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18 V.S.A. § 908
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 17 - Emergency Medical Services|§ 908. Emergency Medical Services Special Fund

§ 908. Emergency Medical Services Special Fund|(a) The Emergency Medical Services Fund is established pursuant to 32 V.S.A. chapter 7, subchapter 5 comprising revenues received by the Department from the Fire Safety Special Fund, pursuant to 32 V.S.A. § 8557(a), that are designated for this Special Fund and public and private sources as gifts, grants, and donations together with additions and interest accruing to the Fund. The Commissioner of Health shall administer the Fund to the extent funds are available to support online and regional training programs, data collection and analysis, and other activities relating to the training of emergency medical personnel and delivery of emergency medical services and ambulance services in Vermont, as determined by the Commissioner, after consulting with the EMS Advisory Committee established under section 909 of this title. Any balance at the end of the fiscal year shall be carried forward in the Fund.(b) From the funds in the Emergency Medical Services Special Fund, the Commissioner of Health shall develop and implement by September 1, 2012 online training opportunities and offer regional classes to enable individuals to comply with the requirements of subdivision 906(10)(C) of this title. (Added 2011, No. 155 (Adj. Sess.), § 38; amended 2013, No. 73, § 3, eff. June 5, 2013.)
18 V.S.A. § 992
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 20 - Birth Information Network|§ 992. Birth Information Network; confidentiality

§ 992. Birth Information Network; confidentiality|(a) The Birth Information Network shall be designed to protect the confidentiality of the individuals and families involved. Information from the Network shall be used only in ways that reflect responsible public health protocols and practice.(b) The Commissioner shall take measures necessary to comply with the federal "Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information" contained in Parts 160 and 164 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, 45 CFR §§ 160.101 et seq. and 45 CFR §§ 164.102 et seq., and any subsequent amendments, including the following:  (1) security procedures limiting access to Network data; (2) a confidentiality statement to be signed by staff members; (3) encryption of identifying information; and (4) use of information for research and assessment purposes. (Added 2003, No. 32, § 3; amended 2017, No. 46, § 37, eff. July 1, 2019.)
18 V.S.A. § 993
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 20 - Birth Information Network|§ 993. Advisory Committee

§ 993. Advisory Committee|The Commissioner of Health shall appoint an advisory committee to comment on the effectiveness of the Birth Information Network and to gather information about funding opportunities. The Advisory Committee shall be composed of representatives from the primary organizations involved in Network data collection and use. (Added 2003, No. 32, § 4; amended 2017, No. 46, § 37, eff. July 1, 2019.)
18 V.S.A. § 1004
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1004. Report by physician; quarantine

§ 1004. Report by physician; quarantine|A physician who knows or suspects that a person whom he or she has been called to attend is sick or has died of a communicable disease dangerous to the public health shall immediately quarantine and report to the health officer the place where such case exists, but if the attending physician, at the time of his or her first visit, is unable to make a specific diagnosis, he or she may quarantine the premises temporarily and until a specific diagnosis is made, and post thereon a card upon which the word "quarantine" should be plainly written or printed. Such quarantine shall continue in force until the health officer examines and quarantines as is provided in this title.
18 V.S.A. § 1004a
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1004a. Quarantine

§ 1004a. Quarantine|The Commissioner of Health shall have the power to quarantine a person diagnosed with or suspected of having a disease dangerous to the public health. (Added 1979, No. 60, § 2.)
18 V.S.A. § 1007
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1007. Quarantined patient leaving hospital, report

§ 1007. Quarantined patient leaving hospital, report|When a patient who has a communicable disease subject to quarantine leaves a hospital or institution, without the consent of the authorities of such hospital or institution the physician or other person in charge of such a hospital or institution shall notify forthwith the Commissioner that such person has left the hospital or institution and is the bearer of such communicable disease. (Amended 1979, No. 60, § 3.)
18 V.S.A. § 1008
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1008. Vaccines, antibiotics, antiserums, and other agents; purchase and distribution; penalties

§ 1008. Vaccines, antibiotics, antiserums, and other agents; purchase and distribution; penalties|(a) The Department is authorized to procure vaccines, antibiotics, antiserums, and such other agents as may be necessary for the prevention and diagnosis of infectious and communicable diseases or diseases of public health significance in which there is an unmet need and to distribute same free of charge upon application thereof by licensed physicians, and under such rules as the Department and Secretary of Human Services may prescribe; and the expense thereof shall be paid by the State.(b) A person selling or disposing of any vaccine, antibiotic, antiserum, or other agent procured or distributed under the provisions of this section for personal gain shall be fined not more than $50.00 or less than $10.00 for each such offense. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961; 1961, No. 51,§§ 1, 2; 1979, No. 60, § 4; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 57.)
18 V.S.A. § 1010
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1010. Ophthalmia neonatorum

§ 1010. Ophthalmia neonatorum|The Department and the Secretary of Human Services may make such rules as they deem necessary for the prevention of blindness caused by the disease known as ophthalmia neonatorum, and they may furnish, at the expense of the State, such prophylactic outfits as are necessary for the use of physicians. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961; 1979, No. 60, § 5; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 58.)
18 V.S.A. § 1041
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1041. Reports by physicians and certain others

§ 1041. Reports by physicians and certain others|A physician who is consulted by a person infected with tuberculosis in any form shall submit the name and address of such person to the Commissioner upon such forms as he or she may furnish, with such other facts as may be required, within one week after such consultation. (Amended 1969, No. 101, § 1, eff. April 19, 1969.)
18 V.S.A. § 1042
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1042. Record of cases; instructions

§ 1042. Record of cases; instructions|The Commissioner shall keep an accurate record of cases reported as provided in sections 1007 and 1041 of this title, and the same shall not be published, but shall be kept by the Board for such purposes as are necessary in the discharge of its duties. Upon being notified of a case mentioned in sections 1007 and 1041 of this title, the Board shall take such action as it deems necessary for the protection of the public and the individual's health. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961.)
18 V.S.A. § 1043
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1043. Investigation; educational campaign, report

§ 1043. Investigation; educational campaign, report|The Board shall investigate the prevalence and extent of tuberculosis and other chronic respiratory diseases in the State, shall adopt and make use of means for educating the people of the State in respect to the causes and nature of these diseases, means for their prevention and treatment, and in respect to the best method of preventing and limiting the prevalence of these diseases. Such educational campaign shall be carried on in such manner as the Board deems proper to disseminate the facts in regard to these diseases. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961; 1969, No. 101, § 2, eff. April 19, 1969.)
18 V.S.A. § 1047
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1047. Indigent persons with respiratory diseases

§ 1047. Indigent persons with respiratory diseases|Persons who have tuberculosis and other chronic respiratory diseases, who are without the means to obtain adequate care and treatment for such diseases, shall be deemed indigent persons for the purposes of this subchapter. (Amended 1965, No. 5, § 1; 1969, No. 101, § 3, eff. April 19, 1969; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 92.)
18 V.S.A. § 1048
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1048. Examination; report; treatment

§ 1048. Examination; report; treatment|A physician, licensed to practice medicine and surgery in the State, shall immediately after examination of an indigent person wishing treatment for tuberculosis or other chronic respiratory disease make a report of his or her findings to the Commissioner of Health. Upon receipt of such report, the Commissioner may authorize treatment of the person who has tuberculosis or other chronic respiratory disease. Such person's physician shall thereupon prescribe the time of treatment and designate the facility at which treatment shall be given; provided, however, that in a case of tuberculosis suspected of being infectious, the Commissioner may apply all the laws and regulations of communicable disease control. (Amended 1969, No. 101, § 4, eff. April 19, 1969; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 92.)
18 V.S.A. § 1051
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1051. Tuberculosis treatment facilities

§ 1051. Tuberculosis treatment facilities|The Commissioner shall approve facilities in the State where indigent persons may be treated for tuberculosis under this subchapter. The Commissioner and the Board of Health shall determine to their satisfaction that all such facilities furnish adequate and proper tuberculosis treatment. Treatment for other chronic respiratory diseases under this subchapter may be given at any accredited hospital. (Amended 1959, No. 190, § 2; 1966, No. 22 (Sp. Sess.), § 1; 1969, No. 101, § 6, eff. April 19, 1969.)
18 V.S.A. § 1053
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1053. Treatment and care of patients

§ 1053. Treatment and care of patients|The Secretary of Human Services may provide for treatment and care of tuberculosis and chronic respiratory disease patients at facilities designated by him or her. (Amended 1965, No. 5, § 2; 1966, No. 22 (Sp. Sess.), § 2; 1969, No. 101, § 7, eff. April 19, 1969; 1973, No. 89, § 2.)
18 V.S.A. § 1054
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1054. Tuberculosis clinic and treatment program

§ 1054. Tuberculosis clinic and treatment program|(a) The Department shall visit all newly reported cases or suspect cases of tuberculosis with periodic follow-up visits as deemed necessary.(b) The Department shall provide for:  (1) prompt examination of all suspects and contacts; (2) chemotherapeutic treatment of all active cases attending this clinic; and hospitalization in accordance with sections 1047-1051 of this title; (3) chemotherapy for converters and inactive cases; (4) the reevaluation and reexamination of inactive cases as medically indicated. (Added 1961, No. 270, §§ 1-3, eff. Aug. 1, 1961; amended 1973, No. 89, § 3; 1997, No. 147 (Adj. Sess.), § 272.)
18 V.S.A. § 1055
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1055. Tuberculosis; compulsory examinations

§ 1055. Tuberculosis; compulsory examinations|When the Commissioner of Health has reasonable cause to believe that any person has tuberculosis in an active stage or in a communicable form, the Commissioner may request the person to undergo an examination at a clinic or hospital approved by the Secretary of Human Services for that purpose at the expense of the State by a physician qualified in chest diseases. If the person refuses the examination, the Commissioner may petition the Superior Court for the unit where the person resides for an order requiring the person to submit to examination. When the court finds that there is reasonable cause to believe that the person has tuberculosis in an active stage or in a communicable form, it may order the person to be examined. (Added 1967, No. 49, § 1; amended 1973, No. 89, § 4; 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 144.)
18 V.S.A. § 1056
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1056. Nature of examination; findings

§ 1056. Nature of examination; findings|The examination shall be in the manner and form prescribed by the Commissioner of Health. It may include taking of an x-ray of the chest and enough microscopical examinations and cultures to permit completion of diagnosis. The findings of the examination shall be reported in full to the Commissioner of Health who shall furnish copies thereof to the person examined. (Added 1967, No. 49, § 2.)
18 V.S.A. § 1057
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1057. Medical management

§ 1057. Medical management|(a) When the Commissioner of Health determines, as a result of an examination as provided by sections 1055 and 1056 of this title, that any person has tuberculosis in an active stage and in communicable form to an extent that the person may expose other persons or the public generally to danger of infection, he or she shall investigate the circumstances thereof and if he or she finds that the person does constitute a health hazard to the public, he or she may request the court to order the person to a hospital or other suitable place and require appropriate medical management of the person therein until he or she determines that the management is no longer necessary. Such medical care and treatment as the Commissioner of Health considers necessary and proper may be furnished to the sick person at the expense of the State. Treatment shall not be imposed on any person against his or her will unless the Commissioner determines that the person constitutes a public health hazard without such treatment.(b) Nothing in sections 1055 to 1061 of this title shall be construed to compel any person who is being treated by prayer or spiritual means alone in accordance with the tenets and practice of a well-recognized church or religious denomination by a duly accredited practitioner to be medically managed in a place to which he or she objects as long as suitable healing methods or isolation can be maintained in a place of his or her own choosing, provided that he or she does not constitute a public health hazard as determined by the Commissioner, and that all sanitation rules are complied with. (Added 1967, No. 49, § 3; amended 1973, No. 89, § 5; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 92; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 59.)
18 V.S.A. § 1058
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1058. Compulsory medical management

§ 1058. Compulsory medical management|If any person fails or refuses to comply with an order of the court issued under section 1057 of this title, the Commissioner of Health, in accordance with the order, may request any police officer or sheriff in writing to take the person into custody and deliver him or her forthwith to a place or facility for such services as designated by the Secretary of Human Services as provided in sections 1053 and 1055 of this title. The officer shall tender the person named in the order a copy of the order of the court and of the request to him or her to apprehend and deliver the person to the place of tuberculosis management, and shall make return of his or her doings to the court. (Added 1967, No. 49, § 4; amended 1973, No. 89, § 6.)
18 V.S.A. § 1059
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1059. Leaving compulsory medical management

§ 1059. Leaving compulsory medical management|A person who is managed by order of the court shall not leave the place of compulsory medical management without the permission in writing of the court or the Commissioner of Health. That permission may constitute a final discharge or be for a specified period of time. In either case the Commissioner of Health may impose such conditions as he or she considers reasonable, including requirements for periodic examinations. Any person so managed who leaves the place of management without permission, or who fails to return thereto within the time prescribed, may be returned to the place of management without further court order and the Commissioner of Health may direct any officer specified in section 1058 of this title, in writing, to apprehend the person and to return him or her forthwith to the place of management. (Added 1967, No. 49, § 5; amended 1973, No. 89, § 7.)
18 V.S.A. § 1060
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1060. Rights of a person in compulsory medical management

§ 1060. Rights of a person in compulsory medical management|Any person in compulsory medical management by order of the court who believes his or her physical condition is such as to warrant his or her discharge, if the discharge is refused by the Commissioner of Health, is entitled to a physical examination by a qualified physician of his or her own choice. If as a result of examination the physician feels that the continued compulsory medical management is no longer justified and the Commissioner of Health does not concur in that opinion, the person may appeal by petition to the court issuing the original order for his or her compulsory medical management. Proceedings before the court shall be de novo, and the court may require such further examination as it considers necessary and may, in its discretion, at the expense of the State appoint no less than three independent physicians, at least one of whom shall have had special experience in respiratory diseases, to examine the person. At the conclusion of the proceedings, the court shall make findings of fact and issue such order as it considers proper. The order of the court may be appealed to the Supreme Court in the manner provided by law for appeals from a Criminal Division of the Superior Court generally. A person may not petition for release from medical management within six months from the date a court order is made, whether an appeal is taken or not. (Added 1967, No. 49, § 6; amended 1973, No. 89, § 8; 2009, No. 154, § 238.)
18 V.S.A. § 1061
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1061. Construction with other laws

§ 1061. Construction with other laws|Sections 1055-1060 of this title are in addition to any other statutes relating to communicable diseases generally or to tuberculosis specifically and shall not abrogate or repeal those other statutes unless in direct conflict therewith, in which case the provisions of such sections shall control. (Added 1967, No. 49, § 7.)
18 V.S.A. § 1091
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1091. Venereal diseases; definitions

§ 1091. Venereal diseases; definitions|In this subchapter, unless the context requires otherwise:  (1) "Authoritative source" means a physician licensed in the State, superintendent of a State institution or private hospital, medical officers of the armed forces of the State or United States, State and territorial health officers, and personnel of the Department of Health designated by the Board of Health. (2) "Venereal disease" means syphilis, gonorrhea, and any other sexually transmitted disease which the Department finds to be of significance and amenable to control. (Amended 1967, No. 7, § 1; 1979, No. 60, § 6.)
18 V.S.A. § 1091a
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1091a. Venereal diseases, control

§ 1091a. Venereal diseases, control|Venereal diseases are contagious, infectious, communicable, and dangerous to public health. Protection of the public requires the identification and treatment of persons infected by those diseases. (Added 1967, No. 7, § 2.)
18 V.S.A. § 1092
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1092. Treatments, refusal, penalty

§ 1092. Treatments, refusal, penalty|A physician or other person, except persons who merely practice the religious tenets of their church without pretending a knowledge of medicine or surgery, provided, however, that sanitary laws, rules, and regulations are complied with, who knows or has reason to believe that a person whom he or she treats or prescribes for, or to whom he or she sells patent or proprietary medicine purporting to cure or alleviate the symptoms of gonorrhea or syphilis, has one of these diseases, shall immediately report the name, nationality, race, marital state, address, age, and sex of such person, and, if obtainable, the date and source of contracting the same, to the Commissioner on forms furnished for that purpose. Such persons so reported shall submit to regular treatment prescribed by a physician until discharged by the physician. A person who willfully refuses to regularly submit to prescribed treatment shall be reported at once to the State's Attorney for immediate prosecution. Such willful refusal shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $100.00 or three months' imprisonment, or both.
18 V.S.A. § 1093
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1093. Examination and report

§ 1093. Examination and report|Whenever the Board shall receive information from an authoritative source to the effect that a person is suspected of being infected with an infectious venereal disease and is likely to infect or to be the source of infection of another person, such Board shall cause a medical examination to be made of such person, for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not such person is in fact infected with such disease in a communicable stage, and such person shall submit to such examination and permit specimens of blood or bodily discharges to be taken for laboratory examinations as may be necessary to establish the presence or absence of such disease or infection, and such person may be detained until the results of such examinations are known. The required examination shall be made by a physician licensed to practice in this State, or a licensed physician designated by the person to be examined. Such licensed physician making such examination shall report thereon to the Board and to the person examined. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961; 1973, No. 89, § 9.)
18 V.S.A. § 1094
2021 Vermont Statutes|Title 18 - Health|Chapter 21 - Communicable Diseases|§ 1094. Restraining order

§ 1094. Restraining order|Such suspected person may by petition directed to a Justice of the Supreme Court or a Superior judge pray for an order restraining the making of such examination and no examination shall then be made except upon order of such Justice or judge, and such petition and order shall not be a matter of public record. Before such examination, each suspected person shall be informed of this right and be given an opportunity to avail himself or herself thereof.