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22-11A-20
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 sexually transmitted disease
shall instruct such person in measures for preventing the spread of such disease and the necessity
of treatment until cured. (Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §20.)...
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34-23-1
Section 34-23-1 Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases
shall have the following meanings: (1) ASSOCIATION. The Alabama Pharmacy Association. (2)
BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT. Has the same meaning as the term as defined in 42 U.S.C. §262. (3) BOARD
or STATE BOARD. The Alabama State Board of Pharmacy. (4) CHEMICAL. Any substance of a medicinal
nature, whether simple or compound, obtained through the process of the science and art of
chemistry, whether of organic or inorganic origin. (5) DISPENSE. To sell, distribute, administer,
leave with, give away, dispose of, deliver, or supply a drug or medicine to the ultimate user
or his or her agent. (6) DRUGS. All medicinal substances, preparations, and devices recognized
by the United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary, or any revision thereof, and all
substances and preparations intended for external and internal use in the cure, diagnosis,
mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or animal...
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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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22-11A-21
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 person having a sexually transmitted disease
except a physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama by the Medical Licensure Commission
shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. (b) Any druggist or other person who shall sell
any drug, medicine or preparation or preparations advertised, called for, labeled or intended
to be used as a cure or treatment for a sexually transmitted disease, except on the written
prescription of a licensed physician, shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. (c) Any person
afflicted with a sexually transmitted disease who shall knowingly transmit, or assume the
risk of transmitting, or do any act which will probably or likely transmit such disease to
another person shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. (Acts...
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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-16
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 attend a pregnant
woman during gestation shall, in the case of each woman so attended, take or cause to be taken
any serologic or other biologic sample of the woman as provided by the State Board of Health.
Any sample shall be submitted to a laboratory approved by the board for testing for those
sexually transmitted diseases for which there exists an effective vaccine or curative treatment
approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration and as provided by the board. (b) Every
physician or other person permitted by law to attend a pregnant woman during delivery shall
take or cause to be taken any serologic or other biologic sample of the woman and any newborn
as provided by the State Board of Health. Any sample shall be submitted to a laboratory approved
by the board for testing for those sexually transmitted diseases...
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15-23-101
Section 15-23-101 Motion to order person charged to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases.
When a person has been charged with the crime of rape, sodomy, sexual misconduct, sexual torture,
sexual abuse, assault by bodily fluids, or any other crime in which the victim was compelled
to engage in sexual activity by force or threat of force, and it appears from the nature of
the charge that the transmission of body fluids from one person to another may have been involved,
upon the request of the victim or the parent or guardian of a minor victim, the district attorney
shall file a motion with the court for an order requiring the person charged to submit to
a test for any sexually transmitted disease. (Act 2006-572, p. 1504, §2; Act 2019-465, §1.)...
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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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34-23-11
Section 34-23-11 Physicians, dentists, registered nurses, etc., exempt from chapter. (a) Nothing
contained in this chapter shall prevent any licensed practitioner of the healing arts from
personally compounding, dispensing, administering, or supplying to his or her patient drugs
and medicines for their use. This chapter shall not apply to the manufacture or sale at wholesale
or retail of patent or proprietary medicines as purchased from a manufacturer or wholesaler,
or to the manufacture or sale at wholesale or retail of packaged, bottled, or nonbulk chemicals,
medicines, medical and dental supplies, cosmetics, and dietary foods when identified by and
sold under a trademark, trade name, or other trade symbol, privately owned or registered in
the United States Patent Office, sold or offered to be sold to the general public, if the
article meets the requirements of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act other than prescription
legend drugs. (b) A registered nurse in the employment of...
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