Title 22, section 801 and
following, of the Maine Revised Statutes Annotated, includes provisions that
relate to the authority of the Department of Human Services for the control
of communicable diseases.
10-144 of the Code of Maine
Regulations, Chapter 258 includes the rules made by the Department of Human
Services, under the statutory authority granted to it by the state
legislature, that apply to the Bureau of Health’s control of notifiable
conditions.
You should be familiar with
these abbreviations so that you will recognize whether a citation refers to a
statute or a regulation.