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2012 Maine Revised Statutes
TITLE 22: HEALTH AND WELFARE
Chapter 251: COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
22 §1231. Blood sample for laboratory test

Universal Citation:
22 ME Rev Stat § 1231 (2012 through 125th Legis)
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Subtitle 2: HEALTH

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

Subchapter 3: SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

§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 Rh 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 must be made on request without charge by the department. [RR 2009, c. 2, §48 (COR).]

SECTION HISTORY

RR 2009, c. 2, §48 (COR).

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