If on the day of holding an election any election officer authorized by law to serve at the election in any election district is absent from the place of election at 7:00 a.m., the inspector, if present, or, in the absence of the inspector, then any judge who may be present, shall immediately notify the Department office in that inspector’s or judge’s county of the absence.

21 Del. Laws, c. 38, § 9; Code 1915, § 1748; Code 1935, § 1837; 45 Del. Laws, c. 154, § 9; 15 Del. C. 1953, § 4902; 58 Del. Laws, c. 148, §§ 74, 75; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 79 Del. Laws, c. 275, § 74; 82 Del. Laws, c. 170, § 21