| | | If the department has reasonable grounds to believe that there | exists, on public or private property, any communicable disease | which | | agent of the department may enter any place, building, vessel, | | aircraft or common carrier with the permission of the owner, | agent or occupant where the communicable disease | | threat is reasonably believed to exist and may inspect and | | examine the same. If entry is refused, that agent shall apply | | for an inspection warrant from the District Court pursuant to | | Title 4, section 179, prior to conducting the inspection. |
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| | | Sec. 10. 22 MRSA §806, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 487, §11, is | | amended to read: |
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| | | 1. Dismissal. In the event of an actual or threatened | | outbreak of a communicable disease or other public health threat, | the department may order that any or all persons | or working in any | | the department determines that a public health threat no longer | | exists. |
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| | | Sec. 11. 22 MRSA §807, last ¶, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 487, §11, is | | amended to read: |
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| | | For purposes of carrying out this chapter, the department may | | designate facilities and private homes for the confinement and | | treatment of infected persons posing a public health threat. The | | department may designate any such facility in any hospital or | | other public or private institution, other than a jail or | | correctional facility. Designated institutions must have | | necessary clinic, hospital or confinement facilities as may be | | required by the department. The department may enter into | | arrangements for the conduct of these facilities with public | | officials or persons, associations or corporations in charge of | | or maintaining and operating these institutions. |
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| | | Sec. 12. 22 MRSA §812, sub-§1, ¶G, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 487, §11 | | and amended by PL 2003, c. 689, Pt. B, §6, is further amended to | | read: |
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| | | G. Undergoing a comprehensive medical assessment by the | | State Forensic Service. The court, in selecting the | | examination site, shall consider proximity to the court, | | availability of an examiner and the need to protect the | | public health. No person may be presented for examination | | under this subsection without arrangements for examination | | having first been made by the court, clerk of the court or | | the petitioner with the State Forensic Service. The opinion | of the State Forensic Service shall | | court forthwith following the examination. |
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