2019 Minnesota Statutes

12.39 INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT Next ; NOTICE, REFUSAL, CONSEQUENCE.

Subdivision 1.Refusal of Previous treatment Next .

Notwithstanding laws, rules, or orders made or promulgated in response to a national security emergency or peacetime emergency, individuals have a fundamental right to Previous refuse Next medical Previous treatment Next , testing, physical or mental examination, vaccination, participation in experimental procedures and protocols, collection of specimens, and preventive Previous treatment Next programs. An individual who has been directed by the commissioner of health to submit to medical procedures and protocols because the individual is infected with or reasonably believed by the commissioner of health to be infected with or exposed to a toxic agent that can be transferred to another individual or a communicable disease, and the agent or communicable disease is the basis for which the national security emergency or peacetime emergency was declared, and who refuses to submit to them may be ordered by the commissioner to be placed in isolation or quarantine according to parameters set forth in sections 144.419 and 144.4195.

Subd. 2.Information given.

Before performing examinations, testing, Previous treatment Next , or vaccination of an individual under subdivision 1, a health care provider shall notify the individual of the right to Previous refuse Next the examination, testing, Previous treatment, or vaccination, and the consequences, including isolation or quarantine, upon refusal.

History:

2002 c 402 s 15,21; 2004 c 279 art 11 s 7; 2005 c 149 s 7; 2005 c 150 s 10,14