Georgia Code, Title 31, Chapter 22 - Clinical Laboratories

• § 31-22-1 - Definitions
  As used in this chapter, the term: (1) "Board" means the Board of Community Health. (2) "Clinical laboratory" means a facility for the biological,...
• § 31-22-2 - Licenses
  (a) No clinical laboratory shall be operated without a license issued and in force pursuant to this chapter; provided, however, that the department may...
• § 31-22-3 - Clinical Laboratory, Blood Bank, and Tissue Bank Committee
  Reserved. Repealed by Ga. L. 2012, p. 1132, § 2/SB 407, effective July 1, 2012.
• § 31-22-4 - Examination of Human Specimens
  (a) A clinical laboratory shall examine human specimens only at the request of a licensed physician, dentist, or other person authorized by law to...
• § 31-22-5 - Methods for Selection of Blood Donors and Collection, Storage, and Processing of Human Blood
  (a) Those clinical laboratories which provide a system for the collection, processing, or storage of human blood and its component parts shall provide methods...
• § 31-22-6 - Powers of Board to Promulgate Rules and Regulations, Establish and Enforce Standards
  In addition to powers conferred elsewhere in this chapter, the board shall: (1) Promulgate rules and regulations for the implementation of this chapter; (2)...
• § 31-22-7 - Reports to Department
  (a) The department shall require reporting by clinical laboratories of evidence of such infectious diseases as the department may specify and shall furnish forms...
• § 31-22-8 - Inspections; Evaluation Program
  (a) The department shall make periodic inspections of every clinical laboratory, at its discretion. In lieu of or to supplement its own inspection program,...
• § 31-22-9 - Applicability of Chapter
  (a) This chapter shall not apply to clinical laboratories which are: (1) Operated by the Georgia Health Sciences University, the Emory University School of...
• § 31-22-9.1 - Hiv Tests -- Who May Perform Test
  (a) As used in this Code section, the term: (1) "AIDS" means Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS Related Complex within the reporting criteria of...
• § 31-22-9.2 - Hiv Tests -- Report of Positive Results; Notification; Counseling; Violations; Exception for Insurance Coverage; Exposure of Health Care Provider
  (a) Any term used in this Code section and defined in Code Section 31-22-9.1 shall have the meaning provided for that term in Code...
• § 31-22-10 - Effect of This Chapter on Chapter 23 of This Title and Article 6 of Chapter 5 of Title 44
  Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed or construed as affecting or repealing Chapter 23 of this title or Article 6 of Chapter...
• § 31-22-11 - Effect of This Chapter on Chapter 34 of Title 43
  Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed or construed as affecting or repealing Chapter 34 of Title 43.
• § 31-22-12 - Injunction of Operation of Unlicensed Clinical Laboratories
  The operation or maintenance of an unlicensed clinical laboratory in violation of this chapter is declared a nuisance, inimical to the public health, welfare,...
• § 31-22-13 - Penalty
  Any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any of the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto shall be guilty of a

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