§ 23-8-1. Reports of communicable diseases. In addition to the provisions of chapters 10 and 11 of this title, the director of health may by regulation declare any disease to be a reportable disease. Every physician or other person having knowledge of a case or suspected case of a reportable disease shall give notice to […]
§ 23-8-1.1. Consent to testing and treatment — Reportable — Communicable diseases. Persons under eighteen (18) years of age may give legal consent for testing, examination, and/or treatment for any reportable communicable disease. History of Section.P.L. 1990, ch. 169, § 6.
§ 23-8-18. Proclamation of general quarantine. The power to establish quarantine in this state shall also be vested in the governor; and whenever the governor shall deem it advisable for the preservation of public health and the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases, he or she may, by proclamation, place under quarantine the whole […]
§ 23-8-19. Compliance with quarantine by transportation agencies. Whenever quarantine is declared, all railroad and steamboat corporations, stage lines, the owners, assignees, officials, and employees of those companies, and all vehicles and modes of conveyance of passengers, baggage, and freight, shall observe and comply with the rules and regulations made by the director of health; […]
§ 23-8-2. Authority of the governor to authorize immunization programs. Whenever it shall be determined by the governor that a voluntary mass immunization program is necessary to protect the health and welfare of the people, he or she may issue a proclamation authorizing the program, and a copy of the proclamation shall be filed in […]
§ 23-8-20. Expense of quarantine and suppression of disease. The state department of health, with the approval of the governor, may incur all necessary expenses for preventing and restricting the prevalence of epidemic diseases and of carrying out the provisions of §§ 23-8-18 and 23-8-19, and the state controller shall draw his or her orders […]
§ 23-8-21. Ship quarantine powers preserved — Local enforcement of quarantine — Rules and regulations — Penalty. Nothing in §§ 23-8-18 — 23-8-20 shall be construed to impair the validity of any rules and regulations made and in force under the provisions of §§ 23-9-1 — 23-9-11, nor to abridge the powers of any officer […]
§ 23-8-3. Repealed.
§ 23-8-4. Quarantine. If the state director of health, or his or her duly authorized agent, determines, upon investigation, that a threat to the public health exists because any person is suffering, or appears to be suffering, from a communicable disease, the director or his or her authorized agent may require or provide that person […]
§ 23-8-4.1. Power to examine suspected cases — Right of individual to own physician. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the state department of health is empowered to make examinations of persons reasonably suspected of having a communicable disease; provided, however, that any person so examined shall have the right […]
§ 23-8-5, 23-8-6. Repealed.
§ 23-8-7. Violation of quarantine. Any person who is confined by the director or his or her authorized agent under the provision of § 23-8-4 and who violates that confinement shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) or by imprisonment for not more than ninety (90) days, or both. […]
§ 23-8-8 — 23-8-17. Repealed.
