1874                                        LAWS OF MARYLAND                                    Ch. 500

(III) SUBJECT TO SUBPOENA OR DISCOVERY IN ANY
CRIMINAL OR CIVIL PROCEEDING ONLY PURSUANT TO A COURT ORDER
SEALING THE COURT RECORD.

(2) THIS SUBSECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO A DISCLOSURE BY
THE SECRETARY TO ANOTHER GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY PERFORMING ITS
LAWFUL DUTIES AS AUTHORIZED BY AN ACT OF THE MARYLAND GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OR THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS WHERE THE SECRETARY
DETERMINES THAT:

(I)  THE AGENCY TO WHOM THE INFORMATION IS
DISCLOSED WILL MAINTAIN THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF THE DISCLOSURE;
AND

(II)  THE DISCLOSURE IS NECESSARY TO PROTECT THE
PUBLIC HEALTH OR TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF AN INFECTIOUS OR
CONTAGIOUS DISEASE.

18-205.

(a) (1) The director of a medical laboratory shall submit a
report to the health officer for the county where the laboratory
is located within 48 hours after an examination of a specimen
from a human body shows evidence of any of the following
diseases:

(i) Gonorrhea.

(ii) Viral hepatitis type A.

(iii) Viral hepatitis type B.

(iv) Haemophilus meningitis.

(v) Meningococcal meningitis.

(vi) Streptococcus meningitis type A.

(vii) Streptococcus meningitis type B.

(viii) Viral meningitis.

(ix) Meningococcemia.

(x) Typhoid or nontyphoid salmonellosis.

(xi) Syphilis.

(xii) Tuberculosis.

(2) When more than 1 specimen is taken from a patient
during 1 disease episode, the director of the medical laboratory
need not report every test result of a specimen that shows
evidence of the same disease in that patient if: