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LA Rev Stat § 40:5.10.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§5.10.1. Imported Seafood Safety Fund

RS 5.10.1 - Imported Seafood Safety Fund  A. There is hereby created in the state treasury a special fund designated as the Imported Seafood Safety Fund, referred to hereafter in this Section as the "fund". After allocation of money to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund as provided in Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana, the treasurer shall deposit in and credit to the fund monies collected pursuant to R.S. 40:31.35(C). Monies in the fund shall be invested in the same manner as monies in the state general fund. Interest earned on investment of monies shall be deposited in and credited to the fund. Unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund shall remain in the fund. Monies in the fund shall be appropriated to the office of public health of the Louisiana Department of Health and used exclusively as provided in this Section.  B. The monies in the fund shall be appropriated and expended solely for the purpose of sampling, analysis, testing, and monitoring of raw seafood products of foreign origin that are imported into Louisiana and stored on the premises of any business holding a commercial seafood permit issued pursuant to R.S. 40:31.35. The office of public health of the Louisiana Department of Health shall directly administer or contract for such sampling, analysis, testing, and monitoring functions. The office of public health shall employ such functions to detect in imported seafood products the presence of substances that are harmful to human health. The state health officer shall determine the specific types of such sampling, analysis, testing, and monitoring functions to be implemented as well as the frequency and scope of these activities, all of which he may modify based upon the availability of funding for these purposes.  Acts 2021, No. 306, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:5.12 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§5.12. Cancer investigation and intervention

RS 5.12 - Cancer investigation and intervention  A. Cancer control is hereby declared to be an urgent public health priority of this state.  B. The state health officer and the office of public health of the Louisiana Department of Health are hereby authorized to operate a program of cancer investigation and subsequent intervention if sufficient funding is available for this purpose.  C. The source of monies for the cancer investigation and intervention program provided for in this Section may be any appropriation by the legislature, including appropriations of federal funds; appropriations from the Health Excellence Fund created by Article VII, Section 10.8(A)(2) of the Constitution of Louisiana, and appropriations from the Louisiana Fund created by Article VII, Section 10.9(A) of the Constitution of Louisiana; any public or private donations, gifts, or grants from individuals, corporations, nonprofit organizations, or other business entities; and any other monies which may be provided by law.  D. The state health officer and the office of public health of the Louisiana Department of Health shall engage and collaborate with the Louisiana Tumor Registry, the Louisiana Cancer Research Center, and the Louisiana Advisory Committee on Populations and Geographic Regions With Excessive Cancer Rates in administering the cancer investigation and intervention program provided for in this Section.  E. The program provided for in this Section shall be conducted in addition to the activities of, and shall not replace or supplant, the Louisiana Cancer Prevention and Control Programs of the School of Public Health of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans.  Acts 2017, No. 373, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:7 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§7. Communicable disease epidemic; procedure

RS 7 - Communicable disease epidemic; procedure  A. If any parish or municipality or any portion thereof becomes infected with any disease to such an extent as to threaten the spread of the disease to the other portions of the state, the state health officer shall issue his proclamation declaring the facts and ordering the infected parish or municipality or the infected portion thereof quarantined. Further, the state health officer shall order all local health officers to quarantine against the locality; shall establish and promulgate the rules, regulations, terms, and conditions on which intercourse with the infected locality will be permitted; and shall issue to the other local sanitary authorities instructions as to the measures adopted in quarantining against persons, goods, or other property coming from the infected locality. These rules, regulations, terms, and conditions shall be observed and obeyed by all health authorities. Any other of the noninfected portions of the state may, upon approval of the state health officer, add to the regulations, rules, terms, and conditions already imposed by the state health officer.  B. The state health officer may prohibit the introduction into any infected portion of the state persons acclimated, unacclimated, or said to be immune, when, in his judgment, the introduction of those persons would increase the prevalence of the disease.  C. The state health officer shall render to the local health officers all the assistance which the conditions of his finances permit.  Acts 1976, No. 346, §1; Acts 2018, No. 206, §4.
LA Rev Stat § 40:8 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§8. Investigations; entry on and inspection of premises; order to compel attendance of witnesses or production of documents

RS 8 - Investigations; entry on and inspection of premises; order to compel attendance of witnesses or production of documents A. The state health officer shall conduct investigations to determine compliance with the state sanitary code or health and sanitary laws of the state and shall investigate any circumstances which he has determined pose a threat or reasonable expectation of a threat to the public health. B. In conducting an investigation pursuant to this Section, the state health officer or any duly authorized representative may enter, examine, and inspect all grounds, structures, public buildings, and public places in execution of a warrant issued in accordance with the constitution and laws of Louisiana. C. In conducting an investigation pursuant to this Section, the state health officer may petition the district court of the parish where the person, agency, organization, or legal entity resides, may be found, transacts business, or has its principal place of business for an order to compel the attendance of a witness or to compel the production of documents or records anywhere in the state, if information relevant to the inspection or investigation is in the possession of the witness or is contained in the documents or records. D. The clerk of court of the parish where the district court is located that issues an order under this Section shall mail a certified copy of the order and certified copy of the state health officer's petition to the parties indicated in the state health officer's petition to receive service of process of the order and petition. The clerk shall file a certificate in the record showing the date on which, and the counsel and parties to whom, the certified copy of the order and petition were mailed. The mailing of the certified copy of the order and petition shall be effective service of process on residents and nonresidents under R.S. 13:3201 et seq. Acts 1976, No. 346, §1; Acts 1999, No. 667, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:9 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§9. Arrests for violations

RS 9 - Arrests for violations  A. Any inspector, officer, or employee of the state health officer may arrest, without warrant, all persons violating any rule or regulation of the state health officer or any article or provision of the sanitary code, when the violation occurs within his sight, view, or personal knowledge. When the violation does not so occur, he may arrest only in execution of a warrant duly issued in accordance with the provisions of this Part or by a competent judicial authority.  B. All law enforcement officers shall aid in the apprehension of persons violating the provisions of the sanitary code or any rule or regulation of the state health office. These officers shall themselves arrest and apprehend all offenders committing such violations in their view or sight or within their personal knowledge.  Acts 1976, No. 346, §1; Acts 2018, No. 206, §4.
LA Rev Stat § 40:9.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§9.1. Repealed by Acts 1987, No. 927, §1.

RS 9.1 - Repealed by Acts 1987, No. 927, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:10 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§10. Preparation for emergency

RS 10 - Preparation for emergency  The state health officer shall at all times keep in readiness one or more medical inspectors and nurses, medicines, clothing, bedding, appliances, tents and other paraphernalia so as to repair to any place in the state that applies to him, when deemed necessary by the state health officer, or to any place in the state in which there is an outbreak of communicable disease, with the view of stamping it out. The legislature shall appropriate an annual sum for use by the state health officer for such emergencies. The local authorities shall keep up the work at their own expense after it has been started, if their funds permit.  Acts 1976, No. 346, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:11 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§11. Distribution of funds to parish health units or departments

RS 11 - Distribution of funds to parish health units or departments  The ratio, formula, or other manner of distribution presently used, and to be used, by the state health officer applying to funds derived from federal or state sources and appropriated, apportioned, assigned, or otherwise made available to support parish health units in Louisiana, shall not be altered to provide a lesser appropriation from such federal or state funds to any parish health unit if such parish by a vote of a millage by the qualified voters of such parish provides or has provided a larger financial support from local tax sources. If the total appropriation of federal funds available to the state health officer is reduced or abolished, this provision shall not apply to said federal funds.  Acts 1976, No. 346, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:12 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§12. Parish health units

RS 12 - Parish health units  Each parish of the state shall provide a health unit or department. These units or departments shall be known as parish health units.  Acts 1976, No. 346, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:13 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§13. Expenses of parish health units

RS 13 - Expenses of parish health units  A. The governing body of each parish shall provide ample means for the maintenance and operation of its parish health units or departments and for the promotion and conservation of public health. For the purposes of this Title they shall be known as parish health units.  B. If a municipality encompasses an entire parish, the municipal authorities shall, for the purposes of this Part, be known as parish authorities.  Acts 1976, No. 346, §1; Acts 2018, No. 206, §4.
LA Rev Stat § 40:14 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§14. Parish health units; jurisdiction

RS 14 - Parish health units; jurisdiction  Parish health units may, through the parish governing authority, control and administer all matters of local sanitation not generally affecting other portions of the state. They may pass local health and sanitary ordinances and define and abate nuisances dangerous to the public health of that parish only. They may also regulate drainage and ventilation with reference to human habitation and places of business and public resort; provide for the disposition of fecal matter and garbage and waste subject to provisions of state law and the sanitary code; regulate the erection of buildings, with due regard to the filling and grading of lots, and the arrangement of buildings; provide for the vacation and demolishing of buildings when necessary for the protection of public health; and generally enforce all health and sanitary ordinances so adopted. However, these rules, ordinances and regulations shall not conflict with the rules and regulations of the sanitary code and shall not be less restrictive than the state sanitary code and may provide and regulate with respect to health matters not covered by the sanitary code.  Acts 1976, No. 346, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:15 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§15. Quarantine by parish health officer

RS 15 - Quarantine by parish health officer  No parish health officer may establish quarantines without the approval of the state health officer, previously obtained, and the cooperation of the parish legislative body. The state health officer has supervisory power over all local quarantines so established.  Acts 1976, No. 346, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:16 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§16. Parish health units to act in harmony with state health officer

RS 16 - Parish health units to act in harmony with state health officer   All parish health units act under the supervision and advice of the state health officer and the office of health services and environmental quality of the Louisiana Department of Health.   Acts 1976, No. 346, §1. Amended by Acts 1978, No. 786, §5, eff. July 17, 1978.
LA Rev Stat § 40:16.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§16.1. Proceeds of any sale of the state facilities owned by the Louisiana Department of Health, office of behavioral health

RS 16.1 - Proceeds of any sale of the state facilities owned by the Louisiana Department of Health, office of behavioral health  The proceeds of the sale of any former mental health facility properties which have been declared to be surplus property are to be dedicated to the renovation of any current mental health facilities being operated in the same area.  Acts 2003, No. 899, §1; Acts 2009, No. 384, §5, eff. July 1, 2010.
LA Rev Stat § 40:16.2 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§16.2. Repealed by Acts 2018, No. 612, §22, eff. July 1, 2020.

RS 16.2 - Repealed by Acts 2018, No. 612, §22, eff. July 1, 2020.
LA Rev Stat § 40:16.4 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§16.4. Louisiana Department of Health's Facility Support Fund Number 2

RS 16.4 - Louisiana Department of Health's Facility Support Fund Number 2  A. There is hereby created, as a special fund in the state treasury, the Louisiana Department of Health's Facility Support Fund Number 2, hereinafter referred to as the "fund".  B.(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, after compliance with the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund, and after a sufficient amount is allocated from that fund to pay all of the obligations secured by the full faith and credit of the state which become due and payable within any fiscal year, the treasurer shall pay an amount into the fund equal to the amount collected by the state from the proceeds of the sale or transfer of certain lands as provided in Section 1 of Act No. 272 of the 2019 Regular Session of the Legislature, less the amount of the sale proceeds to be deducted by the state land office to offset its appraisal, survey, and other closing costs occasioned by the transactions.  (2) Monies appropriated from the fund shall be used solely as provided in Subsection C of this Section and only in the amounts appropriated by the legislature. All unexpended and unencumbered monies in the fund at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the fund. The monies in the fund shall be invested by the state treasurer in the same manner as monies in the state general fund, and interest earned on the investment of these monies shall be credited to the fund following compliance with the requirements of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana, relative to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund.  C. Subject to annual appropriation by the legislature, the monies in the fund shall be used solely for the planning, design, permits, improvements, repairs, equipment, restoration, renovation, or construction of the Central Louisiana State Hospital.  Acts 2019, No. 272, §8, eff. June 11, 2019.
LA Rev Stat § 40:18 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§18. Communicable disease; isolation and report to state health officer; quarantine

RS 18 - Communicable disease; isolation and report to state health officer; quarantine  A. If any case where a communicable disease is reported to or comes to the knowledge of any local health officer, the local health officer shall immediately isolate it and communicate the fact as expeditiously as practicable to the state health officer, together with the information as to what steps have been taken to isolate and care for the case. The local health officer shall, from time to time, communicate the progress of the case to the state health officer.  B. Upon receipt of notice of the case by the state health officer, or at any time during the case thereafter, the state health officer shall, if he thinks the emergency sufficient, send an expert physician, selected by him, to examine and diagnose the disease. If, after this examination and diagnosis, the expert declares the case to be one of an obnoxious or communicable nature, liable to spread or to become dangerous to the general public health of the state, the state health officer shall instruct the local health officer as to what additional steps, if any, should be taken to isolate the case and prevent the spread of the infection any further. The state health officer shall require that the local health officer immediately conform to and put these instructions in operation. If the local health officer or other local authorities connected with the case fail to act immediately on these instructions or fail to act in the case in a manner satisfactory to the state health officer, the state health officer shall take charge of the case and manage it through his own officers or employees.  Acts 1976, No. 346, §1; Acts 2018, No. 206, §4.
LA Rev Stat § 40:19 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§19. Domicile of parish health unit

RS 19 - Domicile of parish health unit  All parish health units shall have their legal domicile in the parish seat of its particular parish.  Acts 1976, No. 346, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:20 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§20. Appointment of parish health officer; qualifications; Orleans Parish health director

RS 20 - Appointment of parish health officer; qualifications; Orleans Parish health director   A. The state health officer, after consultation with the parish governing authority and with the approval of the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, and the parish governing authority, shall appoint a parish health officer, except in Orleans Parish. In Orleans Parish, the parish health officer shall be designated as the health director and shall be appointed by the mayor of the city of New Orleans.   B. The parish health officer shall be a full-time licensed physician, if possible, and if a physician is not available the parish health officer shall be a full-time employee experienced in the administration and enforcement of public health programs. The health officer shall be domiciled in the parish in which he is appointed unless he serves more than one parish as hereinafter provided.   C. If the parish health officer is unclassified or under contract, he may be removed by the state health officer with the approval of the parish governing authority and a replacement named as herein provided. If the parish health officer is in the classified service, he shall be a member of the state classified service and shall be appointed or removed by the state health officer in accordance with existing state civil service provisions of law and regulations. The provisions of this Subsection shall not apply to the parish health director for Orleans Parish.   Acts 1976, No. 346, §1. Amended by Acts 1978, No. 786, §5, eff. July 17, 1978; Acts 1992, No. 378, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:21 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§21. Establishment of health district; district health officer

RS 21 - Establishment of health district; district health officer  Two or more parishes may, with the approval of the state health officer and the governing bodies of the parishes, organize a health district composed of the health units of their respective parishes. In lieu of one health officer in each of the parishes, the parishes may, in that case, jointly use the services of and appropriate funds for the payment of the compensation of a single health officer. The jurisdiction, powers and duties of the district health officer in the health district and the manner in which he may be appointed and removed from office are the same as those of a parish health officer.  Acts 1976, No. 346, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:22 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§22. Removal of parish or district health officer; Orleans Parish health director

RS 22 - Removal of parish or district health officer; Orleans Parish health director   A parish or district health officer who is not in the classified service of the state may be removed from office, after thirty days written notice by either the state health officer or the governing body of the parish, with the consent of the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, except in Orleans Parish. In Orleans Parish, the parish health director shall be subject to removal by the mayor of the city of New Orleans, at least thirty days after written notice thereof has been given to the health director.   Acts 1976, No. 346, §1. Amended by Acts 1978, No. 786, §5, eff. July 17, 1978; Acts 1992, No. 378, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:23 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§23. Salaries of parish or district health officers; unclassified

RS 23 - Salaries of parish or district health officers; unclassified  A. Each parish shall determine the salary of its health officer and the necessary expenses for the conduct of his official duties if the health officer is in the unclassified service or serving on a contractual basis. In the case of an unclassified or contractual district health officer, the parishes which jointly employ him shall fix his salary and expenses and the proportionate share of each parish.  B. The salaries and expenses provided for in Subsection A of this Section shall be paid by the governing bodies of the parish or parishes for which the health officer was appointed, except as herein provided.  C. Where a parish or group of parishes appoint a full-time health officer whose entire time is devoted to health work as such, exclusive of any private practice, the state may appropriate and assist in paying the salary of that health officer not to exceed twenty percent of the salary if the parish or parishes contract with the Louisiana Department of Health for the establishment and maintenance of a health unit as hereafter provided.  Acts 1976, No. 346, §1. Amended by Acts 1978, No. 786, §5, eff. July 17, 1978; Acts 2018, No. 206, §4.