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Virgin Islands Statutes, Title 19

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Title 19, Health

55 chapters · 675 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 19675 Ch 29, Controlled Substances80 Ch 45, Behavioral Health61 Ch 34, The Virgin Islands Cannabis Use Act36 Ch 37, General Provisions30 Ch 66, Animal Protection and Control28 Ch 20, Virgin Islands Revised Uniform Anato…25 Ch 67, Animal Diseases25 Ch 16, V.I. Government Hospitals and Health…24 Ch 59B, Cemeteries23 Ch 17, Government Hospital and Medical Fees22 Ch 53A, Smoking Ban17 Ch 6, Cancer and Autoimmune Disease Registries16 Ch 10, Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act16 Ch 15, Licensing, Inspection and Regulation…16

15 sections·Filtered byTitle 19✕Ch 3✕

19 V.I.C. § 31 Enumeration of venereal diseases; duties of Commissioner of Health
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Venereal diseases are held to be infectious, communicable and dangerous to the public health and welfare. The control of venereal diseases in the Virgin Islands shall be vested in the Commissioner of Health. The Commissioner shall exercise every effort to cure and prevent the spr…
19 V.I.C. § 32 Report of venereal disease patients
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Physicians employed by the Virgin Islands and privately practicing physicians shall report patients being treated by them for venereal disease to the Commissioner of Health. Privately practicing physicians may report their patients by number but if treatment is refused, or the pa…
19 V.I.C. § 32a Reporting of Acquired Immunodeficiency Virus Infection; Confidentiality of tests and information; Penalties for breach of confidentiality; Failure to comply with Reporting Requirements
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(a) Each physician who diagnoses and/or treats a person for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), and each laboratory which concludes with a result diagnostic of HIV infection or AIDS shall report such fact(s) to the Commissioner…
19 V.I.C. § 32b Partner notification

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(a) The Department of Health and/or its authorized representatives may interview any person infected with HIV (as per confirmatory blood test), or anyone directly named as a contact to a known infected individual, for the express purpose of partner notification, which includes ri…

19 V.I.C. § 32c Standards of reporting cases of HIV infection and AIDS

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The physician rendering the diagnosis of HIV infection or AIDS or providing treatment for the same shall report the initial diagnosis and date (by month, day and year) pertaining to HIV diagnosis or AIDS indicator diseases as the same shall be determined by the Commissioner of th…

19 V.I.C. § 33 Treatment of infected persons; hospitalization; penalties for refusal

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(a) Persons who suffer from venereal disease are entitled, without regard to whether they can afford to pay for their medical treatment, to demand that they be taken under treatment at public expense, and likewise are under obligation to submit themselves to such treatment, unles…

19 V.I.C. § 34 Examination of suspected persons

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Persons suspected by the health administration of being infected with venereal disease shall be examined by a physician, under the direction of the Commissioner of Health. If any such person is found to be suffering from a venereal disease, he shall submit to treatment as provide…

19 V.I.C. § 35 Prenatal examination

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Within 120 days after conception all pregnant women shall submit to an examination by a practicing physician subject to the supervision of the Commissioner of Health to determine their freedom from active venereal infection. If found infected they shall be treated as provided in …

19 V.I.C. § 36 Nursing of diseased child; examination of wet-nurses

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(a) A child who is suffering from or whose mother is suffering from venereal disease shall not be given to be suckled by any other woman than its own mother. (b) No woman may act as wet-nurse without previous examination for venereal disease before each case.

19 V.I.C. § 37 Examinations subject to control of Commissioner of Health

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The medical examinations referred to in this chapter are to be conducted at hospitals as prescribed by the Commissioner of Health or privately by duly licensed physicians subject to the approval of the Commissioner of Health.

19 V.I.C. § 38 Examination and treatment of prostitutes

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Whenever a woman is convicted of prostitution she shall be examined by a physician and if found to be suffering from venereal disease shall be placed under medical treatment in accordance with section 33 of this title.

19 V.I.C. § 39 Discharge of patients; penalty for leaving before discharge

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Persons who are placed in a hospital to be treated for venereal disease shall not leave the hospital before they have been discharged by their physician. Whoever violates this section shall be imprisoned not more than 30 days.

19 V.I.C. § 40 Penalty for cohabiting while infected

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Whoever cohabits with another, knowing herself or himself to be afflicted with venereal disease, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both.

19 V.I.C. § 41 Penalties for violations generally

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Unless otherwise provided, whoever violates any provisions of this chapter shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both.

19 V.I.C. § 51 Bureau of Epidemiology

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(a) There is established in the Department of Health the Bureau of Epidemiology, staffed with an epidemiologist, a communicable disease field supervisor, a disease surveillance officer for St. Croix, a disease surveillance officer for St. Thomas and St. John and a data entry mana…