23-501. Establishment and maintenance; authority.
23-501
23-501. Establishment and maintenance; authority.The secretary of health and environment shall establish and maintainfamily planning centers in cooperation withthe secretary of social and rehabilitation services and county, city-countyand multicounty health departments. Such family planning centers, upon request of any person who is over eighteen (18) years of age and who ismarried or who has been referred to said center by a person licensed topractice medicine and surgeryand who resides in this state, may furnish and disseminate informationconcerning, and means and methods of planned parenthood, including suchcontraceptive devices as recommended by the secretary of health and environment.Such methods andmeans shall be consistent with the religious and personal convictions ofthe individual to whom furnished.
History: L. 1965, ch. 384, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 186, § 20; L.1975, ch. 462, § 34; L. 1980, ch. 182, § 8; July 1.