Tennessee Code 68-29-131 – Injunctive relief
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-29-131
- Board: means the medical laboratory board, created by §. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- 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
- Medical laboratory personnel: includes the medical laboratory director, supervisor, technologist, or technician, but does not include medical laboratory assistants, trainees, or other persons employed by a medical laboratory to perform clerical or other administrative responsibilities involving no laboratory test. 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
- Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
- 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
The board, through the attorney general and reporter, in addition to the powers and duties expressed in this chapter with respect to the denial of a license, denial of a certificate of registration, and suspension or revocation of a license, is empowered to petition any chancery court having jurisdiction of any person within this state, who is conducting a medical laboratory without a license or is performing as medical laboratory personnel without a license, or to whom a license has been denied, or to whom a certificate of registration has been denied, or whose license has been suspended or revoked, to enjoin such person or persons from continuing to violate this chapter or to enjoin the future operation or maintenance of a medical laboratory until compliance with this chapter or the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter has been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the board.