Alabama Code (Last Updated: November 28, 2014) |
Title22 HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL. |
Title1 HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL GENERALLY. |
Chapter11A. REPORTING NOTIFIABLE DISEASES. |
Article3. Infected Health Care Worker. |
§22-11A-72. Penalties.
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(a) It shall be grounds for revocation, suspension, or restriction of the professional license of any licensed infected health care worker who shall be found to perform invasive procedures and shall have failed to notify the State Health Officer as provided in Section 22-11A-61.
(b) Any physician providing care to an individual known to the physician to be an infected health care worker who fails to report the infected health care worker to the State Health Officer as provided in Section 22-11A-61 shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided by law.
(c) Any individual who deliberately fails to provide records under his or her control or who falsifies those records shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided by law.