State Hygienic Laboratory.
1. The University of Nevada School of Medicine shall maintain the State Hygienic Laboratory, heretofore established pursuant to the provisions of chapter 230, Statutes of Nevada 1909, and may establish and maintain such branch laboratories as may be necessary.
2. The purpose of the State Hygienic Laboratory is:
(a) To make available, at such charges as may be established, to health officials, the State Dairy Commission and licensed physicians of the State, proper laboratory facilities for the prompt diagnosis of communicable diseases.
(b) To make necessary examinations and analyses of water, natural ice, sewage, milk, food and clinical material.
(c) To conduct research into the nature, cause, diagnosis and control of diseases.
(d) To undertake such other technical and laboratory duties as are in the interest of the health of the general public.
3. The person in charge of the State Hygienic Laboratory, or his designee, must be a skilled bacteriologist.
4. The person in charge of the State Hygienic Laboratory may have such technical assistants as that person, in cooperation with the University of Nevada School of Medicine, considers necessary.
5. Reports of investigations conducted at the State Hygienic Laboratory may be published from time to time in bulletins and circulars.
Last modified: February 26, 2006