§ 63-1-517. Definitions.

For the purposes of the following sections of this article:

(a) The term "sexually transmitted infection (STI)" means syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and any other disease which may be transmitted from any person to any other person through or by means of any form of sexual contact.

(b) The term "infected person" means any individual, either sex, who may be carrying the organism or is afflicted with any STI.

(c) The term "dealer" means any person who may handle, for sale, any medicinal remedies or supposed remedies for an STI, and the agents, clerks and employees of any such person; and any person who may profess or claim to treat or cure, by the use of medicine or otherwise, any sexually transmitted infection (STI), and the agents, clerks and employees.

(d) The term "physician" shall include reputable physicians who have complied with all the requirements of law regulating the practice of their respective schools of medicine, and duly licensed by such law to practice medicine in their respective schools, or surgery, or both, and no other person.

Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 5, § 517, operative July 1, 1963. Amended by Laws 2011, c. 105, § 19, eff. Nov. 1, 2011.