2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 40 — Public health and safety
RS 40:1102 — Duty to report disease to local health officer
§1102. Duty to report disease to local health officer
Any physician, midwife, or other person licensed by the state to practice obstetrics or to assist at childbirth, or any physician who attends a child within two weeks after childbirth, shall within six hours after obtaining knowledge of the condition defined in R.S. 40:1101 report this condition, as directed by the Department of Health and Hospitals, hereinafter referred to as the "department", to the local health officer at the residence of the mother.
Amended by Acts 1978, No. 786, §5, eff. July 17, 1978; Acts 1988, No. 839, §1.
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