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Alaska Statutes.

Title 18. Health, Safety, and Housing

Chapter 15. Disease Control

Section 145. Screening of School Employees.

AS 18.15.145. Screening of School Employees.

(a) An employee of a public or private elementary or secondary school in the state shall be tested annually to detect infectious tuberculosis. An employee who has never had a positive test result from a tuberculin skin test shall obtain a tuberculin skin test. An employee whose skin test result is positive or who has ever had a positive skin test result shall have an appropriate health screening examination that may include obtaining a chest X-ray.

(b) An employee who refuses or fails to be tested as required under (a) of this section is suspended from employment until the employee has been tested.

(c) The school district annually shall obtain from each school employee in the district a certificate or other evidence that the employee has been tested as required in (a) of this section.

(d) The department may by regulation provide for reasonable exceptions to the requirements of this section.

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