California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 1 - Prevention and Control

• Section 120500.
  As used in the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act (Section 27) “venereal diseases” means syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphopathia venereum, granuloma inguinale, and chlamydia.(Amended by...
• Section 120505.
  The department shall develop and review plans and provide leadership and consultation for, and participate in, a program for the prevention and control of venereal...
• Section 120510.
  The department shall cooperate in the prevention, control, and cure of venereal diseases with physicians and surgeons; medical schools; public and private hospitals, dispensaries, and...
• Section 120515.
  The department shall investigate conditions affecting the prevention and control of venereal diseases and approved procedures for prevention and control, and shall disseminate educational information...
• Section 120520.
  The department shall conduct educational and publicity work as it may deem necessary; and, from time to time, shall cause to be issued, free of...
• Section 120525.
  The department may establish, maintain, and subsidize clinics, dispensaries, and prophylactic stations for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of venereal diseases, and may provide medical,...
• Section 120530.
  The department may furnish treatment for a case or for a group of cases in rural counties or cities upon the recommendation of the local...
• Section 120535.
  Any state agency conducting a public hospital shall admit acute venereal disease cases, when, in the opinion of the department or the local health officer...
• Section 120540.
  The department may require any physician in attendance on a person infected or suspected of being infected with a venereal disease infection to submit specimens...
• Section 120545.
  The examination may be made in the state laboratory or in a local public health laboratory designated by the department or in a clinical laboratory...
• Section 120550.
  Nothing in this chapter limits any person’s freedom to have additional examinations made elsewhere than specified in this chapter.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec....
• Section 120555.
  Every diseased person shall give all information required by this chapter, including the name and address of any person from whom the disease may have...
• Section 120560.
  Every diseased person shall from time to time submit to approved examinations to determine the condition of the disease.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec....
• Section 120565.
  If any person subject to proper venereal disease control measures discontinues any control procedure required by this chapter, the agency administering the procedure prior to...
• Section 120570.
  If it appears reasonably likely that the person is not complying with the procedure elsewhere, the agency that was administering the procedure prior to the...
• Section 120575.
  It is the duty of the local health officers to use every available means to ascertain the existence of cases of infectious venereal diseases within...
• Section 120580.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person employed by a public health department may perform venipuncture or skin puncture for the purpose of withdrawing...
• Section 120582.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a physician and surgeon who diagnoses a sexually transmitted chlamydia, gonorrhea, or other sexually transmitted infection, as determined by...
• Section 120585.
  Local health officers may inspect and quarantine any place or person when the procedure is necessary to enforce the regulations of the board or the...
• Section 120590.
  It is the duty of the district attorney of the county where a violation of this chapter may occur to prosecute the person accused of...
• Section 120595.
  In any prosecution for a violation of any provision of this chapter, or any rule or regulation of the board made pursuant to this chapter,...
• Section 120600.
  Any person who refuses to give any information to make any report, to comply with any proper control measure or examination, or to perform any...
• Section 120605.
  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to interfere with the freedom of any adherent of teachings of any well-recognized religious sect, denomination, or organization...

Last modified: October 22, 2018