Title 35, Public Health And Safety

Escape from quarantine deemed crime; punishment. Any person or persons confined in any quarantine established in this state under the provisions of this act who shall escape therefrom or attempt to escape therefrom, without having been dismissed upon the certificate or authority …

Vaccination for smallpox; penalty for refusal. The state department of health may adopt such measures for the general vaccination of the inhabitants of any city, town or county in the state, as they shall deem proper and necessary to prevent the introduction or arrest the progres…

Report required of physician; record of each case to be kept; duty of individuals to report diseases. (a) Pursuant to department of health rules and regulations, the state health officer or his designee shall publish a list of communicable diseases or conditions to be reported by…

Penalty for failure to report or for false report. Any practicing, licensed physician or other person required to report who fails to report to the state health officer or his designee any case of disease in the manner provided in W.S. 35-4-107, or who willfully makes any false r…

Spreading contagious disease; prohibited. Any person who shall knowingly have or use about his premises, or who shall convey or cause to be conveyed into any neighborhood, any clothing, bedding or other substance used by, or in taking care of, any person afflicted with the smallp…

Spreading contagious disease; liability for damages in civil action. Any person guilty of violating the provisions of W.S. 35-4-109, in addition to the penalties therein prescribed, shall be liable in a civil action in damages to any and all persons, who may, from that cause, bec…

Reporting of Reye's Syndrome. Every hospital or local health officer shall immediately report every diagnosed case of Reye's Syndrome to the state health officer of the department of health.

Right of appeal of quarantine. (a) Any person who has been quarantined pursuant to this act may appeal to the district court at any time for release from the quarantine. The court may hold a hearing on the appeal after notice is provided to the state health officer at least seven…

Treatment when consent is not available; quarantine. (a) Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, W.S. 14-4-116 and 21-4-309, the state health officer shall not subject any person to any vaccination or medical treatment without the consent of the person. (b) During a…

Immunity from liability. (a) During a public health emergency as defined by W.S. 35-4-115(a)(i) and subject to subsection (d) of this section, any health care provider or other person, including a business entity, who in good faith follows the instructions of a state, city, town …

Definitions. (a) As used in this article: (i) "Public health emergency" means an occurrence or imminent threat of an illness or health condition caused by an epidemic or pandemic disease, a novel and highly fatal infectious agent or a biological toxin that poses a substantial ris…

Declared contagious and dangerous to health; list of reportable diseases established by department of health; violation of W.S. 35-4-130 through 35-4-134; penalty. (a) Sexually transmitted diseases as included within the list of reportable diseases of the department of health are…

Consent of minors to treatment; treatment of infected or exposed persons; immunity from liability. (a) Persons under eighteen (18) years of age may give legal consent for examination and treatment for any sexually transmitted disease infection. (b) For the protection of public he…

Report required of health care providers, facilities and laboratories; notification; confidentiality of information. (a) A physician or other health care provider diagnosing or treating a case of sexually transmitted disease, the administrator of a hospital, dispensary, charitabl…

Examination and treatment of infected persons; treatment at public expense; notification of exposed individuals; suppression of prostitution. (a) Upon receipt of a report or notice of a case or a reasonably suspected case of sexually transmitted disease infection, a health office…

Examination and treatment of prisoners. (a) Any individual confined or imprisoned in any state penal institution, county or city jail or any community correctional facility shall be examined for sexually transmitted diseases by the appropriate health officer or his qualified desi…

Introduction of solution in eyes of newborn child by attending physician. It shall be the duty of every practicing or licensed physician in the state of Wyoming, when attending the birth of a child, to introduce or cause to be introduced into the eyes of the newborn infant a stab…

Childhood immunizations. The department of health through rule and regulation shall develop and implement a program to provide vaccines for all children of Wyoming residents who are not federally vaccine eligible children as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 1396s(b)(2) or subsequent simila…

Department of health to cooperate with municipal authorities, corporations and persons as to water, drainage and sewage; definitions of "drainage" and "sewage". The department shall consult with and advise the authorities of cities and towns and persons having or about to have sy…

Contamination of streams by sawmills, mining operations, or other manufacturing or industrial works prohibited; penalty; exceptions; special permits. Any owner or owners of any sawmill, reduction works, smelter, milling, refining or concentration works, or other manufacturing or …

Definitions. (a) The following words as used in this act, unless a different meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have the following meaning: (i) "Service connection" shall mean and include any water line or pipe connected to a distribution supp…

Periodical bacteriological analysis of water required. (a) It shall be the duty and responsibility of any public or private utility engaged in the development, storage and distribution of a sanitary public water supply to provide for the safety and purity of such supply to every …

Notice of danger to health. Whenever, in the opinion of the state department of health, investigations indicate that the water from a water supply as described in this act would endanger the health of the water consumers, the department shall give written notice to the owners or …

Liability for damages. Compliance with the requirements of this act shall in no way release the owners or persons responsible for the operation of a sanitary public water supply from any liability for damage to persons or property caused by or resulting from the installation, ope…

Standards for mobile home parks eliminated. The department of health has no authority to regulate, or to promulgate or enforce rules, regulations or standards regulating the design and construction of sewerage and water facilities within a mobile home park. This does not preclude…

Definition of standard serological test; cost. For the purposes of this act, a standard serological test shall be a test for syphilis approved by the state department of health, and shall be performed in a laboratory approved by the state department of health. Such laboratory tes…

Duty of attending physician. Every physician licensed to practice medicine attending a pregnant woman in the state for conditions relating to her pregnancy during the period of gestation or at delivery shall take, or cause to be taken, a sample of blood of such woman at the time …

Report of birth; statement as to blood test. In reporting every birth and stillbirth, physicians and others required to make such reports shall state on the certificate whether a blood test for syphilis has been made upon a specimen of blood taken from the woman who bore the chil…

Penalty. Any licensed physician and surgeon, or other person, engaged in attendance upon a pregnant woman during the period of gestation and/or at delivery, or any representative of a laboratory who violates the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon co…

Enforcement. The district attorneys for the several counties in the state shall prosecute for violation of this act as for other crimes and misdemeanors.

Delivery of unclaimed bodies for anatomical study. Any member of the following boards or officers to-wit: The board of health of any city, town or county in the state; the mayor or common council of any city, and the officers or board having direction or control of any almshouse,…

Exceptions as to certain bodies. (a) No such body shall in any case be surrendered if: (i) The deceased in his or her last illness requested to be not dissected; or (ii) If within forty-eight (48) hours after his or her death, any person of kindred or a friend of the deceased sha…

Restriction upon use of bodies; bond required of applicant; prohibited acts. It shall not be lawful for any person so receiving dead bodies to use the same, except for the prosecution of anatomical science or the training of search and rescue animals, or elsewhere than in this st…

Penalty for refusing to deliver body. Any officer refusing to deliver the remains or dead body of the deceased person, when demanded in accordance with the provisions of this act and the rules and regulations set forth by the state department of health, shall pay a penalty of not…

Burial or cremation after use. It shall be the duty of all parties, who may secure dead bodies under provisions of this act, to bury the same decently in some public cemetery within a reasonable time after dissection or use, or cremate the same or make such other disposition as m…

Rules and regulations. The state department of health shall, within thirty (30) days after passage of this act, promulgate rules and regulations as called for by W.S. 35-4-601.

Who may have bodies in possession. Any regularly licensed physician or dentist of the state, any medical student who is a regular matriculate of a recognized medical college, under authority of such physician, any person certified by a state or local law enforcement agency to tra…

Screening required for detection of genetic and metabolic diseases and hearing defects in newborn children; conduct of screening; exceptions; fees. (a) Every child born in the state of Wyoming shall be given medical examinations for detection of remedial inborn errors of metaboli…

Rules and regulations. (a) The state department of health shall make all rules and regulations necessary for: (i) Dissemination of the provisions of W.S. 35-4-801 to all hospitals and physicians within the state; and (ii) Implementation of W.S. 35-4-801, as amended.

Short title. This article may be cited as the "Emergency Administration of Medical Treatment Act."

Definitions. (a) As used in this article: (i) "Opiate antagonist" means any device or medication approved by the United States food and drug administration for the treatment of an opiate related drug overdose; (ii) "Opiate related drug overdose" means a condition, including extre…

Prescription of epinephrine or opiate antagonist. (a) A practitioner or a pharmacist acting in good faith and exercising reasonable care may, without a prescriber-patient relationship, prescribe epinephrine or an opiate antagonist to: (i) A person at risk of experiencing anaphyla…

Standing order for epinephrine or opiate antagonist; anaphylaxis and drug overdose treatment policy; rules. (a) A practitioner acting in good faith and exercising reasonable care may prescribe by a standing order epinephrine or an opiate antagonist to an entity that, in the cours…

Voluntary participation. This article does not establish a duty or standard of care for a person to prescribe or administer epinephrine or an opiate antagonist.

Administration of epinephrine or opiate antagonist; immunity from liability; exemption from unprofessional conduct; relation to other law. (a) A person acting in good faith may administer epinephrine or an opiate antagonist to another person who appears to be experiencing anaphyl…

Gender transitioning and reassignment procedures for children prohibited. (a) As used in this section: (i) "Child" means a person who is younger than eighteen (18) years of age; (ii) "Health care provider" means a person other than a physician who is licensed, certified or otherw…