Maryland Statutes
Title 18 - Disease Prevention
Subtitle 2 - Reports; Preventive Actions

Part I - Reports on Diseases

Section 18-201 - Infectious or Contagious Disease Reports -- by Physicians - (a) A physician with reason to suspect that a patient...

Section 18-201.1 - Aids Reports -- by Physicians - (a) A physician who has diagnosed a patient under the...

Section 18-202 - Infectious or Contagious Disease Reports -- by Institutions - (a) In this section, “institution” includes: (1) A hospital; and...

Section 18-202.1 - Duties of Institutions to Report Hiv-Positive Patients - (a) In this section, “institution” includes: (1) A hospital; (2)...

Section 18-203 - Information Provided to a Cancer Control Agency in Another State - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department may provide...

Section 18-204 - Cancer or a Central Nervous System Tumor - (a) (1) In this section the following words have the...

Section 18-205 - Laboratory Examination Reports - (a) In this section, “clinical material” means: (1) An organism...

Section 18-206 - Sentinel Birth Defects - (a) (1) In this section the following words have the...

Section 18-207 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus; Case Report; Confidentiality - (a) (1) In this section the following words have the...

Part II - Control of Infectious and Contagious Diseases

Section 18-208 - General Duties - (a) (1) When a health officer has reason to believe...

Section 18-209 - Notice to School Boards - When a health officer receives notice of an infectious or...

Section 18-210 - Disinfecting - (a) To prevent the spread of an infectious or contagious...

Section 18-211 - Moving Infected Individuals - (a) A health officer may have an individual moved to...

Section 18-212 - Health Officer Records - (a) The health officer shall keep a record of each...

Section 18-212.1 - Authority of Governor to Quarantine Vessels - If the Governor has strong grounds to believe that there...

Section 18-213 - Notification of Fire Fighters, Emergency Medical Technicians, Rescue Squadmen, Law Enforcement Officers, Correctional officers,etc., of Exposure to Contagious Disease or Virus; Educational Programs; Equipment - (a) (1) In this section the following words have the...

Section 18-213.1 - Notification of Members of the State Fire Marshal's Office of Exposure to Contagious Disease or Virus; Educational Programs; Equipment - (a) (1) In this section the following words have the...

Section 18-213.2 - Notification of Contact Exposure to Contagious Disease or Virus; Postmortem Examination - (a) (1) In this section the following words have the...

Section 18-214 - Statewide Advisory Commission on Immunization - (a) In this section, “vaccine” means a product intended to...

Section 18-214.1 - Expedited Partner Therapy Program - (a) The purpose of expedited partner therapy is to provide...

Section 18-214.2 - Outbreak Response Plan -- Customization - (a) (1) In this section, “public institution of higher education”...

Part III - Penalties

Section 18-215 - Penalties for Failure to File Reports or Making Unauthorized Use of Reports of Confidential Information - (a) In addition to any other penalty provided by law,...

Section 18-216 - Refusal to Move Infected Individual - A person who violates any provision of § 18-211(c) of...

Part IV - Animal Control

Section 18-217 - Legislative Findings and Declaration - The General Assembly finds and declares that it is in...

Section 18-218 - "Animal" Defined - In this part, “animal” means any nonhuman living creature, whether...

Section 18-219 - Prohibition on Dangerous Animals - (a) The Secretary may prohibit the importation, selling, trading, purchasing,...

Section 18-220 - More Stringent Requirements by Local Governments - Nothing in this part prevents or prohibits any county, municipal...

Section 18-221 - Intergovernmental Cooperation - When prohibiting animals that may also be harmful to indigenous...

Section 18-222 - Penalties; Seizure of Contraband Animals - (a) Any person who imports, transports, sells, transfers, breeds, raises,...