Washington Statutes
§ 70.48.480 — Communicable disease prevention guidelines.
Washington § 70.48.480
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Wash. Rev. Code § 70.48.480 (2026).
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(1)Local jail administrators shall develop and implement policies and procedures for the uniform distribution of communicable disease prevention guidelines to all jail staff who, in the course of their regularly assigned job responsibilities, may come within close physical proximity to offenders or detainees with communicable diseases.
(2)The guidelines shall identify special precautions necessary to reduce the risk of transmission of communicable diseases.
(3)For the purposes of this section, "communicable disease" means a sexually transmitted disease, as defined in RCW 70.24.017 , diseases caused by blood-borne pathogens, or any other illness caused by an infectious agent that can be transmitted from one person, animal, or object to another person by direct or indirect means includi
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Legislative History
[1997 c 345 s 5.]
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