Section 1280.

1280. It is unlawful for any person to represent himself or act as a licensed individual under this chapter unless he is, in fact, duly licensed under this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1377.)

Section 1281.

1281. It is unlawful for any person to own, operate, maintain, direct, or engage in the business of operating a clinical laboratory, as defined in this chapter, unless he or she possesses a valid clinical laboratory license issued by the department. In the event a health facility does not perform clinical laboratory services, but provides […]

Section 1281.1.

1281.1. It is unlawful for any person, including a person who owns, operates, or directs a clinical laboratory, to provide, offer, or solicit, any form of payment or gratuity for human blood or any other biological specimen provided for the purpose of clinical laboratory testing or clinical laboratory practice, unless the person is serving as […]

Section 1282.

1282. It is unlawful for any person to engage in clinical laboratory practice in a clinical laboratory unless he or she is a duly licensed physician and surgeon or is duly authorized to do so under this chapter. (Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 195, Sec. 9. Effective July 9, 1990.)

Section 1282.2.

1282.2. It is unlawful for any person to perform venipuncture, skin puncture, or arterial puncture to collect a biological specimen unless he or she is authorized to do so under this chapter, the regulations adopted thereunder, or under other provisions of law. (Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 322, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2001.)

Section 1282.3.

1282.3. (a) It is unlawful for any person to act with willful or wanton disregard for a person’s safety that exposes the person to a substantial risk of, or that causes, great bodily injury by affecting the integrity of a clinical laboratory test or examination result through improper collection, handling, storage, or labeling of the biological […]

Section 1283.

1283. It is unlawful for any person to conduct, maintain, or operate a clinical laboratory unless he is a duly licensed physician and surgeon or is duly authorized to do so under the provisions of this chapter. (Added by renumbering Section 1284 by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1377.)

Section 1284.

1284. It is unlawful for a duly licensed physician and surgeon, or any person authorized to serve as director under this chapter, to serve only as a nominal director. (Added by renumbering Section 1285 by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1377.)

Section 1285.

1285. It is unlawful for any person conducting, maintaining, or operating a clinical laboratory to employ any person to perform clinical laboratory procedures unless the person is a duly licensed physician and surgeon or is duly authorized to do so under the provisions of this chapter. (Added by renumbering Section 1286 by Stats. 1970, Ch. […]

Section 1286.

1286. It is unlawful for any person to operate a school or conduct any course for the purpose of training or preparing persons to perform duties, as defined under this chapter and regulations of the department, without having first secured the approval of the department as herein provided. (Amended by Stats. 1978, Ch. 429.)

Section 1287.

1287. (a) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable upon conviction by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding six months or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by both. (b) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), a violation of Section 1281.1 is a public offense […]

Section 1288.

1288. Any person conducting or operating a clinical laboratory may accept assignments for tests only from and make reports only to persons licensed under the provisions of law relating to the healing arts or their representatives. This section does not prohibit the acceptance of evaluation specimens for proficiency testing or referral of specimens or such […]

Section 1288.3.

1288.3. (a) If a clinical laboratory employee, agent, or courier retrieves biological specimens located in a public place outside of the custodial control of a licensee, or his or her employee, agent, or contractor, and those specimens are not secured in a locked container, the clinical laboratory employee, agent, or courier, utilizing the form provided by […]

Section 1288.5.

1288.5. No person may solicit or accept any biological specimen for clinical laboratory testing or examination unless there is in effect for the clinical laboratory where the test or examination is to be performed a license or registration issued pursuant to this chapter applicable to the category of test or examination which includes that testing […]

Section 1289.

1289. The violating or attempting to violate, directly or indirectly, or assisting in or abetting the violation of or conspiring to violate any provision or term of this chapter or regulations promulgated thereunder constitutes unprofessional conduct within the meaning of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1377.)

Section 1290.

1290. With the exception of narcotics and dangerous drugs stored on the licensed clinical laboratory premises for use exclusively as standards for the purpose of testing, the violation of any of the statutes of this state regulating narcotics and dangerous drugs constitutes unprofessional conduct within the meaning of this chapter. (Repealed and added by Stats. […]

Section 1291.

1291. Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a licensed physician and surgeon from instructing or training any person employed by him to work in a laboratory maintained by such physician and surgeon as an incident of his own medical practice. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1070.)