(a) It is the duty of the department of health to manufacture and distribute throughout the state of Tennessee such vaccines and other biological products as the division of laboratories is equipped to produce.
(b) The commissioner of health, with the approval of the governor, shall adopt rules and regulations governing the manufacture and distribution of vaccines and biological products.
(c) Subject to the rules and regulations prescribed by subsection (b), health officers and health departments of this state and the heads of state institutions may from time to time make requisitions for vaccines and other products, which requisitions shall, if deemed reasonable and necessary, be honored in the order in which the requisitions are presented to the commissioner.
(d) A reasonable charge may be made to cover the cost of manufacture, distribution and essential overhead expenses, funds as received to be deposited with the state treasurer and disbursed in the same manner as are any state appropriations for the department.
(e) All receipts from the sale of the products provided for in this section shall continue as a manufacturing account of the department for the continuance of the service by the division of laboratories and shall not revert to the general fund.
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