2021 Indiana Code
Title 16. Health
Article 41. Public Health Measures for the Prevention and Control of Disease
Chapter 7. Communicable Disease: Duty or Authority to Inform or Notify
16-41-7-1. Individual With a Communicable Disease's Duty to Inform Persons at Risk
Sec. 1. (a) This section applies to the following serious communicable diseases:
(1) Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
(2) Hepatitis B.
(b) As used in this section, "high risk activity" means sexual or needle sharing contact that has been epidemiologically demonstrated, as determined by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to bear a significant risk of transmitting a serious communicable disease described in subsection (a).
(c) As used in this section, "person at risk" means:
(1) past and present sexual or needle sharing partners who may have engaged in high risk activity; or
(2) sexual or needle sharing partners before engaging in high risk activity;
with an individual with a communicable disease who has a serious communicable disease described in subsection (a).
(d) Individuals with a communicable disease who know of their status as an individual with a communicable disease and have a serious communicable disease described in subsection (a) have a duty to inform or cause to be notified by a third party a person at risk of the following:
(1) The individual with a communicable disease's disease status.
(2) The need to seek health care such as counseling and testing.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-10.5-8.5.]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.112-2020, SEC.22.
