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16 DE Code § 1014A. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 10A. Health-Care Associated Infections Disclosure Act|§ 1014A. Membership in National Healthcare Safety Network.

§ 1014A. Membership in National Healthcare Safety Network. By December 31, 2007, all hospitals in the State shall join the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare Safety Network or its successor. If the Network is not open for enrollment to all hospitals by this date, all hospitals shall join the Network within 180 days after the Center of Disease Control and Prevention permits such enrollment. Hospitals shall authorize the Department to have access to hospital-specific data contained in the National Healthcare Safety Network database consistent with the requirements of this chapter. With the concurrence of the Advisory Committee the Department may require other health-care facilities through regulation to join the National Healthcare Safety Network as may be appropriate in accordance with this chapter. 76 Del. Laws, c. 122, §  1;  78 Del. Laws, c. 351, §  1;
16 DE Code § 1201A. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12A. Notification of Emergency Medical Providers of Persons With Communicable Diseases|§ 1201A. Definitions.

§ 1201A. Definitions. As used in this chapter:  (1) “Communicable disease” means human immunodeficiency virus, (HIV, the virus that causes AIDS), and hepatitis B. (2) “Division” means Division of Public Health, Department of Health and Social Services. (3) “Emergency medical care provider” means a fire fighter, law enforcement officer, paramedic, emergency medical technician, correctional officer, ambulance attendant or other person who serves as an employee or volunteer of an ambulance service and/or provides prehospital emergency medical services. (4) “Receiving medical facility” means a hospital or similar facility that receives a patient attended by an emergency medical care provider for the purposes of continued medical care. (5) “Universal precautions” means those precautions, including the appropriate use of hand washing, protective barriers, and care in the use and disposal of needles and other sharp instruments that minimize the risk of transmission of communicable diseases between patients and health-care providers.68 Del. Laws, c. 415, §  1;  69 Del. Laws, c. 108, §§  1, 2;
16 DE Code § 1202A. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12A. Notification of Emergency Medical Providers of Persons With Communicable Diseases|§ 1202A. Report of exposed emergency medical provider.

§ 1202A. Report of exposed emergency medical provider. (a) An emergency medical care provider may request notification concerning exposure to a communicable disease under this section if the exposure is of a manner known to transmit a communicable disease. (b) Each employer of an emergency medical care provider, and every organization which supervises volunteer emergency medical care providers, shall designate an officer who shall receive requests for notification from emergency medical care providers; collect facts relating to the circumstances under which the emergency medical provider may have been exposed to a communicable disease; distribute the forms as specified by subsection (c) of this section to receiving medical facilities; report to the emergency medical care provider findings provided by the receiving medical facility; and assist the emergency care provider to take medically appropriate action when necessary. The designated officer shall delegate these duties as may be necessary to ensure compliance with this chapter. (c) If an emergency medical care provider desires to be notified under this chapter, the officer designated pursuant to subsection (b) of this section shall notify the receiving medical facility within 24 hours after the patient is admitted to or treated by the facility, utilizing a form that is prescribed or approved by the Division of Public Health. 68 Del. Laws, c. 415, §  1;  69 Del. Laws, c. 108, §  3;  70 Del. Laws, c. 147, §  7;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
16 DE Code § 1203A. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12A. Notification of Emergency Medical Providers of Persons With Communicable Diseases|§ 1203A. Notification by a receiving medical facility.

§ 1203A. Notification by a receiving medical facility. (a) Each receiving medical facility shall designate an officer or individual who shall receive completed forms as specified by § 1202A(c) of this title, and who shall insure compliance with the requirements of this section. (b) If, within 30 days after a patient is admitted or treated, a receiving medical care facility determines whether or not the emergency medical care provider has been exposed to a communicable disease, the receiving medical facility shall so notify the officer designated pursuant to § 1202A(b) of this title as soon as possible, but in no case more than 48 hours after that determination. The receiving medical facility shall base this determination upon information provided in the request for notification made pursuant to § 1202A(c) of this title and patient records or a finding at the facility. (c) If, after expiration of the 30-day period, the receiving medical facility cannot determine whether or not the emergency medical care provider has been exposed to a communicable disease, the receiving medical facility shall notify the officer designated pursuant to § 1202A(b) of this title as soon as possible, but not more than 48 hours after expiration of the 30-day period. (d) If a request for notification has been made pursuant to § 1202A(c) of this title, the receiving medical facility shall provide to the Division a copy of the form which shall include information about whether or not the patient is infected with a communicable disease; and if exposure to the patient is considered by the receiving medical facility to be in a manner known to transmit that communicable disease. The Division shall settle any disputes regarding whether or not an emergency medical care provider has or has not been exposed to a communicable disease. 68 Del. Laws, c. 415, §  1;  69 Del. Laws, c. 108, §  4;
16 DE Code § 1204A. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12A. Notification of Emergency Medical Providers of Persons With Communicable Diseases|§ 1204A. Universal precautions.

§ 1204A. Universal precautions. In recognition of the importance of universal precautions to the control of communicable diseases from a patient to an emergency medical care provider, education and training with respect to universal precautions shall be a mandatory component of any required training and any required continuing education for all emergency medical care providers who have patient contact. Training requirements for this purpose shall be established by the Division of Public Health. 68 Del. Laws, c. 415, §  1;  70 Del. Laws, c. 147, §  8;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
16 DE Code § 1205A. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12A. Notification of Emergency Medical Providers of Persons With Communicable Diseases|§ 1205A. Rules and regulations.

§ 1205A. Rules and regulations. (a) The Division of Public Health shall make such rules and regulations as may in its judgment be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section, and may make additions of other communicable diseases which shall be subject to this chapter. (b) The Division of Public Health may issue regulations necessary to ensure compliance with this chapter relating to patients who are transferred between institutions, or who may die during or shortly after being transferred. The Division of Public Health shall require emergency medical care facilities to notify the officer designated pursuant to § 1202A(b) of this title when an emergency care provider has been exposed to a communicable disease identified by the Division of Public Health to be transmitted through the air, even if a request for notification has not been made pursuant to § 1202A(c) of this title. 68 Del. Laws, c. 415, §  1;  69 Del. Laws, c. 108, §  5;  70 Del. Laws, c. 147, §§  9, 10;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
16 DE Code § 1206A. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12A. Notification of Emergency Medical Providers of Persons With Communicable Diseases|§ 1206A. Confidentiality of HIV test results.

§ 1206A. Confidentiality of HIV test results. A person who has knowledge of the identity of any person upon whom an HIV related test is performed, or the results of such test, in accordance with this chapter, shall maintain the confidentiality of that information pursuant to § 717 of this title. 68 Del. Laws, c. 415, §  1;  78 Del. Laws, c. 277, §§  2, 3;
16 DE Code § 1207A. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12A. Notification of Emergency Medical Providers of Persons With Communicable Diseases|§ 1207A. Confidentiality.

§ 1207A. Confidentiality. All information contained in requests for notification and in the notification itself shall be confidential and used solely for the purposes of complying with this chapter. However, any person or agency, including but not limited to a receiving medical care facility or officer designated pursuant to § 1202A(b) of this title, acting in good faith to provide notification in accordance with this chapter, shall not be liable in any cause of action related to the breach of patient confidentiality. 68 Del. Laws, c. 415, §  1;  69 Del. Laws, c. 108, §  6;
16 DE Code § 1208A. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12A. Notification of Emergency Medical Providers of Persons With Communicable Diseases|§ 1208A. Failure to provide notice.

§ 1208A. Failure to provide notice. A receiving medical care facility or officer designated pursuant to § 1202A(b) of this title, acting in good faith to provide notification in accordance with this chapter, shall not be liable in any cause of action for failure to give the required notice if the emergency medical care provider fails to properly initiate the notification procedures pursuant to § 1202A of this title. 68 Del. Laws, c. 415, §  1;  69 Del. Laws, c. 108, §  7;
16 DE Code § 1209A. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 12A. Notification of Emergency Medical Providers of Persons With Communicable Diseases|§ 1209A. Minors.

§ 1209A. Minors. This chapter shall apply in the same manner and to the same extent to any emergency medical care provider who is a minor and above the age of 15, as if such minor were 21 years or older. 69 Del. Laws, c. 108, §  8;
16 DE Code § 1301. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 13. Pollution of Streams|§ 1301. Pollution of streams supplying drinking water; nuisance; penalty; abatement; jurisdiction.

§ 1301. Pollution of streams supplying drinking water; nuisance; penalty; abatement; jurisdiction. (a) No person shall cast, put, place, discharge in or permit or suffer to be cast, put, placed, discharged in or to escape into any running stream of water within the limits of this State, from which stream the inhabitants of any borough, town or city within this State are supplied wholly or in part with water for and as drink or beverage, any dye-stuffs, drugs, chemicals or other substance or matter of any kind whatsoever whereby the water so supplied as and for a drink or beverage is made and becomes noxious to the health or disagreeable to the senses of smell or taste. (b) Whoever violates subsection (a) of this section shall be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000. (c) The Superior Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of offenses under this section. (d) In addition to the fine imposed under subsection (b) of this section, the Court shall issue an order for the abatement of the nuisance within 20 days after conviction. Any police officer authorized to make arrests in the jurisdiction in which the conviction takes place shall, under such order, unless the nuisance was abated before the expiration of the time allowed for its abatement, abate the same, and to this end shall enter on the premises from which the nuisance proceeded and arrest, stop and put an end to the business from the carrying on of which or in the process of which the nuisance was created and carried on. 12 Del. Laws, c. 405, §§  1, 2;  Code 1915, §§  764, 765;  Code 1935, §§  770, 771;  16 Del. C. 1953, §  1301;  78 Del. Laws, c. 266, §  18;
16 DE Code § 1302. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 13. Pollution of Streams|§ 1302. Maintenance of privy, hogpen or slaughterhouse near stream supplying drinking water; nuisance; abatement; penalty; jurisdiction.

§ 1302. Maintenance of privy, hogpen or slaughterhouse near stream supplying drinking water; nuisance; abatement; penalty; jurisdiction. (a) No person shall put or place, or permit to be put, placed or used, any privy, hogpen or slaughterhouse over or so near that the excrement or offal therefrom shall escape or run into any stream of running water within the limits of this State from which the inhabitants of any town, borough or city are wholly or in part furnished with water as a drink or beverage. (b) Whoever violates subsection (a) of this section shall be fined $100. The Court shall order the nuisance to be abated immediately. (c) The Superior Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of offenses under this section.  12 Del. Laws, c. 405, §  3;  Code 1915, §  766;  Code 1935, §  772;  16 Del. C. 1953, §  1302;
16 DE Code § 1403. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 14. Water And/or Sewer Authorities|§ 1403. Amendment of articles of incorporation.

§ 1403. Amendment of articles of incorporation. Every authority of this State may, from time to time and in the manner hereinafter provided, amend its articles of incorporation and thereby accomplish any 1 or more of the following: The adoption of a new name, changes in, additions to and diminutions of its powers and purposes, provided that such amendment shall contain only such provisions as it would be lawful or proper to insert in articles of incorporation made at the time of such amendment. 16 Del. C. 1953, §  1403;  49 Del. Laws, c. 417.;
16 DE Code § 1404. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 14. Water And/or Sewer Authorities|§ 1404. Withdrawal or joinder of municipalities; procedure.

§ 1404. Withdrawal or joinder of municipalities; procedure. (a) Whenever an authority has been incorporated by 2 or more municipalities, any 1 or more of such municipalities may withdraw therefrom and any municipality not having joined in the original incorporation may join in the authority, but no municipality shall be permitted to withdraw from any authority after an obligation has been incurred by the authority. (b) Any municipality wishing to withdraw from or to become a member of an existing authority shall signify its desire by resolution or ordinance after an enabling referendum. If the authority shall by resolution express its consent to such withdrawal or joining, articles of withdrawal or articles of joinder, as the case may be, shall be executed by the proper officers of the withdrawing or incoming municipality and shall be joined by the proper officers of the governing body of the authority and, in the case of a municipality seeking to become a member of the authority, also by the proper officers of each of the municipalities that are then members of the authority, pursuant to resolutions or ordinances by the governing bodies of such municipalities. In the case of a certificate of joinder, the certificate shall set forth all of the information required in the case of original incorporation insofar as it applies to the incoming municipality including the name and address and term of office of the first member of the board of the authority from the incoming municipality. Articles of withdrawal and articles of joinder shall be filed with the Secretary of State, who shall receive the same and endorse thereon the date and time of such receipt. If the Secretary of State finds that the articles of withdrawal or articles of joinder, as the case may be, conform to law, the Secretary of State shall forthwith endorse the Secretary of State's own approval thereon and issue a certificate of approval to which shall be attached a copy of the approved articles. Upon the issuance of such certificate of approval by the Secretary of State, said articles of withdrawal or articles of joinder, as the case may be, shall become effective and be in full force and effect, and such articles shall be conclusively deemed to have been lawfully and properly adopted. Promptly after the issuance of a certificate of approval the Secretary of State shall record the articles of withdrawal or articles of joinder, as the case may be, together with the endorsements thereon, in the book kept by it for the purpose of recording articles of incorporation. 16 Del. C. 1953, §  1404;  49 Del. Laws, c. 417;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
16 DE Code § 1407. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 14. Water And/or Sewer Authorities|§ 1407. Limits of powers.

§ 1407. Limits of powers. None of the powers granted by this chapter shall be exercised in the construction, improvement, maintenance, extension or operation of any project or projects which in whole or in part shall duplicate or compete with existing utilities, public or private, serving substantially the same purposes. The municipality or municipalities organizing such an authority may, in the resolution or ordinance signifying their intention so to do, or from time to time by subsequent resolution or ordinance, specify the project or projects to be undertaken by the said authority, and no other projects shall be undertaken by the said authority than those so specified. If the municipality or municipalities organizing an authority fail to specify the project or projects to be undertaken, then the authority shall be deemed to have all the powers granted by this chapter. No municipality which shall have created an authority under this chapter shall thereafter create any other authority serving the whole or any part of the same area. No municipality which shall have joined with any other municipality or municipalities in the creation of any authority under this chapter shall thereafter create or join in the creation of any other authority unless such other municipality or municipalities shall consent thereto by ordinance or resolution after a general referendum. 16 Del. C. 1953, §  1407;  49 Del. Laws, c. 417.;
16 DE Code § 1409. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 14. Water And/or Sewer Authorities|§ 1409. Issuance of revenue bonds — Faith and credit of State or political subdivisions as unaffected.

§ 1409. Issuance of revenue bonds — Faith and credit of State or political subdivisions as unaffected. Revenue bonds issued under this chapter shall not be deemed to constitute a pledge of the faith and credit of the State or of any political subdivision thereof. All such bonds shall contain a statement on their face substantially to the effect that neither the faith and credit of the State nor the faith and credit of any county, city, town or other subdivision of the State are pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on such bonds. The issuance of revenue bonds under this chapter shall not directly or indirectly or contingently obligate the State or any county, city, town or other subdivision of the State to levy any taxes whatever therefor or to make any appropriation for their payment except from the funds pledged under this chapter. 16 Del. C. 1953, §  1409;  49 Del. Laws, c. 417.;
16 DE Code § 1410. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 14. Water And/or Sewer Authorities|§ 1410. Exemption of projects from taxes.

§ 1410. Exemption of projects from taxes. No authority shall be required to pay any taxes or assessments upon any project acquired, constructed or operated by it under this chapter or upon the income therefrom, and the bonds issued under this chapter, their transfer and the income therefrom (including any profit made on the sale thereof) shall at all times be free from taxation by the State or any of its political subdivisions or by any town or incorporated municipality or any other public agency within the State. 16 Del. C. 1953, §  1410;  49 Del. Laws, c. 417.;
16 DE Code § 1412. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 16 - Health and Safety|Chapter 14. Water And/or Sewer Authorities|§ 1412. Trust agreements to secure bonds; pledges and assignments; contents of authorizing resolutions; depositaries for bond sales proceeds.

§ 1412. Trust agreements to secure bonds; pledges and assignments; contents of authorizing resolutions; depositaries for bond sales proceeds. (a) In the discretion of the authority, any revenue bonds issued under this chapter may be secured by a trust agreement by and between the authority and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company. (b) (1) The resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds or the trust agreement may pledge or assign the revenues to be received from the operation of the project or projects on account of which the bonds are issued and, in the case of bonds issued to finance a sewerage system, may pledge or assign as security for such bonds the revenues to be received from its water system to the extent authorized by § 1411 of this title, but shall not convey or mortgage any project or any part thereof, and may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including covenants setting forth the duties of the authority in relation to the acquisitions, construction, improvement, maintenance, operation, repair and insurance of the project or projects on account of which such bonds are issued, and provisions for the custody, safeguarding and application of all moneys and for the employment of consulting engineers in connection with such construction, reconstruction or operation. (2) Such resolution or trust agreement may set forth the rights and remedies of the bondholders and of the trustees in the case of a trust agreement and may restrict the individual right of action by bondholders as is customary in trust agreements or trust indentures securing bonds or debentures of corporations. (3) In addition to the foregoing, such resolution or trust agreement may contain such other provisions as the authority may deem reasonable and proper for the security of the bondholders. (c) Except as is in this chapter otherwise provided, the authority may provide for the payment of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds and its revenues to such officer, board or depositary as it may designate for the custody thereof and for the method of disbursement thereof, with such safeguards and restrictions as it may determine. (d) All expenses incurred in carrying out such resolution or trust agreement may be treated as a part of the cost of operation of the project or projects. 16 Del. C. 1953, §  1412;  49 Del. Laws, c. 417.;