26-5-3 - System for detecting and monitoring diseases established by department. - Utah Statutes

26-5-3. System for detecting and monitoring diseases established by department.
(1) The department shall develop and maintain a system for detecting and monitoringchronic diseases within the state and shall investigate and determine the epidemiology of thoseconditions which contributed to preventable and premature sickness, or both, and to death anddisability.
(2) Beginning July 1, 2004, the department shall consider the disease known as "lupus" achronic disease subject to the detection and monitoring provisions of Subsection (1).

Amended by Chapter 197, 2004 General Session