Relating to health; modifying certain provisions regulating the isolation and
quarantine of persons exposed to or infected with a communicable disease; temporarily authorizing peace officers to use force to apprehend, hold, transport, quarantine or isolate persons subject to an isolation or quarantine order fleeing or forcibly resisting the officer, requiring the commissioner of health or agents of local boards of health to upon request advise peace officers of measures recommended to protect against possible transmission of disease; clarifying the conditions for commissioner issuance of temporary hold directives and requiring the directives to specify the known period of incubation or communicability, directive to remain in effect for the period specified and requiring immediate application for an isolation or quarantine order, directive to expire after a certain number of hours without court action, specifying certain notice requirements of the commissioner relating to issuance of temporary hold directives; authorizing peace officers to assist public health officials to apprehend, hold, transport, quarantine or isolate persons subject to a directive, authorizing the use of force; requiring health care facilities holding persons under a directive to prevent the person from exposing others to the disease, sunset; authorizing and providing for the court to appoint counsel at the expense of the department of health or a local public health board for unrepresented persons upon request; authorizing the court to conduct certain hearings by electronic means to maintain isolation or quarantine precautions and reduce the risk of spread of a communicable disease; providing protections for employees performing services for hire in the state subject to and complying with isolation or quarantine for a communicable disease, limits; temporarily providing for administration of vaccines and dispensing of legend drugs in declared emergencies; extending the expiration date of certain provisions of the Minnesota emergency health powers act
(Ch. 149, 2005)