CHAPTER 1. Tuberculosis Control

Chapter 1 added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7.

§§ 121350–121460 · 26 sections

§ 121350 The department shall maintain a program for the control of tuberculosis. The department shall administer the funds made available by the state for the care of…
§ 121355 Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter a county that has elected to come under Section 14150.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall not…
§ 121357 The state department shall be the lead agency for all tuberculosis control and prevention activities at the state level.
§ 121358 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, individuals housed or detained through the tuberculosis control, housing, and detention program shall not…
§ 121360 Pulmonary tuberculosis is an infectious and communicable disease, dangerous to the public health, and all proper expenditures that may be made by any county,…
§ 121360.5 (a) Any city or county health department that elects to participate in this program shall provide for one-year certification of tuberculin skin test…
§ 121361 (a) (1) A health facility, local detention facility, or state correctional institution shall not discharge or release any of the following persons unless…
§ 121362 Each health care provider who treats a person for active tuberculosis disease, each person in charge of a health facility, or each person in charge of a clinic…
§ 121363 Each health care provider who treats a person for active tuberculosis disease shall examine, or cause to be examined, all household contacts or shall refer…
§ 121364 (a) Within the territory under his or her jurisdiction, each local health officer may order examinations for tuberculosis infection for the purposes of…
§ 121365 Each local health officer is hereby directed to use every available means to ascertain the existence of, and immediately investigate all reported or suspected…
§ 121366 The local health officer may detain in a hospital or other appropriate place for examination or treatment, a person who is the subject of an order of detention…
§ 121367 (a) An order of a local health officer pursuant to Section 121365 shall set forth all of the following: (1) The legal authority under which the order is…
§ 121368 Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of Section 121365, 121366 or 121367, all of the following shall apply: (a) A person who is detained solely pursuant…
§ 121369 For purposes of Sections 121365, 121366, and 121367, all of the following shall apply: (a) If necessary, language interpreters and persons skilled in…
§ 121370 No examination or inspection shall be required of any person who depends exclusively on prayer for healing in accordance with the teachings of any well…
§ 121375 The department may inspect and have access to all records of all institutions and clinics, both public and private, where tuberculosis patients are treated.
§ 121380 The department may advise officers of state educational, correctional, and medical institutions regarding the control of tuberculosis and the care of…
§ 121390 The department shall lease any facilities it deems necessary to care for persons afflicted with active contagious tuberculosis who violate the quarantine or…
§ 121395 Whenever any person confined in any state institution, as provided in Section 120280, subject to the jurisdiction of the Director of Corrections, dies, and any…
§ 121400 If the place of confinement of a person confined under the provisions of Section 120280 is in a county other than the county where he or she was convicted,…
§ 121450 The department may distribute for the purpose of tuberculosis control an annual subvention, paid quarterly, to any local health department that maintains a…
§ 121451 A local entity that receives funding from the state for the purposes of this part, including, but not limited to, funding from the state for tuberculosis…
§ 121452 A local health department or local health officer that receives funding from the state for tuberculosis control pursuant to Item 4265-111-0001 of Section 2.00…
§ 121455 The department may establish standards and procedures for the operation of local tuberculosis control programs. Such standards shall include, but not be…
§ 121460 Of the annual appropriation made to the department for tuberculosis control, the department may expend a sum not to exceed 7.5 percent of the total, for…