Terms Used In New York Laws > General Obligations > Article 19 - Laws Repealed; Effective Date

• Blood bank: means a facility for the collection, processing, storage and/or distribution of human blood, blood components or blood derivatives, but shall not mean a source plasma donation center. See N.Y. Public Health Law 571
• Clinical laboratory: means a facility for the microbiological, immunological, chemical, hematological, biophysical, cytological, pathological, genetic, or other examination of materials derived from the human body, for the purpose of obtaining information for the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of disease or the assessment of a health condition or for identification purposes. See N.Y. Public Health Law 571
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Director: means the person who is responsible for administration of the technical and scientific operation of a clinical laboratory or blood bank, including supervision of procedures and reporting of findings of tests. See N.Y. Public Health Law 571
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Plasmapheresis: means a procedure by which, during a single visit to the facility, blood is removed from an individual, the source plasma separated from the formed elements, and at least the red blood cells are returned to the donor. See N.Y. Public Health Law 571
• Provider-performed microscopy procedure: means a procedure performed by a qualified health care professional acting within the scope of his or her licensed profession, which has been designated as a provider-performed microscopy procedure pursuant to the federal clinical laboratory improvement act of nineteen hundred eighty-eight, as amended. See N.Y. Public Health Law 571
• Qualified health care professional: means a physician, dentist, podiatrist, optometrist performing a clinical laboratory test that does not use an invasive modality as defined in § 7101 of the education law, pharmacist administering COVID-19 and influenza tests pursuant to subdivision seven of § 6801 of the education law, physician assistant, specialist assistant, nurse practitioner, or midwife, who is licensed and registered with the state education department. See N.Y. Public Health Law 571
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• Source plasma: means the fluid portion of human blood collected by plasmapheresis and intended as source material for plasma protein therapies. See N.Y. Public Health Law 571
• Source plasma donation center: means a facility where source plasma is collected by plasmapheresis. See N.Y. Public Health Law 571
• Waived test: means a clinical laboratory test that has been designated as a waived test or is otherwise subject to certificate of waiver requirements pursuant to the federal clinical laboratory improvement act of nineteen hundred eighty-eight, as amended. See N.Y. Public Health Law 571