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63 OK Stat § 63-1-334 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-334. Marriage and divorce – Nonidentifiable aggregate data.

|Not later than November 1, 2002, the State Department of Health and the Administrative Office of the Courts shall begin discussions regarding the identification, collection and analysis of nonidentifiable aggregate data related to marriage and divorce in this state and shall make recommendations regarding alternatives to the establishment of such statistical reports to the Governor and the Legislature on or before February 1, 2003. |Added by Laws 2002, c. 377, § 1, eff. July 1, 2002.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-401 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-401. Definitions.

|As used in this article: |1. “Tuberculosis disease” means disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex;2. “Active tuberculosis disease” means a stage of tuberculosis in which compatible pathologic changes are present as demonstrated by clinical, bacteriologic, or radiographic evidence, and/or other diagnostic procedures. Persons diagnosed with tuberculosis are considered to have active tuberculosis disease until they have completed a full course of antituberculosis treatment as prescribed or approved by the State Commissioner of Health; and3. “Tuberculosis infection” means a stage of tuberculosis characterized by having a positive or a history of a positive response to a tuberculin skin test or other laboratory test for tuberculosis infection, but not having clinical, radiographic or other evidence of disease.Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 4, § 401, operative July 1, 1963. Amended by Laws 2008, c. 393, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-402 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-402. Examinations for tuberculosis.

|When any local health officer shall have reasonable grounds to believe that any person has active tuberculosis disease, but will not voluntarily seek a medical examination, then it shall be the duty of the local health officer to order such person in writing to undergo an examination by a physician approved by the State Commissioner of Health for such examinations. It shall be the duty of the suspected person to submit to examination at such time and place as ordered by the local health officer. The examination shall include an X-ray of the chest, examinations of sputum, and such other forms and types of examinations as shall be approved by the Commissioner. If, upon examination, it is determined that the person has active or suspected active tuberculosis disease, then it shall be the duty of such person to comply with the orders of the Commissioner. |Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 4, § 402, operative July 1, 1963. Amended by Laws 2008, c. 393, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-403 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-403. Exposure to tuberculosis.

|Whenever it has been determined that any person has active tuberculosis disease, it shall be the duty of the local health officer to instruct such person as to the precautions necessary to protect the members of the person's household or the community from becoming infected with tuberculosis communicated by such person. It shall be the duty of such person to live in such a manner as not to expose members of the person’s family or household, or any other person with whom the person may be associated, to danger of infection. The local health officer shall investigate periodically for the purpose of determining if the instructions are being carried out in a reasonable and acceptable manner. |Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 4, § 403, operative July 1, 1963. Amended by Laws 2008, c. 393, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-405 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-405. Freedom to choose treatment.

|Nothing in this article shall be construed or operate to empower or authorize the State Commissioner of Health, or any local health officer, or his representative, to restrict in any manner the individual's right to select the mode of treatment of his choice nor to require any physical examination of a patient who in good faith relies upon spiritual means or prayer for healing. |Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 4, § 405.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-409 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-409. Reciprocal agreements.

|The State Commissioner of Health may, on behalf of the State of Oklahoma, enter into a reciprocal agreement with another state providing for care and treatment of persons having active tuberculosis disease who are residents of the other state, or for the transportation or return of any such nonresident person from one of the states to the other state of which such person is a resident. |Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 4, § 409, operative July 1, 1963. Amended by Laws 2008, c. 393, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-410 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-410. Hospitalization and treatment.

|When the State Commissioner of Health shall have reasonable grounds to believe that any person has active tuberculosis disease, the Commissioner may require isolation, hospitalization or other confinement for treatment of such person. The State Commissioner of Health is hereby authorized to contract with any hospital and/or physician to provide such hospitalization or treatment as required and shall be exempt from the provisions of the Oklahoma Central Purchasing Act in contracting for such hospitalization and treatment, as specified in Section 85.4 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes. If any person shall be convicted for a violation of any of the provisions of Sections 1-402 and 1-403 of this title, then such person shall be committed by the judge of the district court for isolation or confinement and treatment in such institution or at such location or facility as designated by the State Commissioner of Health. |Added by Laws 1975, c. 351, § 19, emerg. eff. June 12, 1975. Amended by Laws 2008, c. 393, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-450 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-450. Oklahoma Plan for Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Act.

|A. This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Oklahoma Plan for Comprehensive Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Act”. |B. The State Department of Health shall create a comprehensive chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) state plan that outlines sustainable solutions for reducing the burden of COPD in Oklahoma through the coordinated implementation of multiple strategies. The Department may utilize existing plans developed by advocacy organizations as a cost-saving means of developing such strategies. These strategies shall include, without limitation, recommendations for:1. The prevention and early detection of COPD to reduce the incidence of disease;2. The treatment and management of COPD to ensure that health care providers offer state-of-the-art care;3. Increasing public awareness, patient education and proper medical management of COPD among the general public and those living with COPD; and4. Improving COPD outcomes in Oklahoma through increases in COPD funding and resources as well as ongoing effective advocacy by government leaders and people with COPD.Added by Laws 2010, c. 388, § 1, emerg. eff. June 7, 2010.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-501 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-501. Definitions.

|For the purposes of this article: |(a) The term "disease" means the disturbances of the normal functions or alterations of the state of the human body resulting in physical or mental ill health and/or disability.(b) The term "prevention" means any and all conditions that may preclude or reduce the possibility of the onset or beginning of disease.(c) The term "control" means any and all procedures which modify, or may modify, favorably the course of disease.(d) The term "communicable disease" means an illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products, arising through transmission of that agent or its products from reservoir to susceptible host, either directly as from an infected person or animal, or indirectly through the agent of an intermediate plant or animal host, a vector, or the inanimate environment. It also means an infestation by an ectoparasite and similar species.Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 5, § 501, operative July 1, 1963.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-502 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-502. Rules and regulations.

|(a) The State Board of Health shall have authority to adopt such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, as it deems necessary to aid in the prevention and control of communicable disease, which may be on the following matters: Recommended immunization procedures; quarantine measures; exclusion of children from school; regulation of public meetings and gatherings in epidemic situations; regulation of vectors; control of vehicles capable of transmitting a communicable disease; detection and diagnosis of communicable disease; carriers of disease; disposal of infected body wastes and other materials; fumigation, cleaning and sterilization, and disinfection; and other necessary measures to prevent and control communicable disease. |(b) The State Board of Health is authorized to establish preventive programs for noncommunicable diseases and to promulgate rules and regulations for the control of causative or toxic substances which can or may cause disease.Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 5, § 502, operative July 1, 1963.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-502.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-502.1. Communicable diseases - Universal precautions - Rules and regulations - Risk exposure.

|A. All agencies and organizations that regularly employ emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, peace officers, as defined in Section 648 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, correctional officers and employees, or health care workers, all mental health or intellectual disability treatment or evaluation programs that employ persons involved with providing care for patients, the J.D. McCarty Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities, and all juvenile institutions of the Department of Human Services shall implement the universal precautions for the prevention of the transmission of communicable diseases published by the Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Public Health Service, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Volume 36, Number 2S or as subsequently amended. |B. The State Commissioner of Health shall promulgate rules and guidelines that will implement a system of notification of emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, health care workers, funeral directors, peace officers, and any person who in good faith renders aid in accordance with the Good Samaritan Act relating to risk exposures during health care activities, emergency response activities or funeral preparations. Risk exposure shall be defined by the State Commissioner of Health to be exposure that is epidemiologically demonstrated to have the potential for transmitting a communicable disease.C. The Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Department of Human Services, Oklahoma Cerebral Palsy Commission, and State Board of Corrections shall each promulgate rules, guidelines or policies to provide for such notification of risk exposures to persons employed by such agencies.Added by Laws 1988, c. 153, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1989. Amended by Laws 1992, c. 307, § 14, eff. July 1, 1992; Laws 2013, c. 246, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2019, c. 475, § 52, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-502.4 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-502.4. Notice to funeral director or embalmer of communicable disease.

|Any hospital, physician or other person who is responsible for the release of the body of a person who has tested positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), hepatitis or any other communicable disease to a funeral director or embalmer who will be preparing the body for burial or other disposition shall notify, in writing, the funeral director or embalmer of the positive test upon first call, as the term is defined by the Funeral Services Licensing Act. |Added by Laws 2020, c. 9, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2020.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-503 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-503. Reports of disease.

|(A) The State Board of Health shall promulgate rules and regulations establishing a system of reporting of cases of diseases diagnosed or detected by practicing physicians and/or clinical laboratories which come within the purview of this article. A reporting system established by the Board shall be applicable to penal and eleemosynary institutions. Failure or refusal to report diseases as required by the Board shall constitute a misdemeanor. |(b) It shall be the duty of each local health officer to report the existence of disease in his jurisdiction, as may be required by rules and regulations of the State Board of Health.Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 5, § 503.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-504 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-504. Quarantine - Violation of quarantine unlawful - Injunctive relief.

|A. Whenever a local health officer determines or suspects that a person has been exposed to and may be incubating a communicable disease of public health concern, the local health officer may impose a quarantine upon such person and require such person to remain out of public contact and in the place or premises where such person usually stays. Notice thereof shall be given in accordance with the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health. It shall be unlawful for such person, or any other person, to violate the terms or conditions of the quarantine. |B. Whenever a local health officer determines or suspects that a person has a communicable disease of public health concern, the local health officer may impose isolation upon such person and require such person to remain out of public contact and in an adequate treatment facility or in the place or premises where such person usually stays. Notice thereof shall be given in accordance with the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health. It shall be unlawful for such person, or any other person, to violate the terms or conditions of the isolation.C. District courts shall be authorized to grant injunctive relief, including temporary injunctions and temporary restraining orders, to compel compliance with a quarantine or isolation order issued by a local health officer pursuant to this section.Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 5, § 504, operative July 1, 1963. Amended by Laws 2008, c. 393, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-505 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-505. Removal of diseased persons authorized.

|A local health officer may cause any person in his jurisdiction, found to be infected with a communicable disease, to be removed to a hospital or other place for the reception of infected persons, unless such person be sick in his own place of residence or cannot be moved without danger to his life. |Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 5, § 505, operative July 1, 1963.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-506 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-506. Permission for removal of diseased persons.

|No person having a communicable disease shall be removed from the place where he is sick, to any other place, except in accordance with rules and regulations of the State Board of Health. |Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 5, § 506, operative July 1, 1963.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-507 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-507. Schools - Attendance of diseased pupils.

|No person having a communicable disease shall be permitted to attend a private or public school, and it shall be the duty of the parent or guardian and the school of such person to exclude from the school such person until the expiration of the period of isolation or quarantine ordered for the case, or until permission to do so shall have been given by the local county health department or the State Department of Health. |Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 5, § 507, operative July 1, 1963. Amended by Laws 2021, c. 60, § 2, emerg. eff. April 20, 2021.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-508 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-508. Animals - Quarantine.

|A. 1. The State Board of Health may adopt such rules as it deems necessary for the quarantine, isolation, impounding, immunization and disposal of an animal to prevent and control any zoonotic disease. Rules of the Board shall consider, but not be limited to: |a.prior rabies vaccinations,b.the degree of exposure to rabies,c.the history and prior behavior of the animal prior to exposure, andd.the willingness of the individual so exposed to submit to post-exposure antirabies immunization.2. The President of the State Board of Agriculture and the Director of Wildlife Conservation shall be requested to make recommendations on pertinent phases affecting their official duties before such rules are promulgated by the State Board of Health.B. 1. Whenever the State Commissioner of Health or a designee determines that any zoonotic disease exists in any area or that a person has suffered an exposure to any such disease, the Commissioner shall have authority to issue an order declaring a quarantine, isolation, impounding, immunization or disposal of any animal determined to be the source of such disease or exposure according to rules promulgated by the State Board of Health. The Commissioner shall, assisted by the State Board of Agriculture and the Director of Wildlife Conservation, cause such quarantine, isolation, impounding, immunization or disposal to be enforced.2. Public officers and employees acting within the scope of their authority in implementing or enforcing any such order, or rules promulgated for the control of zoonotic disease, shall not be held liable for damages resulting from their official acts.C. It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully fail or refuse to comply with a lawful order of the State Commissioner of Health declaring a quarantine, isolation, impounding, immunization or disposal. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be punished by a fine of not more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.D. District courts shall be authorized to grant injunctive relief, including temporary injunctions and temporary restraining orders, to compel compliance with a quarantine, isolation, impounding, immunization or disposal order issued by the Commissioner pursuant to this section.Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 5, § 508. Amended by Laws 1991, c. 12, § 1, emerg. eff. March 25, 1991; Laws 1996, c. 124, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 1996.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-509 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-509. Inflammation of eyes of newborn infants.

|Any inflammation, swelling or unusual redness in either one or both eyes of any infant, together with any unnatural discharge from the eye or eyes of such infant, independent of the nature of the infection, if any, occurring at any time within four (4) weeks after the birth of such infant, shall be known as "inflammation of the eyes of the newborn" (ophthalmia neonatorum). |Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 5, § 509.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-510 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-510. Required eye treatment of infant - Exemption.

|A. It shall be the duty of any physician, midwife, or other person attendant upon the birth of a newborn infant to ensure treatment of the eyes of the infant with a prophylactic ophthalmic agent as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as prophylaxis against ophthalmia neonatorum. |B. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a parent or legal guardian of a newborn infant from refusing prophylactic treatment on religious grounds or when such person deems that it is in the best interest of the child. If the parent or legal guardian of the newborn infant refuses the prophylactic treatment, the health care provider shall document the refusal in the medical file of the newborn infant.C. The State Board of Health shall promulgate rules as necessary to implement the provisions of this section.Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, Art. 5, § 510. Amended by Laws 2010, c. 196, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2010.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-515 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-515. Pregnant women - Tests for syphilis.

|Every physician attending a pregnant woman in Oklahoma during gestation shall, in the case of each woman so attended, take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such woman at the time of first examination, and submit such sample to an approved laboratory for a standard serological test for syphilis. Every other person permitted by law to attend upon pregnant women in the state but not permitted by law to take blood tests shall cause a sample of the blood of such pregnant woman to be taken by a duly licensed physician, licensed to practice in the State of Oklahoma, and submitted to an approved laboratory for a standard serological test for syphilis. The term "approved laboratory" shall mean a laboratory approved for the purposes of this section by the State Commissioner of Health. A standard serological test for syphilis shall be one recognized as such by the Commissioner. Such laboratory tests shall be made, on request, without charge by the State Department of Health. |Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 5, § 515, operative July 1, 1963.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-515.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-515.1. Physicians attending upon pregnant females – Blood sample.

|A. Every physician or any other person permitted by law to attend upon pregnant females in this state, at the time of delivery and only if the pregnant female has had no prenatal care, shall: |1. Take, or cause to be taken under the order of a physician licensed to practice in this state, a sample of blood from the pregnant female; and2. Submit the sample to an approved laboratory for a standard serological test for the human immunodeficiency virus.B. The term "approved laboratory" shall mean a laboratory approved for the purposes of this section by the State Commissioner of Health. A standard serological test for the human immunodeficiency virus shall be one recognized as such by the Commissioner. Such laboratory tests shall be made, on request, without charge by the State Department of Health.Added by Laws 2011, c. 88, § 2, emerg. eff. April 20, 2011.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-516 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-516. Reports - Blood tests for syphilis.

|In reporting every birth and stillbirth, physicians, and others permitted to attend pregnancy cases and required to report births and stillbirths, shall state on the birth certificate or stillbirth certificate, as the case may be, whether a blood test for syphilis has been made during such pregnancy upon a specimen of blood taken from the woman who bore the child for which a birth or stillbirth certificate is filed and, if made, the date when such test was made, and, if not made, the reason why such test was not made. In no event shall the birth certificate state the result of the test. |Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 5, § 516, operative July 1, 1963.
63 OK Stat § 63-1-516.1 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 63. Public Health and Safety|§63-1-516.1. Exemption.

|None of the provisions of this act shall apply to any person who, as an exercise of religious freedom, administers to or treats the sick or suffering by spiritual means or prayer, nor to any person who, because of religious belief, in good faith selects and depends upon such spiritual means or prayer for the treatment or cure of disease. |Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 5, § 516.1, operative July 1, 1963.