Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
Chapter 5. CONTAGIOUS DISEASES GENERALLY

Subchapter I. General Guidelines

§ 501. Report of contagious diseases — To Department. - (a) Local boards of health authorities and physicians in rural...

§ 502. Report of contagious diseases — To local boards. - Every physician or other person having knowledge of any person...

§ 503. Unreported contagious disease. - When complaint is made or there is a reasonable belief...

§ 504. Notifiable diseases. - The Division of Public Health may by regulation declare any...

§ 505. Communicable diseases; regulations; quarantine. - (a) From the list of notifiable diseases referred to in...

§ 506. Due process rights of quarantined individuals. - The Division of Public Health shall afford persons who are...

§ 507. Diphtheria antitoxin and immunizing materials; distribution; regulations; penalty for false certification. - (a) The State Board of Health may procure and distribute...

§ 508. Tracking of potential or existing public health emergencies. - The Division of Public Health shall ascertain the existence of...

§ 509. Vaccination for meningococcal disease. - (a) The purpose of this section is to prevent the...

§ 510. Immunizations containing mercury. - (a) A vaccine containing mercury may not be made available...

Subchapter II. Tuberculosis Control

§ 520. Definitions. - As used in this title, unless otherwise provided or the...

§ 521. Reporting by health-care providers. - (a) Physicians, pharmacists, nurses, hospital administrators, medical examiners, morticians, laboratory...

§ 522. Division investigates reported cases of tuberculosis. - Whenever the Division shall discover, as a result of its...

§ 523. Voluntary treatment. - Whenever the Division shall discover as a result of its...

§ 524. Public health power to examine and order treatment. - (a) Subject to the provisions of § 526 of this...

§ 525. Types of involuntary treatment: Outpatient examination and treatment, directly observed therapy, hospitalization and residential isolation. - (a) Subject to the provisions of § 526 of this...

§ 526. Conditions under which orders can be issued by Director. - (a) No person may be ordered to undergo outpatient examination...

§ 527. Order for emergency treatment. - (a) The County Public Health Administrator shall file a petition...

§ 528. Service of notice and processes; duties of the peace officer. - (a) All notices required to be given, warrants, petitions, processes...

§ 529. Right to appeal. - Any person who is aggrieved by the entry of an...

§ 530. Exercise of religious freedom. - Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to authorize or...

§ 531. Confidentiality. - All information held by the Division relating to known or...

§ 532. Health emergencies. - The provisions of this subchapter are subject to the provisions...