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Title 18 : Health
Chapter 021 : Communicable Diseases
Subchapter 003 : Venereal Diseases
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 1102)-
§ 1102. Taking blood samples
A practitioner of medicine and surgery or osteopathy attending a pregnant individual shall take samples of blood of such individual, if possible prior to the third month of gestation, and submit the same to a laboratory approved by the Commissioner for a standard serological test for syphilis. Every other person permitted by law to take blood tests shall similarly cause a sample of blood of a pregnant individual attended by the person to be taken by a duly licensed practitioner of medicine and surgery or osteopathy and submit it to a laboratory approved by the Commissioner for a standard serological test for syphilis. (Amended 1959, No. 19, eff. March 5, 1959; 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961; 2023, No. 53, § 59, eff. June 8, 2023.)
