California Health and Safety Code CHAPTER 1 - Tuberculosis Control

• Section 121350.
  The department shall maintain a program for the control of tuberculosis. The department shall administer the funds made available by the state for the care...
• Section 121355.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter a county that has elected to come under Section 14150.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code shall not...
• Section 121357.
  The state department shall be the lead agency for all tuberculosis control and prevention activities at the state level.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec....
• Section 121358.
  (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, individuals housed or detained through the tuberculosis control, housing, and detention program shall not reside in correctional facilities,...
• Section 121360.
  Pulmonary tuberculosis is an infectious and communicable disease, dangerous to the public health, and all proper expenditures that may be made by any county, pursuant...
• Section 121360.5.
  (a) Any city or county health department that elects to participate in this program shall provide for one-year certification of tuberculin skin test technicians by local...
• Section 121361.
  (a)  (1)  A health facility, local detention facility, or state correctional institution shall not discharge or release any of the following persons unless subdivision (e)...
• Section 121362.
  Each health care provider who treats a person for active tuberculosis disease, each person in charge of a health facility, or each person in charge...
• Section 121363.
  Each health care provider who treats a person for active tuberculosis disease shall examine, or cause to be examined, all household contacts or shall refer...
• Section 121364.
  (a)  Within the territory under his or her jurisdiction, each local health officer may order examinations for tuberculosis infection for the purposes of directing preventive...
• Section 121365.
  Each local health officer is hereby directed to use every available means to ascertain the existence of, and immediately investigate all reported or suspected cases...
• Section 121366.
  The local health officer may detain in a hospital or other appropriate place for examination or treatment, a person who is the subject of an...
• Section 121367.
  (a)  An order of a local health officer pursuant to Section 121365 shall set forth all of the following: (1)  The legal authority under which...
• Section 121368.
  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of Section 121365, 121366 or 121367, all of the following shall apply:(a)  A person who is detained solely pursuant to subdivision...
• Section 121369.
  For purposes of Sections 121365, 121366, and 121367, all of the following shall apply:(a)  If necessary, language interpreters and persons skilled in communicating with vision-impaired...
• Section 121370.
  No examination or inspection shall be required of any person who depends exclusively on prayer for healing in accordance with the teachings of any well...
• Section 121375.
  The department may inspect and have access to all records of all institutions and clinics, both public and private, where tuberculosis patients are treated.(Added by...
• Section 121380.
  The department may advise officers of state educational, correctional, and medical institutions regarding the control of tuberculosis and the care of tuberculosis patients.(Added by Stats....
• Section 121390.
  The department shall lease any facilities it deems necessary to care for persons afflicted with active contagious tuberculosis who violate the quarantine or isolation orders...
• Section 121395.
  Whenever any person confined in any state institution, as provided in Section 120280, subject to the jurisdiction of the Director of Corrections, dies, and any...
• Section 121400.
  If the place of confinement of a person confined under the provisions of Section 120280 is in a county other than the county where he...
• Section 121450.
  The department may distribute for the purpose of tuberculosis control an annual subvention, paid quarterly, to any local health department that maintains a tuberculosis control...
• Section 121451.
  A local entity that receives funding from the state for the purposes of this part, including, but not limited to, funding from the state for...
• Section 121452.
  A local health department or local health officer that receives funding from the state for tuberculosis control pursuant to Item 4265-111-0001 of Section 2.00 of...
• Section 121455.
  The department may establish standards and procedures for the operation of local tuberculosis control programs. Such standards shall include, but not be limited to, the...
• Section 121460.
  Of the annual appropriation made to the department for tuberculosis control, the department may expend a sum not to exceed 7.5 percent of the total,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018