(a) Regulations. — The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Department of Agriculture and Division of Public Health are hereby delegated the power to adopt joint regulations signed by all 3 Department Secretaries setting forth procedures regulating the conduct of practitioners of human health, human health services, animal health services and animal control agencies for the purpose of fulfilling or carrying out the purpose and intent of this chapter.
(b) Areawide quarantine. — If rabies is known to exist within an area, the Division of Public Health, in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the Department of Agriculture may establish a rabies quarantine and shall define the boundaries or the quarantine area and specify the animal or animals subject to quarantine. All these animals within the quarantine area and subject to the quarantine restrictions shall be kept in strict confinement upon the premises of the owner at all times until the quarantine is terminated. An animal, subject to the quarantine, may not be brought into the quarantine area or taken out of the quarantine area without written permission.
(c) Areawide rabies emergency. — The Director of the Division of Public Health may declare an areawide rabies emergency and shall define the boundaries of the area and place specified animals under quarantine. By doing so, the Director of the Division of Public Health authorizes the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, its agents and state and local police officers to destroy on sight any animals not in compliance with quarantine orders.
(d) Human animal bite. — The Director of Division of Public Health may require the reporting of all cases where humans were bitten by an animal known to transmit rabies.
66 Del. Laws, c. 247, § 1; 75 Del. Laws, c. 326, § 1.
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