68-9-104 - Rules and regulations Purposes.

68-9-104. Rules and regulations Purposes.

The commissioner is authorized to adopt, promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to:

     (1)  Enable the department to carry out the provisions of this chapter for the control of tuberculosis;

     (2)  Establish criteria for the admission of patients to approved hospitals, and for the proper hospital and out-patient care for these patients; and

     (3)  Establish procedures for the reporting of tuberculosis and for isolating and quarantining those persons infected with tuberculosis who have been determined by the commissioner or by a state, district, county or municipal health officer to be contagious.

[Acts 1971, ch. 210, § 4; 1977, ch. 145, § 3; T.C.A., § 53-1023.]