140.3  Confidential reports.

Reports to the Iowa department of public health which include the identity of persons infected with venereal disease shall be kept secret, and all such information, records, and reports concerning the same shall be confidential and shall not be accessible to the public. However, such reports, information, and records shall be secret and confidential only to the extent which is necessary to prevent identification of persons named therein; and the other parts of such reports, information, and records shall be public records. The preceding sentence shall prevail over any inconsistent provision of this chapter.

Section History: Early form

  [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2305; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 140.28; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 140.3]

Internal References

  Referred to in § 232.69


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