Title 50

The procedure for a hearing on the application is as follows: (1) A summons stating the time and place of the hearing and a copy of the application are personally served on the person. (2) The summons, with endorsement of the time of service, is filed with the district court prio…

Following the hearing, the court shall find that the allegations of the application are: (1) true and order the person to enter or return to a treatment location for treatment; (2) true and order the person to submit to an examination for tuberculosis at a hospital within a speci…

(1) If a person fails to comply with an order issued pursuant to 50-17-107 to submit to an examination for tuberculosis within the time set, the court shall order the person committed to a hospital to determine if the person has tuberculosis and, if so, whether the person is infe…

If a person is committed pursuant to 50-17-108 to a hospital for examination or to a treatment location for treatment, the court shall: (1) send certified copies of an order of commitment to: (a) the hospital at which the person is to be examined; or (b) the person who will super…

(1) A person committed under 50-17-107 or 50-17-108 shall remain at the hospital or treatment location until discharged under 50-17-112 or 50-17-113. However, the person is not required to submit to medical or surgical treatment without the person's written consent, the consent o…

If it is in the best interest of a person committed to a treatment location, the person may be transferred from the location to which the person was committed to another location approved by the department. The person in charge of the approved course of treatment at the location …

(1) One hundred and eighty days or more after the date of commitment, a person committed under 50-17-107 or 50-17-108 may apply to the court that ordered the person's commitment for a release. (2) Not fewer than 3 or more than 7 days after receipt of the request, the court shall …

(1) If the physician for the person at the hospital or treatment location where the person has been committed and the department or local board that requested commitment concur that a person either does not have tuberculosis or has completed an approved course of treatment, the p…

(1) Court costs, expenses, and all fees must be paid by the treasurer of the county from which a person is committed. (2) Expenses and fees must be paid as follows: (a) to sheriffs and their deputies, the same fees allowed for similar services in district court; (b) to physicians…

(1) If a physician, the department, or a local health officer reasonably believes that a person has tuberculosis and that the person is likely to attempt to leave the jurisdiction to avoid a hearing on commitment, the physician, department, or local health officer shall notify th…

(1) The department shall undertake the following activities to achieve continuous quality improvement in the response to and treatment of acute heart attacks: (a) monitor data reported to and analyses generated by a national data platform, including prehospital, hospital, and pos…

To improve the response to and treatment of acute heart attacks, the department shall: (1) require receiving hospitals to report to the national data platform information consistent with nationally recognized guidelines on the treatment of individuals with confirmed acute heart a…

(1) In reporting and reviewing data pursuant to this part, the department, hospitals, critical access hospitals, emergency medical service providers, and health care professionals shall comply with any restrictions established on use of the information contained in the data platf…