§1085.2. Duty to report disease to local health officer
Any physician, midwife, or other person licensed by the state to practice obstetrics
or to assist at childbirth, or any physician who attends a child within two weeks after
childbirth, shall within six hours after obtaining knowledge of the condition defined in R.S.
40:1085.1 report this condition, as directed by the Louisiana Department of Health,
hereinafter referred to as the "department", to the local health officer at the residence of the
mother.
Amended by Acts 1978, No. 786, §5, eff. July 17, 1978; Acts 1988, No. 839, §1;
Redesignated from R.S. 40:1102 by HCR 84 of 2015 R.S.