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2000 Florida Statutes
                        Chapter 381
PUBLIC HEALTH: GENERAL PROVISIONS Entire Chapter
    
    PUBLIC HEALTH: GENERAL PROVISIONS Entire Chapter
CHAPTER 381
                PUBLIC HEALTH: GENERAL PROVISIONS
            
                        381.001
                        
                    Legislative intent; public health system. 
                    
                        381.0011
                        
                    Duties and powers of the Department of Health. 
                    
                        381.0012
                        
                    Enforcement authority. 
                    
                        381.0013
                        
                    Eminent domain. 
                    
                        381.0014
                        
                    Regulations and ordinances superseded. 
                    
                        381.0015
                        
                    Presumptions. 
                    
                        381.0016
                        
                    Municipal regulations and ordinances. 
                    
                        381.0017
                        
                    Purchase, lease, and sale of real property. 
                    
                        381.0018
                        
                    Application for and acceptance of gifts or grants. 
                    
                        381.0019
                        
                    Disposition of equipment and material; transfers to county health departments. 
                    
                        381.002
                        
                    Grant of title to prescriptive medical personal property to client. 
                    
                        381.0021
                        
                    Client welfare accounts. 
                    
                        381.0022
                        
                    Sharing confidential or exempt information. 
                    
                        381.0025
                        
                    Penalties. 
                    
                        381.003
                        
                    Communicable disease and AIDS prevention and control. 
                    
                        381.0031
                        
                    Report of diseases of public health significance to department. 
                    
                        381.00315
                        
                    Public health advisories. 
                    
                        381.0032
                        
                    Epidemiological research. 
                    
                        381.00325
                        
                    Hepatitis A awareness program. 
                    
                        381.0034
                        
                    Requirement for instruction on human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome. 
                    
                        381.0035
                        
                    Educational course on human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome; employees and clients of certain health care facilities. 
                    
                        381.0036
                        
                    Planning for implementation of educational requirements concerning human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome for specified applicants for professional licensure. 
                    
                        381.0037
                        
                    Findings; intent. 
                    
                        381.0038
                        
                    Education. 
                    
                        381.0039
                        
                    Oversight of AIDS education programs. 
                    
                        381.004
                        
                    HIV testing. 
                    
                        381.0041
                        
                    Donation and transfer of human tissue; testing requirements. 
                    
                        381.0042
                        
                    Patient care for persons with human immunodeficiency virus infection. 
                    
                        381.0045
                        
                    Targeted outreach for pregnant women. 
                    
                        381.0046
                        
                    Statewide HIV and AIDS prevention campaign. 
                    
                        381.005
                        
                    Primary and preventive health services. 
                    
                        381.0051
                        
                    Family planning. 
                    
                        381.0052
                        
                    Dental health. 
                    
                        381.0053
                        
                    Comprehensive nutrition program. 
                    
                        381.0055
                        
                    Confidentiality and quality assurance activities. 
                    
                        381.0056
                        
                    School health services program. 
                    
                        381.0057
                        
                    Funding for school health services. 
                    
                        381.0059
                        
                    Background screening requirements for school health services personnel. 
                    
                        381.00591
                        
                    Department of Health; National Environmental Laboratory accreditation; application; rules. 
                    
                        381.006
                        
                    Environmental health. 
                    
                        381.0061
                        
                    Administrative fines. 
                    
                        381.0062
                        
                    Supervision; private and certain public water systems. 
                    
                        381.0063
                        
                    Drinking water funds. 
                    
                        381.0064
                        
                    Continuing education courses for persons installing or servicing septic tanks. 
                    
                        381.0065
                        
                    Onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems; regulation. 
                    
                        381.00655
                        
                    Connection of existing onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems to central sewerage system; requirements. 
                    
                        381.0066
                        
                    Onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems; fees. 
                    
                        381.0067
                        
                    Corrective orders; private and certain public water systems and onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems. 
                    
                        381.0068
                        
                    Technical review and advisory panel. 
                    
                        381.0072
                        
                    Food service protection. 
                    
                        381.0075
                        
                    Regulation of body-piercing salons. 
                    
                        381.008
                        
                    Definitions of terms used in ss. 381.008-381.00897. 
                    
                        381.0081
                        
                    Permit required to operate a migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing; penalties for unlawful establishment or operation; allocation of proceeds. 
                    
                        381.0082
                        
                    Application for permit to operate migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing. 
                    
                        381.0083
                        
                    Permit for migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing. 
                    
                        381.0084
                        
                    Application fees for migrant labor camps and residential migrant housing. 
                    
                        381.0085
                        
                    Revocation of permit to operate migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing. 
                    
                        381.0086
                        
                    Rules; variances; penalties. 
                    
                        381.0087
                        
                    Enforcement; citations. 
                    
                        381.0088
                        
                    Right of entry. 
                    
                        381.00893
                        
                    Complaints by aggrieved parties. 
                    
                        381.00895
                        
                    Prohibited acts; application. 
                    
                        381.00896
                        
                    Nondiscrimination. 
                    
                        381.00897
                        
                    Access to migrant labor camps and residential migrant housing. 
                    
                        381.009
                        
                    Toilets required by department regulations; charge for use of prohibited. 
                    
                        381.0091
                        
                    Separate restrooms and separate dressing rooms for males and females. 
                    
                        381.0098
                        
                    Biomedical waste. 
                    
                        381.0101
                        
                    Environmental health professionals. 
                    
                        381.0201
                        
                    Technical and support services. 
                    
                        381.0202
                        
                    Laboratory services. 
                    
                        381.0203
                        
                    Pharmacy services. 
                    
                        381.0204
                        
                    Vital statistics. 
                    
                        381.0205
                        
                    Emergency medical services. 
                    
                        381.026
                        
                    Florida Patient's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities. 
                    
                        381.0261
                        
                    Summary of patient's bill of rights; distribution; penalty. 
                    
                        381.0301
                        
                    Education and resource development. 
                    
                        381.0302
                        
                    Florida Health Services Corps. 
                    
                        381.0303
                        
                    Health practitioner recruitment for special needs shelters. 
                    
                        381.0402
                        
                    Area health education center network. 
                    
                        381.0403
                        
                    The Community Hospital Education Act. 
                    
                        381.0404
                        
                    Center for Health Technologies. 
                    
                        381.0405
                        
                    Office of Rural Health. 
                    
                        381.0406
                        
                    Rural health networks. 
                    
                        381.04065
                        
                    Rural health network cooperative agreements. 
                    
                        381.0407
                        
                    Managed care and publicly funded primary care program coordination. 
                    
                        381.045
                        
                    Hepatitis B or human immunodeficiency carriers. 
                    
                        381.0601
                        
                    Self-derived and directed-donor blood programs. 
                    
                        381.06015
                        
                    Public Cord Blood Tissue Bank. 
                    
                        381.0602
                        
                    Organ Transplant Advisory Council; membership; responsibilities. 
                    
                        381.0605
                        
                    Survey of state hospital facilities; Agency for Health Care Administration. 
                    
                        381.1001
                        
                    Short title; Florida Community Health Protection Act. 
                    
                        381.1015
                        
                    Community Environmental Health Program; creation; purposes. 
                    
                        381.102
                        
                    Community Health pilot projects. 
                    
                        381.103
                        
                    Community Health Pilot Projects; duties of department. 
                    
                        381.6021
                        
                    Certification of organizations engaged in the practice of cadaveric organ and tissue procurement. 
                    
                        381.6022
                        
                    Certification of organ procurement organizations, tissue banks, and eye banks. 
                    
                        381.60225
                        
                    Background screening. 
                    
                        381.6023
                        
                    Organ and Tissue Procurement and Transplantation Advisory Board; creation; duties. 
                    
                        381.6024
                        
                    Fees; Florida Organ and Tissue Donor Education and Procurement Trust Fund. 
                    
                        381.6025
                        
                    Physician supervision of cadaveric organ and tissue procurement coordinators. 
                    
                        381.6026
                        
                    Procurement of cadaveric organs for transplant by out-of-state physicians. 
                    
                        381.731
                        
                    Strategic planning. 
                    
                        381.732
                        
                    Short title; Healthy Communities, Healthy People Act. 
                    
                        381.733
                        
                    Definitions relating to Healthy Communities, Healthy People Act. 
                    
                        381.734
                        
                    Healthy Communities, Healthy People Program. 
                    
                        381.7351
                        
                    Short title; Closing the Gap Act. 
                    
                        381.7352
                        
                    Legislative findings and intent. 
                    
                        381.7353
                        
                    Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
                    
                        381.7354
                        
                    Eligibility. 
                    
                        381.7355
                        
                    Project requirements; review criteria. 
                    
                        381.7356
                        
                    Local matching funds; grant awards. 
                    
                        381.739
                        
                    Short title; Charlie Mack Overstreet Brain or Spinal Cord Injuries Act. 
                    
                        381.7395
                        
                    Legislative intent. 
                    
                        381.74
                        
                    Establishment and maintenance of a central registry. 
                    
                        381.745
                        
                    Definitions; ss. 381.739-381.79. 
                    
                        381.75
                        
                    Duties and responsibilities of the department, of transitional living facilities, and of residents. 
                    
                        381.755
                        
                    Benefits not assignable. 
                    
                        381.76
                        
                    Eligibility for the brain and spinal cord injury program. 
                    
                        381.765
                        
                    Retention of title to and disposal of equipment. 
                    
                        381.77
                        
                    Nursing home residents, age 55 and under; annual survey. 
                    
                        381.775
                        
                    Applicant and recipient records; confidential and privileged. 
                    
                        381.78
                        
                    Advisory council on brain and spinal cord injuries. 
                    
                        381.785
                        
                    Recovery of third-party payments for funded services. 
                    
                        381.79
                        
                    Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program Trust Fund. 
                    
                        381.795
                        
                    Long-term community-based supports. 
                    
                        381.815
                        
                    Sickle-cell program. 
                    
                        381.83
                        
                    Trade secrets; confidentiality. 
                    
                        381.85
                        
                    Biomedical and social research. 
                    
                        381.87
                        
                    Osteoporosis prevention and education program. 
                    
                        381.88
                        
                    Insect sting emergency treatment. 
                    
                        381.89
                        
                    Regulation of tanning facilities. 
                    
                        381.895
                        
                    Standards for compressed air used for recreational diving. 
                    
                        381.90
                        
                    Health Information Systems Council; legislative intent; creation, appointment, duties. 
                    
                        381.91
                        
            Jessie Trice Cancer Prevention Program.