Section 7572 Of Title 8.7. Examination Of Inmates And Wards For Tuberculosis From California Penal Code >> Title 8.7. >> Part 3.
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. The chief of medical services, or his or her designee, shall
use every available means to ascertain the existence of, and to
immediately investigate all reported or suspected cases of,
tuberculosis in the infectious stages and to ascertain the source or
sources of the infections. In carrying out these investigations, the
chief of medical services, or his or her designee, is hereby invested
with full powers of inspection, examination, and quarantine or
isolation of all inmates or wards known to be, or reasonably
suspected to be, infected with tuberculosis in an infectious stage.