The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Delaware
- Level
- State
- Authority
- 16 Del. C. §§ 122(3)a. and 707; 16 Del. C. § 505
- Issued
- 2006-02-01 Feb. 1, 2006
- Effective
- in force throughout 2020 and 2021 (the Feb. 1, 2020 text, Ex. DUT-DE-019, governed from Feb. 11, 2020; the Feb. 1, 2021 amendment governed from that date) (read as 2020-02-01)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Feb. 1, 2020 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Schools and child careHealth care ordersQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- persons generally; institutions, schools and child-care facilities; health care providers and laboratories
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Delaware DUT-DE
Operative words
A person subject to isolation or quarantine shall obey the Division's rules and orders, shall not go beyond the isolation or quarantine premises, and shall not put themselves in contact with any person not subject to isolation or quarantine
Penalty
16 Del. C. § 107(a): fine of $100 to $1,000 per violation of a DHSS regulation (Ex. DUT-DE-006); enforcement by all State and local officers under 16 Del. C. § 127(a) (Ex. DUT-DE-005)
What it required
The Division of Public Health may 'require isolation or quarantine of any person by the least restrictive means necessary to protect the public health' (§ 6.1.3); a person under isolation or quarantine 'shall obey the Division's rules and orders' (§ 6.6.1); no unauthorized person 'shall enter' the premises (§ 6.6.2); reporting, investigation and exclusion duties bind physicians, laboratories, schools, child-care facilities and institutions (§§ 4.0, 5.0, 7.0).
Retrieval noteThis exhibit is the State's static archive mirror of the current codification (amendment history through 27 DE Reg. 863 (May 1, 2024)); the text of § 6.6.1 read in it is the same in substance as the Feb. 1, 2020 text in Ex. DUT-DE-019. Cite Ex. DUT-DE-019 for the text in force in 2020 Q2 through 2021 Q1 and this exhibit for the section structure. The dynamic page at regulations.delaware.gov/AdminCode/title16/4202 does not render to text. The Aug. 13, 2021 emergency amendment adding § 7.7 (COVID-19 Mitigation and Prevention; school face coverings) is in the library as Exs. DE-044 and SEC-15-067; the K-12 staff testing amendment as Ex. DE-054. The file-name date is the Feb. 1, 2020 Register publication date.