37.114.201    REPORTERS

(1) With the exception noted in (3) below, any person, including but not limited to a physician, dentist, nurse, medical examiner, other health care practitioner, administrator of a health care facility, public or private school administrator, or laboratorian who knows or has reason to believe that a case exists shall immediately report to the local health officer the information specified in ARM 37.114.205(1) through (2).

(2) A local health officer must submit to the department, on the schedule noted in ARM 37.114.204, the information specified in ARM 37.114.205 concerning each confirmed or suspected case of which the officer is informed.

(3) A state funded anonymous testing site for HIV infection is not subject to the reporting requirement in (1) with regard to HIV testing.

History: 50-1-202, 50-17-103, 50-18-105, MCA; IMP, 50-1-202, 50-2-118, 50-17-103, 50-18-102, 50-18-106, MCA; NEW, 1980 MAR p. 1579, Eff. 6/13/80; AMD, 1986 MAR p. 254, Eff. 2/28/86; AMD, 1987 MAR p. 2147, Eff. 11/28/87; AMD, 1995 MAR p. 1127, Eff. 6/30/95; AMD, 2000 MAR p. 2528, Eff. 9/22/00; TRANS, from DHES, 2002 MAR p. 913; AMD, 2006 MAR p. 2112, Eff. 9/8/06.