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Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-10-101 Chapter definitions
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(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Commissioner” means the commissioner of health or the commissioner's designee; or in the absence of the commissioner, the deputy commissioner;(2) “Department” means the department of health;(3) “Forms” means …
Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-10-102 Notice to health officer of name and address of diseased person exposing others to infection
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If any attending physician or other person knows or has good reason to suspect that a person having a STD is behaving so as to expose other persons to infection, or is about to so behave, the attending physician or other person shall notify the municipal or county health officer …
Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-10-103 Printed instructions given patients
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It is the duty of every physician or other person treating persons infected with a STD to give such persons printed instructions containing information deemed advisable by the department, such printed instructions to be furnished by the department.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 68-10-104 Officers to examine suspected persons and require treatment — Sources of infection to be investigated
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(a) (1) State, district, county and municipal health officers or their authorized deputies, within their respective jurisdictions, are directed and empowered, when, in their judgment, it is necessary to protect the public health, to make an examination of a person reasonably susp…