2025 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
Chapter 1. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES
Subchapter V. Child Welfare Services; Indigent Children With Physical Disabilities
§ 163. Employment of personnel and registered trained nurse.

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16 DE Code § 163 (2025)
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§ 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.

(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; 
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