2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 215 - TUBERCULOSIS 215.590 Responsibility to report active tuberculosis cases and results of drug susceptibility tests on tubercle bacilli.
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215.590 Responsibility to report active tuberculosis cases and results of drug
susceptibility tests on tubercle bacilli.
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A health service or health facility required to be licensed pursuant to KRS
Chapter 216B or KRS Chapter 333, a health provider required to be licensed
pursuant to KRS Chapters 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, or 320, or any other
person who has knowledge of a person who has active tuberculosis, shall
report the case to the local health department in accordance with the
administrative regulations of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services
promulgated pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A.
Physicians, hospitals, laboratories, or other institutions which perform related
drug susceptibility tests on tubercle bacilli shall report the results of the testing
to the local health department in accordance with the administrative regulations
of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services promulgated pursuant to KRS
Chapter 13A. All reports of drug-resistant tubercle bacilli shall be made
regardless of previous reports.
No legal action shall lie against any physician, hospital employee, laboratory
employee, or other person who, in good faith, reports a case of tuberculosis or
the isolation of the tubercle bacillus as provided in this section, KRS 215.511,
215.520, 215.531, 215.540, 215.550, 215.560, 215.570, 215.580, and 215.600.
Effective:June 20, 2005
History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 472, effective June 20, 2005. -Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 417, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended
1996 Ky. Acts ch. 33, sec. 9, effective July 15, 1996. --Amended 1980 Ky. Acts
ch. 188, sec. 212, effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art.
VI, sec. 107(1). -- Created 1970 Ky. Acts ch. 133, sec. 10.
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