(a) Whenever quarantine is declared, all railroads, steamboats or other common carriers and the owners, consignees or assignees of any railroad, steamboat or other vehicle used for the transportation of passengers, baggage or freight, shall submit to:
(1) Any rules or regulations imposed by any board of health or health officer;
(2) Any examination required by the board of health or health officer;
(3) Any examination required by the health authorities respecting any circumstance or event touching the health of the crew, operatives or passengers, and the sanitary condition of the baggage and freight.
(b) Any owner, consignee or assignee or other person interested, who makes any unfounded statement or declaration respecting the points under examination shall be subject to the penalties provided in § 317 of this title.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 3. LOCAL BOARDS OF HEALTH
§ 301. Appointment and membership outside Wilmington; vacancies and removal.
§ 302. Officers; meetings; quorum; secretary.
§ 303. General powers; quarantine regulations.
§ 305. Cleansing or closing unfit dwellings; recovery of expenses.
§ 306. Cleansing diseased places; recovery of expenses.
§ 307. Neglected privy well; penalty.
§ 308. Slaughterhouse; use as nuisance; penalty.
§ 309. Placing or maintaining offensive matters in public places; penalty.
§ 310. Abatement of nuisances.
§ 311. Entry for destruction or removal of nuisances.
§ 312. Removal of infected persons; taking possession of condemned premises.
§ 313. Care of persons having infectious or contagious disease.
§ 315. Temporary structures for isolation purposes; disinfection of property.