1. (a) An individual who has tuberculosis in a communicable stage may not work in any capacity in a public, private, or parochial school.

2. (b)

   1. (1) A school employee may be required to furnish a current certification to the school administration that the employee is free of tuberculosis in a communicable stage.

   2. (2) The health officer of a county or the Baltimore City Commissioner of Health may require an employee to furnish the certification when:

      1. (i) The employee is first employed; and
      2. (ii) At any other time that the health officer or the Baltimore City Commissioner of Health deems necessary.
   3. (3) This certification shall be based on results of specific tests.

   4. (4) The types of tests and the intervals between these tests shall:

      1. (i) Be regulated by the health officer or Commissioner; and
      2. (ii) Conform to the standards of the Maryland Department of Health.

Added as Education § 7-404 by Acts 1978, c. 22, § 2, eff. July 1, 1978. Amended by Acts 1981, c. 524, § 1; Acts 1983, c. 606. Renumbered as Education § 7-406 by Acts 1996, c. 10, § 16, eff. April 9, 1996. Amended by Acts 2017, c. 62, § 6.

Formerly Art. 77, § 86.