Florida Statutes Title XXIX Chapter 384 - Sexually Transmissible Diseases

• 384.21 - Short Title.
  This chapter may be cited as the “Control of Sexually Transmissible Disease Act.”History.—s. 90, ch. 86-220.
• 384.22 - Findings; Intent.
  The Legislature finds and declares that sexually transmissible diseases constitute a serious and sometimes fatal threat to the public and individual health and welfare of...
• 384.23 - Definitions.
  (1) “Department” means the Department of Health.(2) “County health department” means agencies and entities as designated in chapter 154.(3) “Sexually transmissible disease” means a bacterial, viral, fungal, or...
• 384.24 - Unlawful Acts.
  (1) It is unlawful for any person who has chancroid, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, lymphogranuloma venereum, genital herpes simplex, chlamydia, nongonococcal urethritis (NGU), pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)/acute...
• 384.25 - Reporting Required.
  (1) Each person who makes a diagnosis of or treats a person with a sexually transmissible disease and each laboratory that performs a test that concludes...
• 384.26 - Contact Investigation.
  (1) The department and its authorized representatives may interview, or cause to be interviewed, all persons infected or suspected of being infected with a sexually transmissible...
• 384.27 - Physical Examination And Treatment.
  (1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (3) and (4), the department and its authorized representatives may examine or cause to be examined persons suspected of...
• 384.28 - Hospitalization, Placement, And Residential Isolation.
  (1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (2) and (3), the department may petition the circuit court to order a person to be isolated, hospitalized, placed...
• 384.281 - Prehearing Detention.
  (1) The department may file a petition before a circuit court requesting that a prehearing detention order be placed on a person when the department provides...
• 384.282 - Naming Of Parties.
  (1) When requesting an order from a circuit court under the provisions of s. 384.27, s. 384.28, or s. 384.281, the department shall substitute a pseudonym...
• 384.283 - Service Of Notice And Processes; Sheriff To Deliver Person To State Program.
  (1) All notices required to be given, all petitions and warrants, and all processes issued and all orders entered pursuant to ss. 384.27, 384.28, and 384.281...
• 384.284 - Forms To Be Developed.
  The department shall develop and furnish to the circuit court all forms necessary under ss. 384.27, 384.28, and 384.281, and the court may use such...
• 384.285 - Right Of Appeal; Immediate Release.
  (1) Any person who is aggrieved by the entry of an order under s. 384.27, s. 384.28, or s. 384.281 shall have the period of time...
• 384.286 - Temporary Leave.
  Persons who have been hospitalized, placed in another health care or residential facility, or isolated in their residences may be granted a short-term temporary leave...
• 384.287 - Screening For Sexually Transmissible Disease.
  (1) An officer as defined in s. 943.10(14); support personnel as defined in s. 943.10(11) who are employed by the Department of Law Enforcement, including, but...
• 384.288 - Fees And Other Compensation; Payment By Board Of County Commissioners.
  (1) For the services required to be performed under the provisions of ss. 384.27, 384.28, and 384.281, compensation shall be paid as follows:(a) The sheriff shall receive...
• 384.29 - Confidentiality.
  (1) All information and records held by the department or its authorized representatives relating to known or suspected cases of sexually transmissible diseases are strictly confidential...
• 384.30 - Minors’ Consent To Treatment.
  (1) The department and its authorized representatives, each physician licensed to practice medicine under the provisions of chapter 458 or chapter 459, each health care professional...
• 384.31 - Testing Of Pregnant Women; Duty Of The Attendant.
  Every person, including every physician licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459 or midwife licensed under part I of chapter 464 or chapter 467, attending...
• 384.32 - Prisoners.
  (1) The department and its authorized representatives may, at its discretion, enter any state, county, or municipal detention facility to interview, examine, and treat any prisoner...
• 384.33 - Rules.
  The department may adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to implement the provisions of this chapter. The rules may include requirements for methods...
• 384.34 - Penalties.
  (1) Any person who violates the provisions of s. 384.24(1) commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.(2) Any...

Last modified: September 23, 2016