Health and Safety Code section 120500

As used in the Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Act (Section 27) “venereal diseases” means syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphopathia venereum, granuloma inguinale, and chlamydia.

Source: Section 120500, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=120500. (updated Jan. 1, 2001; accessed Jun. 25, 2025).

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Location: https://california.public.law/codes/health_and_safety_code_section_120500

Original Source: Section 120500, https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=120500. (last accessed May 12, 2025).