A. The public health authority shall inform the people of the state when a state of catastrophic health emergency has been declared or terminated, how to protect themselves during a state of catastrophic health emergency, and what actions are being taken to control the catastrophic health emergency.
B. The public health authority shall provide information by all available and reasonable means calculated to bring the information promptly to the attention of the general public.
C. If the public health authority has reason to believe there are large numbers of people of the state who lack sufficient skills in English to understand the information, the public health authority shall make reasonable efforts to provide the information in the primary languages of those people as well as in English.
D. The provision of information shall be made in a manner accessible to individuals with disabilities.
Added by Laws 2003, c. 473, §20.
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