[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR35.10]

[Page 114]
 
                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 35--HOSPITAL AND STATION MANAGEMENT--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 35.10  Destruction of effects dangerous to health.

    The officer in charge shall cause to be destroyed effects brought 
into or received in the station or hospital area by patients which, in 
the judgement of such officer, are dangerous as a source of disease to 
the health or life of patients or personnel of the station or hospital 
or visitors therein and cannot otherwise be safely disposed of or 
rendered harmless by disinfection or other means. The destruction of 
effects shall be witnessed by at least one officer or employee 
designated for that purpose by the officer in charge, and appropriate 
records of the destruction shall be maintained.