As Amended
SEC. 41-23-5. Authority of state department of health to investigate diseases.
The state department of health shall have the authority to investigate and control the causes of epidemic, infectious and other disease affecting the public health, including the authority to establish, maintain and enforce isolation and quarantine, and in pursuance thereof, to exercise such physical control over property and individuals as the department may find necessary for the protection of the public health.
SOURCES: Codes, 1906, Sec. 2500; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 4849; 1930, Sec. 4886; 1942, Sec. 7042; Laws, 1983, ch. 522, Sec. 4, eff from and after July 1, 1983.