Tennessee § 68-10-112 - Reports of physicians and health officers.

§ 68-10-112. Reports of physicians and health officers.

Every physician or other person who makes a diagnosis of, treats, or prescribes for a case of STD and every superintendent or manager of a clinic, hospital, laboratory or penal institution, in which there is a case of STD, shall report the case immediately to those persons or agencies designated as recipients of such reports by the commissioner. Reports shall be made on forms supplied by the department, stating the name, address, age, sex, race, stage of the disease and other information on the form as may be required for the location, treatment and control of infectious cases. Reporting of STDs, other than those designated as reportable in the regulations promulgated by the department, is not required. Acts 1921, ch. 106, § 1; impl. am. Acts 1923, ch. 7, § 46; Shan. Supp., § 3116a8; Code 1932, § 5813; Acts 1943, ch. 73, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 5813; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 53-1101; Acts 1988, ch. 695, §§ 1, 3; T.C.A. § 68-10-101 . Code Commission Notes. Former § 68-10-101 was transferred to this location by authority of the code commission in 2006. Former § 68-10-112 was transferred to § 68-10-101 . Cross-References. Family life curriculum, title 49, ch. 6, part 13. Physician, health personnel or institutional report of venereal disease, venereal herpes or chlamydia in children, § 37-1-403 . Pregnancy serological tests for syphilis, title 68, ch. 5, part 6. Prohibition on AIDS victims donating blood, § 68-32-104 . Public school nurse program, title 68, ch. 1, part 12. Testing for AIDS, contaminated blood, cause of action for AIDS infection from untested blood, § 68-32-102 . Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 14 Tenn. Juris., Health, § 1. Tennessee Law of Evidence (2nd ed., Cohen, Paine and Sheppeard), § 501.10. Law Reviews. Camping Trips and Family Trees: Must Tennessee Physicians Warn Their Patients' Relatives of Genetic Risks? (Carol McCrehan Parker), 65 Tenn. L. Rev. 585 (1998). Updating Tennessee's Public Records Law (Douglas Pierce), 24 Tenn. B.J. 24 (1988). Comparative Legislation. Sexually transmitted diseases: Ala. Code § 22-11A-13 et seq. Ark. Code § 20-16-501 et seq. Ga. O.C.G.A. § 31-17-1 et seq. Ky. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 214.400 et seq. Miss. Code Ann. § 41-23-27 et seq. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 130A-134 et seq. Va. Code § 32.1-55 et seq.