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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22-2-3
Section 22-2-3 State Board of Health - Annual report to Governor. The State Board of Health
shall submit to the Governor an annual report of its transactions, in which report recommendations
as to needed health legislation may be embodied. (Code 1907, §705; Code 1923, §1054; Code
1940, T. 22, §11.)...
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22-21-28
Section 22-21-28 Rules and regulations. (a) In the manner provided in this section, the State
Board of Health, with the advice and after approval by the advisory board, shall have the
power to make and enforce, and may modify, amend, and rescind, reasonable rules and regulations
governing the operation and conduct of hospitals as defined in Section 22-21-20. All such
regulations shall set uniform minimum standards applicable alike to all hospitals of like
kind and purpose in view of the type of institutional care being offered there and shall be
confined to setting minimum standards of sanitation and equipment found to be necessary and
prohibiting conduct and practices inimicable to the public interest and the public health.
The board shall not have power to promulgate any regulation in conflict with law nor power
to interfere with the internal government and operation of any hospital on matters of policy.
The procedure for adopting, amending, or rescinding any rules authorized by this...
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34-15-3
Section 34-15-3 Rules and regulations. The State Committee of Public Health shall make and
promulgate reasonable rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying this chapter into
effect. (Acts 1919, No. 597, p. 845; Code 1923, §4477; Acts 1935, No. 444, p. 926; Code 1940,
T. 24, §9; Acts 1959, No. 412, p. 1046, §1.)...
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22-1-2
Section 22-1-2 Conflicts between municipal and general health laws. In the event that any of
the provisions of Title 11 of this Code relating to municipal corporations shall be in conflict
with any of the provisions of the general health and quarantine laws of the state, the provisions
of such general health and quarantine laws shall prevail. (Code 1907, §732; Code 1923, §1155;
Code 1940, T. 22, §94.)...
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22-12-15
Section 22-12-15 Quarantine of infected portions of county - Enforcement. A proclamation of
quarantine issued in accordance with the provisions of Section 22-12-14 by the judge of probate,
the presiding officer or any two members of the county commission for the protection of a
portion of a county shall be enforced by the health officer of the county, provided he resides
in the uninfected portion of the county, but in case he does not so reside, or in the event
of his absence or disability, then such proclamation shall be enforced in such way as the
officer issuing the same may direct. A proclamation of quarantine issued by the Mayor or Chief
Executive Officer of any incorporated city or town in accordance with the provisions of Section
22-12-14 shall be enforced by the health officer of the city or town and, in case of his absence
or disability, then, in such way as the officer issuing the proclamation may direct. (Code
1907, §751; Code 1923, §1217; Code 1940, T. 22, §163.)...
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22-12-21
Section 22-12-21 Supervision of public conveyances affected by quarantine; refusal of freight,
etc. During the existence of quarantine, state or local, the supervision of trains, buses,
aircraft and watercraft affected by such quarantine shall be placed under the State Board
of Health; and the quarantine authorities of any county, incorporated city, or town traversed
by such roads or which such aircraft or watercraft may enter may decline to receive freight,
mail or express matter from a place infected with a quarantinable disease, of which refusal
the said authorities must give the State Health Officer immediate notice. (Code 1907, §745;
Code 1923, §1211; Code 1940, T. 22, §155.)...
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22-2-14
Section 22-2-14 Penalty for violation of State Board of Health rules or regulations. Any person
who knowingly violates or fails or refuses to obey or comply with any rule or regulation adopted
and promulgated by the State Board of Health of this state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $500.00 and, if the
violation or failure or refusal to obey or comply with such rule or regulation is a continuing
one, each day's violation, or failure or refusal shall constitute a separate offense and shall
be punished accordingly. (Code 1907, §7073; Acts 1919, No. 658, p. 909; Code 1923, §4375;
Code 1940, T. 22, §103.)...
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22-20-5
Section 22-20-5 Regulations for establishments handling food and providing public accommodations.
(a) The State Committee on Public Health shall, as conditions demand, adopt and promulgate
regulations for the construction, maintenance and operation of all establishments, and their
immediate surroundings, in which foods or beverages intended for sale for human consumption
are made, prepared, processed, displayed for sale in an unpackaged state or served and for
the construction, maintenance and operation of hotels, inns, taverns, motels, tourist courts,
tourist homes, trailer courts or any place where sleeping accommodations for transients, tourists
or vacationists are advertised for sale, as well as regulations for the construction, maintenance
and operation of exhibition-ground food concessions, poultry slaughterhouses and animal slaughterhouses,
and their surroundings; except, that the authority hereby vested shall not include the authority
to conduct meat and poultry slaughter and...
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22-28-21
Section 22-28-21 Air pollution emergencies. (a) Any other provisions of law to the contrary
notwithstanding, if the director finds that a generalized condition of air pollution exists
and that it creates an emergency requiring immediate action to protect human health or safety,
the director shall order persons causing or contributing to the air pollution to reduce or
discontinue immediately the emission of air contaminants, and such order shall fix a place
and time, not later than 24 hours thereafter, for a hearing to be held before the Environmental
Management Commission. Not more than 24 hours after the commencement of such hearing, and
without adjournment thereof, the Environmental Management Commission shall affirm, modify
or set aside the order of the director. (b) In the absence of a generalized condition of air
pollution of the type referred to in subsection (a) of this section, but if the director finds
that emissions from the operation of one or more air contaminants sources...
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