The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
002
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TUBERCULOSIS
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 1048)
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§ 1048. Examination; report; treatment
A physician, licensed to practice medicine and surgery in the State, shall immediately
after examination of an indigent person wishing treatment for tuberculosis or other
chronic respiratory disease make a report of the physician’s findings to the Commissioner
of Health. Upon receipt of such report, the Commissioner may authorize treatment of
the person who has tuberculosis or other chronic respiratory disease. Such person’s
physician shall then prescribe the time of treatment and designate the facility at
which treatment shall be given; provided, however, that in a case of tuberculosis
suspected of being infectious, the Commissioner may apply all the laws and rules of
communicable disease control. (Amended 1969, No. 101, § 4, eff. April 19, 1969; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 92; 2023, No. 6, § 109, eff. July 1, 2023.)