All taxes levied by any tax ditch organized under this chapter shall be collected by the receiver of taxes and county treasurer in the county or counties wherein the lands taxed are located. The receiver of taxes and county treasurer shall accept tax warrants in proper form from such tax ditches, shall refer to tax ditch assessment lists on file with the board of assessment of the county and shall collect such taxes warranted annually, pursuant to the terms of the warrants in the same manner as provided by law for the collection of county taxes, and money so collected shall be paid during the months of November, January and July to the receiver designated in the tax warrants. Warrants received not later than May 1 of each year, by the receiver of taxes and county treasurer, shall be processed to be collected during that same year. Tax warrants marked plainly as being for annual maintenance taxes shall be filed by the receiver of taxes and county treasurer in a special binder and the same shall be maintained as part of the permanent records of that office. Such annual maintenance taxes shall be deemed to have been levied by the tax ditch as of April 30 of each year, except the year in which the original or a revised maintenance tax warrant is delivered to the receiver of taxes and county treasurer, in which case the levy shall be effective from and after the date of the delivery of such warrant. Annual maintenance taxes, once warranted, shall be collected yearly by the receiver of taxes and county treasurer, except that an annual maintenance tax shall not be collected during any tax year when another warrant, whether for construction taxes or special taxes, for an identical portion of the tax ditch is in effect and is being collected. The receiver of taxes and county treasurer shall accept original tax warrants for annual maintenance taxes signed by the chairperson of the ditch managers and attested by the secretary-treasurer of the tax ditch. Such warrants may not be withdrawn and may not be revised except with the consent of the county soil conservation district, pursuant to § 4181 of this title.

48 Del. Laws, c. 151, § 51; 7 Del. C. 1953, § 4176; 50 Del. Laws, c. 276, § 32; 65 Del. Laws, c. 307, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.