Title 35 · WY
35-4-107, or who willfully makes any false report regarding any
Citation: Wyo. Stat. § 35-4-107
Section: 35-4-107
35-4-107, or who willfully makes any false report regarding any case, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisonment in the county jail not more than six (6) months, or both.
35-4-109. Spreading contagious disease; prohibited.
Any person who shall knowingly have or use about his premises, or who shall convey or cause to be conveyed into any neighborhood, any clothing, bedding or other substance used by, or in taking care of, any person afflicted with the smallpox or other infectious or contagious disease, or infected thereby, or shall do any other act with intent to, or necessarily tending to the spread of such disease, into any neighborhood or locality, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined in any sum not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six (6) months, or by both fine and imprisonment; and the court trying any such offender may also include in any judgment rendered, an order to the effect that the clothing or other property infected be burned or otherwise destroyed, and shall have power to carry such order into effect.
35-4-110. Spreading contagious disease; liability for damages in civil action.
Any person guilty of violating the provisions of W.S. 35-4-109, in addition to the penalties therein prescribed, shall be liable in a civil action in damages to any and all persons, who may, from that cause, become infected with such contagious disease; said damages shall be so assessed as to include, in addition to other damages, all expenses incurred by reason of such sickness, loss of time and burial expenses; and such action may also be maintained by the representative of any deceased person.
35-4-111. Reporting of Reye's Syndrome.
Every hospital or local health officer shall immediately report every diagnosed case of Reye's Syndrome to the state health officer of the department of health.
35-4-112. Right of appeal of quarantine.
(a) Any person who has been quarantined pursuant to this act may appeal to the district court at any time for release from the quarantine. The court may hold a hearing on the appeal after notice is provided to the state health officer at least seventy-two (72) hours prior to the hearing. After the hearing, if the court finds that the quarantine is not reasonably necessary to protect the public health, it shall order the person released from quarantine. The burden of proof for the need for the quarantine shall be on the state health officer, except that in the case of bona fide scientific or medical uncertainty the court shall give deference to the professional judgment of the state health officer unless the person quarantined proves by a preponderance of the evidence that the quarantine is not reasonably necessary to protect the public health.
(b) Any person quarantined shall have the right to communicate by telephone or any other available electronic means, but the state health officer may, in order to protect the public health, deny the quarantined person's right to meet in person with any person not subject to the quarantine, except that a parent or legal guardian may upon request be quarantined with the minor patient.
(c) In the event of a public health emergency of unknown effect, the state health officer may impose a temporary quarantine until there is sufficient information to determine what actions, if any, are reasonably needed to protect the public health.
35-4-113. Treatment when consent is not available; quarantine.
(a) Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, W.S. 14-4-116 and 21-4-309, the state health officer shall not subject any person to any vaccination or medical treatment without the consent of the person.
(b) During a public health emergency, the state health officer may subject a person to vaccination or medical treatment without consent in the following circumstances:
(i) If the parent, legal guardian or other adult person authorized to consent to medical treatment of a minor child cannot be located and consulted and the vaccination of or medical treatment for the minor child is reasonably needed to protect the public health or protect the minor child from disease, death, disability or suffering;
(ii) If the person authorized to consent on behalf of an incompetent person cannot be located and consulted and the vaccination of or medical treatment for the incompetent person is reasonably needed to protect the public health or protect the incompetent person from disease, death, disability or suffering.
(c) If a person withholds or refuses consent for himself, a minor or other incompetent when the vaccination or medical treatment is reasonably needed to protect the health of others from a disease carrying the risk of death or disability, then the person for whom the vaccination or medical treatment is refused may be quarantined by the state health officer.
35-4-114. Immunity from liability. (a) During a public health emergency as defined by W.S.