Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 163 – Employment of personnel and registered trained nurse
(a) The Department of Health and Social Services may employ such agents, assistants, clerical force and specially qualified persons as it finds necessary or expedient for carrying out the purposes of this subchapter.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 163
- Infant: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) The Department of Health and Social Services may employ a registered trained nurse to educate and supervise the midwives of the State. Such nurse shall devote the entire time, under the general direction of the Department of Health and Social Services, to an investigation of the methods employed by the midwives, to instructing the midwives so that they will not be a menace to the life and health of either mother or infant, to an investigation of deaths following midwife cases, to an investigation of all violations of the laws by midwives and to an investigation of the reports of births throughout the State.
32 Del. Laws, c. 43, § ?1; 32 Del. Laws, c. 63, § ?6; 33 Del. Laws, c. 57, § ?4; 34 Del. Laws, c. 69, § ?1; Code 1935, § ?816; 16 Del. C. 1953, § ?163; 70 Del. Laws, c. 149, §§ ?60, 61; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;