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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 81.094: TESTING BY HOSPITALS OF PERSONS INDICTED FOR CERTAIN CRIMES.
Where this section sits in the code
- HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
- TITLE 2. HEALTH
- SUBTITLE D. PREVENTION, CONTROL, AND REPORTS OF DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES
- CHAPTER 81. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS; PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES
- SUBCHAPTER E. CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS; PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES
A hospital shall perform a medical procedure or test on a person if a court orders the hospital to perform the procedure or test on a person whom the court orders to undergo the procedure or test under Article 21.31, Code of Criminal Procedure. The procedure or test is a cost of court.
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 22, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
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