(a) An employee is entitled to receive appropriate health care to be provided by the appointing authority and leave with pay in accordance with subsection (b) of this section, if:
(1) the employee has a positive tuberculin skin test result on a test taken by the employee at the direction of the employee’s appointing authority; and
(2) the Secretary of Health determines that, for public health reasons, the employee should not work for a given period of time.
(b) Leave granted to an employee under this subsection for public health reasons may not exceed 90 days. If it is determined that a longer absence is medically required, the employee may use other forms of leave to the extent authorized under this title.
Structure Maryland Statutes
Title 9 - Leave Time and Holidays
Section 9-1101 - Applicability of Subtitle
Section 9-1102 - Disaster Service Leave
Section 9-1103 - Paid Leave Following Positive Tuberculin Skin Test
Section 9-1104 - Miscellaneous Paid Leaves
Section 9-1105 - Unpaid Leaves of Absence
Section 9-1106 - Paid Leave for Organ Donation