Delaware Code
Subchapter II. Powers and Duties Generally; Regulations and Orders
§ 127. Regulations and orders of Department and Secretary — Duty of enforcement; penalty.

(a) All local boards of health, health authorities and officials, officers of the State and county institutions, police officers, sheriffs, constables and all other officers and employees of the State, or of any county, city or town thereof, shall enforce such quarantine orders, and such rules, regulations and orders as are adopted by the Department of Health and Social Services.
(b) In the event of failure or refusal on the part of any member of the local boards or other official or person mentioned in this section so to act, the member shall be fined not more than $50 for the first offense and not more than $100 for the second and each succeeding offense.

Structure Delaware Code

Delaware Code

Title 16 - Health and Safety

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.

§ 134. Sanitary facilities of public eating places; permits; approval of construction; inspection; fee.

§ 135. Services to public water systems.

§ 136. Healthy Lifestyles and Tobacco-Related Disease Prevention Fund.

§ 137. Delaware Health Fund.

§ 138. Community-based Naloxone access program.

§ 139. Certification and procedures for animal welfare officers.

§ 140. Lyme Disease Education Oversight Board [Expires Aug. 29, 2024, pursuant to 80 Del. Laws, c. 402, § 2].

§ 140A. Diabetes; prevention and control; report.

§ 140B. Default beverages offered in children's meals.