The secretary shall adopt reasonable rules and regulations to effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter, which may include, but not be limited to, the following subject matters: licensure of medical laboratories; qualifications of medical laboratory personnel; standards of performance in the examination of specimens including the operation by the cabinet of a medical laboratory evaluation program; reasonable license fees for medical laboratory licensure; standards of construction of medical laboratories; sanitary conditions within the medical laboratory and its surroundings; and standards of medical laboratory equipment.
History: Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. VI, sec. 107(22). — Created 1968 Ky.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 333.210

  • Cabinet: means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. See Kentucky Statutes 333.020
  • Medical laboratory: means any institution, building, place, or any other facility in which operations and procedures for the microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, immunohematological, biophysical, cytological, pathological, or other methods of examination of tissues including blood, secretions, and excretions of the human body are performed to obtain information in diagnosing, preventing, or treating disease, or in which the results of any examination, determination, or test are used as a basis for health advice. See Kentucky Statutes 333.020
  • Medical laboratory personnel: includes the medical laboratory director, supervisor, technologist, or technician, but does not include medical laboratory assistants, trainees, or other individuals employed by a medical laboratory to perform clerical or other administrative responsibilities. See Kentucky Statutes 333.020

Acts ch. 180, sec. 5.

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