39-601. VENEREAL DISEASES ENUMERATED. Syphilis, gonorrhea, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), chlamydia and hepatitis B virus (HBV), hereinafter designated as venereal diseases, are hereby declared to be contagious, infectious, communicable and dangerous to public health; and it shall be unlawful for anyone infected with these diseases or any of them to knowingly expose another person to […]
39-601A. POLICY ON EXPENDITURES. It is the intent of the legislature that governmental authorities shall be required to provide those services authorized or mandated by law for treatment or testing for the diseases enumerated in section 39-601, Idaho Code, only to the extent of funding and available resources appropriated. History: [39-601A, added 1988, ch. 45, […]
39-602. REPORT OF VENEREAL DISEASE TO HEALTH AUTHORITIES. Any physician or other person who makes a diagnosis of or treats a case of venereal disease, and any superintendent or manager of a hospital, dispensary or charitable or penal institution, in which there is a case of venereal disease, shall immediately make a report of such […]
39-603. EXAMINATION, TREATMENT, AND QUARANTINE — REPRESSION OF PROSTITUTION. State, county and municipal health officers, or their authorized deputies, within their respective jurisdiction, are hereby directed and empowered, when in their judgment it is necessary to protect the public health, to make examinations, or have examinations made by competent physician, of persons reasonably suspected of […]
39-604. CONFINED AND IMPRISONED PERSONS — EXAMINATION, TREATMENT, AND QUARANTINE — VICTIMS OF SEXUAL OFFENSES — ACCESS TO OFFENDERS’ TEST RESULTS, TESTING FOR HIV, COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICES. (1) All persons who shall be confined or imprisoned in any state prison facility in this state shall be examined for on admission, and again upon the […]
39-605. RULES FOR CARRYING OUT LAW. The state board of health and welfare is hereby empowered and directed to make such rules as shall, in its judgment, be necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of this chapter, including rules providing for the control and treatment of persons isolated or quarantined under the provisions […]
39-606. REPORTS. Reports to the director of the department of health and welfare of the existence of diseases included in this chapter shall be made by the name of the patient being treated for such disease. It is the intent of this chapter to observe all possible secrecy for the benefit of the sufferer so […]
39-607. PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS. Any person who shall violate any lawful rule or regulation made by the state board of health and welfare, pursuant to the authority herein granted, or who shall fail or refuse to obey any lawful order issued by any public health authority, pursuant to the authority granted in this chapter, or […]
39-608. TRANSFER OF BODY FLUID WHICH MAY CONTAIN THE HIV VIRUS — PUNISHMENT — DEFINITIONS — DEFENSES. (1) Any person who exposes another in any manner with the intent to infect or, knowing that he or she is or has been afflicted with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), AIDS related complexes (ARC), or other manifestations of […]
39-609. DECLARATION OF POLICY. The legislature hereby declares that infection with human immunodeficiency virus, the virus which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), is an infectious and communicable disease that endangers the population of this state. The legislature further declares that reporting of HIV infection to public health officials is essential to enable a better […]
39-610. DISCLOSURE OF HIV AND HBV REPORTING INFORMATION. (1) Confidential public health record as described in section 39-606, Idaho Code, shall be subject to disclosure according to chapter 1, title 74, Idaho Code, shall not be discoverable, and shall not be compelled to be produced in any civil or administrative hearing. (2) State or local […]
