Ch. 733                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND

authorizing the County to borrow money are hereby continued to
the extent that the power contained in them is continuing or has
not been exercised, unless any law is expressly repealed by this
Act, and the validity of any bonds issued under previously
enacted laws is hereby ratified, confirmed and approved. This
Act, being necessary for the welfare of the inhabitants of the
County, shall be liberally construed to effect its purposes. All
Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this
Act are hereby repealed to the extent of any inconsistency.

SECTION 10. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1988.

Approved May 27, 1988.

CHAPTER 733

(House Bill 1329)

AN ACT concerning

Medical Laboratories - Human Immunodeficiency
Virus Tests - Reporting

FOR the purpose of requiring the directors of certain medical
laboratories where serum samples are tested for human
immunodeficiency virus to submit a certain report to the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene every month;
requiring the report to contain certain statistics under
certain circumstances; requiring the report to be on a
certain form; providing that the monthly report may not
disclose the identity of any individual tested for human
immunodeficiency virus; and generally relating to medical
laboratories submitting certain monthly reports to the
Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene.

BY adding to

Article - Health - General
Section 18-207
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1987 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article - Health - General

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