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Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 22-11A-1 - State Board of Health to Designate Notifiable Diseases and Health Conditions. - The State Board of Health shall designate the diseases and...
Section 22-11A-2 - Persons Responsible to Report Diseases; Contents of Report; Confidential Information; Person Making Report Immune From Liability. - Each physician, dentist, nurse, medical examiner, hospital administrator, nursing home...
Section 22-11A-3 - Action of Health Officer Upon Being Notified of Diseases; Quarantine. - Whenever the State Health Officer or his representative, or the...
Section 22-11A-4 - Certain Records to Be Provided to State Health Officer or Bureau of Clinical Laboratories. - (a) For purposes of this article, the following terms have...
Section 22-11A-5 - When State Board of Health to Take Charge of Investigation. - The State Board of Health may take charge of the...
Section 22-11A-6 - Penalty for Failure to Make Report. - Any physician or other person designated in Section 22-11A-2 who...
Section 22-11A-7 - Persons Having Notifiable Disease to Obey Directions of Health Officials. - Any person reported as having any of the notifiable diseases...
Section 22-11A-8 - Health Officer to Investigate Complaints of Diseases; Afflicted Persons to Be Moved to Suitable Place; Expenses of Removal. - Whenever complaint is made in writing to the health officer...
Section 22-11A-9 - Tuberculosis Cases to Be Reported; Contents of Report; Reports Confidential. - Any physician who diagnoses or treats a case of active...
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. - Whenever the State Board of Health or its authorized representative...
Section 22-11A-11 - Contract Hospitals to Admit Indigent Patients With Chronic Lung Diseases; Costs. - The State Board of Health, at its option, may authorize...
Section 22-11A-12 - Statewide Outpatient Clinics; State Board of Health to Contract for Regional Tuberculosis Hospitals; Expenditures. - (a) It shall be the duty of the State Board...
Section 22-11A-13 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases. - Sexually transmitted diseases which are designated by the State Board...
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. - (a) Any physician who diagnoses or treats a case of...
Section 22-11A-16 - Serologic or Other Biologic Sample Required to Be Taken of Pregnant Women and of Newborns. - (a) Every physician or other person permitted by law to...
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. - (a) All persons sentenced to confinement or imprisonment in any...
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. - (a) Any person where there is reasonable cause to believe...
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. - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a minor 12 years...
Section 22-11A-20 - Physicians to Instruct Persons on Prevention and Cure of Sexually Transmitted Diseases. - Every physician who examines or treats a person having a...
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. - (a) Any person who shall treat or prescribe for any...
Section 22-11A-22 - Medical Records of Persons Infected With Sexually Transmitted Diseases Confidential; Penalty for Release. - All information, reports and medical records concerning persons infected with...
Section 22-11A-23 - Any Person Believed Exposed to Diseases to Be Tested; Any Person Believed Afflicted Shall Seek and Accept Treatment. - Any person who the state or county health officer has...
Section 22-11A-24 - Commitment to Department of Public Health for Compulsory Treatment When Person Exposed or Afflicted and Refuses Treatment. - When any person exposed to a disease or where reasonable...
Section 22-11A-25 - Commitment Petition - Contents. - The petition shall be executed under oath and shall contain...
Section 22-11A-26 - Commitment Petition - Probate Judge May Take Sworn Testimony of Petitioner; Petition Without Merit to Be Dismissed. - When any petition is filed, seeking to commit any person...
Section 22-11A-27 - Commitment Petition - Notice of Petition to Be Served; Contents. - When any petition has been filed seeking to commit a...
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. - (a) When a petition has been filed, seeking to have...
Section 22-11A-29 - Commitment Petition - Appointment of Guardian Ad Litem and Attorney. - At the time when any petition has been filed seeking...
Section 22-11A-30 - Commitment Petition - Order for Person to Appear for Hearing and Be Examined by Physician. - When a petition has been filed seeking to commit any...
Section 22-11A-31 - Commitment Petition - Rules to Apply at Hearings. - At all hearings conducted by the probate judge in relation...
Section 22-11A-32 - Commitment Petition - Findings; Rehearing; Confinement When No Treatment Available. - (a) If, at the final hearing, upon a petition seeking...
Section 22-11A-33 - Probate Court Retains Jurisdiction Over Person Committed. - The probate court committing any person to the custody of...
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. - The probate judge shall order one or more persons or...
Section 22-11A-35 - Attorney and Expert Fees. - In any commitment proceeding, the fees of any attorney appointed...
Section 22-11A-36 - Appeal of Commitment Order; Notice of Appeal; Limitations to Be Placed Upon Liberty of Person Pending Appeal. - An appeal from an order of the probate court granting...
Section 22-11A-37 - Testing and Treatment of Inmate of Correctional Facility. - When there is reasonable cause to believe that an inmate...
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. - (a) The State Committee of Public Health is hereby authorized...
Section 22-11A-39 - Notification of Pre-Hospital Agencies Who Assisted in Delivering Person With Infectious Disease to Hospital. - The chief administrator, or his designee, of a hospital, pursuant...
Section 22-11A-40 - Laboratory Tests for AIDS and Other Diseases; Violations. - (a) Prior to the administration of any laboratory test for...
Section 22-11A-41 - Approval of Testing or Diagnostic Kits. - All individual testing and diagnostic kits or like kits for...
Section 22-11A-42 - Fees for Services by Bureau of Clinical Laboratories. - The State Board of Health may set a reasonable schedule...
Article 2 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Aids.
Section 22-11A-50 - Definitions. - As used in this article, the following words and phrases...
Section 22-11A-51 - Informed Consent Required for HIV Testing. - (a) Before any HIV test is performed, the health care...
Section 22-11A-52 - Informed Consent Implied Under Certain Circumstances. - When a written consent for HIV testing has not been...
Section 22-11A-53 - Notification of Positive Test Result; Counseling; Referral to Appropriate Health Care Services; Explanation of Individual Responsibility. - An individual tested shall be notified of a positive test...
Section 22-11A-54 - Confidentiality. - A health care or other testing facility shall maintain confidentiality...
Article 3 - Infected Health Care Worker.
Section 22-11A-60 - Definitions. - As used in this article, the following words shall have...
Section 22-11A-61 - Reporting of Infected Worker to State Health Officer. - (a) Any health care worker infected with HIV, HBV, HCV,...
Section 22-11A-62 - Performing Invasive Procedures. - No health care worker having knowledge that he or she...
Section 22-11A-63 - Investigation by State Health Officer. - (a) Upon notification of the existence of an infected health...
Section 22-11A-64 - Appeal Process. - (a) Any health care worker who has appealed the State...
Section 22-11A-65 - Monitoring of Practice of Infected Health Care Worker. - The State Health Officer shall cause the infected health care...
Section 22-11A-66 - Violations. - "In addition to any other law or regulation, it shall...
Section 22-11A-67 - Records and Information Necessary to Assist Investigation. - (a) Any health care worker found to have HBV, HIV,...
Section 22-11A-68 - Immunity From Liability for Those Involved in Investigation. - (a) Members and staff of the State Board of Health,...
Section 22-11A-69 - Confidentiality Standards; Uses of Information Gained During Investigation. - (a) The records, proceedings, deliberations, and documents related to the...
Section 22-11A-70 - Promulgation of Rules for Administration. - (a) The State Board of Health may adopt rules necessary...
Section 22-11A-71 - Entitlement to Costs. - Individuals serving on review panels, or otherwise providing consultation or...
Section 22-11A-72 - Penalties. - (a) It shall be grounds for revocation, suspension, or restriction...
Section 22-11A-73 - Reporting Requirements; Knowledge of Infection Through Application. - Nothing in this article is intended to impose any reporting...
Article 4 - AIDS Task Force of Alabama, Incorporated.
Section 22-11A-90 - Organizations Receiving Funds. - The AIDS Task Force of Alabama, Incorporated (hereinafter referred to...
Section 22-11A-91 - Disbursement of Funds. - The ATFA board of directors shall develop a formula for...
Section 22-11A-92 - Expenses for Administration. - The expenses which are charged by ATFA for the overall...
Section 22-11A-93 - Tax Exemption. - All of the organizations listed in Section 22-11A-90 shall be...
Article 5 - Patient Infection Data Reporting and Collection.
Section 22-11A-110 - Short Title. - This article shall be cited and known as the "Mike...
Section 22-11A-111 - Definitions. - For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have...
Section 22-11A-112 - Health Care Facility Acquired Infection Data Collection and Dissemination. - (a) The board, upon consultation with and approval of the...
Section 22-11A-113 - Rules and Regulations Governing Implementation. - By August 1, 2010, the board, after consultation with and...
Section 22-11A-114 - Reporting Categories. - (a) All general, critical access, and specialized hospitals licensed pursuant...
Section 22-11A-115 - Submission of First Report. - Within one year of the certification by the department, health...
Section 22-11A-116 - Confidentiality of Information. - Individual patient information submitted to the department under the provisions...
Section 22-11A-117 - Studies and Publication. - The department may undertake a reasonable number of studies and...
Section 22-11A-118 - Health Care Data Advisory Council. - (a) There is established the Health Care Data Advisory Council...
Section 22-11A-119 - Rules and Regulations Governing Penalties. - The board shall promulgate rules and regulations developed pursuant to...
Section 22-11A-120 - Rules and Regulations Governing Dissemination and Costs. - The board shall promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the...
Section 22-11A-121 - Use of Data. - (a) The department shall utilize the data and information received...
Section 22-11A-122 - Enforcement. - The department may bring civil actions in any court of...
Section 22-11A-123 - Priority of Federal Program. - This article shall no longer have any force or effect...
Section 22-11A-124 - Construction. - This article shall be construed or interpreted as being in...