(a) Persons who suffer from venereal disease are entitled, without regard to whether they can afford to pay for their medical treatment, to demand that they be taken under treatment at public expense, and likewise are under obligation to submit themselves to such treatment, unless they can show that they have put themselves under proper private medical care. Venereal patients under private medical care shall nevertheless be subject to the supervision of the Commissioner of Health.
(b) Where, after discharge from active treatment, there is special ground for fearing a return of the disease in a contagious form, the physician, who has treated the sick person can give him or her an injunction to appear before him at a specified time for examination or to produce a certificate from an authorized physician that no such relapse has taken place.
(c) Any person suffering from venereal disease may be placed in a hospital, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Health. Whoever refuses to submit to such hospitalization shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both.