22 §1231. Blood sample for laboratory test

Title 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE

Subtitle 2: HEALTH

Part 3: PUBLIC HEALTH HEADING: PL 1989, C. 487, §11 (RPR)

Chapter 251: COMMUNICABLE DISEASES HEADING: PL 1989, C. 487, §11 (RPR)

Subchapter 3: SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

Article 4: PRENATAL EXAMINATION

§1231. Blood sample for laboratory test

Every physician attending a woman in the State by reason of her being pregnant during gestation shall in the case of every woman so attended take or cause to be taken, with her consent, a sample of blood of such woman, and submit such sample for a standard serological test for syphilis and R.H. factors to a laboratory of the department or to a laboratory approved for these tests by the department. Such laboratory tests as are required by sections 1231 to 1234 shall be made on request without charge by the department.