39-601. VENEREAL DISEASES ENUMERATED. Syphilis, gonorrhea, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), chlamydia and hepatitis B virus (HBV), hereinafter designated as venereal diseases, are hereby declared to be contagious, infectious, communicable and dangerous to public health; and it shall be unlawful for anyone infected with these diseases or any of them to knowingly expose another person to the infection of such diseases.
History:
[(39-601) 1921, ch. 200, secs. 1, 6, p. 406; I.C.A., sec. 38-501; am. 1945, ch. 52, sec. 1, p. 67; am. 1986, ch. 70, sec. 1, p. 195; am. 1988, ch. 45, sec. 1, p. 51; am. 1990, ch. 143, sec. 1, p. 322; am. 2012, ch. 311, sec. 1, p. 858.]