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WA Rev Code § 70.22.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.22 - Mosquito Control.|70.22.010 - Declaration of purpose.

RCW 70.22.010 Declaration of purpose.The purpose of this chapter is to establish a statewide program for the control or elimination of mosquitoes as a health hazard.[ 1961 c 283 § 1.]NOTES:Mosquito control districts: Chapter 17.28 RCW.
WA Rev Code § 70.22.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.22 - Mosquito Control.|70.22.020 - Secretary may make inspections, investigations, and determinations and provide for control.

RCW 70.22.020 Secretary may make inspections, investigations, and determinations and provide for control.The secretary of health is hereby authorized and empowered to make or cause to be made such inspections, investigations, studies and determinations as he or she may from time to time deem advisable in order to ascertain the effect of mosquitoes as a health hazard, and, to the extent to which funds are available, to provide for the control or elimination thereof in any or all parts of the state.[ 1991 c 3 § 317; 1979 c 141 § 88; 1961 c 283 § 2.]
WA Rev Code § 70.22.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.22 - Mosquito Control.|70.22.030 - Secretary to coordinate plans.

RCW 70.22.030 Secretary to coordinate plans.The secretary of health shall coordinate plans for mosquito control work which may be projected by any county, city or town, municipal corporation, taxing district, state department or agency, federal government agency, or any person, group or organization, and arrange for cooperation between any such districts, departments, agencies, persons, groups or organizations.[ 1991 c 3 § 318; 1979 c 141 § 89; 1961 c 283 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 70.22.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.22 - Mosquito Control.|70.22.040 - Secretary may contract with, receive funds from entities and individuals—Authorization for governmental entities to contract, grant funds, levy taxes.

RCW 70.22.040 Secretary may contract with, receive funds from entities and individuals—Authorization for governmental entities to contract, grant funds, levy taxes.The secretary of health is authorized and empowered to receive funds from any county, city or town, municipal corporation, taxing district, the federal government, or any person, group or organization to carry out the purpose of this chapter. In connection therewith the secretary is authorized and empowered to contract with any such county, city, or town, municipal corporation, taxing district, the federal government, person, group or organization with respect to the construction and maintenance of facilities and other work for the purpose of effecting mosquito control or elimination, and any such county, city or town, municipal corporation, or taxing district obligated to carry out the provisions of any such contract entered into with the secretary is authorized, empowered and directed to appropriate, and if necessary, to levy taxes for and pay over such funds as its contract with the secretary may from time to time require.[ 1991 c 3 § 319; 1979 c 141 § 90; 1961 c 283 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 70.22.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.22 - Mosquito Control.|70.22.050 - Powers and duties of secretary.

RCW 70.22.050 Powers and duties of secretary.To carry out the purpose of this chapter, the secretary of health may:(1) Abate as nuisances breeding places for mosquitoes as defined in RCW 17.28.170;(2) Acquire by gift, devise, bequest, lease, or purchase, real and personal property necessary or convenient for carrying out the purpose of this chapter;(3) Make contracts, employ engineers, health officers, sanitarians, physicians, laboratory personnel, attorneys, and other technical or professional assistants;(4) Publish information or literature; and(5) Do any and all other things necessary to carry out the purpose of this chapter: PROVIDED, That no program shall be permitted nor any action taken in pursuance thereof which may be injurious to the life or health of game or fish.[ 1991 c 3 § 320; 1989 c 11 § 25; 1979 c 141 § 91; 1961 c 283 § 5.]NOTES:Severability—1989 c 11: See note following RCW 9A.56.220.
WA Rev Code § 70.22.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.22 - Mosquito Control.|70.22.060 - Governmental entities to cooperate with secretary.

RCW 70.22.060 Governmental entities to cooperate with secretary.Each state department, agency, and political subdivision shall cooperate with the secretary of health in carrying out the purposes of this chapter.[ 1991 c 3 § 321; 1979 c 141 § 92; 1961 c 283 § 6.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.005 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.005 - Transfer of duties to the department of health.

RCW 70.24.005 Transfer of duties to the department of health.The powers and duties of the department of social and health services, the department of licensing, and the secretary of social and health services under this chapter shall be performed by the department of health and the secretary of health.[ 1989 1st ex.s. c 9 § 247.]NOTES:Effective date—Severability—1989 1st ex.s. c 9: See RCW 43.70.910 and 43.70.920.
WA Rev Code § 70.24.015 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.015 - Legislative finding.

RCW 70.24.015 Legislative finding.The legislature declares that sexually transmitted diseases and blood-borne pathogens constitute a serious and sometimes fatal threat to the public and individual health and welfare of the people of the state. The legislature finds that the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and blood-borne pathogens is rising at an alarming rate and that these diseases result in significant social, health, and economic costs, including infant and maternal mortality, temporary and lifelong disability, and premature death. The legislature further finds that sexually transmitted diseases and blood-borne pathogens, by their nature, involve sensitive issues of privacy, and it is the intent of the legislature that all programs designed to deal with these diseases afford patients privacy, confidentiality, and dignity. The legislature also finds that medical knowledge and information about sexually transmitted diseases and blood-borne pathogens are rapidly changing. It is therefore the intent of the legislature to provide a program that is sufficiently flexible to meet emerging needs, deals efficiently and effectively with reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and blood-borne pathogens, and provides patients with a secure knowledge that information they provide will remain private and confidential.[ 2020 c 76 § 1; 1988 c 206 § 901.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.022 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.022 - Interviews, examination, counseling, or treatment of infected persons or persons believed to be infected—Dissemination of false information—Penalty.

RCW 70.24.022 Interviews, examination, counseling, or treatment of infected persons or persons believed to be infected—Dissemination of false information—Penalty.(1) The board shall adopt rules authorizing interviews and the state and local public health officers and their authorized representatives may interview, or cause to be interviewed, all persons infected with a sexually transmitted disease and all persons who, in accordance with standards adopted by the board by rule, are reasonably believed to be infected with such diseases for the purpose of investigating the source and spread of the diseases and for the purpose of ordering a person to submit to examination, counseling, or treatment as necessary for the protection of the public health and safety, subject to RCW 70.24.024.(2) State and local public health officers or their authorized representatives shall investigate identified partners of persons infected with sexually transmitted diseases in accordance with procedures prescribed by the board.(3) All information gathered in the course of contact investigation pursuant to this section shall be considered confidential.(4) No person contacted under this section or reasonably believed to be infected with a sexually transmitted disease who reveals the name or names of sexual contacts during the course of an investigation shall be held liable in a civil action for such revelation, unless the revelation is made with a knowing or reckless disregard for the truth.(5) Any person who knowingly or maliciously disseminates any false information or report concerning the existence of any sexually transmitted disease under this section is guilty of a gross misdemeanor punishable as provided under RCW 9A.20.021.[ 1988 c 206 § 906.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.025 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.025 - Violations of health order—Penalties.

RCW 70.24.025 Violations of health order—Penalties.A person who violates or fails to comply with a health order issued under RCW 70.24.024 is guilty of a gross misdemeanor punishable by confinement until the order has been complied with or terminated, up to a maximum period of three hundred sixty-four days. In lieu of confinement, the court may place the defendant on probation upon condition that the defendant comply with the health order, up to the length of the health order. If the defendant is placed on probation and subsequently violates or fails to comply with the health order, the court shall revoke the probation and reinstate the original sentence of confinement.[ 2020 c 76 § 4.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.027 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.027 - Intentional transmission of HIV—Penalties.

RCW 70.24.027 Intentional transmission of HIV—Penalties.(1) It is unlawful for a person who knows that he or she has HIV to have sexual intercourse if:(a) The person has been counseled by a health care provider or public health professional regarding the risk of transmitting HIV to others;(b) The partner or partners exposed to HIV through sexual intercourse did not know that the person had HIV; and(c) The person intended to transmit HIV to the partner.(2) It is a defense to a prosecution under this section if:(a) HIV was not transmitted to the partner; or(b) The person took or attempted to take practical means to prevent transmission of HIV.(3)(a) Except as provided in (b) of this subsection, violation of this section is a misdemeanor punishable as provided in RCW 9A.20.021.(b) Violation of this section is a gross misdemeanor punishable as provided in RCW 9A.20.021 if the person knowingly misrepresented his or her infection status to the partner.(c) Violation of this section does not require registration under RCW 9A.44.130, unless the partner is a child or vulnerable adult victim.(4) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(a) "Practical means to prevent transmission" means good faith employment of an activity, behavior, method, or device that is scientifically demonstrated to measurably reduce the risk of transmitting a sexually transmitted disease, including but not limited to: The use of a condom, barrier protection, or other prophylactic device; or good faith participation in a treatment regimen prescribed by a health care provider or public health professional.(b) "Sexual intercourse" has its ordinary meaning and occurs upon any penetration, however slight, of the vagina or anus of one person by the sexual organs of another whether such persons are of the same or another sex.[ 2020 c 76 § 5.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.050 - Diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases—Confirmation—Anonymous prevalence reports.

RCW 70.24.050 Diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases—Confirmation—Anonymous prevalence reports.Diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease in every instance must be confirmed by laboratory tests or examinations in a laboratory approved or conducted in accordance with procedures and such other requirements as may be established by the board. Laboratories testing for HIV shall report anonymous HIV prevalence results to the department, for health statistics purposes, in a manner established by the board.[ 1988 c 206 § 907; 1919 c 114 § 6; RRS § 6105.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.070 - Detention and treatment facilities.

RCW 70.24.070 Detention and treatment facilities.For the purpose of carrying out this chapter, the board shall have the power and authority to designate facilities for the detention and treatment of persons found to be infected with a sexually transmitted disease and to designate any such facility in any hospital or other public or private institution, other than a jail or correctional facility, having, or which may be provided with, such necessary detention, segregation, isolation, clinic and hospital facilities as may be required and prescribed by the board, and to enter into arrangements for the conduct of such facilities with the public officials or persons, associations, or corporations in charge of or maintaining and operating such institutions.[ 1988 c 206 § 908; 1919 c 114 § 8; RRS § 6107.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.080 - Penalty.

RCW 70.24.080 Penalty.Except as provided in RCW 70.24.025 and 70.24.027, any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or any rule adopted by the board under this chapter, or who fails or refuses to obey any lawful order issued by any state, county or municipal health officer under this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a gross misdemeanor punishable as provided under RCW 9A.20.021.[ 2020 c 76 § 6; 1988 c 206 § 911; 1919 c 114 § 5; RRS § 6104.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.084 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.084 - Violations of chapter—Aggrieved persons—Right of action.

RCW 70.24.084 Violations of chapter—Aggrieved persons—Right of action.(1) Any person aggrieved by a violation of this chapter shall have a right of action in superior court and may recover for each violation:(a) Against any person who negligently violates a provision of this chapter, one thousand dollars, or actual damages, whichever is greater, for each violation.(b) Against any person who intentionally or recklessly violates a provision of this chapter, ten thousand dollars, or actual damages, whichever is greater, for each violation.(c) Reasonable attorneys' fees and costs.(d) Such other relief, including an injunction, as the court may deem appropriate.(2) Any action under this chapter is barred unless the action is commenced within three years after the cause of action accrues.(3) Nothing in this chapter limits the rights of the subject of a test for a sexually transmitted disease to recover damages or other relief under any other applicable law.(4) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to impose civil liability or criminal sanction for disclosure of a test result for a sexually transmitted disease in accordance with any reporting requirement for a diagnosed case of sexually transmitted disease by the department or the centers for disease control of the United States public health service.(5) It is a negligent violation of this chapter to cause an unauthorized communication of confidential sexually transmitted disease information by facsimile transmission or otherwise communicating the information to an unauthorized recipient when the sender knew or had reason to know the facsimile transmission telephone number or other transmittal information was incorrect or outdated.[ 2001 c 16 § 1; 1999 c 391 § 4; 1988 c 206 § 914.]NOTES:Findings—Purpose—1999 c 391: See note following RCW 70.05.180.
WA Rev Code § 70.24.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.090 - Pregnant women—Test for syphilis.

RCW 70.24.090 Pregnant women—Test for syphilis.Every physician attending a pregnant woman in the state of Washington during gestation shall, in the case of each woman so attended, take or cause to be taken a sample of blood of such woman at the time of first examination, and submit such sample to an approved laboratory for a standard serological test for syphilis. If the pregnant woman first presents herself for examination after the fifth month of gestation the physician or other attendant shall in addition to the above, advise and urge the patient to secure a medical examination and blood test before the fifth month of any subsequent pregnancies.[ 1939 c 165 § 1; RRS § 6002-1.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.110 - Minors—Treatment, consent, liability for payment for care.

RCW 70.24.110 Minors—Treatment, consent, liability for payment for care.A minor fourteen years of age or older who may have come in contact with any sexually transmitted disease or suspected sexually transmitted disease may give consent to the furnishing of hospital, medical, and surgical care related to the diagnosis or treatment of such disease; and treatment to avoid HIV infection. Such consent shall not be subject to disaffirmance because of minority. The consent of the parent, parents, or legal guardian of such minor shall not be necessary to authorize hospital, medical, and surgical care related to such disease, and such parent, parents, or legal guardian shall not be liable for payment for any care rendered pursuant to this section.[ 2020 c 76 § 7; 1988 c 206 § 912; 1969 ex.s. c 164 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.120 - Sexually transmitted disease case investigators—Authority to obtain specimens.

RCW 70.24.120 Sexually transmitted disease case investigators—Authority to obtain specimens.(1) Disease case investigators, upon specific authorization from a physician or by a physician's standing order, are hereby authorized to gather specimens, including through performance of venipuncture or fingerstick puncture, from a person for the sole purpose of obtaining specimens for use in testing for sexually transmitted diseases, blood-borne pathogens, and other infections as defined by board rule.(2) For the purposes of this section:(a) "Disease case investigator" means only those persons who:(i) Are employed by public health authorities; and(ii) Have been trained by a physician in proper procedures to be employed when collecting specimens, including blood, in accordance with training requirements established by the department of health; and(iii) Possess a statement signed by the instructing physician that the training required by (a)(ii) of this subsection has been successfully completed.(b) "Physician" means any person licensed under the provisions of chapters 18.57 or 18.71 RCW.[ 2020 c 76 § 8; 1991 c 3 § 324; 1988 c 206 § 913; 1977 c 59 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.130 - Adoption of rules.

RCW 70.24.130 Adoption of rules.(1) The board shall adopt such rules as are necessary to implement and enforce this chapter, including, but not limited to, rules:(a) Establishing procedures for taking appropriate action, in addition to any other penalty under this chapter, with regard to health care facilities or health care providers that violate this chapter or the rules adopted under this chapter;(b) Prescribing stringent safeguards to protect the confidentiality of the persons and records subject to this chapter, consistent with chapter 70.02 RCW;(c) Establishing reporting requirements for sexually transmitted diseases;(d) Establishing procedures for investigations under RCW 70.24.024;(e) Specifying, for purposes of RCW 70.24.024, behavior that endangers the public health, based upon generally accepted standards of medical and public health science;(f) Defining, for the purposes of RCW 70.24.120, specimens that can be obtained and tests that can be administered for sexually transmitted diseases, blood-borne pathogens, and other infections;(g) Determining, for purposes of RCW 70.24.340, categories of employment that are at risk of substantial exposure to a blood-borne pathogen; and(h) Defining, for purposes of RCW 70.24.340, 70.24.360, and 70.24.370, what constitutes an exposure that presents a possible risk of transmission of a blood-borne pathogen.(2) In addition to any rules adopted by the board, the department may adopt any rules necessary to implement and enforce this chapter.(3) The procedures set forth in chapter 34.05 RCW apply to the administration of this chapter, except that in case of conflict between chapter 34.05 RCW and this chapter, the provisions of this chapter shall control.[ 2020 c 76 § 9; 1991 c 3 § 325; 1988 c 206 § 915.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.150 - Immunity of certain public employees.

RCW 70.24.150 Immunity of certain public employees.Members of the state board of health and local boards of health, public health officers, and employees of the department of health and local health departments are immune from civil action for damages arising out of the good faith performance of their duties as prescribed by this chapter, unless such performance constitutes gross negligence.[ 1991 c 3 § 326; 1988 c 206 § 918.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.220 - Sexually transmitted disease education in public schools—Finding.

RCW 70.24.220 Sexually transmitted disease education in public schools—Finding.The legislature finds that the public schools provide a unique and appropriate setting for educating young people about the pathology and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. The legislature recognizes that schools and communities vary throughout the state and that locally elected school directors should have a significant role in establishing a program of sexually transmitted disease education in their districts, consistent with RCW 28A.230.020 and 28A.300.475.[ 2020 c 76 § 10; 1988 c 206 § 401.]
WA Rev Code § 70.24.290 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 70 - Public Health and Safety|Chapter 70.24 - Control and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.|70.24.290 - Public school employees—Rules for blood-borne pathogens education and training.

RCW 70.24.290 Public school employees—Rules for blood-borne pathogens education and training.The superintendent of public instruction shall adopt rules that require appropriate education and training, to be included as part of their present continuing education requirements, for public school employees on the prevention, transmission, and treatment of blood-borne pathogens. The superintendent of public instruction, in consultation with the department of health, shall develop the educational and training material necessary for school employees.[ 2020 c 76 § 11; 1988 c 206 § 606.]