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Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 101. Definitions. - As used in this title, unless otherwise provided or the...
§ 102. Headquarters. - The Department shall establish headquarters in the City of Dover...
§ 103. Deputy state health officers — Appointment; term; compensation; removal. - (a) Subject to the approval of the Department, the Secretary...
§ 104. Deputy state health officers — Powers and duties. - The deputy state health officers for and under the direction...
§ 105. Authorization to receive federal funds; disposition. - (a) The Department may apply for and receive funds made...
§ 106. Prosecutions and proceedings for violations; disposition of fines. - All prosecutions and proceedings instituted by the Department or Division...
§ 107. Neglect of duty; penalty. - (a) Whoever refuses, fails or neglects to perform the duties...
§ 108. Jurisdiction of offenses; justices of the peace. - Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction of offenses under...
§ 109. Appeals. - From the decision of a justice of the peace exercising...
§ 110. Transfer of Wilmington Department of Health personnel to state service. - Any former or present employee of the State Division of...
§ 111. Retaliation or discrimination against complainants; immunities and other protections. - Notwithstanding any law or regulation to the contrary, any psychiatric...
Subchapter II. Powers and Duties Generally; Regulations and Orders
§ 121. Successor to powers of abolished health and welfare agencies. - All the rights, powers, duties, obligations and authority belonging to...
§ 122. Powers and duties of the Department of Health and Social Services. - The Department shall have the following general powers and duties:...
§ 123. Reports from public institutions, Division of Professional Regulation and resorts; penalties. - (a) The Department of Health and Social Services may require...
§ 124. Fluoridation of a water supply. - (a) In order to protect the dental health of all...
§ 125. Preservation of public health within incorporated towns; local sanitation matters; expenses. - (a) The Department of Health and Social Services, in addition...
§ 126. Regulations and orders of Department and Secretary — Effect; distribution. - (a) Regulations and orders promulgated or issued by the Department...
§ 127. Regulations and orders of Department and Secretary — Duty of enforcement; penalty. - (a) All local boards of health, health authorities and officials,...
§ 128. Powers as advisory board; investigations; abatement of nuisances. - (a) The Department of Health and Social Services shall be...
§ 129. Threatened epidemics; appointment of officers to enforce regulations and orders. - With the exception of circumstances encompassed by Title 20, when...
§ 130. Reporting of potential or existing public health emergencies. - (a) Except as otherwise indicated in this chapter or Title...
§ 131. Survey of hospitals and health centers — Required. - (a) The Secretary or the Secretary's designee shall: (1) Make...
§ 132. Acceptance of federal grants. - The Secretary or the Secretary's designee may apply for and...
§ 133. Cancer; Delaware Cancer Consortium. - (a) The Division of Public Health may use any money...
§ 134. Sanitary facilities of public eating places; permits; approval of construction; inspection; fee. - (a) No person shall operate any public eating place unless...
§ 135. Services to public water systems. - (a) The Department will provide services to public water as...
§ 136. Healthy Lifestyles and Tobacco-Related Disease Prevention Fund. - (a) A Healthy Lifestyles and Tobacco-Related Disease Prevention Fund (hereinafter...
§ 137. Delaware Health Fund. - (a) This section shall be referred to as the “Delaware...
§ 138. Community-based Naloxone access program. - The Department shall: (1) Promote the safe use of Naloxone...
§ 139. Certification and procedures for animal welfare officers. - (a) A person who acts as a certified animal welfare...
§ 140. Lyme Disease Education Oversight Board [Expires Aug. 29, 2024, pursuant to 80 Del. Laws, c. 402, § 2]. - (a) The Lyme Disease Education Oversight Board (“the Board”) is...
§ 140A. Diabetes; prevention and control; report. - The Division of Medicaid and Medical Assistance, Division of Public...
§ 140B. Default beverages offered in children's meals. - (a) A restaurant offering children's meals for sale that include...
Subchapter III. Pathological and Bacteriological Laboratory
§ 141. Establishment and supervision. - The Secretary or the Secretary's designee may establish and supervise...
§ 142. Election of Pathologist and Bacteriologist. - The Pathologist and Bacteriologist shall be employed by the Department...
§ 143. Duties of Pathologist and Bacteriologist. - The Pathologist and Bacteriologist shall conduct the routine work of...
§ 144. Medical practitioners to report contagious diseases; use of laboratory for examination and diagnosis; other uses. - (a) All physicians, dentists, veterinary surgeons or others practicing medicine...
§ 145. Examinations to determine cause of death. - The Pathologist and Bacteriologist, whenever requested by the Attorney General,...
Subchapter IV. Emily P. Bissell Hospital
§ 151. Powers and duties of Department of Health and Social Services. - The Department of Health and Social Services may: (1) Promote...
§ 152. Payment of costs of maintenance. - The Division of Public Health shall pay for the care,...
§ 153. County clinics. - The Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services...
§ 154. Admittance to Emily P. Bissell Hospital. - The Division of Public Health may admit such persons to...
§ 155. Accounting of all funds received by the hospital. - The Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services,...
§ 156. Annual account and report to Governor. - The Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services...
§ 157. Rights of patients. - Each patient of the Hospital shall be entitled to all...
Subchapter V. Child Welfare Services; Indigent Children With Physical Disabilities
§ 161. Powers and duties of Department. - The Department of Health and Social Services shall develop the...
§ 162. Cooperation of departments and officers. - Every official department and public officer in the State, excepting...
§ 163. Employment of personnel and registered trained nurse. - (a) The Department of Health and Social Services may employ...
§ 164. Federal aid; authority to expend appropriation. - If any bill shall be enacted by the United States...
§ 165. Indigent children with physical disabilities program. - The Department of Health and Social Services is designated as...
§ 166. Indigent children with physical disabilities program — Powers and duties of Secretary. - In carrying out § 165 of this title the Secretary...
§ 167. Indigent children with physical disabilities program — Duties of State Treasurer upon receipt of federal funds. - In the event of the receipt of funds from the...
Subchapter VII. Optometric Clinics
§ 181. Establishment of optometric clinics. - The Department of Health and Social Services shall establish 1...
§ 182. Appointment of optometrists. - Each optometric clinic shall be supervised and directed by 1...
§ 183. Services performed by clinics. - The clinics shall render and perform, free of charge, optometric...
Subchapter VIII. Warnings to Pregnant Women
§ 190. Required warning of possible use effects of alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, heroin or other narcotics. - (a) The Director of the Division of Public Health shall...
Subchapter IX. Healthy Mothers and Children
§ 195. Division of Public Health; use of funds. - The Division of Public Health may use any money appropriated...
§ 196. Delaware Healthy Mother and Infant Consortium. - (a) The Delaware Healthy Mother and Infant Consortium (“Consortium”) is...
§ 197. Delaware Perinatal Quality Collaborative. - (a) (1) The Delaware Perinatal Quality Collaborative (“Collaborative”) is established...