Article 1 - General Provisions.

Article 1 - General Provisions.

Section 22-11A-1 - State Board of Health to designate notifiable diseases and health conditions.
Section 22-11A-2 - Persons responsible to report diseases; contents of report; confidential information; person making report immune from liability.
Section 22-11A-3 - Action of health officer upon being notified of diseases; quarantine.
Section 22-11A-4 - Physician, hospital, etc., records available to Health Officer.
Section 22-11A-5 - When State Board of Health to take charge of investigation.
Section 22-11A-6 - Penalty for failure to make report.
Section 22-11A-7 - Persons having notifiable disease to obey directions of health officials.
Section 22-11A-8 - Health officer to investigate complaints of diseases; afflicted persons to be moved to suitable place; expenses of removal.
Section 22-11A-9 - Tuberculosis cases to be reported; contents of report; reports confidential.
Section 22-11A-10 - State Board of Health to investigate reported cases of tuberculosis; voluntary treatment; probate court may order compulsory treatment and quarantine; cost of treatment; exercise of religious freedom.
Section 22-11A-11 - Contract hospitals to admit indigent patients with chronic lung diseases; costs.
Section 22-11A-12 - Statewide outpatient clinics; State Board of Health to contract for regional tuberculosis hospitals; expenditures.
Section 22-11A-13 - Sexually transmitted diseases.
Section 22-11A-14 - Cases of sexually transmitted diseases to be reported; contents of report; reports confidential; penalty for violation; measures for protection of others.
Section 22-11A-16 - Serologic or other biologic sample required to be taken of pregnant women and of newborns.
Section 22-11A-17 - Testing of correctional facility inmates for sexually transmitted diseases; treatment; discharge of infectious inmates; victim may request results of HIV testing.
Section 22-11A-18 - Isolation of person believed to have sexually transmitted disease; such person required to report for treatment; costs; compulsory treatment and quarantine.
Section 22-11A-19 - Minor 12 years or older may consent to medical treatment for sexually transmitted disease; medical care provider may inform parent or guardian.
Section 22-11A-20 - Physicians to instruct persons on prevention and cure of sexually transmitted diseases.
Section 22-11A-21 - Penalties for treating or preparing medicine without a license; penalty for person afflicted with sexually transmitted disease to transmit such disease to another person.
Section 22-11A-22 - Medical records of persons infected with sexually transmitted diseases confidential; penalty for release.
Section 22-11A-23 - Any person believed exposed to diseases to be tested; any person believed afflicted shall seek and accept treatment.
Section 22-11A-24 - Commitment to Department of Public Health for compulsory treatment when person exposed or afflicted and refuses treatment.
Section 22-11A-25 - Commitment petition - Contents.
Section 22-11A-26 - Commitment petition - Probate judge may take sworn testimony of petitioner; petition without merit to be dismissed.
Section 22-11A-27 - Commitment petition - Notice of petition to be served; contents.
Section 22-11A-28 - Commitment petition - Limitations placed upon liberty of person; probate judge determination; standard for imposing limitations; probable cause hearing; temporary treatment before final hearing.
Section 22-11A-29 - Commitment petition - Appointment of guardian ad litem and attorney.
Section 22-11A-30 - Commitment petition - Order for person to appear for hearing and be examined by physician.
Section 22-11A-31 - Commitment petition - Rules to apply at hearings.
Section 22-11A-32 - Commitment petition - Findings; rehearing; confinement when no treatment available.
Section 22-11A-33 - Probate court retains jurisdiction over person committed.
Section 22-11A-34 - Law enforcement officers to convey person to custody of Department of Public Health; public health facilities to report on progress of persons committed.
Section 22-11A-35 - Attorney and expert fees.
Section 22-11A-36 - Appeal of commitment order; notice of appeal; limitations to be placed upon liberty of person pending appeal.
Section 22-11A-37 - Testing and treatment of inmate of correctional facility.
Section 22-11A-38 - Notification of third parties of disease; rules; who may be notified; liability; confidentiality; disclosure of information for certain criminal proceedings; penalty.
Section 22-11A-39 - Notification of pre-hospital agencies who assisted in delivering person with infectious disease to hospital.
Section 22-11A-40 - Laboratory tests for AIDS and other diseases; fees; personnel.
Section 22-11A-41 - Approval of testing or diagnostic kits.

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