PART IX. TUBERCULOSIS
SUBPART A. TUBERCULOSIS - GENERAL
§1117.1. Persons admitted and committed to sanatoria
A. Any indigent person suffering from tuberculosis who is a bona fide resident of Louisiana may be admitted to any state-operated hospital upon the handwritten recommendation of any registered physician and upon being found a fit subject entitled to such admission after investigation under regulations made by the Louisiana Department of Health. Except as hereinafter provided, these regulations shall govern all such admissions without distinction and nothing in this Section empowers the Louisiana Department of Health to make special rules or exceptions governing individual specific cases. All regulations as to admission shall be general in character.
B. The Louisiana Department of Health shall also admit to any state-operated hospital any person having tuberculosis who has been sentenced by any district court in the state for violating those provisions of the state sanitary code dealing with isolation or quarantine of communicable disease and who at the discretion of the court has been specifically committed to serve his sentence at such a hospital. This provision shall not be construed to mean that the Louisiana Department of Health must provide security measures at the hospital for retaining these offenders. Furthermore, if any person committed to a state-operated hospital by court order for violating those provisions of the sanitary code dealing with isolation or quarantine of communicable disease creates a grave disciplinary problem and tends to disrupt the efficient operation of that institution, or leaves without completing his sentence and without authority, the superintendent of the hospital shall petition the court which committed the person to transfer that person to the hospital section of the state penitentiary or to order that person to be apprehended and committed to that institution for the remainder of his sentence.
Amended by Acts 1960, No. 356, §2; Acts 1966, No. 384, §1; Acts 1977, No. 508, §1; Acts 1977, No. 519, §1; Acts 2001, No. 1032, §14; Redesignated from R.S. 40:1172 by HCR 84 of 2015 R.S; Acts 2018, No. 206, §4.
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