PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 105

(1)     In good faith relies on spiritual means through prayer for healing; and

(2)     Complies with the laws, rules, and regulations that relate to sanitation
for and quarantine of infectious, contagious, and communicable diseases.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1996.

Approved April 30, 1996.

AN ACT concerning

CHAPTER 105
(Senate Bill 108)

Public Laboratories

FOR the purpose of altering the requirement that there be certain public health and
clinical laboratories; repealing the requirement that public health and clinical
laboratories be located in specific areas of the State; and generally relating to public
health and clinical laboratories.

BY repealing

Article - Health - General

Section 17-101

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article - Health - General

Section 17-101

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

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

Article - Health - General

[ 17-101.

(a) The Department shall have a properly equipped public health and clinical
laboratory in each of the following areas:

(1)     Annapolis;

(2)     Cambridge;

(3)     Cheverly;

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