Delaware Code Title 16. Health and Safety § 134. Sanitary facilities of public eating places; permits; approval of construction; inspection; fee

(a) No person shall operate any public eating place unless the Department of Health and Social Services shall approve the sanitary facilities thereof and issue a permit therefor.

(b) Any person who proposes to erect or construct a building to be used as a public eating place or to alter, enlarge, reconstruct or convert an existing building for such purpose shall submit plans and specifications for such work, including a plot of the land detailing the sanitary facilities to be provided to the Department of Health and Social Services and no work shall be undertaken until the said Department of Health and Social Services shall approve the sanitary arrangements and facilities proposed in such plans and specifications.

(c) The Department of Health and Social Services shall initiate a procedure for the inspection of public eating places prior to the issuance of the permit required under this section. There shall be no fee required for inspection; however, in the event that reinspection must be initiated in any given year, the Department shall establish a restaurant inspection fee, payable upon or prior to inspection, in the following manner:

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 6102 of Title 29, the Division shall be allowed to retain and expend the portion of these fees up to the level authorized to fund the cost of the Department of Health and Social Services in connection with its duties hereunder.

(e) The restaurant permit shall not be issued prior to the public eating place receiving a satisfactory rating in inspection as defined in the State of Delaware regulations governing public eating places.

(f) The following entities shall be exempt from the restaurant inspection fee established in subsection (c) of this section: