Section 34-22-7 - Legislative purpose in state-wide communicable disease control program. - South Dakota Statutes

34-22-7. Legislative purpose in state-wide communicable disease control program. It is declared to be the purpose of the Legislature in enacting this program for tuberculosis control and eradication for South Dakota that there shall be a state-wide program for case finding and that all persons within South Dakota suspected or found to have tuberculosis shall be subject to a program for the prevention, control, and treatment of the disease, and shall be entitled to adequate diagnosis and treatment as a public health measure at state expense regardless of place of legal residence or ability to pay, to achieve the eventual goal of eradication of tuberculosis in South Dakota.

Source: SL 1963, ch 380, § 1.