RCW 70.48.480
Communicable disease prevention guidelines.
(1) Local jail administrators shall develop and implement policies and procedures for the uniform distribution of communicable disease prevention guidelines to all jail staff who, in the course of their regularly assigned job responsibilities, may come within close physical proximity to offenders or detainees with communicable diseases.
(2) The guidelines shall identify special precautions necessary to reduce the risk of transmission of communicable diseases.
(3) For the purposes of this section, "communicable disease" means a sexually transmitted disease, as defined in RCW 70.24.017, diseases caused by blood-borne pathogens, or any other illness caused by an infectious agent that can be transmitted from one person, animal, or object to another person by direct or indirect means including transmission via an intermediate host or vector, food, water, or air.
[ 1997 c 345 § 5.]
NOTES:
Findings—Intent—1997 c 345: See note following RCW 70.24.340.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 70 - Public Health and Safety
Chapter 70.48 - City and County Jails Act.
70.48.071 - Standards for operation—Adoption by units of local government.
70.48.100 - Jail register, open to the public—Records confidential—Exception.
70.48.135 - Pregnant inmates—Midwifery or doula services—Reasonable accommodations.
70.48.140 - Confinement pursuant to authority of the United States.
70.48.160 - Post-approval limitation on funding.
70.48.180 - Authority to locate and operate jail facilities—Counties.
70.48.190 - Authority to locate and operate jail facilities—Cities and towns.
70.48.210 - Farms, camps, work release programs, and special detention facilities.
70.48.215 - Booking patients of state hospitals.
70.48.230 - Transportation and temporary confinement of prisoners.
70.48.240 - Transfer of felons from jail to state institution—Time limit.
70.48.380 - Special detention facilities—Fees for cost of housing.
70.48.390 - Fee payable by person being booked.
70.48.410 - Financial responsibility for convicted felons.
70.48.420 - Financial responsibility for persons detained on parole hold.
70.48.430 - Financial responsibility for work release inmates detained in jail.
70.48.470 - Sex, kidnapping offenders—Notices to offenders, law enforcement officials.
70.48.475 - Release of offender or defendant subject to a discharge review—Required notifications.
70.48.480 - Communicable disease prevention guidelines.
70.48.502 - Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Limited immunity from liability.
70.48.510 - Unexpected fatality review—Records—Discovery.
70.48.520 - Collaboration with managed care organizations.
70.48.800 - Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Informational packet.