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...(A) As used in this section, "violation" means an occasion of noncompliance involving a single injured individual. (B) A person or an agency of state or local government that knowingly violates division (A) of section 3701.242, division (A) of section 3701.243, or division (E) of section 3701.248 of the Revised Code may be found liable in a civil action; the action may be brought by any individual injured by the vio...

...(A) No state agency as defined in section 1.60 of the Revised Code, political subdivision, agency of local government, or private nonprofit corporation receiving state or local government funds shall refuse to admit as a patient, or to provide services to, any individual solely because the individual refuses to consent to an HIV test or to disclose HIV test results. (B) The prohibition contained in division (A) of ...

...Any human body part donated for transplantation, including an organ, tissue, eye, bone, artery, or other part, and any body fluid donated for transfusion or injection into another person, including blood, plasma, a blood product, semen, or other fluid, shall be given an HIV test before being transplanted, transfused, or injected to determine that the part or fluid is not infected with the HIV virus unless, in an emer...

...(A)(1) Any of the following persons may bring an action in a probate court for an order compelling another person to undergo HIV testing: (a) A person who believes the person may have been exposed to HIV infection while rendering health or emergency care to the other person; (b) A peace officer who believes the peace officer may have been exposed to HIV infection while dealing with the other person in the p...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Contagious or infectious disease" means a disease specified in rules adopted by the director of health pursuant to division (F) of this section. (2) "Patient" means either of the following: (a) A person, whether alive or dead, who has been treated, or handled, or transported for medical care by an emergency medical services worker; (b) A deceased person whose body is handled...

...(A) As used in this section, "employer" and "employee" have the same meanings as in section 4112.01 of the Revised Code. (B) The employer of a person with HIV infection is immune from liability to any person in a civil action for damages for injury, death, or loss to person or property on a claim arising out of transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus from the infected employee to another employee or to any ...

...(A) As used in sections 3701.25 to 3701.255 of the Revised Code: (1) "Certified nurse practitioner" and "clinical nurse specialist" have the same meanings as in section 4723.01 of the Revised Code. (2) "Hospital" has the same meaning as in section 3722.01 of the Revised Code. (3) "Parkinson's disease" means a chronic and progressive neurological disorder resulting from a deficiency of the neurotransmitter do...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, all data collected by the Parkinson's disease registry is confidential pursuant to section 3701.17 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of health may enter into agreements to furnish data collected in the Parkinson's disease registry to other states' Parkinson's disease registries, federal Parkinson's disease control agencies, local health officers, and local heal...

...(A) There is hereby created the Parkinson's disease registry advisory committee. The committee shall consist of the director of health or the director's designee and the following members appointed by the director: (1) A neurologist; (2) A movement disorder specialist; (3) A primary care provider; (4) A physician informaticist; (5) A public health professional; (6) A population health researcher fam...

...Within twenty-four months of the establishment of the Parkinson's disease registry, and annually thereafter, the director of health shall submit a report to the general assembly in accordance with section 101.68 of the Revised Code summarizing the following: (A) The incidence of Parkinson's disease in Ohio by county; (B) The number of new cases reported to the Parkinson's disease registry in the previous year; ...

...The director of health shall describe the registry and provide any information regarding the registry the director deems relevant on the department of health's internet web site.

...The director of health shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to specify the data to be collected and the format in which it is to be submitted to the registry.

...(A) As used in this section, "state university" has the same meaning as in section 3345.011 of the Revised Code. (B) The director of health shall: (1) Establish a population-based cancer registry, which shall be known as the Ohio cancer incidence surveillance system, to monitor the incidence of various types of malignant diseases in Ohio, make appropriate epidemiologic studies to determine any causal relatio...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Physician" means a person authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised Code to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. (2) "Dentist" means a person who is licensed under Chapter 4715. of the Revised Code to practice dentistry. (3) "Hospital" has the same meaning as in section 3727.01 of the Revised Code. (4) "Cancer" includes those diseases spe...

...ocal authorities neglect or refuse to enforce efficient measures for its prevention, the director of health may appoint a medical or sanitary officer and such assistants as he may require, and authorize him to enforce such orders or regulations as the director deems necessary.

...The department of health shall make provision for annual conferences of district health commissioners for the consideration of the cause and prevention of dangerous communicable diseases and other measures to protect and improve the public health. Each board of health or other body or person appointed or acting in place of a board of health shall appoint its health commissioner or health officer a delegate to such co...

...The department of health may devise a suitable program for establishing a blood bank for civilian use, embracing if necessary, methods for the registration of blood donors, for the collection of blood from donors, for the processing or procurement of blood plasma or other substitutes for whole blood, and for the distribution of pool blood, blood plasma, or other blood substitutes to meet civilian needs, to communitie...

...In formulating and administering the blood bank program, the department of health may establish necessary standards, promulgate necessary rules and regulations, utilize the facilities and services of other official agencies and of voluntary organizations which may be made available to the department, and co-operate, if requested, with agencies and organizations engaged in a similar program on a local or state basis.

...Suitable rooms for conducting the business of the department of health shall be provided and maintained by the state.

...(A) There is hereby created the Ohio public health advisory board. The board shall consist of the following members: (1) The following members appointed by the director of health from among individuals who are not employed by the state and are recommended by statewide trade or professional organizations that represent interests in public health: (a) One individual authorized under Chapter 4731. of the Revised C...

...(A) The Ohio public health advisory board shall review and make recommendations to the director of health on all of the following: (1) Developing and adopting proposed rules under Chapters 3701 and 3717 of the Administrative Code; (2) Prescribing proposed fees for services provided by the office of vital statistics and the bureau of environmental health; (3) Any proposed policy changes that pertain to entiti...

...(A) The director of health, pursuant to Chapter 119. and consistent with Chapter 3726. and section 2317.56 of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules relating to abortions and the following subjects: (1) Post-abortion procedures to protect the health of the pregnant woman; (2) Pathological reports; (3) Humane disposition of the product of human conception; (4) Counseling. (B) The director of health shall implem...

...The director of health shall adopt rules establishing minimum standards and optimum achievable standards for boards of health and local health departments. The minimum standards shall assure that boards of health and local health departments provide for: (A) Analysis and prevention of communicable disease; (B) Analysis of the causes of, and appropriate treatment for, the leading causes of morbidity and mortal...

... district is unable to administer and enforce a private water system program in the district, the director shall administer and enforce such a program in the district and establish fees for such administration and enforcement. (2) Boards of health of city or general health districts shall be given the exclusive power to determine the number of inspections necessary for determining the safe drinking characteristics o...

...Any applicant for a permit to construct, develop, install, or modify a private water system required by rules adopted by the director of health under section 3701.347 of the Revised Code may apply to the board of health of the city or general health district administering and enforcing the private water supply program in the health district in which the private water system is or is to be located or, if the hea...