Title 36, Public Health and Safety

All monies collected pursuant to sections 36-545 and 36-545.01 for examination, evaluation, treatment and maintenance of patients shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, in the state general fund.

All costs in connection with a patient hospitalized in a private or voluntary nonprofit facility, including costs for evaluation, shall be borne by the patient, his parents, spouse, guardian or estate and shall not be a charge against the state or county except as provided in sec…

A. Except as provided in this chapter, costs of court proceedings and cost of services provided by a county pursuant to article 4 are a charge against the county in which the patient resided or was found before hospitalization. The clerk of the superior court in the county where …

A. When a person is given a prepetition screening, or a court-ordered evaluation by a screening agency or evaluation agency pursuant to article 4 of this chapter, the person shall not be charged. B. When a person is given a voluntary evaluation pursuant to section 36-522, the per…

A. Each county, or any combination of counties, shall provide directly or by contract the services of a screening agency and an evaluation agency for the purposes of this chapter. B. On a request made by a resident of the county pursuant to this chapter, a county shall be require…

A. The administration may enter into contracts with screening agencies, evaluation agencies and mental health treatment agencies to provide prepetition screenings, court-ordered evaluations, voluntary evaluations, treatment of voluntary patients and treatment of patients under se…

A. The Arizona state hospital fund is established for the purposes prescribed in section 36-545.01, subsection I. The department of health services shall administer the fund. The fund consists of the following: 1. Monies reimbursed by the federal government under title XIX of the…

Subject to legislative approval a building renewal fund is established for the purpose of major maintenance of the state owned properties located at 1930 east 6th street and 2075 north 6th avenue, Tucson, Arizona. The building renewal fund shall be subject to legislative appropri…

A. A patient receiving court-ordered treatment or any person acting on the patient's behalf may request that the court review whether the patient is still in need of continued court-ordered treatment. The rights and procedures prescribed in this section are in addition to the rig…

An order for court ordered treatment may be reviewed by appeal to the court of appeals as prescribed in the Arizona rules of civil procedure or by special action. Such appeal or special action shall be entitled to preference.

A. Whenever, in any proceeding under the laws of this state for the court-ordered treatment of a person alleged to be, as a result of a mental disorder, a danger to self or to others, with a persistent or acute disability or a grave disability, it is determined after such adjudic…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Administration" means the Arizona health care cost containment system administration. 2. "Community residential treatment system" means a statewide system of community-based residential treatment programs for the serious…

A. The director shall establish a statewide plan for a community residential treatment system. The plan shall provide for a statewide system of mental health residential treatment programs that provides to the seriously mentally ill a wide range of programs and services, as ident…

A. Each county shall be responsible for developing an individual county profile of existing programs, needs and goals for consideration by the director for inclusion within the statewide plan as required in section 36-550.01. B. The director, on receipt of the county profile requ…

A. On establishment of the statewide plan for a community residential treatment system as required in section 36-550.01, the director shall provide for the delivery of such programs and services, utilizing all monies identified and available for the seriously mentally ill, in the…

A. The director shall develop and implement an evaluation system that includes program planning and development, fiscal and data management and contract administration. B. A county that desires to contract with the administration to deliver programs and services as provided by th…

A. A residential or day treatment facility shall be designed to provide a homelike environment without sacrificing safety or care. Facilities shall be relatively small, with preferably fifteen or fewer beds. B. Individual programs of a community residential treatment system shall…

A. The seriously mentally ill are eligible for services under this article if they comply with the eligibility screening and application process prescribed in section 36-3408, and under any of the following circumstances: 1. They voluntarily seek the services. 2. The regional beh…

A. The director may award grants to counties to facilitate the planning of community residential treatment systems for the seriously mentally ill at the local level. The grants shall be used to compensate personnel for the preparation of a written plan that includes the following…

Clients receiving treatment pursuant to this article are entitled to all the rights enumerated in this chapter.

A. If a court finds that a patient meets the criteria for court-ordered treatment pursuant to section 36-540, subsection A, the court may approve the patient's placement in a secure behavioral health residential facility that is licensed by the department pursuant to section 36-4…

A. The following conditions are specifically declared public nuisances dangerous to the public health: 1. Any condition or place in populous areas that constitutes a breeding place for flies, rodents, mosquitoes and other insects that are capable of carrying and transmitting dise…

(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies.) A. Definitions. The following words and phrases, whenever used in this section, shall be construed as defined in this section: 1. "Employee" means any person who performs any service on a full-time, part-time or contracted basis whether or not t…

A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, when a nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness exists on private property, the county board of health, the local health department, the county environmental department or the public health service district shall order t…

When a county board of health or a local health department deems it necessary to enter a building or structure within its jurisdiction for the purpose of examining, destroying, removing or preventing a nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness and is refused entrance, any me…

When a condition exists in an area adjacent to a military encampment outside the corporate limits of a city or town which, in the opinion of the commander of the encampment concurred in by the department of health services, constitutes a health menace, the person responsible for …

A person who knowingly provides or furnishes a common towel or a common drinking cup which may be used by more than one person in a barber shop, public wash house, public lavatory or any other public place, is guilty of a petty offense.

A. The director of the department of health services shall develop and implement, in cooperation with rural health clinics, county health departments, state and local medical associations, poison control centers and other appropriate health care professionals, a system for report…

A person who learns that a contagious, epidemic or infectious disease exists shall immediately make a written report of the particulars to the appropriate board of health or health department. The report shall include names and residences of persons afflicted with the disease. If…

The keeper of a private house, boarding house, lodging house, inn or hotel shall report in writing to the local board of health or health department within whose jurisdiction such occurs, each case of contagious, infectious or epidemic disease in his establishment. Such report sh…

Physicians shall report in writing to the local board of health or health department the death within its jurisdiction of patients dying from contagious, infectious or epidemic diseases. The report shall be made within twenty-four hours after death, and shall include the specific…

When a county health department or public health services district is apprised that infectious or contagious disease exists within its jurisdiction, it shall immediately make an investigation. If the investigation discloses that the disease does exist, the county health departmen…

A. A local board or health department may cause the destruction of beds, bedding, clothing, carpets or other articles which have been exposed to contamination from infectious or contagious disease, and allow reasonable compensation for destroyed articles. B. A local board or heal…

A local board of health or health department may provide a temporary hospital or place of reception for persons with infectious or contagious diseases. Hospitals or other places in which infectious or contagious disease exists shall be under the control and subject to regulations…

A. Local boards or health departments may employ physicians and other persons and provide such necessaries of life as they deem necessary for care of persons afflicted with contagious or infectious diseases. B. Expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this article shal…

A person who knowingly secretes himself or others known to have a contagious or infectious disease, or a member of a board of health or an officer of a local health department who with criminal negligence fails or refuses to perform a duty, or a person who violates a provision of…

A person who knowingly exposes himself or another afflicted with a contagious or infectious disease in a public place or thoroughfare, except in the necessary removal of such person in a manner least dangerous to the public health, is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.

A. For the maintenance of public health, proper bathrooms, wash rooms, toilets and a heated change room immediately contiguous to the works shall be provided by every person, whether owner or operator, engaged in the treatment or reduction of ores or metals, in cement works, in w…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Acquired immune deficiency syndrome" has the same meaning as defined by the centers for disease control of the United States public health service. 2. "Capacity to consent" means a person's ability, determined without re…

In conducting an investigation of a reportable communicable disease the department of health services and local health departments may inspect and copy medical or laboratory records in the possession of or maintained by a health care provider or health care facility which are rel…

A. A person who obtains communicable disease related information in the course of providing a health service or obtains that information from a health care provider pursuant to an authorization shall not disclose or be compelled to disclose that information except as authorized b…

A. Notwithstanding any other law, no court or administrative body may issue an order for the disclosure of or a search warrant for communicable disease related information, except as provided by this section. An administrative body includes any administrative law judge or hearing…

A. A person who knowingly does the following is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor: 1. Performs, or permits or procures the performance of, an HIV-related test in violation of this article. 2. Discloses, compels another person to disclose or procures the disclosure of communicable d…

A. The department may impose a civil penalty of not more than five thousand dollars if a person does the following in violation of this article: 1. Performs, or permits or procures the performance of, an HIV-related test in violation of this article. 2. Discloses, compels another…

A protected person may bring an action in superior court for legal and equitable relief on his own behalf against a person who violates this article.

The state department of corrections in consultation with the department of health services may require that a prisoner be tested for the human immunodeficiency virus if the department of corrections has reasonable grounds to believe that the person is infected with the human immu…