Title 16, HEALTH

Sec. 11. (a) The state department shall charge and collect a fee of eight dollars ($8) for each search of the records in the division of vital records. If the requested record is found, one (1) certification of the record will be issued without charge. Additional certifications o…

Sec. 11.5. In addition to the fee charged by the state department under section 11 of this chapter for a search of the records in the division of vital records, the state department shall charge a birth problems registry fee of two dollars ($2) for each search of the records for …

Sec. 12. A person who, with intent to defraud: (1) makes a false or fraudulent statement in applying to a local health officer or to the state registrar for a certified copy of a birth certificate; (2) makes a false or fraudulent statement in applying to the state registrar for p…

Sec. 13. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) or (d) or as otherwise provided, a person who recklessly violates or fails to comply with this chapter commits a Class B misdemeanor. (b) Each day a violation continues constitutes a separate offense. (c) A person who: (1) is lice…

Sec. 2. The employee in charge of the division of the state department administering the system of vital statistics shall be known as the state registrar and shall do the following: (1) Keep the files and records pertaining to vital statistics. (2) Perform the duties prescribed b…

Sec. 3. The state department shall do the following: (1) Prescribe the information to be contained in each kind of application, certificate, report, or permit required by this article. (2) Adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 for the following: (A) Collecting, transcribing, compiling, and…

Sec. 3.1. (a) The state department shall establish the Indiana birth registration system (IBRS) for recording in an electronic format live births in Indiana. (b) The state department shall establish the Indiana death registration system (IDRS) for recording in an electronic forma…

Sec. 4. Each local health jurisdiction is a registration district for vital statistics and the local health officer shall be the local registrar. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-15-3.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.20.

Sec. 5. (a) The local health officer, on the fourth day of each month, shall report to the state department concerning the births, deaths, and stillbirths that occurred within the local health officer's jurisdiction within the preceding month. However, after December 31, 2010, th…

Sec. 6. The report of the local health officer must contain the following: (1) The original copy of each certificate of birth, death, or stillbirth. (2) A certification that no other births, deaths, or stillbirths occurred within the jurisdiction to the best of the health officer…

Sec. 7. (a) Both the state registrar and the local health officer shall maintain a permanent record, accompanying the birth records, that contains for each request for a certified copy of a birth certificate the following: (1) The date of the request. (2) The name and address of …

Sec. 7.5. (a) A registration or certificate of a birth or stillbirth shall be open to public inspection, and a copy provided, upon the request of any person that occurs on or after the date that is ninety-nine (99) years after the record's creation date. (b) Notwithstanding subse…

Sec. 8. (a) Except as provided in section 7.5 of this chapter and subsection (d), a local health officer shall provide a certification of birth, death, or stillbirth registration upon request by any person only if: (1) the health officer is satisfied that the applicant has a dire…

Sec. 8.5. (a) Upon request by a parent of a stillborn child, a local health officer shall provide to the parent a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth. (b) A certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth provided under subsection (a) must contain the following: (1) The cap…

Sec. 9. (a) A local health department may make a charge under IC 16-20-1-27 for each certificate of birth, death, or stillbirth registration. IC 5-14-3-8(d) does not apply to the health department making a charge for a certificate of birth, death, or stillbirth registration under…

Sec. 1. The state department shall develop the newborn screening registry under IC 16-41-17-10. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-8-6-8 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.21.

Sec. 1. (a) This section applies to all health records except mental health records, which are governed by IC 16-39-2, IC 16-39-3, and IC 16-39-4. (b) This article applies to all health records, except: (1) records regarding communicable diseases, which are governed by IC 16-41-8…

Sec. 2. Upon a patient's written request and reasonable notice, a provider shall, at no cost, provide to the patient or the patient's designee: (1) access to; or (2) a copy of; the patient's x-ray image possessed by the provider. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-4-8-2.1.] As…

Sec. 3. (a) Health records may be requested by a competent patient if the patient is: (1) emancipated and less than eighteen (18) years of age; or (2) at least eighteen (18) years of age. (b) If a patient is incompetent, the request for health records may be made by the parent, g…

Sec. 4. Except as provided in IC 16-39-5, a patient's written consent for release of the patient's health record must include the following: (1) The name and address of the patient. (2) The name of the person requested to release the patient's record. (3) The name of the person o…

Sec. 5. If a provider who is a health care professional reasonably determines that the information requested under section 1 of this chapter is: (1) detrimental to the physical or mental health of the patient; or (2) likely to cause the patient to harm the patient or another; the…

Sec. 6. This chapter does not authorize a patient to obtain a copy of the patient's health records while the patient is an inpatient of a hospital, health facility, or facility licensed under IC 12-24 or IC 12-29. However, if the inpatient is: (1) unemancipated and less than eigh…

Sec. 7. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a custodial parent and a noncustodial parent of a child have equal access to the parents' child's health records. (b) A provider may not allow a noncustodial parent access to the child's health records if: (1) a court has issued a…

Sec. 8. Except as provided in section 2 of this chapter, IC 16-39-9 governs the fees that may be charged for making and providing copies of records under this chapter. As added by P.L.102-1994, SEC.2.

Sec. 9. Alcohol and drug abuse records described in 42 U.S.C. 290dd-2 may not be disclosed unless authorized in accordance with 42 U.S.C. 290dd-2. As added by P.L.4-1997, SEC.3. Amended by P.L.7-2015, SEC.43.

Sec. 1. (a) It is the intent of the state to develop, within the limits of the state's capabilities and resources, a program that gives the greatest assurance of enabling a person with a disability to achieve the person's maximum potential and the highest degree of independence p…

Sec. 2. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), each: (1) physician; (2) superintendent of a hospital; (3) director of a local health department; (4) director of a local office of the department of child services; (5) director of the division of disability, aging, and rehabilit…

Sec. 3. A report made under this chapter shall be made in the manner and upon forms prescribed by and furnished by the state department. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-4-6-3 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.23.

Sec. 4. The reports filed under this chapter by hospitals must include birth defects. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-4-6-3 part.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.23.

Sec. 5. The reports filed under this chapter by school corporations must include children excluded from school because of a disability as well as children with disabilities attending regular or special programs of education. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-4-6-3 part.] As a…

Sec. 6. The contents of a report made under this chapter are solely for the use of departments of state government in the performance of their duties under law and of organizations having a legitimate interest in the information. The reports shall not be open to public inspection…

Sec. 7. All reports filed under this chapter shall be transmitted to the state department. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-4-6-4.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.23. Amended by P.L.130-2018, SEC.85.

Sec. 1. This article is not intended to interfere with the right of an individual to select any mode of treatment, including reliance upon spiritual means through prayer alone for healing. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citations: 16-1-9.5-8; 16-1-10.5-23.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.…

Sec. 2. The state department may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to implement this article. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-10.5-24.] As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24.

Sec. 3. (a) Except as otherwise provided, a person who recklessly violates or fails to comply with this chapter commits a Class B misdemeanor. (b) Each day a violation continues constitutes a separate offense. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-35-1.] As added by P.L.2-1993,…

Sec. 4. The state department may adopt rules concerning: (1) sanitation requirements; (2) requirements for education on sanitation; and (3) any other health concerns; associated with threading (as defined in IC 25-8-2-19). As added by P.L.78-2008, SEC.1.

Sec. 1. (a) IC 16-42-1 through IC 16-42-4 are intended to safeguard the public health and promote the public welfare by protecting the: (1) consuming public from injury by product use; and (2) purchasing public from injury by merchandising deceit; flowing from intrastate commerce…

Sec. 1.1. (a) The state veterinarian shall act in place of the state health commissioner under this chapter when impounding or disposing of adulterated or misbranded products under IC 15-17-5 or IC 15-18-1. (b) The Indiana state board of animal health shall act in place of the In…

Sec. 10. The state department shall cause the investigation and examination of food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics subject to IC 16-42-1 through IC 16-42-4. The state health commissioner or the commissioner's authorized representative may do the following: (1) Take a sample or sp…

Sec. 11. For the purpose of enforcing IC 16-42-1 through IC 16-42-4, pertinent records of an administrative agency of the state are open to inspection by the state health commissioner or the commissioner's authorized representative. [Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-28-11.]…

Sec. 12. (a) For the purpose of enforcing IC 16-42-1 through IC 16-42-4, carriers engaged in commerce, and persons receiving food, drugs, devices, or cosmetics in commerce or holding such articles so received shall, upon the request of an officer or employee designated by the sta…

Sec. 13. (a) For the purpose of enforcing IC 16-42-1 through IC 16-42-4, the state health commissioner or the commissioner's authorized representative may do the following: (1) Enter, at reasonable times, any produce farm, factory, warehouse, place of production, or establishment…

Sec. 14. The state health commissioner or the commissioner's legally authorized agent may periodically publish reports summarizing all judgments, decrees, and court orders given under IC 16-42-1 through IC 16-42-4, including the nature of the charge and the disposition of the cha…

Sec. 15. (a) The state health commissioner or the commissioner's legally authorized agent may cause to be disseminated information regarding food, drugs, devices, or cosmetics in situations involving, in the opinion of the state health commissioner or the commissioner's legally a…

Sec. 16. (a) A person may not engage in any of the following acts: (1) The sale in intrastate commerce of a food, drug, device, or cosmetic that is adulterated or misbranded. (2) The adulteration or misbranding of a food, drug, device, or cosmetic in intrastate commerce. (3) The …

Sec. 17. (a) In addition to the other remedies provided in this article, the state department shall adopt a schedule of civil penalties that may be levied to enforce the following: (1) This chapter, IC 16-42-2-6, IC 16-42-2-7, and IC 16-42-18. (2) The rules adopted under this cha…