Delaware § 6101 - Purpose.

§ 6101. Purpose.

(a) The Board of Elevator Mechanics’ primary objective, to which all other objectives and purposes are secondary, is to protect the general public, specifically those persons who are the direct recipients of services regulated by this chapter, from unsafe practices and from occupational practices which tend to reduce competition or fix the price of services rendered.

(b) The secondary objectives of the Board are to maintain minimum standards of competency and to maintain certain standards in the delivery of services to the public. In meeting its objectives, the Board will develop standards assuring professional competence, will monitor complaints brought against licensees regulated by the Board, will adjudicate at formal hearings, will promulgate rules and regulations, and will impose sanctions where necessary against licensees.

83 Del. Laws, c. 469, § 1;  84 Del. Laws, c. 493, § 1;