Title 22, Title 22

1. Program established. The Universal Immunization Program is established to provide all individuals in the State with access to a uniform set of vaccines as determined and periodically updated by the Maine Vaccine Board. The program is administered by the department for the purp…

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 sy…

The department is authorized to approve one or more tests for syphilis and rh factor which shall be known as standard tests, and may approve and appoint other laboratories in addition to the state laboratory to make such tests. Whenever such laboratory performs a test for syphili…

Blood specimens sent to a laboratory in compliance with section 1231 shall be accompanied by an information blank which shall contain the initials of the person whose blood is submitted or a number or other suitable means of identification, and the word "Prenatal" to indicate the…

No civil action shall be maintainable for failure to comply with sections 1231 to 1233.

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings. [PL 2009, c. 533, §1 (NEW).] 1. Department. "Department" means the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. 2. Expedi…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a health care professional who makes a clinical diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease may provide expedited partner therapy for the treatment of the sexually transmitted disease if in the judgment of the health care professional t…

The department may, in the case of an emergency or threatened epidemic of rabies or hydrophobia when in its opinion the health and safety of the people in a community are endangered, issue orders to the mayor of any city or the municipal officers of any town or plantation to have…

1. Establishment of procedures. The commissioner, in consultation with the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, shall adopt rules, in accordance with the Maine Administrative Procedure Act, establishing proc…

If an undomesticated animal suspected of having rabies bites or may have otherwise exposed to rabies a person or a domestic animal, an animal control officer or a game warden shall immediately either remove the undomesticated animal or cause the undomesticated animal to be remove…

1. Violation. A person who violates a rule established under this chapter commits a civil violation for which a forfeiture of not less than $100 nor more than $500 may be adjudged for each offense. In addition, the court may include an order of restitution as part of the sentenci…