Title 36 — Public Health and Safety

A. At such time as the director designates, the superintendent shall submit to the director a report of the activities of the state hospital during the preceding fiscal year, including: 1. The number of patients received, conditionally discharged and discharged and voluntary pati…

B. Except as provided by subsection D of this section, the director of the department of administration shall not issue a warrant for expenditures by the state hospital in excess of the estimate contained in the monthly financial statement unless the superintendent submits a writ…

In addition to other funds appropriated to its use, any other law notwithstanding, the legislature may appropriate to the use of the state hospital the annual income from land rentals and interest on the investment of the permanent funds arising from the grant of land for insane …

The superintendent, under the direction of the director, shall equip, staff and supervise the operation of an area consisting of one or more separate buildings on the state hospital grounds in Phoenix to be designated a maximum security area. The superintendent shall designate wh…

A. The superintendent, with the approval of the director, may set aside and designate any space on the grounds of the hospital that is not needed for other authorized purposes for the establishment and maintenance of store and canteen facilities for the sale of candies, cigarette…

B. The contract shall include the following requirements: 1. The contractor must successfully attain performance goals prescribed by the department and the joint legislative budget committee relating to improvement of the state hospital's administration and delivery of client ser…

A. The permanent state hospital revolving fund is established in the amount of five thousand dollars for use in making cash outlays for postage, C.O.D. packages, travel or other minor disbursements which are proper as ultimate claims for payment from state funds. Such expenditure…

A. The department shall present a budget request that includes all information on the potential availability of other monies, including federal monies, that may be used in the following fiscal year to fund the state hospital. B. The budget request presented pursuant to subsection…

A. On or before January 1 of each year, the director shall submit to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate a financial and programmatic report on the state hospital for the preceding fiscal year. In addition to information that …

The Arizona state hospital charitable trust fund is established consisting of monies collected from contracts and lease agreements entered into pursuant to section 36-136, subsection C. The director shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated and m…

A. The department may contract for art therapy services, directly or through a contractor, only with an art therapist who holds an active national board certification in art therapy from the art therapy credentials board or who is a master's level graduate in art therapy under th…

A. The state laboratory shall be located in such places as the department of health services determines. B. The laboratory shall examine and analyze such foods, water supplies, drugs and other specimens as the director of the department of health services directs.

A. The state laboratory shall be under the supervision of a chief who shall be appointed by the director of the department of health services. B. The laboratory chief shall be a skilled pharmaceutical chemist or bacteriologist and analyst of foods, water supplies and drugs.

A. The laboratory chief shall perform the duties prescribed by law and by the director of the department of health services. B. The laboratory chief may make provisions or issue directions for taking and forwarding samples of potable waters, and perishable foods or drinks.

A certificate of analysis and examination by the chief of the state laboratory is prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated.

A. Whenever the chief of the state laboratory finds that adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded food has been on sale in the state, he shall forthwith report the facts to the director of the department of health services. B. The chief of the laboratory shall make an annual report …

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Children who have a chronic illness or physical disability" means children who are under twenty-one years of age and whose primary diagnosis is a severe physical condition that may require ongoing, medical or surgical in…

Subject to the availability of monies, the department shall establish and administer a program for children who have a chronic illness or physical disability or who are suffering from a condition that leads to a chronic illness or physical disability. The program shall provide fo…

A. The purposes of the information and referral service for children who have a chronic illness or physical disability as prescribed pursuant to this article are to: 1. Establish a roster of agencies providing medical, educational, financial, social and transportation services to…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Department" means the department of health services. 2. "Disease" means a condition or disorder that causes the human body to deviate from its normal or healthy state and that has no known general cure or adequate medica…

The department shall advance research in this state relating to: 1. The causes, epidemiology and diagnosis of diseases. 2. The formulation of cures for diseases. 3. The development of medically accepted treatment and prevention of diseases, including the discovery and development…

A. The department may: 1. Use monies in the disease control research fund established by section 36-274 to contract with individuals, organizations, corporations and institutions, public or private, in this state for any projects or services that the department determines may adv…

A. The disease control research fund is established consisting of monies received from the state lottery fund pursuant to section 5-572, subsection D, monies appropriated by the legislature and any gifts, contributions or other monies received by the department from any source to…

A. The health research fund is established. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the department shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, all monies it administers pursuant to section 36-773 into the health research fund. The department shall administer the fund.…

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Administrative order" means a written decision issued by an administrative law judge or quasi-judicial entity. 2. "Amend" means to make a change, other than a correction, to a registered certificate by adding, deleting o…

A. The director of the department is the state registrar of vital records. B. The state registrar of vital records shall: 1. Adopt rules to implement a statewide system of vital records pursuant to this chapter using the recommendations of the federal agency responsible for natio…

A. The department shall: 1. Administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. 2. Provide for the efficient administration of a system of public health statistics. B. The department may adopt rules to implement a system of public health statistics pur…

A. The state registrar shall appoint the county health officer of the county health department as the local registrar for a registration district. If a county health department does not have a county health officer, the state registrar shall appoint an employee of the county heal…

A local registrar and deputy local registrar of a registration district shall: 1. Administer and enforce this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. 2. Assist the state registrar in investigating violations of this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. …

A. A deputy local registrar shall receive from the county general fund in that registration district one dollar for each birth certificate, death certificate or fetal death certificate registered by the deputy local registrar and submitted to the state registrar pursuant to this …

A. The state registrar shall prescribe by rule the information required to be submitted to create or amend a vital record. B. A person who submits a certificate for registration must make a reasonable effort to ensure that the information on the certificate is correct and accurat…

A. The state registrar shall seal a certificate and evidentiary documents when the state registrar amends the registered certificate. B. Unless required by a court order and except as provided in section 36-340, the state registrar shall not issue a copy of a certificate or other…

A. The state registrar shall amend a registered certificate pursuant to this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. B. The state registrar shall amend a registered birth certificate to show the new name of a person born in this state if: 1. The person, the person's p…

B. A certified copy of a registered certificate has the same status as the registered certificate. C. The United States public health service may receive copies, microfilm and other information from the state registrar to prepare national vital statistics subject to the following…

A. Within seven calendar days after receiving possession of human remains, a funeral establishment or responsible person who takes possession of the human remains shall: 1. Obtain and complete the information, including the social security number of the decedent, on the death cer…

If a death occurs in this state and is not registered within one year after the date of the death, the local registrar, deputy local registrar or state registrar shall register the death certificate as a delayed death certificate.

A. A funeral establishment or responsible person who takes possession of human remains shall obtain a disposition-transit permit from a local registrar, a deputy local registrar or the state registrar before doing either of the following: 1. Providing final disposition of the hum…

A. Except as otherwise provided by law, a disinterment-reinterment permit is required before a person disinters human remains. The state registrar shall provide a permit to disinter human remains either by a court order issued in this state or by the written consent of the decede…

1. The decedent's name, social security number, date of birth, date of death, cause of death and location of death. 2. Any other information necessary to complete a death certificate for a foreign presumptive death. B. A death certificate for a foreign presumptive death shall sta…

A. A hospital, abortion clinic, physician or midwife shall submit a completed fetal death certificate to the state registrar for registration within seven days after the fetal death for each fetal death occurring in this state after a gestational period of twenty completed weeks …

A. If a fetal death occurs in this state and is not registered within one year after the date of the fetal death, the local registrar, deputy local registrar or state registrar shall register the fetal death certificate as a delayed fetal death certificate. B. The requirements fo…

A. In addition to the requirements of section 36-329, the state registrar shall establish a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth on a form approved by the state registrar for each fetal death occurring in this state after a gestational period of at least twenty completed …

If a birth resulting in stillbirth occurring in this state has not been registered within one year after the date of delivery, a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth marked "delayed" may be submitted and registered pursuant to this chapter and rules adopted pursuant to th…

A. Except as otherwise provided by law, a person in charge of a place of disposition shall not inter, cremate or allow other disposition of human remains without receiving a disposition-transit permit with the human remains. B. A person in charge of a place of disposition shall m…

A health care institution shall not release human remains or allow the removal of human remains from the health care institution until the health care institution makes a diligent effort to notify the responsible person and obtain the name of the entity to whom the human remains …

A. Within seven days after a child's birth in this state, a person shall submit to a local registrar, a deputy local registrar or the state registrar, a birth certificate for registration according to rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. The birth certificate shall be submitte…

If a completed birth certificate and evidentiary documents are submitted to a local registrar, a deputy local registrar or the state registrar for registration more than seven days but less than one year after the date of birth, the local registrar, deputy local registrar or stat…

A. If a birth certificate of a person who is born in this state is not registered within one year after the date of birth, a person authorized by this chapter may submit to the state registrar information and evidentiary documents that support the creation and registration of a d…

A. If a delayed birth certificate for a person who is born in this state is not created and registered pursuant to section 36-333.02, that person or, if the person is under eighteen years of age, the person's parent or legal guardian may petition the court for an order to establi…

A. A person completing a birth certificate shall state the name of the woman who gave birth to the child on the birth certificate as the child's mother unless otherwise provided by law or court order. B. The state registrar shall not refuse to register a birth certificate because…