sec.545Taking blood and urine samples

### sec.545 Taking blood and urine samples A police officer may ask a doctor or prescribed nurse to take a blood sample and a urine sample from a relevant person under a disease test order. When asking the doctor or nurse to take the sample, the police officer must produce for the doctor’s or nurse’s inspection a copy of the disease test order for the relevant person. It is lawful for the doctor or nurse to take a blood sample from the relevant person or ask the person to provide a urine sample. If help is needed for taking the sample, the doctor or nurse may ask other persons to give reasonably necessary help. It is lawful for the doctor or nurse and a person helping the doctor or nurse to use reasonably necessary force for taking the sample. The doctor or nurse must immediately send the sample to a health agency with appropriate facilities for testing the sample for relevant diseases. s 545 ins 2000 No. 22 s 18 amd 2011 No. 32 s 332 s ch 1 pt 2 (amd 2012 No. 9 s 47 ) (sec.545-ssec.1) A police officer may ask a doctor or prescribed nurse to take a blood sample and a urine sample from a relevant person under a disease test order. (sec.545-ssec.2) When asking the doctor or nurse to take the sample, the police officer must produce for the doctor’s or nurse’s inspection a copy of the disease test order for the relevant person. (sec.545-ssec.3) It is lawful for the doctor or nurse to take a blood sample from the relevant person or ask the person to provide a urine sample. (sec.545-ssec.4) If help is needed for taking the sample, the doctor or nurse may ask other persons to give reasonably necessary help. (sec.545-ssec.5) It is lawful for the doctor or nurse and a person helping the doctor or nurse to use reasonably necessary force for taking the sample. (sec.545-ssec.6) The doctor or nurse must immediately send the sample to a health agency with appropriate facilities for testing the sample for relevant diseases.