§ 6306 — Vaccination personnel; sanitary requirements

(a) No person engaged in performing vaccination work on poultry shall enter into or upon any poultry yard, poultry house or poultry premises to vaccinate any poultry for the diseases commonly called New Castle, chicken pox or laryngotracheitis, unless such person shall wear outer footwear and outer garments and shall use equipment which have been thoroughly cleaned and disinfected as prescribed in this section before entry is made into or upon any such premises.

(b) The outer footwear shall be overshoes or boots of rubber or other material which can be readily cleaned and disinfected, and the outer garments shall be aprons, coveralls, long coats or bibbed overalls and jackets made of rubber or rubberized material which can be readily cleaned and disinfected, or made of a pervious fabric which can be readily laundered. All outer footwear and apparel of rubber or water repellant material must be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected with a suitable disinfectant before entry is made into or upon any such poultry premises; and if the apparel is of a pervious fabric, a freshly laundered outer garment must be worn upon entering any such poultry premises.

(c) All equipment used by any such person for catching or confining poultry or in performing any such vaccination work shall be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected with a suitable disinfectant before any such equipment is brought into or upon the poultry premises.

(d) After completing any vaccination work, all outer footwear, outer garments and equipment shall be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected before the same are removed from the premises.

Legislative History

Code 1935, § 609A(1); 47 Del. Laws, c. 273, § 1 ; 3 Del. C. 1953, § 6305; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1