(a) The primary objective of the Board of Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Professionals, to which all other objectives and purposes are secondary, is to protect the general public, specifically those persons who are the direct recipients of services regulated by this chapter, from unsafe practices and from occupational practices which tend to reduce competition or fix the price of services rendered.
(b) The secondary objectives of the Board are to maintain minimum standards of licensee competency and to maintain certain standards in the delivery of services to the public. In meeting these objectives, the Board shall develop standards assuring professional competence; monitor complaints brought against licensees regulated by the Board; adjudicate at formal hearings; promulgate rules and regulations; and impose sanctions where necessary.
Structure Delaware Code
Title 24 - Professions and Occupations
Chapter 30. MENTAL HEALTH AND CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY PROFESSIONALS
Subchapter I. Board of Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Professionals
§ 3002. Definitions [Effective until Jan. 1, 2023].
§ 3002. Definitions [Effective Jan. 1, 2023].
§ 3004. Organization; meetings; officers; quorum.
§ 3008. Issuance and renewal of licenses.
§ 3009. Grounds for discipline.
§ 3010. Complaints and investigations.
§ 3011. Disciplinary sanctions.
§ 3013. Reinstatement of a suspended license; removal from probationary status.
§ 3017. Privileged communications.
§ 3018. Duty to report conduct that constitutes grounds for discipline or inability to practice.