(a) The board shall approve medical laboratories or medical laboratory training facilities to operate schools for training laboratory personnel and to employ medical laboratory trainees for training purposes, upon presentation of satisfactory evidence that such laboratories are staffed by qualified personnel and properly equipped and operated to provide training in medical laboratory techniques adequate to prepare individuals to meet the requirements for licensure under this chapter.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-29-110

  • Board: means the medical laboratory board, created by §. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Medical laboratory: means any institution, building, or place in which operations and procedures for the microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, immunohematological, or biophysical examination of specimens taken from the human body are performed to obtain information for diagnosis, prophylaxis, or treatment or where any examination, determination, or test is made on any sample used as a basis for health advice, or where any sample is collected for the purpose of transfusion or processing of blood or blood fractions, or for the training of medical laboratory personnel. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Medical laboratory personnel: includes the medical laboratory director, supervisor, technologist, or technician, but does not include medical laboratory assistants, trainees, or other persons employed by a medical laboratory to perform clerical or other administrative responsibilities involving no laboratory test. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, municipality, political subdivision, or any other entity whether organized for profit or not. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) No person shall conduct, maintain or operate a school or schools for the training of laboratory personnel unless approved by the board. All schools that train medical laboratory personnel shall make application for a certificate of approval on forms provided by the board. A fee, in the form of a check or money order, shall accompany the application. Such fee, not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200), will be determined annually by the board. Approval of the school shall be valid for the year for which it is issued. Each certificate of approval shall be renewed on January 1 of each year, by making application on forms provided by the board and the remittance of a fee of one hundred dollars ($100).
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