No person shall employ or use in the making or renovating of any mattress, pillow, bolster, featherbed or comfortable:

(1) Any material known as “shoddy” or any fabric or material from which shoddy is constructed;

(2) Any secondhand material;

(3) Any new or secondhand feathers, unless such shoddy, secondhand material or new or secondhand feathers have been sterilized and disinfected by a reasonable process approved by the Department of Health and Social Services.

Code 1915, § ?824B; 36 Del. Laws, c. 102; Code 1935, § ?875; 16 Del. C. 1953, § ?2102; 70 Del. Laws, c. 149, § ?122;

Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2102

  • Comfortable: means any cover, quilt or quilted article made of cotton or other textile material and stuffed or filled with fiber, cotton, wool, hair, jute, feathers, feather down, kapok or other soft material. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2101
  • Mattress: means any quilted pad, mattress, mattress pad, mattress protector, bunk, quilt or box spring stuffed or filled with excelsior, straw, hay, grass, cornhusks, moss, fiber, cotton, wool, hair, jute, kapok or other soft material, to be used on a couch or other bed for sleeping purposes. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2101
  • New: means any material or article which has not been previously manufactured or used for any purpose. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2101
  • Secondhand: means any material or article of which prior use has been made. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2101
  • Shoddy: means any material which has been spun into yarn, knit or woven into fabric and subsequently cut up, torn up, broken up or ground up. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 2101
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