Florida Statutes Title XXIX Chapter 392 - Tuberculosis Control

  • 392.501 - Short Title.
    This chapter may be cited as the “Tuberculosis Control Act.”History.—s. 1, ch. 88-389; s. 1, ch. 88-398.
  • 392.51 - Tuberculosis Control.
    A statewide system is established to control tuberculosis infection and mitigate its effects. The system consists of mandatory contact identification, treatment to cure, hospitalization, isolation...
  • 392.52 - Definitions.
    As used in this chapter, the term:(1) “Active tuberculosis” means tuberculosis disease that is demonstrated to be contagious by clinical or bacteriological evidence, or by other...
  • 392.53 - Reporting Required.
    (1) Each person who makes a diagnosis of tuberculosis or who treats a person with tuberculosis and each laboratory that performs a test on a specimen...
  • 392.54 - Contact Investigation.
    (1) The department and its authorized agents may counsel and interview, or cause to be counseled and interviewed, any person who has active tuberculosis, who is...
  • 392.545 - Naming Of Persons Subject To Proceedings.
    (1) When requesting an order from a circuit court under the provisions of s. 392.55, s. 392.56, or s. 392.57, the department shall substitute a pseudonym...
  • 392.55 - Physical Examination And Treatment.
    (1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (3) and (4), the department and its authorized representatives may petition the circuit court to examine or cause to...
  • 392.56 - 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 who has active tuberculosis to...
  • 392.565 - Execution Of Certificate For Involuntary Hold.
    When a person who has active tuberculosis or who is reasonably suspected of having active tuberculosis presents to a physician licensed under chapter 458 or...
  • 392.57 - Emergency Hold.
    (1) The department may file a petition before a circuit court requesting that an emergency hold order be issued for a person if the department has...
  • 392.58 - Service Of Notice And Processes; Duties Of Sheriff.
    (1) All notices required to be given, warrants, petitions, processes issued, and orders entered pursuant to s. 392.55, s. 392.56, or s. 392.57 shall be served...
  • 392.59 - Forms To Be Developed.
    The department shall develop and furnish to the court all forms necessary under ss. 392.55, 392.56, 392.565, and 392.57, and the court may use such...
  • 392.60 - Right Of Appeal; Immediate Release.
    (1) Any person who is aggrieved by the entry of an order under s. 392.55, s. 392.56, or s. 392.57 shall have the period of time...
  • 392.61 - Community Tuberculosis Control Programs.
    (1) The department shall operate, directly or by contract, community tuberculosis control programs in each county in the state.(2) Community tuberculosis control programs shall have the following...
  • 392.62 - Hospitalization And Placement Programs.
    (1) The department shall contract for operation of a program for the treatment of persons who have active tuberculosis in hospitals licensed under chapter 395 and...
  • 392.63 - Temporary Leave.
    Any person who has been hospitalized, placed in another health care facility or residential facility, or isolated in the home may be granted a short-term...
  • 392.64 - Adherence To Treatment; Treatment Plan; Penalties.
    (1) The department, its authorized representatives, or a physician licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459 shall prescribe an individualized treatment plan for each person who...
  • 392.65 - Confidentiality.
    (1) All information and records held by the department or its authorized representatives relating to known or suspected cases of tuberculosis or exposure to tuberculosis shall...
  • 392.655 - 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...
  • 392.66 - Rules.
    The department shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to administer this chapter. The rules must include requirements for tuberculosis treatment and provide...
  • 392.67 - Unlawful Acts; Penalties For Violation.
    (1) It is unlawful for any person who has active tuberculosis and who knows or has been informed of that fact to willfully expose other persons...
  • 392.68 - Fees And Other Compensation.
    (1) For the services required to be performed under ss. 392.55, 392.56, 392.57, and 392.62, compensation shall be paid as follows:(a) The sheriff shall receive the same...
  • 392.69 - Appropriation, Sinking, And Maintenance Trust Funds; Additional Powers Of The Department.
    (1) The Legislature shall include in its annual appropriations act a sufficient sum for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter.(2) All moneys required...

Last modified: September 23, 2016