§ 16-41-3-2 — Duties of state department of health

(a) The state department shall tabulate all case
reports of tuberculosis and other serious communicable diseases
reported under this article or under rules adopted under this article. The
state department shall determine the prevalence and distribution of
disease in Indiana and devise methods for restricting and controlling
disease.
(b) The state department shall include the information on the
prevalence and distribution of tuberculosis and other serious
communicable diseases in the state department's annual report.
(c) The state department shall disseminate the information prepared
under this section.
(d) The state department shall develop capabilities and procedures
to perform preliminary analysis and identification in as close to a real
time basis as is scientifically possible of unknown bacterial substances
that have been or may be employed as a weapon. The state department
shall implement the developed capacity and procedures immediately
after the state department achieves a Level B capability as determined
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States
Department of Health and Human Services and the United States
Public Health Service of the United States Department of Health and
Human Services.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-10.5-8.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.156-2001, SEC.5; P.L.112-2020, SEC.15.