California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 4 - Licensing

  • Section 1260.
    The department shall issue a clinical laboratory bioanalyst’s license to each person who is a lawful holder of a degree of master of arts, master...
  • Section 1260.1.
    The department shall issue a histocompatibility laboratory director’s license to each person who meets the qualifications specified in Section 1209.1.(Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 429.)
  • Section 1260.3.
    (a) The department shall issue a medical laboratory technician license to each person who meets the following requirements:(1) Has met the requirements of this chapter and any...
  • Section 1261.
    The department shall issue a clinical laboratory scientist’s or a limited clinical laboratory scientist’s license to each person who is a lawful holder of a...
  • Section 1261.5.
    The department may issue limited clinical laboratory scientist’s licenses in chemistry, microbiology, toxicology, histocompatibility, immunohematology, genetic molecular biology, cytogenetics, or other areas of laboratory specialty...
  • Section 1261.6.
    The department may issue a limited clinical laboratory scientist’s license in cytogenetics to any person with a minimum of seven years of work experience in...
  • Section 1262.
    No clinical laboratory scientist’s or limited clinical laboratory scientist’s license shall be issued by the department except after examination; provided, that a temporary clinical laboratory...
  • Section 1262.5.
    Notwithstanding Section 135, an applicant for a clinical laboratory or limited technologist license who fails to pass the written examination two times shall not be...
  • Section 1263.
    The department shall license as trainees those individuals desiring to train for either a clinical laboratory scientist’s license or a limited clinical laboratory scientist’s license,...
  • Section 1264.
    (a) The department shall issue a clinical chemist, clinical microbiologist, clinical toxicologist, clinical genetic molecular biologist, or clinical cytogeneticist license to each person who has applied...
  • Section 1265.
    (a) (1) A clinical laboratory performing clinical laboratory tests or examinations classified as of moderate or of high complexity under CLIA shall obtain a clinical laboratory license...
  • Section 1265.1.
    (a) A primary care clinic that submits an application to the State Department of Public Health for clinic licensure pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1204...
  • Section 1266.
    The clinical laboratory license and the license or current renewal permit of each person performing tests shall be conspicuously posted in the clinical laboratory.(Amended by...
  • Section 1267.
    Any denial, suspension, or revocation of a license under this chapter shall be conducted in compliance with Section 100171 of the Health and Safety Code.(Amended...
  • Section 1268.
    Upon filing application therefor, containing such information as the department may require, and the payment of the license fee, the department shall issue to any...
  • Section 1269.
    (a) Unlicensed laboratory personnel may perform any of the activities identified in subdivision (b), in a licensed clinical laboratory, under the direct and constant supervision of...
  • Section 1269.3.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 1206.5 and 1269, within the specialty of pathology, a person certified as a pathologists’ assistant by the American Association of Pathologists’ Assistants, the...
  • Section 1269.5.
    The department may deny, suspend, or revoke any license, registration, or certificate issued under this chapter for performance by unlicensed laboratory personnel of any activity...
  • Section 1270.
    (a) On and after January 1, 1991, no person may perform examinations of cytological slides without first obtaining a license as a cytotechnologist from the department,...
  • Section 1270.5.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 1301, an application for the renewal of, and payment of the renewal fees for, a cytotechnologist license shall be governed by this section.(b) Application...
  • Section 1271.
    (a) A cytotechnologist shall not examine more than 80 gynecologic slides in a 24-hour period when performing a manual review of slides.(b) The maximum workload limit in...
  • Section 1271.1.
    (a) Clinical laboratories which are licensed pursuant to this chapter and provide cytology services shall, if the licensee ceases operation, preserve records, reports, cytology slides, and...
  • Section 1272.
    A clinical laboratory shall participate in a state-approved proficiency testing program and demonstrate satisfactory performance in all of the laboratory specialities that include tests performed...
  • Section 1272.4.
    The department shall establish standards for the evaluation of cytologic slides, for reporting the adequacy of cytologic slides, for a cytotechnologist competency program, and for...
  • Section 1272.6.
    The department shall, on or before January 1, 1992, develop or adopt a proficiency testing program for laboratories providing cytology services which may be administered...
  • Section 1274.
    (a) A laboratory shall document to persons submitting cytologic samples for evaluation, on a quarterly basis, informational letters on all cases of HSIL (high-grade squamous intraepithelial...
  • Section 1275.
    The department shall develop and implement regulations for continuing education for persons licensed pursuant to this chapter on or before January 1, 1992, after consulting...

Last modified: October 22, 2018