Section 333.5117 - Individual with serious communicable disease or infection; order authorizing care; report; authority not restricted; financial liability for care.
PUBLIC HEALTH CODE (EXCERPT)
Act 368 of 1978
333.5117 Individual with serious communicable disease or infection; order authorizing care; report; authority not restricted; financial liability for care.
Sec. 5117.
(1) A local health department that knows that an individual who has a serious communicable disease or infection including, but not limited to, tuberculosis or venereal disease, but not including HIV infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, regardless of the individual's domicile, is in the local health department's jurisdiction and requires care, immediately shall furnish the necessary care in accordance with requirements established by the department pursuant to section 5111(2)(g). The local health department shall issue an order authorizing the care.
(2) The local health department promptly shall report the action taken under this section to the county department of social services of the individual's probable place of domicile.
(3) This section does not restrict the authority of the local health department in furnishing care to the individual, pending determination by the local health department or, upon its request, by the county department of social services of the probable place of domicile of the individual.
(4) Financial liability for care rendered under this section shall be determined in accordance with part 53.
History: Add. 1988, Act 491, Eff. Mar. 30, 1989 ;-- Am. 1994, Act 200, Imd. Eff. June 21, 1994 ;-- Am. 2010, Act 119, Imd. Eff. July 13, 2010
Popular Name: Act 368