§ 16-41-9-6 — Detained individuals with a communicable disease; isolation; unauthorized absences

(a) The chief medical officer of a hospital or
other institutional facility may direct that an individual with a
communicable disease detained under this article be placed apart from
the others and restrained from leaving the facility. An individual with
a communicable disease detained under this article shall observe all the
rules of the facility or is subject to further action before the committing
court.
(b) An individual with a communicable disease detained under this
article who leaves a tuberculosis hospital or other institutional facility
without being authorized to leave or who fails to return from an
authorized leave without having been formally discharged is
considered absent without leave.
(c) The sheriff of the county in which an individual with a
communicable disease referred to in subsection (b) is found shall
apprehend the individual with a communicable disease and return the
individual with a communicable disease to the facility at which the
individual with a communicable disease was being detained upon
written request of the superintendent of the facility. Expenses incurred
under this section are treated as expenses described in section 13 of
this chapter.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-10.5-15.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.112-2020, SEC.35.