TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 10

PREVENTION OF CONGENITAL SYPHILIS

39-1002.  Procedure when woman not attended by licensed physician. Every other person attending a pregnant or recently delivered woman in the state, but not permitted by law to take blood samples, shall within fifteen (15) days of the first examination cause a sample of blood of such woman to be taken by a licensed physician and have the sample submitted to the laboratory of the state department of health and welfare for a standard serological test for syphilis, or to a laboratory approved by said board.

History:

[39-1002, added 1943, ch. 26, sec. 2, p. 53; am. 1974, ch. 23, sec. 110, p. 633.]