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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="7-406" title_number="7" title_name="Public Schools" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Health and Safety of Students">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An individual who has tuberculosis in a communicable stage may not work in any capacity in a public, private, or parochial school.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>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.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The health officer of a county or the Baltimore City Commissioner of Health may require an employee to furnish the certification when:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The employee is first employed; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>At any other time that the health officer or the Baltimore City Commissioner of Health deems necessary.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>This certification shall be based on results of specific tests.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The types of tests and the intervals between these tests shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Be regulated by the health officer or Commissioner; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Conform to the standards of the Maryland Department of Health.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
