Part 3 — Communicable Diseases and Public Health Emergencies
44 Isolation order
by a laboratory report demonstrating evidence of an infectious
agent certifies or 2 physicians certify that a person is infected with
an organism that produces a disease prescribed in the regulations
for the purposes of this section and that the person refuses or
neglects
(a) to submit to medical, surgical or other remedial treatment,
or
(b) to comply with any other conditions
that have been prescribed by a physician as being necessary to
mitigate that disease or to limit its spread to others, the physician or
physicians shall each issue an isolation order in the prescribed
form.
RSA 2000
(1.1) A physician or physicians shall not issue an isolation order
under subsection (1) unless the physician is or the physicians are
satisfied that there is no other reasonable means of mitigating the
disease or limiting its spread to others.
(2) Subsection (1) applies whether or not there is a certificate in
existence in respect of the person who is the subject of the isolation
order or orders.
(3) A physician issuing an isolation order shall forthwith send a
copy of the isolation order to the Chief Medical Officer.
1984 cP-27.1 s54;1988 c41 s16;1998 c38 s19;2021 c15 s14