Ch. 156                                     1993 LAWS OF MARYLAND

(As enacted by Chapter 66 of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1992)

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

Article - Health - General

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:

(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.

(xiii) Human immunodeficiency virus infection.

(xiv) CD 4+ count, if less than 200/MM3.

(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:

(i) At least 1 positive test result is reported; and

(ii) The health officer has approved the reporting of less than all test
results.

(b)      [(1)] The report shall:

[(i)] (1) Be EITHER [on] IN the form that the Department
[provides] PRESCRIBES OR ON THE FORM THAT THE DEPARTMENT PROVIDES; and

[(ii)] (2) State:

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