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22-11A-10
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
shall discover, as a result of its own investigation or as a result of any report required
by this article, that any person may be afflicted with tuberculosis, the State Board of Health,
through its authorized representative, shall investigate or further investigate the circumstances
and, if after investigation, the representative of the State Board of Health is of the opinion
that an active case of tuberculosis is found, he shall encourage the person infected to take
voluntary treatment to meet the minimum requirements prescribed by the State Board of Health.
If such afflicted person refuses voluntary treatment, than the state board of health, through
its authorized representative, may petition the...
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22-11A-40
Section 22-11A-40 Laboratory tests for AIDS and other diseases; violations. (a) Prior to the
administration of any laboratory test for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or for
viruses that lead to the development of AIDS or any other notifiable disease that may be designated
by the State Board of Health, the board shall administer a proficiency testing program to
ascertain the qualifications and competency of the personnel conducting the test. (b) Any
laboratory or laboratory personnel who reports the test results of any diseases referenced
in this section, when performed by any methods or procedures not approved by the board, shall
be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. (Acts 1990, No. 90-629, §6; Act 2019-302, §1.)...
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22-11A-67
Section 22-11A-67 Records and information necessary to assist investigation. (a) Any health
care worker found to have HBV, HIV, or HCV, or other disease designated by the State Board
of Health and any health care facility at which an infected health care worker is employed
or practices shall make available to the State Board of Health, and to the expert review panel,
any and all patient medical records and other records requested by those groups, except that
records or documents greater than three years old shall not be provided. (b) The following
persons and facilities shall provide to the State Board of Health and the expert review panel
all requested documents or records three years old or less: (1) Any person having knowledge
of a health care worker diagnosed as infected with HIV, HBV, HCV, or other disease designated
by the State Board of Health. (2) The administrator of any health facility having knowledge
of a health care worker diagnosed as infected with HIV, HBV, HCV, or other...
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22-2-8
Section 22-2-8 State Health Officer. The State Committee of Public Health shall elect an executive
officer who shall be a physician licensed in the State of Alabama to be known as the State
Health Officer and shall fix his term of office and salary. The qualifications of this individual
shall be determined by the State Committee of Public Health. Before entering upon the duties
of his office, the State Health Officer shall execute to the State of Alabama a bond, to be
approved by the Governor, in the amount of $5,000.00, for the faithful performance of his
duties. The State Health Officer so elected shall, under the direction of the State Committee
of Public Health and with the approval of the State Personnel Board, fix the salaries of the
medical employees of the State Committee of Public Health. When the State Committee of Public
Health is not in session, the State Health Officer, as executive officer of the Department
of Public Health, shall act for said committee and shall have and...
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22-3-9
Section 22-3-9 Appointment of sanitary officers. In counties in which there are no health officers,
and in counties in which, although there are health officers, adequate provision has not,
in the opinion of the State Board of Health, been made for the proper notification, investigation
and control of notifiable diseases and in localities in which the local health authorities
fail to carry out the provision of the health laws of the state and the rules and regulations
of the State Board of Health, the State Board of Health may appoint properly qualified sanitary
officers to act as local health officers and to prevent the spread of disease in, and from,
such localities and to enforce said laws, rules and regulations. (Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909;
Code 1923, §1102; Code 1940, T. 22, §56.)...
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3-7A-11
Section 3-7A-11 County rabies officer; application; appointment; term; powers and duties; authority
of county board of health. (a) The county board of health shall nominate annually one duly
licensed veterinarian from each county within the state for the position of rabies officer.
Applications for this position may be received from any duly licensed veterinarian residing
within the county, or in the event that no applications are received, from the Alabama Veterinary
Medical Association. Applications shall be provided to the chair of each county board of health
during the month of November. The county board of health, not later than January 31 of the
appointing year, shall select and appoint a nominee, subject to the approval of the State
Health Officer and the State Veterinarian. The appointee's term of office shall expire on
December 31 of the year of appointment; provided, however, that he or she shall be eligible
for reappointment. The rabies officer may be removed from office,...
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22-11A-23
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 reason to believe has been exposed to any of the diseases designated under this article
shall be tested. Any person who the state or county health officer has reason to believe is
afflicted with any of the diseases designated under this article shall seek and accept treatment
at the direction of the health officer or a physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama.
(Acts 1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §23.)...
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22-2-2
Section 22-2-2 State Board of Health - Authority and jurisdiction. The State Board of Health
shall have authority and jurisdiction: (1) To exercise general control over the enforcement
of the laws relating to public health. (2) To investigate the causes, modes or propagation
and means of prevention of diseases. (3) To investigate the influence of localities and employment
on the health of the people. (4) To inspect all schools, hospitals, asylums, jails, theatres,
opera houses, courthouses, churches, public halls, prisons, stockades where convicts are kept,
markets, dairies, milk depots, slaughter pens or houses, railroad depots, railroad cars, street
railroad cars, lines of railroads and street railroads (including the territory contiguous
to said lines), industrial and manufacturing establishments, offices, stores, banks, club
houses, hotels, rooming houses, residences and other places of like character, and whenever
insanitary conditions in any of these places, institutions or...
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22-11A-5
Section 22-11A-5 When State Board of Health to take charge of investigation. The State Board
of Health may take charge of the investigation of an epidemic or of the supression thereof,
or both, whenever, in the opinion of the State Health Officer, the public welfare requires
such a course of action and, in that event, shall have and exercise all the power and authority
that the county board of health and county health officer would have in the premises. (Acts
1987, No. 87-574, p. 904, §5.)...
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22-3-2
Section 22-3-2 County boards of health - Duties generally. It shall be the duty of the county
boards of health in their respective counties and subject to the supervision and control of
the State Board of Health: (1) To supervise the enforcement of the health laws of the state,
including all ordinances or rules and regulations of municipalities or of county boards of
health or of the State Board of Health, and to supervise the enforcement of the law for the
collection of vital and mortuary statistics and to adopt and promulgate, if necessary, rules
and regulations for administering the health laws of the state and the rules and regulations
of the State Board of Health, which rules and regulations of the county boards of health shall
have the force and effect of law and shall be executed and enforced by the same bodies, officials,
agents and employees as in the case of health laws; (2) To investigate, through county health
officers or quarantine officers, cases or outbreaks of any of...
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