§ 16-41-7-1 — Individual with a communicable disease's duty to inform persons at risk

Indiana § 16-41-7-1

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 16: HEALTH
• Art. 41: PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES FOR THE
• Ch. 7: Communicable Disease: Duty or Authority to Inform or

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(a) This section applies to the following serious
communicable diseases:
(1) Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
(2) Hepatitis B.
(b) As used in this section, "high risk activity" means sexual or
needle sharing contact that has been epidemiologically demonstrated,
as determined by the federal Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, to bear a significant risk of transmitting a serious
communicable disease described in subsection (a).
(c) As used in this section, "person at risk" means:
(1) past and present sexual or needle sharing partners who may
have engaged in high risk activity; or
(2) sexual or needle sharing partners before engaging in high risk
activity;
with an individual with a communicable disease who has a serious
communicable disease described in subsection (a).
(d) Individuals with a communicable disease who know of their
status as an individual with a communicable disease and have a serious
communicable disease described in subsection (a) have a duty to
inform or cause to be notified by a third party a person at risk of the
following:
(1) The individual with a communicable disease's disease status.
(2) The need to seek health care such as counseling and testing.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-10.5-8.5.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.112-2020, SEC.22.