{"data":{"id":"us-in/ic-16-41-7-2","jurisdiction":"us-in","citation":"IC 16-41-7-2","heading":"Reporting of persons posing a serious and present risk or being at risk","body":"Sec. 2. (a) An individual with a communicable disease is a \"serious and present risk to the health of others\" under the following conditions:\n(1) The individual with a communicable disease engages repeatedly in a behavior that has been demonstrated epidemiologically (as defined by rules adopted by the state department under IC 4-22-2) to transmit a serious communicable disease or that indicates a careless disregard for the transmission of the disease to others.\n(2) The individual with a communicable disease's past behavior or statements indicate an imminent risk that the individual with a communicable disease will engage in behavior that transmits a serious communicable disease to others.\n(3) The individual with a communicable disease has failed or refused to carry out the individual with a communicable disease's duty to inform under section 1 of this chapter.\n(b) A person who has reasonable cause to believe that a person:\n(1) is a serious and present risk to the health of others as described in subsection (a);\n(2) has engaged in noncompliant behavior; or\n(3) is suspected of being a person at risk (as described in section 1 of this chapter);\nmay report that information to a health officer.\n(c) A person who makes a report under subsection (b) in good faith is not subject to liability in a civil, an administrative, a disciplinary, or a criminal action.\n(d) A person who knowingly or recklessly makes a false report under subsection (b) is civilly liable for actual damages suffered by a person reported on and for punitive damages.","path":["TITLE 16. HEALTH","ARTICLE 41. PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF DISEASE","Chapter 7. Communicable Disease: Duty or Authority to Inform or Notify"],"source_url":"https://iga.in.gov/ic/2026/Title_16.html#16-41-7-2","current_through":"2026","vintage":"2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-11T20:02:18Z","sha256":"0882e68bf6be0c1dedac249c55af9dc5a3df76699725e1531c481b05b8e7de14","source_id":"us-in","stale":false,"prev":"us-in/ic-16-41-7-1","next":"us-in/ic-16-41-7-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}