Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5124 – Discontinuance, sale or transfer of business by distributor or …
(a) Whenever a person ceases to engage in business as a distributor or retailer within this State by reason of the discontinuance sale or transfer of the business of such distributor or retailer, the distributor or retailer shall notify the Department of Transportation in writing at least 10 days prior to the time the discontinuance, sale or transfer takes effect. Such notice shall give the date of discontinuance and, in the event of a sale or transfer of the business, the date thereof and the name and address of the purchaser or transferee thereof. All taxes, penalties and interest under this chapter not yet due and payable under the provisions of this chapter shall, notwithstanding such provisions, become due and payable concurrently with the discontinuance, sale or transfer, and the distributor or retailer shall concurrently with such discontinuance, sale or transfer make a report and pay all such taxes, interest and penalties, and surrender to the Department the license theretofore issued to the distributor or retailer by the Department.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5124
- Department: means Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
- Distributor: includes any person, association of persons, firm or corporation, wherever resident or located, who imports or causes to be imported into the State gasoline, as defined in this section, for use, distribution, storage or sale after the gasoline reaches the State or who, being in the business of selling and or distributing gasoline in bulk quantities, desires to purchase gasoline tax free from another distributor for resale within this State or for export from this State; and also any person, association of persons, firm or corporation who produces, refines, manufactures or compounds, or causes to be produced, refined, manufactured or compounded gasoline as defined in this section within the State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
- Person: includes every natural person, fiduciary, association of persons or corporation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
- Retailer: means any person engaged in the sale of gasoline within this State who is not licensed as a distributor. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5101
- State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, The United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
- Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) Unless the notice provided for in subsection (a) of this section shall have been given to the Department of Transportation, the purchaser or transferee shall be liable to this State for the amount of all taxes, penalties and interest under this chapter, accrued against any such distributor or retailer so selling or transferring a business, on the date of such sale or transfer, but only to the extent of the value of the property and business thereby acquired from such distributor or retailer.
(c) Whoever violates this section shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $300 and the costs of the prosecution, or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.
30 Del. C. 1953, § ?5124; 54 Del. Laws, c. 107; 57 Del. Laws, c. 741, §§ ?24B, 24C; 59 Del. Laws, c. 216, § ?2; 62 Del. Laws, c. 380, § ?19; 68 Del. Laws, c. 290, § ?184; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;