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NH Rev Stat § 141-C:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 141-C - Communicable Disease|Section 141-C:7 - Reporting of Communicable Disease.

    141-C:7 Reporting of Communicable Disease. –||I. Upon becoming aware of any communicable disease or communicable disease syndrome listed under RSA 141-C:8, any health care provider, clinical laboratory director, the superintendent or other person in charge of any hospital, or other health care facility, or any other person having under his or her care or observation a person afflicted with a communicable disease or communicable disease syndrome, or who has reason to believe that a person was or might have been afflicted with a communicable disease at the time of death, shall report to the commissioner the communicable disease or communicable disease syndrome and shall provide social security numbers, if persons were given the option at the original point of collection to provide social security numbers voluntarily, and such additional information and periodic reports as required under RSA 141-C:9, I.||II. Any veterinarian, livestock owner, veterinary diagnostic laboratory director, or other person engaged in the care of animals shall report animals having or suspected of having any disease that may cause a communicable disease in humans.||III. Any clinical laboratory director shall forward to the department's public health laboratory isolates of reportable infectious microorganisms as specified by the commissioner. In addition, any clinical laboratory director performing any testing for reportable diseases shall retain the original patient specimens for 7 days after issuing a final test result for diseases specified by the commissioner and shall submit such specimens to the public health laboratories upon request.||IV. In addition to the foregoing requirements for health care providers, a pharmacist shall report, if required under rulemaking procedures by the commissioner, any unusual or increased types of prescriptions, or unusual trends in pharmacy visits that may be caused by a communicable disease. Prescription-related events that require a report may include, but are not limited to:||(a) An unusual increase in the number of prescriptions to treat fever, respiratory, or gastrointestinal complaints.||(b) An unusual increase in the number of prescriptions for antibiotics.||(c) An unusual increase in the number of requests for information on over-the-counter pharmaceuticals to treat fever, respiratory, or gastrointestinal complaints.|||Source. 1986, 198:21. 1995, 310:183. 2002, 258:11. 2003, 309:6, eff. Sept. 19, 2003.|
NH Rev Stat § 141-C:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 141-C - Communicable Disease|Section 141-C:8 - List of Diseases; Report Forms.

    141-C:8 List of Diseases;  Report Forms. –||The commissioner shall compile a list of reportable communicable diseases necessary to protect the citizenry. The commissioner shall develop and provide a form for the reporting of communicable diseases under this section. The form shall include, at a minimum, the name, age, address, occupation, and place of occupation of the person. Reportable information shall not include psychiatric, psychological, or other mental health records or information.|||Source. 1986, 198:21. 1995, 310:183. 2002, 258:12, eff. July 1, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 141-C:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 141-C - Communicable Disease|Section 141-C:9 - Investigations; Examinations.

    141-C:9 Investigations;  Examinations. –||I. The commissioner or designee may investigate incidents of communicable diseases. Such investigations shall include, but not be limited to, requiring additional information and periodic reports from the reporting official, interviews with reporting officials, their patients, and other persons affected by or having information pertaining to the communicable disease, surveys of such individuals, inspections of buildings and conveyances and their contents, and laboratory analysis of samples collected during the course of such inspections. The commissioner shall adopt such rules as are necessary to carry out investigations with due regard for the rights of person and property. The commissioner may call upon health officers, as authorized by RSA 141-C:5, I, to assist in such investigations.||II. Any person having or suspected of having a communicable disease, any person who is a communicable disease carrier or contact or any person who is suspected of being a communicable disease carrier or contact shall, when requested by the commissioner or designee, submit to a physical examination for the purpose of determining the existence of a communicable disease. Such persons shall submit specimens of body secretions, excretions, body fluids, and discharges for laboratory examinations when so requested by the commissioner or designee.|||Source. 1986, 198:21. 1994, 208:2. 1995, 310:183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 141-C:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 141-C - Communicable Disease|Section 141-C:10 - Disclosure; Confidentiality.

    141-C:10 Disclosure;  Confidentiality. –||I. Any protected health information provided to or acquired by the department under this chapter shall be released only with the informed, written consent of the individual or to those authorized persons having a legitimate need to acquire or use the information and then only so much of the information as is necessary for such persons to provide care and treatment to the individual who is the subject of the protected health information, investigate the causes of disease transmission in the particular case, or control the spread of the disease among the public. Any release of information under this section without the informed, written consent of the individual shall be conditioned upon the protected health information remaining confidential.||II. Analyses and compilations of data which do not disclose protected health information shall be available to the public under RSA 91-A.||III. The physician-patient privilege shall not apply to information required to be reported or provided to the commissioner under this chapter.||IV. The department shall acquire and retain only the minimum amount of information, specimens, and samples relating to individuals necessary to carry out its obligations under this chapter. The department shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to the types of information, specimens, and samples to be acquired and the length of time such information, specimens, and samples shall be retained before being destroyed. Any genetic testing of specimens and samples shall be limited to the viruses, bacteria, fungi, or other micro-organisms therein.||V. The department may share information with town and city health officers acting in accordance with their duties under RSA 141-C:5, provided the health officer has signed a confidentiality agreement at the time of his or her appointment under RSA 128 and has presented proof of successful completion of training on adherence to applicable confidentiality and security laws and regulations required when assisting the department of health and human services under RSA 141-C:5. All sharing of confidential information under this section shall be in accordance with this section and pursuant to 45 C.F.R. 164.512(b).|||Source. 1986, 198:21. 1994, 208:3. 1995, 310:183. 2002, 258:13, eff. July 1, 2002. 2021, 61:8, eff. Aug. 3, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 141-C:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 141-C - Communicable Disease|Section 141-C:11 - Isolation and Quarantine.

    141-C:11 Isolation and Quarantine. –||I. Whenever it is necessary to prevent the introduction or spread of communicable diseases within this state or from another state, or to restrict such diseases if introduced, and when such communicable diseases pose a substantial threat to the health and life of the citizenry, the commissioner shall establish isolation or quarantine for persons who are cases or carriers, or suspected cases or carriers of communicable diseases, and establish quarantine for commodities, conveyances, baggage and cargo that are carriers or suspected carriers of the communicable diseases by written order prepared in accordance with RSA 141-C:12. Such isolation or quarantine shall be by the least restrictive means necessary to protect the citizenry which, in the case of an individual, shall be at a place of his or her choosing unless the commissioner determines such place to be impractical or unlikely to adequately protect the public health. The commissioner shall adopt such rules regarding the establishment, maintenance and lifting of isolation and quarantine as the commissioner may deem best for protecting the health of the public.||II. When a conveyance, operator, crew, passenger, baggage, cargo or commodity is placed in isolation or quarantine, the owners, consignees, assignees and operators shall submit to such investigations as authorized by RSA 141-C:9, I, regarding any circumstance or event concerning the health of the operator, crew, passengers and the sanitary condition of the conveyance, baggage, cargo or commodity. The operator, crew and passengers shall submit to such examinations, as authorized by RSA 141-C:9, II, as the commissioner may determine appropriate.||III. The commissioner may, in ordering isolation or quarantine of persons, require that treatment be obtained in accordance with rules adopted under RSA 141-C:15.||IV. The order of quarantine for commodities, conveyances, baggage and cargo may require, as a condition for lifting the quarantine, that decontamination be performed. The commissioner shall adopt such rules pursuant to RSA 541-A as are necessary for the performance of decontamination.|||Source. 1986, 198:21. 1995, 310:183. 2002, 258:20, eff. July 1, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 141-C:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 141-C - Communicable Disease|Section 141-C:12 - Orders.

    141-C:12 Orders. –||I. The commissioner, in imposing isolation and quarantine under RSA 141-C:11, in requiring treatment under RSA 141-C:15, or in excluding children under RSA 141-C:20-d, shall do so by written order. The order shall include, as appropriate, the following information:||(a) The cause of the quarantine or isolation.||(b) The location of quarantine or isolation.||(c) When appropriate, that decontamination be performed on commodities, conveyances, baggage and cargo.||(d) When treatment is required as part of the order, where such treatment is available and, if applicable, what effect the receipt of treatment may have on the conditions of isolation and quarantine.||(e) The period of duration of isolation or quarantine.||(f) The commissioner's signature.||(g) The reason and length of time for the exclusion of children from schools and child care facilities.||II. Orders issued under this section shall be complied with immediately.||III. When an individual subject to an order for isolation or quarantine refuses to cooperate with such order, the commissioner may issue a complaint, which shall be sworn to before a justice of the peace. Such complaint shall set forth the reasons for the order imposing isolation or quarantine and the place or facility where the individual shall be isolated or quarantined. Upon being presented with such an order, any law enforcement officer shall take such individual into custody and transport the individual to the place or facility where the individual is to be isolated or quarantined.|||Source. 1986, 198:21. 1987, 193:5, 6. 1995, 310:94, 183. 2002, 258:14, eff. July 1, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 141-C:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 141-C - Communicable Disease|Section 141-C:13 - Evading Quarantine; Breaking Quarantine.

    141-C:13 Evading Quarantine;  Breaking Quarantine. –||I. If, after an order is issued under RSA 141-C:12, any commodity, conveyance, cargo or baggage is not removed to the place of quarantine or is not decontaminated or is brought near any dwelling house, facility, or housing providing services to people, or near any place of business or manufacture without the permission of the commissioner or his designee, the commissioner shall petition the superior court to review the order.||II. If any person ordered to undergo isolation or quarantine leaves such place of quarantine, a place designated by the commissioner for the decontamination of commodities, conveyances, baggage and cargo under quarantine, or a place of treatment and care of persons under isolation or quarantine without the permission of the commissioner or his designee, the commissioner shall petition the superior court for review of the order.||III. When an individual subject to an order for isolation or quarantine refuses to cooperate with such order, the commissioner may issue a complaint, which shall be sworn to before a justice of the peace. Such complaint shall set forth the reasons for the order imposing isolation or quarantine and the place or facility where the individual shall be isolated or quarantined. Upon being presented with such an order, any law enforcement officer shall take such individual into custody and transport the individual to the place or facility where the individual is to be isolated or quarantined.|||Source. 1986, 198:21. 1995, 310:183. 2002, 258:15, eff. July 1, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 141-C:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 141-C - Communicable Disease|Section 141-C:14 - Invading Isolation; Quarantine.

    141-C:14 Invading Isolation;  Quarantine. –||If any person shall, without permission of the commissioner, his designee, or a health officer acting on the request of the commissioner, enter a place of isolation or quarantine, board a conveyance under quarantine, enter the limits of a place designated for the decontamination of cargo or baggage under quarantine, or enter a place designated for the treatment of persons placed under isolation or quarantine and such person is not an employee or agent of the facility providing such treatment, he shall be considered infected and ordered to undergo isolation or quarantine under RSA 141-C:11. He shall remain there at his own expense until the commissioner determines that there is no threat to the citizenry by virtue of the exposure to the cause of isolation or quarantine.|||Source. 1986, 195:21. 1995, 310:183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 141-C:14-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 141-C - Communicable Disease|Section 141-C:14-a - Due Process.

    141-C:14-a Due Process. –||I. Any person subject to an order for submission of a specimen, or for examination, immunization, treatment, isolation, quarantine, provision of information, inspection of a building or conveyance, or any other order of the commissioner under this chapter or RSA 21-P:53, may request a hearing in the superior court to contest such order. The commissioner shall provide, or cause to be provided, to the person both oral and written notice of the right to contest the order and the form for making the request, which form shall require no more than the person's name, address, and signature and the time and date of the signature.||II. Submission of the completed form to the law enforcement officer or other individual serving the order shall be considered a filing with the superior court and such officer or other individual shall promptly deliver the form to the superior court.||III. The superior court shall schedule a hearing and render a decision upon the request within 48 hours of the time the request was made. If the court determines that exigencies related to protection of the health of the public preclude a hearing and decision within the 48-hour period, the hearing and decision may take place within a suitable time as determined by the court, but in no event later than 120 hours after the time the request was made.||IV. No examination, specimen, immunization, treatment, or other action shall be required against the will of a person who has filed a request for a hearing. A person may be held in isolation or quarantine pending the outcome of the court hearing, but may no longer be held if the court fails to render its decision within the time period required under paragraph III.||V. At the hearing the burden of proof shall be on the commissioner to prove by clear and convincing evidence that the person poses a threat to public health, or that the information to be produced or inspection of a building or conveyance is necessary to protect against a serious threat to the public health, and the order issued by the commissioner is thereby warranted to alleviate such threat.||VI. All orders issued under this chapter shall be in writing and a copy shall be provided to the person subject to the order at the time it is served. Every person who contests an order of the commissioner under this chapter shall be given a copy of the executed form contesting such order.||VII. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the medical examination, medical treatment, or immunization of a person who objects, and no criminal penalties shall be imposed as a result. Notwithstanding this paragraph, such a person may be subject to isolation or quarantine for the minimum period necessary to protect the public health, as determined by the court in its decision following the hearing pursuant to this section.|||Source. 2002, 258:16. 2008, 271:2, 3, eff. June 26, 2008.|
NH Rev Stat § 141-C:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 141-C - Communicable Disease|Section 141-C:15 - Treatment, Care of Sick; Costs.

    141-C:15 Treatment, Care of Sick;  Costs. –||I. Any person infected with a communicable disease, or reasonably suspected of being infected with a communicable disease, and whose continued presence among the citizenry poses a significant threat to health and life, shall be ordered by the commissioner under RSA 141-C:11, to report to a health care provider or health care facility to undergo such treatment and care as the commissioner may deem necessary to eliminate the threat. The commissioner shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, necessary to issue and carry out such orders for treatment and to restrict and control communicable disease through treatment.||II. If the person subject to the order cannot be removed to a health care provider or to a health care facility for treatment without danger to his life or to the citizenry, the commissioner shall impose isolation or quarantine under RSA 141-C:11 and shall arrange for treatment and care as necessary to mitigate the threat.||III. The commissioner shall assist indigent persons who are infected with tuberculosis and supply them with anti-tuberculosis drugs for treatment and preventative therapy, chest x-rays, and such physical examinations as necessary to monitor the course of treatment and therapy.||IV. The cost of treatment and care, except treatment provided under RSA 141-C:15, III, and physical examinations under RSA 141-C:9 and RSA 141-C:18, shall be a cost to the person, or his parent or guardian, or, if such person is indigent, from such public funds available for such purposes. Costs of physical examinations and treatment and care provided to the operator, passengers and crew of conveyances who are, or might have been, infected by means of the conveyance, shall be a cost to the owner, consignee or assignee of the conveyance.||V. The cost for maintenance of quarantine for commodities, conveyances, cargo and baggage, and for the decontamination of commodities, conveyances, cargos and baggage, shall be a cost to the owner, consignee or assignee of the commodity or conveyance.||VI. When an individual subject to an order for treatment by the commissioner refuses to undergo such ordered treatment, the commissioner may issue a complaint, which shall be sworn to before a justice of the peace. Such complaint shall set forth the reasons for the order imposing treatment, the nature of the treatment to be provided, and the place or facility where the treatment shall be provided. Upon being presented with such an order, any law enforcement officer shall take such individual into custody and transport the individual to the place or facility where the treatment is to be provided.|||Source. 1986, 198:21. 1995, 310:183. 2002, 258:17, eff. July 1, 2002.|
NH Rev Stat § 141-C:15-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 141-C - Communicable Disease|Section 141-C:15-a - Administration of Certain Prescription Medication for Treatment or Prevention of a Communicable Disease.

    141-C:15-a Administration of Certain Prescription Medication for Treatment or Prevention of a Communicable Disease. –||I. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 326-B:2, I-a, and RSA 329:1-c, a health care professional authorized to prescribe prescription medication for the treatment or prevention of a communicable disease may prescribe, dispense, or distribute directly or by standing order, drugs and testing to a patient he or she did not evaluate and with whom there is no established health care provider-patient relationship to empirically treat for, or provide an agent or prophylaxis to prevent, a communicable disease that poses a threat to public health. Any such prescription shall be regarded as being issued for a legitimate medical purpose and in accordance with established clinical practice guidelines, when available.||II. Communicable diseases that pose a threat to public health for the purposes of paragraph I shall be limited to the following:||(a) Bordetella pertussis, Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhea, and Neisseria meningitis; or||(b) Diseases that constitute an immediate threat to public health and for which the commissioner, or designee, declares a public health incident under RSA 508:17-a or issues clinical guidance that requests providers to consider prescribing, dispensing, or distributing immunizing agents or drugs under paragraph I in order to control a disease outbreak.||III. No health care professional who, acting in good faith and with reasonable care, prescribes, dispenses, or distributes an agent or drug and testing for the treatment or prevention of a communicable disease as described in paragraph I, shall be subject to any criminal or civil liability, or any professional disciplinary action, for any action authorized by this section or any outcome resulting from an action authorized by this section.|||Source. 2017, 42:2, eff. May 9, 2017. 2020, 39:2, eff. July 29, 2020.|
NH Rev Stat § 141-C:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 141-C - Communicable Disease|Section 141-C:16 - Mode of Treatment and Care.

    141-C:16 Mode of Treatment and Care. –||Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the commissioner to restrict in any manner a person's right to select the mode of treatment of his choice, or to refuse treatment, when treatment is ordered by the commissioner under RSA 141-C:15, I, or to request any physical examination or treatment of a person who in good faith relies upon spiritual means or prayer for healing. Such reliance or treatment or refusal of treatment shall not be considered a danger or menace to others under any provisions of this chapter; provided, however, that there is compliance with the sanitary, isolation and quarantine laws and rules adopted under this chapter. This section shall not be construed to prevent a parent or guardian from exercising his legal responsibilities.|||Source. 1986, 198:21. 1995, 310:183, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|