Title 16 — Health and Safety
143 chapters · 977 sections in this title.
16 Del. C. § 301. Appointment and membership outside Wilmington; vacancies and removal.
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§ 301. Appointment and membership outside Wilmington; vacancies and removal. (a) The common council of every city and the commissioners of every incorporated town in the State, except in the City of Wilmington, shall appoint in January of each year, a local board of health for su…
16 Del. C. § 302. Officers; meetings; quorum; secretary.
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§ 302. Officers; meetings; quorum; secretary. (a) The local boards of health shall elect annually from among their own members a president and a secretary. The local board shall meet not less than once in every 3 months. A majority of the local board shall form a quorum to do bus…
16 Del. C. § 303. General powers; quarantine regulations.
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§ 303. General powers; quarantine regulations. Each local board of health may make orders and regulations concerning: (1) The place and mode of quarantine; (2) The examination and purification of vessels, boats and other craft not under quarantine; (3) The treatment of vessels, a…
16 Del. C. § 304. Public laundries and washhouses; supervision, inspection and regulation; violations and penalties.
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§ 304. Public laundries and washhouses; supervision, inspection and regulation; violations and penalties. (a) The local boards of health of the respective towns and cities of this State (where such towns and cities have local boards of health) shall supervise all public laundries…
16 Del. C. § 305. Cleansing or closing unfit dwellings; recovery of expenses.
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§ 305. Cleansing or closing unfit dwellings; recovery of expenses. (a) Any local board of health when satisfied after an examination that any cellar, room, tenement or building within its jurisdiction occupied as a dwelling place has become, by reason of the number of occupants o…
16 Del. C. § 306. Cleansing diseased places; recovery of expenses.
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§ 306. Cleansing diseased places; recovery of expenses. Each local board of health may in case of the prevalence or of reasonable ground to apprehend the prevalence of malignant disease within its jurisdiction direct especially the cleaning of houses, cellars, yards, docks or oth…
16 Del. C. § 307. Neglected privy well; penalty.
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§ 307. Neglected privy well; penalty. If any owner, agent or tenant of any property in any town or city suffers the privy well thereon to be so full that any 2 members of the local board of health declare the same to be a nuisance, such owner, the owner’s agent and tenant in poss…
16 Del. C. § 308. Slaughterhouse; use as nuisance; penalty.
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§ 308. Slaughterhouse; use as nuisance; penalty. Whoever uses a slaughterhouse or place belonging thereto within a city or town limits, after the local board of health has pronounced the same noisome or having used such slaughterhouse shall not on the requirement of the local boa…
16 Del. C. § 309. Placing or maintaining offensive matters in public places; penalty.
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§ 309. Placing or maintaining offensive matters in public places; penalty. Whoever casts into any street, lane or alley or suffers to run or be washed from any slaughterhouse, stable, privy, yard or place in one’s possession into any street, lane or alley of any city or town havi…
16 Del. C. § 310. Abatement of nuisances.
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§ 310. Abatement of nuisances. (a) Each local board of health may direct: (1) That any noisome matter whether vegetable, animal or otherwise within the boundaries of its respective city or town or within 1 mile thereof or any vessel then having or having recently had any contagio…
16 Del. C. § 311. Entry for destruction or removal of nuisances.
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§ 311. Entry for destruction or removal of nuisances. Whenever a local board of health thinks it necessary for the preservation of the lives and health of the citizens to enter a place, building or vessel within its jurisdiction for the purpose of examining into and destroying, r…
16 Del. C. § 312. Removal of infected persons; taking possession of condemned premises.
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§ 312. Removal of infected persons; taking possession of condemned premises. Any justice of the peace, on application under oath, showing cause therefore by a local board of health or any authorized member thereof shall issue a warrant, under the justice of the peace’s own hand, …
16 Del. C. § 313. Care of persons having infectious or contagious disease.
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§ 313. Care of persons having infectious or contagious disease. The local board of health may procure suitable places for the reception of persons under quarantine and persons sick with the Asiatic or malignant cholera or any other malignant of infectious or contagious disease. I…
16 Del. C. § 314. Common carriers; submission to regulations and examination of health officers; penalty for false statements.
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§ 314. Common carriers; submission to regulations and examination of health officers; penalty for false statements. (a) Whenever quarantine is declared, all railroads, steamboats or other common carriers and the owners, consignees or assignees of any railroad, steamboat or other …
16 Del. C. § 315. Temporary structures for isolation purposes; disinfection of property.
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§ 315. Temporary structures for isolation purposes; disinfection of property. The State Board of Health or any local board of health may erect any temporary wooden buildings or field hospitals necessary for the isolation or protection of persons or freight supposed to be infected…
16 Del. C. § 316. Venue; continuance of nuisance as offense.
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§ 316. Venue; continuance of nuisance as offense. An offense charged under this chapter shall be construed and held to have been committed in any county whose inhabitants are or have been injured or aggrieved thereby. The continuance of any offense for 5 days after prosecution co…
16 Del. C. § 317. Penalties; corporations.
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§ 317. Penalties; corporations. (a) Whoever violates this chapter, except as otherwise therein prescribed or any regulation of the board of health made in pursuance thereof, or obstructs or interferes with the execution of any such order, or wilfully or illegally omits to obey an…