Terms Used In California Codes > Education Code > Title 3 > Division 5 > Part 40 > Chapter 14.6 > Article 1 - General Provisions

• bioanalyst: means a person licensed under Section 1260 to engage in clinical laboratory practice and direction of a clinical laboratory. See California Business and Professions Code 1203
• CLIA laboratory director: means the person identified as the laboratory director on the CLIA certificate issued to the laboratory by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). See California Business and Professions Code 1209
• clinical laboratory scientist: means a person, other than a licensed clinical laboratory bioanalyst or trainee, who is licensed under Sections 1261 and 1262 to engage in clinical laboratory practice under the overall operation and administration of a laboratory director, unless serving as a director of a waived laboratory as provided in Section 1209. See California Business and Professions Code 1204
• Committee: means the Higher Education Facilities Finance Committee created pursuant to Section 67353. See California Education Code 67358.2
• County: includes city and county. See California Business and Professions Code 17
• department: means the State Department of Public Health. See California Business and Professions Code 1202
• Election: means any election including a primary that is provided for under this code. See California Elections Code 318
• 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.
• Fund: means the 1992 Higher Education Capital Outlay Bond Fund created pursuant to Section 67358. See California Education Code 67358.2
• laboratory director: means any person who is any of the following:

  California Business and Professions Code 1209

• person: includes firm, association, partnership, individual, limited liability company, and corporation. See California Business and Professions Code 1201
• State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Business and Professions Code 21
• Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs, unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Business and Professions Code 15
• trainee: means a person licensed under this chapter for the purpose of receiving comprehensive practical experience and instruction in clinical laboratory procedures in one of the sciences or in general clinical laboratory science under the direct and responsible supervision of a person authorized to direct a laboratory under the provisions of this chapter, clinical laboratory scientist, clinical chemist scientist, clinical microbiologist scientist, clinical toxicologist scientist, clinical immunohematologist scientist, clinical genetic molecular biologist scientist, clinical cytogeneticist scientist, clinical histocompatibility scientist, clinical laboratory geneticist scientist, clinical reproductive biologist scientist, or other equivalent licensee in the science or specialty or subspecialty for which the person is licensed in a clinical laboratory certified for this purpose by the department under this chapter. See California Business and Professions Code 1205
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.