§ 70.24.005 Transfer of duties to the department of health
§ 70.24.015 Legislative finding
§ 70.24.017 Definitions
§ 70.24.022 Interviews, examination, counseling, or treatment of infected persons or persons believed to be infected — Dissemination of false information — Penalty
§ 70.24.024 Orders for examinations and counseling — Investigation — Issuance of health order — Notice and hearing — Exception
§ 70.24.025 Violations of health order — Penalties
§ 70.24.027 Intentional transmission of HIV — Penalties
§ 70.24.034 Detention — Grounds — Order — Hearing
§ 70.24.050 Diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases — Confirmation — Anonymous prevalence reports
§ 70.24.070 Detention and treatment facilities
§ 70.24.080 Penalty
§ 70.24.084 Violations of chapter — Aggrieved persons — Right of action
§ 70.24.090 Pregnant women — Test for syphilis
§ 70.24.110 Minors — Treatment, consent, liability for payment for care
§ 70.24.120 Sexually transmitted disease case investigators — Authority to obtain specimens
§ 70.24.130 Adoption of rules
§ 70.24.150 Immunity of certain public employees
§ 70.24.220 Sexually transmitted disease education in public schools — Finding
§ 70.24.290 Public school employees — Rules for blood-borne pathogens education and training
§ 70.24.325 Testing — Insurance requirements
§ 70.24.340 Employees’ substantial exposure to bodily fluids — Procedure and court orders
§ 70.24.360 Jail detainees — Testing of persons who present a possible risk
§ 70.24.370 Correction facility inmates — Testing — Procedure
§ 70.24.400 Funding for office on AIDS — Center for AIDS education — Department’s duties for awarding grants
§ 70.24.420 Additional local funding of treatment programs not required
§ 70.24.430 Application of chapter to persons subject to jurisdiction of department of corrections
§ 70.24.450 Confidentiality — Reports — Unauthorized disclosures
§ 70.24.901 Construction — Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships — 2009 c 521
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