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Kentucky Revised Statutes · § 214.170 — Person taking to identify blood specimen -- Reports of tests

214.170. Person taking to identify blood specimen -- Reports of tests

Every physician or other person who takes or causes to be taken from a woman in pregnancy, or suspected pregnancy, a blood specimen for serological tests for syphilis, shall identify the specimen as being from a pregnant woman submitting it for tests. The laboratory shall report the result of the test if reactive on forms prepared and furnished by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services not later than one (1) week after the examination is made.

Source notes

Effective: June 20, 2005

History and annotations

Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 452, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 399, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. VI, sec. 107(1). -- Amended 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 157, sec. 1. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2062b-6.

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