Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-29-123

• Board: means the medical laboratory board, created by §. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
• Collection station: means any place or entity that has as its primary purpose either the collection of specimens directly from patients or the bringing together of specimens after collection for the purpose of referral to a medical laboratory where testing is performed. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
• 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
• 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
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105