(a) 
The Town Council shall have the power and authority to lay out, locate and open new streets or to widen and alter existing streets or parts thereof and to vacate or abandon streets or parts thereof, whenever the Town Council shall deem it for the best interest of the Town. The jurisdiction of the Town Council under this Section shall be concurrent with the jurisdiction of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware to vacate public roads, bridges and all of the right-of ways pursuant to 17 Del.C. Ch. 13, or any other similar statutory provision.
(b) 
The procedure to be used for any of those things heretofore listed in this Section shall be as follows:
(1) 
Whenever five (5) or more property owners in a portion of the Town directly affected or abutting on the proposed street to be opened, laid out, changed, altered, widened, vacated or closed shall by written petition with each signature duly acknowledged request the Town Council to lay out, locate, or open a new street or to widen or alter any existing street or any part thereof or to vacate or abandon a street or any part thereof, the Mayor of the Town of Georgetown shall appoint a committee composed of not less than three (3) of the elected members of the Town Council to investigate the possibility of changing the structure of said streets in the Town. The petition presented to the Council by the property owners shall include a description of the property through which the proposed street shall be laid out or description of the street on which any of the other actions heretofore described shall take place and the reasons why the change in the structure of the streets of the Town should be undertaken; or the Town Council, by a majority vote of the elected members thereof may, by resolution, propose that a committee composed of not less than three (3) of its elected members be appointed by the Mayor to investigate the possibility of changing the street structure of the Town.
(2) 
Not later than ninety (90) calendar days following its appointment, the committee shall submit a report concerning its findings to the Mayor and to the Town Council. The report shall contain the advantages and disadvantages to the Town caused by the changes of the street structure and shall contain the conclusion of said committee either recommending or disapproving the change of said street structure. If the report of the committee appointed by the Mayor recommends changing the existing street structure of the Town of Georgetown, the Council, by Resolution, passed by a majority of the elected members of the Town Council concurring therein, shall propose to the property owners and citizens of the Town that the Council proposes to change the street structure by opening a new street or by doing any of those things herein before described to the existing street structure of the Town. If the report of the committee appointed by the Mayor is not in favor of changing the existing street structure of the Town of Georgetown, the Resolution proposing the change in the street structure to the property owners and citizens of the Town of Georgetown shall be passed by a majority of three-fourths (3/4ths) of the elected members of the Town Council. The Resolution shall contain a description of the proposed change and shall affix a time and place for a public hearing on the matter of changing the street structure. The Resolution adopted by the Town Council shall be printed in a newspaper having a general circulation in the Town of Georgetown, or, in the discretion of the Town Council, the Resolution shall be posted in five (5) public places in the Town for at least one (1) week before the time set for the public hearing. The notice shall be published at least one (1) week prior to the date set for the said public hearing. The Resolution shall also state the hour and place where and when the Town Council shall sit to hear objections and to award just and reasonable compensation to anyone who will be deprived of property by the proposed change in the existing street structure of the Town.
(3) 
Whenever the Town Council shall have determined to locate or lay out or widen any street, lane or alley and shall have affixed compensation therefore, it shall be the duty of the Town Council immediately after the survey and location of said street, lane or alley, to notify by certified mail with return receipt requested and postage prepaid the owner or owners of the real estate through or over whom such street, lane or alley may run of their determination to open or widen the same and to furnish a general description or location thereof; also the amount of compensation or damages allowed to reach such property owner, and if such owner be not a resident of the Town, to notify the holder or tenant of said real estate and the owner of such property if the owner's address be known; that there be no holder or tenant resident in said Town and the address of the owner be unknown or if there is a holder or tenant and the address of the owner is unknown, the said notice may be affixed to any part of the premises. If the owner be dissatisfied with the amount of compensation or damages allowed by the Town, as aforesaid, said property owner may, within fifteen (15) calendar days after such notice, as aforesaid, was posted or mailed, appeal from written notice of assessment or compensation or damages by serving written notice by certified mail with return receipt requested and postage prepared, on the Mayor of the Town to the effect that he or she is dissatisfied with the amount of such compensation or damages, and that it is his or her intention to make written application to one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in and for Sussex County, for the appointment of a commission to hear and determine the matter in controversy; and in order to prosecute said appeal, such owner shall, within fifteen (15) calendar days after serving said notice upon the Mayor as aforesaid, make written application to said Judge of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware, in and for Sussex County, for the appointment of such a commission; and thereupon the said Judge shall issue and appoint a commission directed to five (5) property owners of said county, three (3) of whom shall be residents of the Town of Georgetown, and two (2) of whom shall be nonresidents of said Town, requiring them to assess the damages which the owner of the real estate through or over which the said street, lane or alley shall pass or who shall have suffered damage because of any other action taken by the Town pursuant to the provisions hereof and who shall have notified the said Town Council of their intention to appeal may incur by reason thereof and to make a return of their proceeding to the said Judge at the time therein appointed.
(4) 
The property owners named in such commission, being first duly sworn or affirmed, shall view the premises and may, or a majority of them, shall assess the damages, as aforesaid, and shall make return in writing of their proceedings to the said Judge who shall deliver and return to the Town Council which shall be final and conclusive. The said Judge shall have the power to fill any vacancy in the commission. The amount of damages being so ascertained, the Town Council may pay or tender the same to the person or persons entitled thereto within thirty (30) calendar days after the same shall be finally ascertained or if the person or persons so entitled reside out of or are absent from the Town during the said period of thirty (30) calendar days, then the same shall be deposited to his or her credit in any bank or trust company, with offices in Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware, within said time and thereupon the said property or lands may be taken or occupied for the use as aforesaid.
(5) 
If the ascertainment and assessment of damages by the property owners appointed by the Judge, as aforesaid, shall be increased, the cost of the appeal shall be paid by the Town out of any money in the hands of the Town Manager belong to the Town, but if said damages shall not be increased, the cost of the appeal shall be paid by the party appealing. The said property owners members of the commission shall receive and be entitled for each day's actual service or of any part of a day the reimbursement of reasonable expenses. After the damage shall be fixed and ascertained by the property owners, the Town Council shall have the option to pay the damages assessed within the time aforesaid, and to proceed with the said improvements or, upon the payment of the costs only, may abandon the proposed improvements. In the event that either party feels that the damages assessed are not just as being excessive or inadequate, an appeal may then be prosecuted at the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware.
(a) 
Whenever the Town Council shall have determined that any paving, graveling, curbing, or any or all of them shall be deemed necessary in order to maintain public health and or public safety, it shall cause a notice to be sent to the property owner or owners along or in front of whose premises the same is to be done, particularly designating the nature and character thereof and thereupon it shall be the duty of such property owner or owners to cause such paving, graveling, and/or curbing, or any of them, to be done in conformity with said notice. In the event any property owner or owners neglect to comply with said notice for the space of thirty (30) calendar days, the said Town Council may proceed to have the same done and when done, the Town Manager shall, as soon as convenient thereafter, present to the property owner or owners of such lands a bill showing expenses of such paving, graveling, and curbing, or any of them. If such property owner or owners be not residents in the Town of Georgetown, such bills shall be sent by certified mail with postage prepaid or to such property owner or owners directed to him, her or them at the last known address. If such bill be not paid by the property owner or owners of such lands within sixty (60) calendar days after the presentation thereof, as aforesaid, the Town Manager shall proceed to collect the same in the same manner and under the same terms and conditions as are provided for the collection of delinquent taxes.
(b) 
Any notice sent to one co-owner shall be notice to all property owners and in the case of no property owners shall reside in said Town, notice served as set forth herein or posted upon the premises shall be sufficient.
(c) 
The provisions contained herein shall apply to any order made by the Town Council in respect to any pavement, sidewalk or curb heretofore made or done which the said Town Council may deem insufficient or need repairing.
No action, suit or proceeding shall be brought or maintained against the Town of Georgetown for damages, either compensatory or punitive on account of any physical injury to property by reason of the negligence, simple, gross, or willful or wanton of the said Town of Georgetown, or any of its departments, officers, agents, servants or employees unless the person by or on behalf of whom such claim or demand is asserted, within one (1) year from the happening of said injury or the suffering of such damages shall notify the Town of Georgetown in writing of the time, place, cause, character and extent of the injury sustained or damages suffered. Such notice shall be directed to the Mayor of the Town of Georgetown by certified mail with return receipt requested and postage prepaid.
It shall be the duty of the Town Council, at reasonable time or times, to compile the ordinances, current regulations, orders and rules of the Town of Georgetown. The Town Council shall have a reasonable number of copies printed for the use of the officials of the Town and for public information. From time to time, upon the enactment of new ordinances, current rules and regulations, or upon the enactment of amendments to same, the Town Council shall enroll the same in the minutes of the Town Council and shall keep copies of the same in a book to be provided for the purpose so that the same may be readily examined. It shall furnish the Mayor of the Town of Georgetown copies thereof as they are enacted as therefrom any cause supplements to be compiled and printed to any compendium thereof heretofore printed as above provided.
(a) 
All powers conferred upon or vested in the Town Council of the Town of Georgetown by any act or law of the State of Delaware not in conflict with the provisions of this Charter are hereby expressly conferred upon and vested in the Town of Georgetown and/or the Town Council of the Town of Georgetown precisely as if each of said powers was expressly set forth in this Charter.
(b) 
All ordinances adopted by the Town Council of Georgetown and in force at the time of approval, acceptance and going into effect of this Charter are continued in force until the same or any of them shall be repealed, modified or altered by the Town Council of the Town of Georgetown under the provisions of this Charter.
(c) 
All of the acts and doings of the Town Council of Georgetown or of any official of the Town Council of Georgetown which shall have been lawfully done or performed under the provisions of any law of this State or of any ordinance of the Town Council of Georgetown or under any provision of any prior Charter of the Town Council of the Town of Georgetown, prior to the approval, acceptance and going into effect of this Charter, are hereby ratified and confirmed, unless otherwise provided herein.
(d) 
All taxes, assessments, license fees, penalties, fines, and forfeitures due the Town Council of Georgetown shall be due the Town of Georgetown and all debts due from the Town Council of Georgetown shall remain unimpaired until paid by the Town of Georgetown.
(e) 
All powers granted by this Charter in respect to the collection of taxes, license fees, assessments or other charges shall be deemed to apply and extend to all unpaid taxes, license fees, assessments or other charges heretofore lawfully imposed by the Town Council of Georgetown.
(f) 
The bonds given by or on account of any official of the Town Council of Georgetown shall not be impaired or affected by the provisions of this Charter.
(g) 
All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with or in conflict with the provisions of this Charter be and the same are hereby repealed to the extent of any such inconsistency.
(h) 
If any part of the Charter shall be held to be unconstitutional or invalid by a Court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not be deemed to invalidate the remaining provisions of this Charter.
(i) 
This Charter shall be taken as and deemed to be a Public Act of the State of Delaware.