As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: “Commissioner” means the commissioner of health or the commissioner’s designee; or in the absence of the commissioner, the deputy commissioner; “Department” means the department of health; “Forms” means the certificates that are authorized, prepared and distributed by the department to carry out this chapter; “Sexually […]
If any attending physician or other person knows or has good reason to suspect that a person having a STD is behaving so as to expose other persons to infection, or is about to so behave, the attending physician or other person shall notify the municipal or county health officer of the name and address […]
It is the duty of every physician or other person treating persons infected with a STD to give such persons printed instructions containing information deemed advisable by the department, such printed instructions to be furnished by the department.
State, district, county and municipal health officers or their authorized deputies, within their respective jurisdictions, are directed and empowered, when, in their judgment, it is necessary to protect the public health, to make an examination of a person reasonably suspected because of known clinical or epidemiological evidence of being infected with a STD of a […]
In establishing isolation or quarantine, the municipal or county health officer having jurisdiction shall designate and define the limits of the area within which the infected person is to be isolated or quarantined, and no person other than the attending physician or nurse shall enter or leave the area of isolation or quarantine without the […]
No one but a state, municipal, district or county health officer or such officer’s duly authorized representative shall establish and terminate quarantine of persons infected with STDs. A decision to establish or terminate quarantine shall be based upon the judgment of the state, municipal, district or county health officer or such officer’s duly authorized representative, […]
It is a violation of this chapter for any person infected with a STD to expose another person to such infection.
The county legislative bodies and the city officials, or other boards of the incorporated towns or cities, are empowered to provide suitable places for the detention of persons who may be subjected to isolation or quarantine and who should be segregated under this chapter. County legislative bodies and governing boards of incorporated cities and towns […]
The department of health is empowered and directed to make such rules and bylaws for the control of STDs, not in conflict with this chapter, including the reporting of STDs and isolating and quarantining of infected persons, as it may from time to time deem advisable. All rules and bylaws made pursuant to subsection (a) […]
Whenever in the judgment of the municipal, county or district health officer, there is reasonable clinical or epidemiological evidence to suspect that any person or persons are infected with a STD as defined in this chapter, and the person or persons refuse to be examined as provided in § 68-10-104, the health officer or the […]
Any health officer or any other persons who fail to perform the duties required of them in this chapter, or violate any of the provisions of this chapter, or of any rule or bylaw promulgated under its authority, commit a Class C misdemeanor. Each violation is a separate offense.
Every physician or other person who makes a diagnosis of, treats, or prescribes for a case of STD and every superintendent or manager of a clinic, hospital, laboratory or penal institution, in which there is a case of STD, shall report the case immediately to those persons or agencies designated as recipients of such reports […]
All records and information held by the department or a local health department relating to known or suspected cases of STDs shall be strictly confidential. This information shall not be released or made public upon subpoena, court order, discovery, search warrant or otherwise, except that release may be made under the following circumstances: Release is […]
Except as provided in § 68-10-113, no state or local department officer or employee shall be examined in a civil, criminal, special or other proceeding as to the existence or contents of pertinent records of a person examined or treated for a STD by a state or local health department, or of the existence or […]
A person who has a reasonable belief that a person has knowingly exposed another to HIV may inform the potential victim without incurring any liability. A person making such disclosure is immune from liability for making disclosure of the condition to the potential victim.
If, during the course of arresting, transporting, or processing a person charged with the commission of a criminal offense, a law enforcement officer is exposed to the blood or other body fluid of the arrested person in any manner that presents a significant risk of transmission of the hepatitis virus or the HIV/AIDS virus, then […]
If, in the course of performing normal, authorized professional job duties, or rendering emergency care as a good samaritan under the Good Samaritan Law, codified in § 63-6-218, a member of one of the categories of individuals listed in subsection (d) reasonably believes that the member may have been exposed to potentially life-threatening airborne or […]
Subject to annual appropriations made available to the state by the United States public health service through Part B (Title II) of the Ryan White CARE Act, compiled in 42 U.S.C. § 300ff-21 et seq., the commissioner of health shall establish an AIDS Center of Excellence advisory committee to advise the department of health in […]
