# Health - General (GHG)

## Title 17. Laboratories

### Subtitle 1. Public Health and Clinical Laboratories

#### Section 17-102

A public health and clinical laboratory shall provide services in connection with:

(1) Any inquiry that the Department or any health officer or physician makes about a communicable disease;

(2) Any inquiry that the Department makes about sewage;

(3) Any inquiry that the Department makes about a trade waste;

(4) Any inquiry the Department makes about a nuisance;

(5) Any examination or analysis of a water supply;

(6) Any examination or analysis of milk; and

(7) Any inquiry about any other matter that the Secretary requires.

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Md. Code Ann., Health-Gen. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)