California · Business and Professions Code - BPC

BPC §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

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

Clinical laboratories cannot employ people to perform lab procedures unless they are licensed physicians or otherwise authorized under this chapter.

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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.

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