139A.39 - RELIGIOUS EXCEPTIONS.

        139A.39  RELIGIOUS EXCEPTIONS.
         A provision of this chapter shall not be construed to require or
      compel any person to take or follow a course of medical treatment
      prescribed by law or a health care provider if the person is an
      adherent or member of a church or religious denomination and in
      accordance with the tenets or principles of the person's church or
      religious denomination the person opposes the specific course of
      medical treatment.  However, such person while in an infectious stage
      of disease shall be subject to isolation and such other measures
      appropriate for the prevention of the spread of the disease to other
      persons.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2000 Acts, ch 1066, §35