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Health and Safety Code § 120715

CHAPTER 2. Prenatal Syphilis Tests

Current as of September 28, 2026Health & Saf. Code, § 120715Official source ↗

Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1996.

Any licensed physician and surgeon, or other person engaged in attendance upon a pregnant woman or a recently delivered woman, or any representative of a laboratory who violates any provision of this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor. However, a licensed physician and surgeon, or other person engaged in attendance upon a pregnant or recently delivered woman, whose request for a specimen is refused, is not guilty of a misdemeanor for failure to obtain it.