Indiana § 16-41-9-6 - Detained individuals with a communicable disease; isolation; unauthorized absences
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§ 16-41-9-6. Detained individuals with a communicable disease; isolation; unauthorized absences
Sec. 6. (a) The chief medical officer of a hospital or other institutional facility may direct that an individual with a communicable disease detained under this article be placed apart from the others and restrained from leaving the facility. An individual with a communicable disease detained under this article shall observe all the rules of the facility or is subject to further action before the committing court.
(b) An individual with a communicable disease detained under this article who leaves a tuberculosis hospital or other institutional facility without being authorized to leave or who fails to return from an authorized leave without having been formally discharged is considered absent without leave.
(c) The sheriff of the county in which an individual with a communicable disease referred to in subsection (b) is found shall apprehend the individual with a communicable disease and return the individual with a communicable disease to the facility at which the individual with a communicable disease was being detained upon written request of the superintendent of the facility. Expenses incurred under this section are treated as expenses described in section 13 of this chapter.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-10.5-15.]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.112-2020, SEC.35.
Source: official Indiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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