2015 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 57. VOLUNTARY AND INVOLUNTARY STERILIZATION
§ 5713 Physician's certification.

16 DE Code § 5713 (2015) What's This?

(a) In all cases where the Court issues an order authorizing involuntary sterilization or a declaratory judgment that informed consent to sterilization has been given, the physician to perform the sterilization shall, prior to performing such procedure, certify that the physician was provided with a copy of the Court's order.

(b) The physician's certificate shall be filed with the Register in Chancery within 10 days of the performance of the sterilization procedure.

65 Del. Laws, c. 148, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;

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