, § ?2; 78 Del. Laws, c. 40, § ?1; 78 Del. Laws, c. 179, §§ ?121-123;