All the rights, powers, duties, obligations and authority belonging to or vested in the Child Welfare Commission, the Tuberculosis Commission or the State Health and Welfare Commission, prior to May 21, 1941, are transferred to and vested in the Department as successor to those commissions. The Department is clothed with all the power and authority necessary for the competent discharge of the duties imposed upon it.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 1. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES
Subchapter II. Powers and Duties Generally; Regulations and Orders
§ 121. Successor to powers of abolished health and welfare agencies.
§ 122. Powers and duties of the Department of Health and Social Services.
§ 123. Reports from public institutions, Division of Professional Regulation and resorts; penalties.
§ 124. Fluoridation of a water supply.
§ 125. Preservation of public health within incorporated towns; local sanitation matters; expenses.
§ 126. Regulations and orders of Department and Secretary — Effect; distribution.
§ 127. Regulations and orders of Department and Secretary — Duty of enforcement; penalty.
§ 128. Powers as advisory board; investigations; abatement of nuisances.
§ 129. Threatened epidemics; appointment of officers to enforce regulations and orders.
§ 130. Reporting of potential or existing public health emergencies.
§ 131. Survey of hospitals and health centers — Required.
§ 132. Acceptance of federal grants.
§ 133. Cancer; Delaware Cancer Consortium.
§ 135. Services to public water systems.
§ 136. Healthy Lifestyles and Tobacco-Related Disease Prevention Fund.
§ 138. Community-based Naloxone access program.
§ 139. Certification and procedures for animal welfare officers.