The Secretary shall determine the number and location of public health laboratories and maintain those laboratories as needed to provide testing, consulting, and regulatory support of infectious disease, epidemiology, environmental, and regulatory public health programs.
A public health and clinical laboratory shall provide services in connection with: (1) Any inquiry that the Department or any health officer or physician makes about a communicable disease; (2) Any inquiry that the Department makes about sewage; (3) Any inquiry that the Department makes about a trade waste; (4) Any inquiry the Department makes about a nuisance; (5) Any […]
(a) Except as otherwise provided, the Secretary may set a fee for any service of a public health and clinical laboratory in accordance with § 2–104 of this article. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the Secretary may not impose any fee for any service of a public health and clinical laboratory in […]
(a) In this section, “Fund” means the Laboratory Testing Fund. (b) There is a Laboratory Testing Fund in the Department for the provision of laboratory services associated with the production of farmstead cheese. (c) The Department shall administer the Fund. (d) (1) The Fund is a special, nonlapsing fund that is not subject to § 7–302 of the State Finance […]
(a) (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated. (2) “Mutual aid agreement” means a written agreement between a public health laboratory in the State and a public health laboratory operated by another state to establish and carry out a plan to assist each other in providing temporary testing services to alleviate an emergency at […]
