PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 8

CHAPTER 8
(Senate Bill 94)

AN ACT concerning

Disease Prevention - Tuberculosis

FOR the purpose of allowing the Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene to obtain a
court order to have an individual being treated for tuberculosis to be placed in a less
restrictive environment; allowing an individual imprisoned for violation of
tuberculosis treatment to be released and treated in a less restrictive environment
under certain circumstances; and generally relating to the treatment of tuberculosis.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Health - General
Section 18-325(c)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1996 Supplement)

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

Article - Health - General

18-325.

(c) An individual who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a
misdemeanor and on conviction shall be imprisoned in a penal institution with facilities
for tuberculosis treatment until the Secretary or the Health Department of Baltimore
City finds that the condition of the individual no longer endangers the health of the
community [.], OR THE SECRETARY OBTAINS A COURT ORDER THAT STATES THAT
THE INDIVIDUAL:

(1) IS TO BE MOVED TO A SPECIFIED LESS RESTRICTIVE SETTING FOR
CONTINUATION OF TREATMENT;

(2) MUST COMPLY WITH THE TREATMENT UNTIL THE SECRETARY
DETERMINES THE TREATMENT HAS BEEN COMPLETED;

(3) MAY NOT BEHAVE IN A DISORDERLY MANNER OR LEAVE THE
PLACEMENT UNTIL THE SECRETARY DETERMINES THAT THE INDIVIDUAL HAS
COMPLETED THE TREATMENT; AND

(4) FOLLOWING A HEARING, WILL BE REIMPRISONED UNTIL THE
SECRETARY DETERMINES THAT THE INDIVIDUAL HAS COMPLETED THE
TREATMENT, IF THE INDIVIDUAL DOES NOT COMPLY WITH THE TERMS OF THE
ORDER.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1997.

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