Section 145.14. Definitions.

  In this subchapter:

(1)  "Commitment" means the process by which a court of record orders the confinement of a person to a place providing treatment.

(2)  "Contact" means a person who had physical contact with a case that involved the genitalia of one of them during a period of time which covers both the maximum incubation period for the disease and the time during which the case showed symptoms of the disease, or could have either infected the case or been infected by the case.

(3)  "Minor" means a person under the age of 18.

(4)  "Sexually transmitted diseases" means syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, genital herpes infection, chlamydia trachomatis, and sexually transmitted pelvic inflammatory disease.

(5)  "Source" means the person epidemiologic evidence indicates is the origin of an infection.

(6)  "Suspect" means a person who meets the criteria in s. DHS 145.18 .

History: Cr. Register, April, 1984, No. 340 , eff. 5-1-84; renum. and am. from HFS 145.12, Register, March, 2000, No. 531 , eff. 4-1-00.