2009 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 192 Department of Health and Senior Services
192.800. Definitions.

192.800. As used in this section, the following terms mean:

(1) "Communicable disease", an illness due to an infectious agent or its toxic products and transmitted directly or indirectly to a susceptible host from an infected person, animal or arthropod or through the agency of an intermediate host or a vector or through the inanimate environment;

(2) "Designated officer", an employee of the department or a city or county health officer, or designee, located in or employed by appropriate agencies serving geographical regions and appointed by the director of the department of health and senior services, whose duties consist of:

(a) Collecting, upon request, facts surrounding possible exposure of a first responder or Good Samaritan to a communicable disease or infection;

(b) Contacting facilities that receive patients or clients of potentially exposed first responders or Good Samaritans to ascertain if a determination has been made as to whether the patient or client has had a communicable disease or infection and to ascertain the results of that determination; and

(c) Notifying the first responder or Good Samaritan as to whether or not there is reason for concern regarding possible exposure;

(3) "First responder", any person trained and authorized by law or rule to render emergency medical assistance or treatment. Such persons may include, but shall not be limited to, emergency first responders, police officers, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, firefighters, ambulance attendants and attendant drivers, emergency medical technicians, mobile emergency medical technicians, emergency medical technician-paramedics, registered nurses or physicians;

(4) "Good Samaritan", any person who renders emergency medical assistance or aid until such time as relieved of these duties by a first responder;

(5) "Licensed facility", a facility licensed under chapter 197, RSMo, or a state medical facility.

(L. 1992 S.B. 511 & 556 § 1 subsec. 1)