Title 19, Health

[§325-133] Universal immunization purchase special fund; established. (a) There is established in the state treasury the universal immunization purchase special fund into which shall be deposited: (b) The fund shall be administered and expended by the department. (c) Expenditures…

[§325-134] Assessments. (a) The director shall determine immunization assessment rates as follows: (b) No later than forty-five days following the close of each state fiscal year, the department shall provide an accounting of immunization purchase funds not covered by any state o…

[§325-135] Reports and audits. (a) The department shall audit assessed entities and providers in accordance with the reporting and compliance requirements of the program. Each assessed entity shall report its number of child and adult covered lives according to a schedule determi…

[§325-136] Immunity. Apart from liabilities of assessed entities pursuant to this part, there shall be no liability on the part of and no cause of action against the department, its independent contractors, or its employees for any action or omission in the course of operating th…

[§325-137] Rulemaking. The department may adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 to carry out the purposes of this part. [L 2025, c 175, pt of §2]

[§325-138] Available choices. The department shall purchase immunizations through the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contracted price list, or other group purchasing negotiated discount rate, for which costs are funded pursuant to this part. The department may…

[§325-139] Immunization cost reimbursement to providers; limits. This part shall have no impact on amounts paid to providers to administer immunizations. No provider may bill any assessed entity or any other person for any immunizations supplied at no cost by the State. [L 2025, …

§325-14 Penalty. Any person violating this chapter, or any rule or regulation of the department of health relating thereto, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Except as herein otherwise provided the punishment therefor shall be the same as provided by section 321-18. [L 191…

§325-16 Informed consent for testing or disclosure. (a) A health care provider may subject a person's body fluids or tissue to a test for the presence of human immunodeficiency virus infection after: A health care provider may, for the purpose of obtaining consent to the test and…

§325-16.5 Counseling and testing of sexual assault victims; testing of sex offenders upon request of victim. (a) Any sexual assault victim, or the parent or guardian of a minor or incapacitated victim, shall be informed as soon as practicable after the assault, of the availabilit…

§325-17 Quality assurance standards for HIV antibody testing. (a) All laboratories performing screening and diagnostic tests for the presence of the antibody to HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) shall follow the recommended protocols as set forth below. Any test used for other t…

[§325-18] Advisory committees for health care workers infected with blood-borne infections. (a) The director of health may appoint ad hoc advisory committees as needed to provide advice and recommendations to health care workers infected with HIV, HBV, or other blood-borne infect…

[§325-19] Rubella testing of pregnant women. Every person permitted by law to attend a pregnant woman in the State, during the period of gestation or at delivery, shall cause a blood specimen from that woman to be tested for immunity to rubella, except when the woman does not con…

§325-2 Physicians, laboratory directors, and health care professionals to report. Every physician or health care professional having a client affected by or suspected of being affected by a disease or condition declared to be communicable or dangerous to the public health by the …

[§325-2.5] Health care-associated infection reporting. (a) Each health care facility in the State that is certified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shall report information about health care-associated infections to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

[§325-20] Agreements; collaborative assistance in control of disease outbreaks. (a) The director may enter into agreements for collaborative assistance with licensed health care facilities and health care providers in the State to control an epidemic of a dangerous disease, which…

[§325-21] Sale of sterile syringes for the prevention of disease. (a) The sale of sterile hypodermic syringes in a pharmacy, physician's office, or health care institution for the purpose of preventing the transmission of dangerous blood-borne diseases, may be made solely by: (b)…

§325-3 Others to report. The director of health shall have the authority to determine which other persons shall report to the department of health communicable diseases or conditions dangerous to the public health. The director of health may assess an administrative fine not to e…

§325-32 Immunization against infectious diseases. (a) The department of health may adopt rules requiring and governing immunization against typhoid fever, pertussis (whooping cough), diphtheria, tetanus, poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, hepatitis B, rubella, haemophilus influenzae …

§325-33 Performance of vaccination and immunization. Vaccinations or immunizations required of any person under this chapter shall be performed by duly licensed physicians or paramedical personnel under their direction, advanced practice registered nurses, physician assistants, p…

§325-34 Exemptions. Section 325-32 shall be construed not to require the vaccination or immunization of any person for three months after a duly licensed physician, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, or an authorized representative of the department of healt…

§325-35 Forms and procedures. The department of health may prescribe forms and procedures to achieve the purposes of sections 325-32 to 325-34 and shall maintain a complete roster of all exemptions from vaccination or immunization. [L 1945, c 171, pt of §1; am L 1947, c 165, §1(c…

§325-36 Duty of adult, or of parent, guardian, or caregiver. (a) Every adult person required to be immunized, or to do any other act, unless the person is a minor or incompetent, shall cause the immunization or other act to be performed. (b) If the person is a minor or incompeten…

§325-37 Fraud; wilful misrepresentation; failure to comply; penalties. Any person who by fraud or wilful misrepresentation circumvents or defeats or attempts to circumvent or defeat any purpose or provision of any of sections 325-32 to 325-34 or who, required by any provision of …

§325-38 Immunization of indigent, medically indigent, and other persons. (a) The department of health shall provide for the free immunization and vaccination of indigent and medically indigent persons and may provide such immunizations for others, especially children, of high ris…

§325-4 Identity of patients safeguarded. Reports to the department of health provided for by this chapter shall not be made public so as to disclose the identity of the persons to whom they relate except as necessary to safeguard the public health against those who disobey the ru…

§325-5 Antitoxins, antiserums, vaccines, biologics, and drugs. The department of health shall purchase from time to time out of moneys which may be available to it therefor, and keep on hand and available for administration under this section in the several counties to persons un…

PART III. CONGENITAL SYPHILIS §325-51 Blood samples of pregnant women required. Every physician attending a pregnant woman in the State for conditions relating to the woman's pregnancy during the period of gestation or at delivery, shall, in the case of every woman so attended, t…

§325-52 Serologic tests; reports. For the purposes of this part a standard serologic test shall be a test for syphilis approved by the department of health and shall be made at a laboratory approved to make such tests by the department. Such laboratory tests as are required by th…

§325-53 Reports of blood tests. In reporting a birth or fetal death, every physician or other person required to make such reports shall state, in a report accompanying the certificate, whether, according to the physician's or other person's knowledge or information, a blood test…

§325-54 Reports confidential; penalty. Any information secured from the tests or the reports in this part required to be made by persons having access to such tests or reports shall be used only in connection with their professional duties or within the scope and course of their …

§325-55 Rules and regulations. The department of health may, subject to the approval of the governor, adopt, promulgate, and enforce rules and regulations for the more effective enforcement of this part. [L 1943, c 219, §5; RL 1945, §2314; RL 1955, §49-54; am L Sp 1959 2d, c 1, §…

§325-56 Penalty. Any physician or other person permitted by law to attend pregnant women, and any other person, who violates this part or any rule of the department of health adopted pursuant to this part, may be fined in an amount not to exceed $1,000 per violation, to be assess…

§325-6 Epidemic control. Such appropriations as may be necessary for the purpose of controlling, suppressing, or preventing the spread of any communicable or preventable disease in the State or in any county thereof shall be allocated by the legislature out of the proceeds of the…

PART IV. TUBERCULOSIS §325-71 Reports by physicians and others. (a) Every physician, and every individual in charge of an inpatient or outpatient health care facility, shall report in writing to the department of health the identity of and epidemiologic information concerning eve…

§325-72 Examination of sputum. The bacteriologist of the department of health, when so requested by any physician, or by the authorities of any hospital or dispensary, shall make, or cause to be made, a microscopical examination of the sputum forwarded to the bacteriologist as th…

§325-73 Protection of record; penalty. The department of health shall cause all reports made in accordance with the provisions of section 325-71, and also all results of examinations showing the presence of the bacilli of tuberculosis, made in accordance with section 325-72, to b…

§325-74 Physicians; precautions; instructions. A physician attending a patient having tuberculosis shall take all proper precautions and give proper instructions to provide for the safety of all individuals occupying the same house or apartment. [L 1911, c 118, §13; RL 1925, §950…

§325-75 Reporting recovery of patient. Upon the recovery of any person having tuberculosis, the attending physician shall make a report of this fact to the department of health or its agent, who shall record the same, and shall relieve the person from further liability to any req…

§325-76 Examinations for tuberculosis. (a) Examinations for tuberculosis required or recommended by the department of health, including skin tests, x-rays, and other tests as may be appropriate for tuberculosis control purposes, shall be provided by the department at no charge. (…

§325-77 Notice. The department of health shall conduct such examinations at such places throughout the State as it deems advisable after the giving of a public notice of the time and place the examinations are to be held. [L 1947, c 79, §2; am L 1949, c 60, §1; RL 1955, §49-70; a…

§325-78 Test and treatment for tuberculosis. (a) The department of health may establish charges and collect fees for any diagnostic, medical, or treatment services relating to tuberculosis treatment or control; provided that the department shall not refuse to provide diagnostic, …

§325-8 Infected persons and quarantine. (a) As used in this section: "Communicable disease" means any disease declared to be "communicable" by the director of health. "Dangerous disease" means a disease as defined in section 325-20. "Quarantine" means the compulsory physical sepa…

§325-9 Quarantine without removal; duty of police officers to assist in removals and enforcement of quarantine. If the department of health or its agent determines that the removal of the person infected or suspected of being infected would directly and seriously aggravate the di…

[§325-91.5] Definitions. As used in this part, "department" means the department of health. [L 2025, c 114, pt of §2]

§325-92 Prenatal hepatitis B screening and treatment of newborns. The department may adopt rules necessary to provide appropriate hepatitis B screening of pregnant women, including reporting and follow-up procedures for newborns of hepatitis B carrier mothers. [L 1987, c 13, §1; …