Rules and Regulations — Purposes

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  2. Tennessee Code
  3. Health, Safety and Environmental Protection
  4. Tuberculosis
  5. General Provisions
  6. Rules and Regulations — Purposes

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The commissioner is authorized to adopt, promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to:

  1. Enable the department to carry out this chapter for the control of tuberculosis;
  2. Establish criteria for the admission of patients to approved hospitals, and for the proper hospital and out-patient care for these patients; and
  3. Establish procedures for the reporting of tuberculosis and for isolating and quarantining those persons infected with tuberculosis who have been determined by the commissioner or by a state, district, county or municipal health officer to be contagious.


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