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TN Code § 68-8-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 8 - Rabies|§ 68-8-108. Transportation of Dogs and Cats in the State

 This chapter shall not prohibit the transportation of dogs or cats in the state; provided, that dogs or cats diagnosed with or suspected of having rabies are securely confined or kept on a leash while being transported in the state.
TN Code § 68-8-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 8 - Rabies|§ 68-8-109. Observation Period by Confinement or Quarantine — Investigation

  If any animal has bitten any person, is suspected of having bitten any person or is for any reason suspected of being infected with rabies, the animal may be required to be placed under an observation period either by confinement or by quarantine for a period of time deemed necessary by the commissioner or rules of the department.   The act of investigating the bite or rabies exposure and placing the animal under observation by confinement or quarantine shall be accomplished either by the department or by the animal control program, in either the county or municipality wherein either the animal owner or the person bitten resides, in consultation with the department.   The confinement, quarantine or other disposition of the animal shall follow the current recommendations in the national rabies compendium unless more specific guidelines are designated by duly promulgated rules of the department or as deemed necessary by the commissioner to protect the public's health.   The observation period by confinement or quarantine may occur at the animal owner's home at the discretion of the department or the animal control program.
TN Code § 68-8-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 8 - Rabies|§ 68-8-110. Offense of Hiding or Concealing Animal in Violation of This Chapter

 It is an offense for any person to hide, conceal, aid, or assist in hiding or concealing any animal owned, kept or harbored in violation of § 68-8-103 or § 68-8-109. An offense under this section is punishable as a Class C misdemeanor.
TN Code § 68-8-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 8 - Rabies|§ 68-8-111. Liability for Rabies Program

 Any licensed veterinarian who provides services to vaccinate animals against rabies at a community clinic that is sponsored by a county health department or municipality in accordance with this chapter, shall not by such participation assume any responsibility or liability for the supervision of the site or location where the rabies program is conducted. Such responsibility and liability shall be borne by the sponsoring county or municipality.
TN Code § 68-8-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 8 - Rabies|§ 68-8-112. Rules and Regulations

  The commissioner of health shall have the authority to promulgate such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary for the proper enforcement of this chapter.   The commissioner in adopting rules may rely in whole or in part on guidance or standards contained in the rabies compendium or issued by the United States department of agriculture.   The rules deemed necessary by the commissioner to effectuate this chapter are of such importance to the welfare of the citizens of this state that they may be promulgated as emergency rules.
TN Code § 68-8-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 8 - Rabies|§ 68-8-113. Violations

 Any person failing to meet any requirements or violating any of the provisions of this chapter commits a Class C misdemeanor with each violation being a separate offense.
TN Code § 68-10-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-101. Chapter Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Commissioner” means the commissioner of health or the commissioner's designee; or in the absence of the commissioner, the deputy commissioner;   “Department” means the department of health;   “Forms” means the certificates that are authorized, prepared and distributed by the department to carry out this chapter;   “Sexually transmitted disease (STD)” means any disease that is transmitted primarily through sexual practices and is identified in rules and regulations of the department; and   “Test” means a test approved by the department to determine possible infection with STDs.
TN Code § 68-10-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-102. Notice to Health Officer of Name and Address of Diseased Person Exposing Others to Infection

 If any attending physician or other person knows or has good reason to suspect that a person having a STD is behaving so as to expose other persons to infection, or is about to so behave, the attending physician or other person shall notify the municipal or county health officer of the name and address of the diseased person and the essential facts in the case.
TN Code § 68-10-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-103. Printed Instructions Given Patients

 It is the duty of every physician or other person treating persons infected with a STD to give such persons printed instructions containing information deemed advisable by the department, such printed instructions to be furnished by the department.
TN Code § 68-10-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-104. Officers to Examine Suspected Persons and Require Treatment — Sources of Infection to Be Investigated

   State, district, county and municipal health officers or their authorized deputies, within their respective jurisdictions, are directed and empowered, when, in their judgment, it is necessary to protect the public health, to make an examination of a person reasonably suspected because of known clinical or epidemiological evidence of being infected with a STD of a communicable nature, and to require such person when found infected to report for treatment to a reputable physician or clinic, and continue treatment until discharged by the physician or clinic as noninfectious, or in a stage of the disease in which an infectious relapse will not occur, or to submit to treatment provided at public expense until discharged as noninfectious, or in a stage of the disease in which an infectious relapse will not occur; and also, when in the judgment of the state, municipal or county health officer, it is necessary to protect the public health, to isolate and quarantine the person infected with a STD; provided, that any person so suspected may have present at the time of examination a physician of the person's own choosing to participate in the examination.   Loitering about or residing in a house of assignation or prostitution or any other place where lewdness is practiced shall be construed as sufficient to suspect a person of being infected with a STD.     It is the duty of all health officers to investigate sources of infection of STDs and to cooperate with the proper officers whose duty it is to enforce laws directed against prostitution, lewdness and assignation and the spread of STDs.   The following healthcare officers and providers licensed in this state may examine, diagnose, and treat minors infected with STDs without the knowledge or consent of the parents of the minors, and shall incur no civil or criminal liability in connection with the examination, diagnosis, or treatment, except for negligence:  Any state, district, county, or municipal health officer; or   Any physician, nurse practitioner with a certificate of fitness and an appropriate supervising physician, nurse midwife who is an advanced practice registered nurse under § 63-7-126 and who has an appropriate supervising physician, or physician assistant with an appropriate supervising physician.
TN Code § 68-10-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-105. Infected Persons Isolated or Quarantined to Specified Area

 In establishing isolation or quarantine, the municipal or county health officer having jurisdiction shall designate and define the limits of the area within which the infected person is to be isolated or quarantined, and no person other than the attending physician or nurse shall enter or leave the area of isolation or quarantine without the permission of the health officer.
TN Code § 68-10-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-106. Quarantine of Infected Persons

   No one but a state, municipal, district or county health officer or such officer's duly authorized representative shall establish and terminate quarantine of persons infected with STDs.   A decision to establish or terminate quarantine shall be based upon the judgment of the state, municipal, district or county health officer or such officer's duly authorized representative, considering available medical and epidemiological information concerning the STD diagnosis, modes of transmission, available treatment, and the necessity of the protection of the public health.     It is the duty of the commissioner to set up the clinical and laboratory criteria necessary for the guidance of health officers in the performance of their duties as outlined in this section.
TN Code § 68-10-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-107. Exposure of Others by Infected Person

 It is a violation of this chapter for any person infected with a STD to expose another person to such infection.
TN Code § 68-10-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-108. Places for Detention of Infected Persons

 The county legislative bodies and the city officials, or other boards of the incorporated towns or cities, are empowered to provide suitable places for the detention of persons who may be subjected to isolation or quarantine and who should be segregated under this chapter. County legislative bodies and governing boards of incorporated cities and towns are authorized to incur, on behalf of their counties, cities and towns, the expenses necessary to the enforcement of this chapter.
TN Code § 68-10-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-109. Rules and Bylaws for Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases

  The department of health is empowered and directed to make such rules and bylaws for the control of STDs, not in conflict with this chapter, including the reporting of STDs and isolating and quarantining of infected persons, as it may from time to time deem advisable.   All rules and bylaws made pursuant to subsection (a) shall be of force and binding upon the state, municipal and county health officers, and all other persons affected by the rules and regulations, and shall have the force and effect of law.
TN Code § 68-10-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-110. Arrest and Temporary Commitment for Treatment Authorized — Hearing — Examination — Appeal

  Whenever in the judgment of the municipal, county or district health officer, there is reasonable clinical or epidemiological evidence to suspect that any person or persons are infected with a STD as defined in this chapter, and the person or persons refuse to be examined as provided in § 68-10-104, the health officer or the health officer's authorized deputy may go before a magistrate or judge of a court of general sessions and swear out a warrant of arrest for the person or persons.   The magistrate or judge is not bound to issue the warrant pursuant to subsection (a), unless and until there is a showing of reasonable cause on the basis of sound clinical and epidemiological evidence.   If reasonable cause is shown for the arrest and examination of the person or persons, the magistrate or judge shall direct that an examination be made of the person or persons to determine whether or not they are infected.   The examination shall be made by the health officer or by a duly licensed and practicing physician of this state, to be selected by the health officer. The accused person or persons may also have a physician of their own choosing present to participate in the examination.   If the physicians are not in accordance as to their diagnosis, then the court shall reach its decision after a hearing.   If, after a full hearing, the court is of the opinion that the person examined is infected with a STD as defined in this chapter, the court may commit the person to an isolation hospital maintained by the state or local government for the purpose of detaining and treating such persons, who shall remain under treatment until the disease, in the opinion of the health officer, is no longer communicable or no longer in a stage in which infectious relapse may occur.   No appeal or certiorari from the decision of the court committing the person to the isolation hospital shall stay the commitment, nor shall any court have power to supersede such order, but the person or persons shall immediately be placed in the isolation hospital, there to remain until released by the health officer as no longer communicable or in a stage of the disease in which infectious relapse may occur, or released by order of the court.   Any person committed under this chapter may appeal from the judgment of the magistrate or court of general sessions as now provided by law for civil cases.
TN Code § 68-10-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-111. Violation of Chapter — Penalty

 Any health officer or any other persons who fail to perform the duties required of them in this chapter, or violate any of the provisions of this chapter, or of any rule or bylaw promulgated under its authority, commit a Class C misdemeanor. Each violation is a separate offense.
TN Code § 68-10-112 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-112. Reports of Physicians and Health Officers

  Every physician or other person who makes a diagnosis of, treats, or prescribes for a case of STD and every superintendent or manager of a clinic, hospital, laboratory or penal institution, in which there is a case of STD, shall report the case immediately to those persons or agencies designated as recipients of such reports by the commissioner.   Reports shall be made on forms supplied by the department, stating the name, address, age, sex, race, stage of the disease and other information on the form as may be required for the location, treatment and control of infectious cases.   Reporting of STDs, other than those designated as reportable in the regulations promulgated by the department, is not required.
TN Code § 68-10-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-113. Confidentiality of Records and Information

 All records and information held by the department or a local health department relating to known or suspected cases of STDs shall be strictly confidential. This information shall not be released or made public upon subpoena, court order, discovery, search warrant or otherwise, except that release may be made under the following circumstances:   Release is made of medical or epidemiological information for statistical purposes, in such form that no individual person can be identified;   Release is made of medical or epidemiological information with the consent of all persons identified in the information released;   Release is made of medical or epidemiological information to medical personnel, appropriate state agencies, or county and district courts to enforce this chapter and related regulations governing the control and treatment of STDs;   Release is made of medical or epidemiological information to medical personnel in a medical emergency to the extent necessary to protect the health or life of the patient;   In a case involving a minor not more than thirteen (13) years of age, only the name, age, address and STD treated shall be reported to appropriate agents as required by § 37-1-403. No other information shall be released. If the information to be disclosed is required in a court proceeding involving child abuse, the information shall be disclosed in camera; or    Release is made during a legal proceeding when ordered by a trial court judge, designated by § 16-2-502, or a juvenile court judge through an order explicitly finding each of the following:   The information sought is material, relevant, and reasonably calculated to be admissible evidence during the legal proceeding;   The probative value of the evidence outweighs the individual's and the public's interest in maintaining its confidentiality;   The merits of the litigation cannot be fairly resolved without the disclosure; and   The evidence is necessary to avoid substantial injustice to the party seeking it and, either the disclosure will result in no significant harm to the person examined or treated, or it would be substantially unfair as between the requesting party and the person examined or treated not to require the disclosure.     A juvenile court judge shall make the findings set forth in subdivision (6)(A) by examining the information, in camera, and shall order the information placed under seal. The judge shall only examine the records of a juvenile who is under the jurisdiction of the court.
TN Code § 68-10-114 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-114. Knowledge of Governmental Persons Regarding Records

 Except as provided in § 68-10-113, no state or local department officer or employee shall be examined in a civil, criminal, special or other proceeding as to the existence or contents of pertinent records of a person examined or treated for a STD by a state or local health department, or of the existence or contents of such reports received from a private physician or private health facility.
TN Code § 68-10-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-115. Immunity From Liability for Informing Person of Potential Hiv Infection

 A person who has a reasonable belief that a person has knowingly exposed another to HIV may inform the potential victim without incurring any liability. A person making such disclosure is immune from liability for making disclosure of the condition to the potential victim.
TN Code § 68-10-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-117. Possible Exposure of Emergency Workers to Airborne or Bloodborne Diseases — Testing

  If, in the course of performing normal, authorized professional job duties, or rendering emergency care as a good samaritan under the Good Samaritan Law, codified in § 63-6-218, a member of one of the categories of individuals listed in subsection (d) reasonably believes that the member may have been exposed to potentially life-threatening airborne or bloodborne diseases, including, but not limited to, tuberculosis, HIV or hepatitis B, the person has the right to request, in writing, that the individual who may have exposed the person be evaluated to determine the presence of such disease or diseases. The request shall be made to the designated exposure control officer of the responding agency or county medical examiner, who shall conduct the evaluation pursuant to the rules provided for in subsection (c).   Any evaluation pursuant to subsection (a) shall include all medical records held by the department of health, any health care provider, or health care facility pertaining to the individual who is the subject of the evaluation. Any information provided shall be made available in accordance with the rules provided for in subsection (c) and shall be used only for the purpose of performing the evaluation and shall be otherwise confidential. Any cost related to the evaluation shall be paid by the responding agency.   Any evaluation provided for in subsection (a) shall be conducted pursuant to emergency rules promulgated by the commissioner of health consistent with federal regulations for such determination of exposure experienced by emergency response workers. Any agency, individual, or facility providing any assistance or information necessary for completing the evaluation shall not incur any civil or criminal liability as a result of providing assistance or information consistent with the rules promulgated pursuant to this subsection (c).   The categories of individuals who may request evaluations are paramedics, emergency response employees, fire fighters, first response workers, emergency medical technicians, and volunteers making an authorized emergency response. The evaluations may also be requested by any person rendering services as a good samaritan under the Good Samaritan Law.
TN Code § 68-10-118 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 10 - Sexually Transmitted Diseases|§ 68-10-118. Aids Centers of Excellence Established — Committee Membership — Terms — Compensation and Reimbursement

  Subject to annual appropriations made available to the state by the United States public health service through Part B (Title II) of the Ryan White CARE Act, compiled in 42 U.S.C. § 300ff-21 et seq., the commissioner of health shall establish an AIDS Center of Excellence advisory committee to advise the department of health in the designation of AIDS Centers of Excellence, provide quality assurance monitoring for the centers, and the establishment and review of policies for continuation of the AIDS Centers of Excellence. If, in any fiscal year, federal funding for the committee is eliminated or reduced, then the committee shall cease to exist in accordance with title 4, chapter 29.   The committee shall be appointed by the commissioner of health, and shall be composed of the commissioner of health or the commissioner's designee, who shall serve as chair; the director of communicable and environmental disease services within the Tennessee department of health; three (3) physicians licensed in the state of Tennessee, each representing a grand division of the state and actively involved in the delivery of HIV/AIDS care; an attorney licensed in the state of Tennessee; a nurse licensed in the state of Tennessee and actively involved in the delivery of HIV/AIDS care; a social worker licensed in the state of Tennessee and actively involved in the delivery of HIV/AIDS care; and two (2) at-large members currently living with HIV/AIDS.   The members' appointments shall be staggered as follows: four (4) members to be appointed for a term of three (3) years; two (2) members for a term of four (4) years; and the remaining members for a term of two (2) years. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy for an unexpired term shall serve the remainder of that term.   The committee shall meet as frequently as the commissioner deems necessary, but not less than once each year. The committee members shall receive no compensation but will be reimbursed for travel expenses incurred in carrying out their duties as members of this committee. All reimbursements for travel expenses shall be in accordance with the comprehensive travel regulations as promulgated by the department of finance and administration and approved by the attorney general and reporter.