(1) The Department of Human Services shall by rule:
(a) Specify reportable diseases;
(b) Identify those categories of persons who must report reportable diseases and the circumstances under which the reports must be made;
(c) Prescribe the procedures and forms for making such reports and transmitting the reports to the department; and
(d) Prescribe measures for investigating the source and controlling reportable diseases.
(2) Persons required under the rules to report reportable diseases shall do so by reporting to the local public health administrator. The local public health administrator shall transmit such reports to the department.
(3) In addition to other grounds for which a state agency may exercise disciplinary action against its licensees or certificate holders, the substantial or repeated failure of a licensee or certificate holder to report when required to do so under subsection (2) of this section shall be cause for the exercise of any of the agency’s disciplinary powers.
(4) Any person making a report under this section is immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed with respect to the making of a report under this section or to the contents of the report. [1987 c.600 §3; 2007 c.445 §6a]
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