(a) The primary purpose of this chapter is to protect the general public and persons working in the elevator industry, specifically those persons who are the direct recipients of services regulated by this chapter, from unsafe practices and from occupational practices which tend to reduce competition or fix the price of services rendered.

(b) The secondary purposes are to maintain minimum standards of competency and to maintain certain standards in the delivery of services to the public. In meeting its objectives, the Board of Elevator Mechanics will develop standards assuring professional competence, will monitor complaints brought against mechanics regulated by the Board, will adjudicate at formal hearings, will promulgate rules and regulations, and will impose sanctions where necessary against licensed mechanics.

83 Del. Laws, c. 469, § 1;