MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1974.

Approved March 12, 1974.

CHAPTER 37
(House Bill 201)
AN ACT concerning

Public Education — Communicable Tuberculosis

FOR the purpose of permitting the local health officer to
designate the intervals when local school employees
must submit evidence that they are free of
tuberculosis in a communicable stage, and relating
to the type of evidence required.

BY repealing and re—enacting, with amendments.

Article 77 — Public Education
Section 86

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1969 Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 86 of Article 77 - Public
Education, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1969
Replacement Volume and 1973 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and re—enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

Article 77 — Public Education

86.

No person having tuberculosis in a communicable
stage shall be permitted to work in any capacity in any
public, private, or parochial school in the State of
Maryland. At the time of initial employment, [and on an
annual basis thereafter, each employee must furnish
evidence to the school administration, in a manner
approved by the health officer, that he is free of
tuberculosis in a communicable state.] AND THEREAFTER AT
INTERVALS DESIGNATED BY THE LOCAL HEALTH OFFICER, EACH
EMPLOYEE SHALL FURNISH CERTIFICATION TO THE SCHOOL
ADMINISTRATION THAT HE IS FREE OF TUBERCULOSIS IN A
COMMUNICABLE STAGE. THIS CERTIFICATION SHALL BE BASED ON