Section 194: Detection of sources of lead poisoning; inspection; search warrant; notice; examination of children; reports; records
Section 194. The director shall, subject to appropriation, establish a comprehensive program for detection of sources of lead poisoning. Such program shall attempt, to the extent permitted by appropriations, to locate all premises in which the paint, plaster or other accessible structural material contains dangerous levels of lead. The means of detection and the amount of lead in the paint, plaster or other accessible structural material that produces the danger of lead poisoning shall be determined by regulation by the director in accordance with sound medical practice and current technical knowledge.
Such program of detection may, to the extent that all appropriate premises are not inspected, give priority in inspections to those premises located in areas where significant numbers of lead poisoning cases have been reported, and in which children under six years of age reside.
Upon the request of any occupant and subject to appropriation, the director shall cause to have the occupant's premises inspected, within a reasonable time, not to exceed ten days, unless systematic inspection of the area in which the person requesting the inspection resides is scheduled within thirty days, in which case said inspection may be deferred up to twenty additional days.