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22-11A-14
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 sexually transmitted disease as designated
by the State Board of Health, or any administrator of any hospital, dispensary, correctional
facility or other institution in which a case of sexually transmitted disease occurs shall
report it to the state or county health officer or his designee in a time and manner prescribed
by the State Board of Health. (b) The report shall be upon a form prescribed by the State
Board of Health and, at a minimum, shall state the patient's full name, date of birth, race,
sex, marital status, address, telephone number, place of employment, stage of disease, medication
and amount given, and the date of onset. (c) Any person who is charged with the responsibility
of operating a laboratory which performs tests for sexually transmitted...
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22-11A-18
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 has a sexually transmitted disease
or has been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease shall be tested and examined by the
county or State Health Officer or his designee or a licensed physician. Whenever any person
so suspected refuses to be examined, such person may be isolated or committed as provided
in this article until, in the judgment of the State or county Health Officer, that person
is no longer dangerous to public health. The cost of rooming and boarding such person, other
than when confined to his/her own residence, shall be the responsibility of the state. (b)
The State Health Officer or county health officer shall require all persons infected with
a sexually transmitted disease to report for treatment by the health officer or a licensed...
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22-11A-17
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 city or county jail or any
state correctional facility for 30 or more consecutive days shall be tested for those sexually
transmitted diseases designated by the State Board of Health, upon entering the facility,
and any inmate so confined for more than 90 days shall be examined for those sexually transmitted
diseases 30 days before release. The results of any positive or reactive tests shall be reported
as provided in Section 22-11A-14. Additionally, the results of any positive or negative
test for HIV of a sexual offender shall be provided to the State Health Officer or his or
her designee as provided in Section 22-11A-14. The provisions of this section
shall not be construed to require the testing of any person held in a city or county jail...
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15-23-100
Section 15-23-100 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words shall have
the following meanings: (1) ALLEGED VICTIM. A person or persons to whom transmission of body
fluids from the perpetrator of the crime occurred or was likely to have occurred in the course
of the alleged crime. (2) PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF THE ALLEGED VICTIM. A parent or legal guardian
of an alleged victim who is a minor or incapacitated person. (3) POSITIVE REACTION. A positive
test with a positive confirmatory test result as specified by the Department of Public Health.
(4) SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE. Those diseases designated by the State Board of Health as
sexually transmitted diseases for the purposes of this article. (5) TRANSMISSION OF BODY FLUIDS.
The transfer of blood, semen, vaginal secretions, or other body fluids identified by the Department
of Public Health, from the alleged perpetrator of a crime to the mucous membranes or potentially
broken skin of the victim. (Act 2006-572, p. 1504,...
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15-23-102
Section 15-23-102 Order to submit to testing; designation of attending physician; additional
testing; access to results; post-test counseling. (a)(1) If the district attorney files a
motion under Section 15-23-101, the court shall order the person charged to submit
to testing if the court determines there is probable cause to believe that the person charged
committed the crime of rape, sodomy, sexual misconduct, sexual torture, sexual abuse, assault
by bodily fluids, or any other crime where the victim was compelled to engage in sexual activity
by force or threat of force and the transmission of body fluids was involved. (2) If a warrant,
information, or indictment has been issued and the defendant is in custody or has been served
with the warrant, information, or indictment, the test shall be performed within 48 hours
of service of the court order requiring the defendant to submit to testing. (b) When a test
is ordered under Section 15-23-101, the victim of the crime or a parent or...
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34-9-18
Section 34-9-18 Grounds for disciplinary action. (a) The board may invoke disciplinary
action as outlined in subsection (b) whenever it shall be established to the satisfaction
of the board, after a hearing as hereinafter provided, that any dentist or dental hygienist
has been guilty of the following: (1) Fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation in obtaining any
license, license certificate, annual registration certificate, money, or other thing of value.
(2) Gross immorality. (3) Is a menace to the public health or to patients or others by reason
of a disease. (4) Is an habitual user of intoxicants or drugs rendering him or her unfit for
the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene. (5) Has been convicted for violation of federal
or state narcotics or barbiturate laws. (6) Is guilty of negligence or gross negligence. a.
For the purposes of this subdivision, negligence is defined as the failure to do what a reasonably
prudent dentist or dental hygienist would have done under the same or...
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22-18-6
Section 22-18-6 Violations; good Samaritan provisions; scope of privilege; control of
emergency scene; penalties. (a) It shall be a Class A misdemeanor for any person, firm, company,
corporation, organization, facility, or agency to do any of the following: (1) Deliberately
hinder, obstruct, or interfere with an officer, inspector, or duly authorized agent of the
board while in the performance of official duties. (2) Deliberately hinder, obstruct, or interfere
with any physician, licensed nurse, licensed EMSP, or emergency personnel exempt from licensure
under this article while that individual is providing emergency care to a third person or
while that individual is assisting at the scene of an emergency, directing traffic at the
scene of an emergency, or managing or helping to manage the scene of an emergency. (3) Violate
subsection (c) or (d). (4) Offer, provide, or perform, without a license or certificate to
do so, an emergency medical service or other function which, under this...
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41-16-123
Section 41-16-123 Provisions applicable to certain property held by division. This section
shall apply only to that property that has been held by the division for a period of not less
than 60 days from the date the property is first published in the list of surplus property,
as set out in subsection (b) of Section 41-16-121, and not purchased by any eligible
entity as set out in subsection (e) of Section 41-16-120 as follows: (1) All contracts
made by or on behalf of the State of Alabama or a department, board, bureau, commission, institution,
corporation, or agency thereof, of whatever nature for the sale or disposal of tangible personal
property owned by the State of Alabama, other than the following: a. Alcoholic beverages.
b. Products of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind. c. Barter arrangements of the state
prison system. d. Books. e. School supplies. f. Food. g. Property used in vocational projects.
h. Livestock. i. Property owned by any state college or university,...
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22-11A-19
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 of age or older who may have come into contact
with any sexually transmitted disease as designated by the State Board of Health may give
consent to the furnishing of medical care related to the diagnosis or treatment of such disease,
provided a duly licensed practitioner of medicine in Alabama authorizes such diagnosis and
treatment. The consent of the minor shall be as valid and binding as if the minor had achieved
his or her majority, as the case may be. Such consent shall not be voidable nor subject to
later disaffirmance because of minority. The medical provider or facility of whatever description
providing diagnostic procedures or treatment to a minor patient who has come into contact
with any designated sexually transmitted disease, may, but shall not be...
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22-12-29
Section 22-12-29 Affidavits by persons desiring to enter or remain in certain places.
(a) Any person who makes affidavit before a quarantine officer or guard, engaged in enforcing
quarantine for the protection of a place which said person wishes to enter, and who furnishes
such other evidence as may be prescribed by the State Board of Health that he has not, since
the appearance of a quarantinable disease then existing, been in any place against which quarantine
has been legally proclaimed shall be permitted to enter, or remain in, the place to which
he desires to go. Any person who has been in a place then under quarantine, by the authority
of the state or by that of a county, city or town with the approval of the State Board of
Health, and who has since complied with the requirements as to detention and disinfection,
one or both, prescribed or approved by the State Board of Health and who shall make affidavit
thereto and furnish such other evidence thereof as said board may prescribe...
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