N.Y. Public Health Law 574 – Permits
§ 574. Permits. No person shall own or operate a clinical laboratory located in or accepting specimens from New York state or own or operate a blood bank which collects, processes, stores and/or distributes, human blood, blood derivatives or blood components, in New York state unless a valid permit has been issued as provided in section five hundred seventy-five of this title. A permit shall be issued authorizing the performance of one or more procedures or services within one or more categories. A separate permit shall be required for each facility at which clinical laboratory tests are to be performed or at which a blood bank is to be operated, provided, however that the department may adopt regulations not inconsistent with the federal clinical laboratory improvement act of nineteen hundred eighty-eight authorizing an owner to operate more than one facility under a single permit.
Terms Used In N.Y. Public Health Law 574
- 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