Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5216 – Departure or removal of property from State or discontinuing …
If the Department of Transportation ascertains that a person decides quickly to depart from this State, or to remove therefrom the person’s property, or any property used by the person in operations subject to this chapter, or to discontinue business, or to do any other act tending to prejudice or render wholly or partially ineffectual proceedings to assess or collect such tax, whereby it becomes important that such proceedings be brought without delay, the Department of Transportation may immediately make an arbitrary assessment of the amount of tax due, whether or not any report is then due by law and may proceed under such arbitrary assessment to collect the tax, or compel security for the same, and thereafter shall cause notice of such finding to be given to such motor carrier, together with a demand for an immediate report and immediate payment of such tax.
30 Del. C. 1953, § ?5216; 57 Del. Laws, c. 496, § ?1; 58 Del. Laws, c. 467, § ?2; 59 Del. Laws, c. 216, § ?4; 68 Del. Laws, c. 290, § ?184; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5216
- Department: means Department of Transportation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5202
- Motor carrier: means every person who operates or causes to be operated any motor vehicle on any highway in this State. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5202
- Operations: means operations of all such motor vehicles whether loaded or empty, whether for compensation or not for compensation and whether owned by or leased to the motor carrier who operates them or causes them to be operated. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 5202
- Person: means and includes an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, association, company or corporation. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502
- 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
- Tax: shall be deemed also to refer to license fees imposed under Part III of this title. See Delaware Code Title 30 Sec. 502