1.    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department of health and human services or any other agency shall release the results of any testing for any reportable disease performed on an individual convicted of a crime who is imprisoned if the request is made by any individual and the individual provides written proof from the administrator of the facility with control over the individual imprisoned which states that the individual has had a significant exposure.

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 23-07-07.6

  • Individual: means a human being. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37

2.    For purposes of this section, “significant exposure” means:

a.    Contact of broken skin or mucous membrane with a patient’s or other individual’s blood or bodily fluids other than tears or perspiration; b.    The occurrence of a needle stick or scalpel or instrument wound in the process of caring for a patient; or

c.    Exposure that occurs by any other method of transmission defined by the department of health and human services as a significant exposure.

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