In order to conduct current and comprehensive Delaware administrative regulation research, follow these steps:
Step 1: Search the Delaware Administrative Code (DAC) for relevant regulations. All electronic versions of the DAC allow researchers to browse the table of contents. They also have keyword search capability, though the commercial versions are better for this purpose. Researchers can also browse the print version of the DAC.
Step 2: Note the currency date of your version of the DAC. This information is posted at the bottom right of the online public DAC’s code sections. (These citations have small fonts and a color that bleeds into their pages, making them easy to miss.) The electronic legal information subscription databases all provide currency information for their DAC databases in their database information sections.
Step 3: Note the publication date for the last several versions of the Delaware Register of Regulations.
Step 4: If any of the recent Delaware Register issues have been published after the currency date for your version of the DAC, review those issues to see if they include any information relevant to your research interests. If a final regulation has been published in the Delaware Register, it is considered valid law regardless whether it has yet been incorporated into the DAC.