California

Business and Professions Code - BPC

10,525 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 1244.4 — Any fee for the filing of documentation and related enforcement activities pursuant to Section 1244, 1244.
• § 1245 — (a) Any individual may perform a blood gas analysis if all the following conditions exist: (1) He or she has earned a high school diploma or equivalent, as determined by HCFA pursuant to CLIA.
• § 1246 — (a) (1) On and after the effective date of the regulations specified in paragraph (2), any unlicensed person employed by a clinical laboratory performing the duties described in this section shall pos
• § 1246.5 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person may request, and any licensed clinical laboratory or public health laboratory may perform, the laboratory tests specified in this section.
• § 1246.7 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a person may perform a total protein test using a digital refractometer in a licensed plasma collection center in this state, if the department, as part of its routi
• § 1247 — This article shall be known and may be cited as the Hemodialysis Technician Training Act.
• § 1247.2 — For the purpose of this article, the following terms have the following meaning: (a) “Immediate supervision” means supervision of dialysis treatment in the same room in which the dialysis treatment is
• § 1247.3 — The treatment of patients by a hemodialysis technician includes performing venipuncture and arterial puncture for the purpose of providing dialysis treatment for a patient.
• § 1247.4 — The department may adopt regulations it deems necessary to implement this article.
• § 1247.5 — A hemodialysis clinic or unit within a licensed clinic or hospital, as defined respectively in Sections 1204 and 1250 of the Health and Safety Code, may operate a hemodialysis training and testing pro
• § 1247.6 — (a) Except during training under immediate supervision, and except as provided in Section 1247.
• § 1247.61 — To be certified by the department as a Certified Hemodialysis Technician (CHT), a person shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) Have a high school diploma or equivalency, or have greater th
• § 1247.63 — (a) Certification of a hemodialysis technician issued by the department pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1247.
• § 1247.64 — A hemodialysis technician may obtain the in-service training or continuing education required by subdivision (b) of Section 1247.
• § 1247.66 — (a) The department may deny, suspend, or revoke the certification of a hemodialysis technician if it finds that the hemodialysis technician is not in compliance with this article, or any regulations a
• § 1247.7 — An employee in training shall be classified as a hemodialysis technician trainee and shall be under the immediate supervision of a licensed physician and surgeon or licensed registered nurse whenever
• § 1247.8 — Each hemodialysis unit or clinic shall have information available for inspection by the department survey teams which verifies that the hemodialysis technicians employed at the unit or clinic meet the
• § 1247.9 — No person or entity shall provide chronic dialysis services to patients in this state unless the services are provided under the direction of a chronic dialysis clinic, licensed pursuant to Section 12
• § 125 — Any person, licensed under Division 1 (commencing with Section 100), Division 2 (commencing with Section 500), or Division 3 (commencing with Section 5000) is guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to th
• § 125.3 — (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, in any order issued in resolution of a disciplinary proceeding before any board within the department or before the Osteopathic Medical Board, upon request of
• § 125.5 — (a) The superior court for the county in which any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act which constitutes a violation of a chapter of this code administered or enforced by a board withi
• § 125.6 — (a) (1) With regard to an applicant, every person who holds a license under the provisions of this code is subject to disciplinary action under the disciplinary provisions of this code applicable to t
• § 125.7 — In addition to the remedy provided for in Section 125.
• § 125.8 — In addition to the remedy provided for in Section 125.
• § 125.9 — (a) A board, bureau, or commission within the department, the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, and the Osteopathic Medical Board of California, may establish, by regulation, a system for the iss
• § 12500 — As used in this chapter the following terms mean: (a) “Weighing instrument” means any device, contrivance, apparatus, or instrument used, or designed to be used, for ascertaining weight and includes a
• § 12500.10 — (a) A sealer shall cause to be removed from commercial usage any weighing, measuring, or counting instrument or device sold or used in violation of Section 12500.
• § 12500.5 — The secretary by rules and regulations shall provide for submission for approval of types or designs of weights, measures, or weighing, measuring, or counting instruments or devices, used for commerci
• § 12500.6 — Notwithstanding Section 12500.
• § 12500.8 — The secretary may enter into an agreement with the National Type Evaluation Program, a certification program of the National Council on Weights and Measures, and other weights and measures jurisdictio
• § 12500.9 — The secretary shall charge and collect an application fee and reasonable deposit from persons submitting devices for approval as required by Section 12500.
• § 12501 — Except as provided in Section 12502 and, with respect to odometers, as is provided in Section 12501.
• § 12501.1 — Every person who uses, or intends to use, any weight or measure, or weighing or measuring instrument for commercial purposes shall, before using the same, cause them to be sealed by a sealer, unless t
• § 12501.2 — Notwithstanding other provisions of this division, a sealer shall not be required to inspect, test or seal any scales or other weighing or measuring instruments to be sold for use or being used for co
• § 12501.3 — Notwithstanding any other requirements or provisions of this division, a sealer may permit the use of an unsealed device pending repairs if the device is in error only to the disadvantage of the user
• § 12502 — Any weighing or measuring instrument, which, after being sold and before being used for weighing or measuring, it is necessary to assemble or set up, may be sold without first being tested and sealed
• § 12503 — Upon a written request of any resident of a county, there appearing reasonable ground therefor, the sealer shall test or cause to be tested, as soon thereafter as is practicable, the weights, measures
• § 12504 — Upon the written request of any person who intends to use or sell for commercial purposes any weight or measure, or weighing or measuring instrument in any county, the sealer for such county shall tes
• § 12505 — Whenever a sealer examines any weight or measure or weighing, measuring, or counting instrument used for commercial purposes, and finds it to be correct, he or she shall seal or mark the weight, measu
• § 12506 — A sealer shall condemn and seize and may destroy incorrect weights and measures and weighing and measuring instruments used for commercial purposes, which in his or her best judgment are not susceptib
• § 12507 — The owners or users of any weights and measures or weighing or measuring instruments which have been marked “Out of Order,” shall have them repaired or corrected within 30 days, but until they have be
• § 12508 — Except as provided in Section 12509, any person who removes or obliterates any tag or device placed upon any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument by a sealer is guilty of a misdemeanor
• § 12509 — (a) When any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument has been repaired and corrected, and has been reinspected and found correct, the sealer shall remove the tag or device with the words
• § 12509.5 — (a) For purposes of this section, “EVSE” or “electric vehicle supply equipment” means a device that is used in connection with the sale of electricity as a motor vehicle fuel for controlling the elect
• § 12510 — (a) Any person, who by himself or herself, or through or for another, does any of the following is guilty of a misdemeanor: (1) Uses, for commercial purposes, or retains in his or her possession an in
• § 12511 — Any weight, measure, or weighing or measuring instrument tested and found correct by any sealer may be used within this state without any further test for such period as is authorized in the regulatio
• § 12511.1 — Notwithstanding any other provisions of this division, any weight or measure, or weighing or measuring instrument, found correct or corrected by a registered service agency, as defined in Section 1253
• § 12512 — When the sale of any commodity is based upon a quantity representation either furnished by the purchaser or obtained through the use of equipment supplied by the purchaser, the purchaser shall in no c
• § 12513 — Any sealing or testing of any weight, measure, weighing or measuring instrument by any employee of the department authorized for the purpose shall have the same force and effect as a sealing or testin
• § 12514 — No sealer shall sell or be interested directly or indirectly in the sale of any weighing or measuring instrument, nor shall he accept a fee, compensation, or gratuity of any kind for adjusting or repa
• § 12515 — (a) Any person having made repairs or adjustments to any weighing instrument or to any measuring instrument, or any person having sold, rented, leased, loaned, or installed any such instrument, who wi
• § 12516 — It shall be unlawful for any person to locate or position any scale used in connection with the auctioning of livestock so that its indications are not readily and clearly readable to the buyer and se
• § 12517 — Every owner of a coin-operated person weigher shall place on such weigher, in a prominent position, in letters at least three-sixteenths inches in height and in bold type, the following statement: “Th
• § 12518 — A water submeter submitted to a sealer by an owner, user, or operator for inspection and testing before its initial installation that is found to be incorrect, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section
• § 12519 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, an owner, user, or operator of a water submeter that has previously been sealed, installed, and used commercially who submits the water submeter to a sealer for insp
• § 12531 — As used in this chapter, the following definitions are applicable: (a) “Service agency” means a person, as defined in Section 12011, that for hire, award, commission, or any other payment of any kind,
• § 12532 — (a) No person shall engage in business as a service agency unless the person is registered by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture pursuant to this chapter and unless the current registration fee and
• § 12533 — Before the issuance of its registration or in order to maintain its current registration, a service agency shall do all of the following: (a) (1) Possess, or have available for use, standards and test
• § 12534 — Commencing January 1, 2001, a service agency shall use suitable and sufficient standards that are permanently and uniquely identified, and have a current certificate of accuracy provided by the depart
• § 12535 — (a) An application for service agency registration shall be accompanied by an annual fee of two hundred dollars ($200) for a primary maintenance location, and one hundred dollars ($100) for each addit
• § 12536 — Fees received by the department pursuant to this chapter shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the Food and Agriculture Fund to be used for the administration and enforcement of this
• § 12537 — Sixty percent of the funds derived pursuant to this chapter shall be allocated by the secretary to counties that employ a sealer or director of weights and measures.
• § 12540 — (a) Commencing on January 1, 2001, no person shall be employed by a service agency as a service agent unless he or she possesses a current license.
• § 12541 — (a) The department shall establish a seven-member advisory committee consisting of the following members: (1) Two members representing registered service agencies.
• § 12542 — A service agency registration may be suspended for the actions of its service agents in violation of this division.
• § 12543 — A service agency’s authorization to place devices into service, or to remove out-of-order notices may be suspended by a county sealer, within his or her county, pursuant to the notice and hearing prov
• § 12544 — (a) A county sealer intending to suspend the authorization of a service agency shall notify the service agency in writing of all of the following: (1) The alleged violations to be used as the basis fo
• § 126 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, any board, commission, examining committee, or other similarly constituted agency within the department required prior to the effective date of this s
• § 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 of science, or an equivalent or higher degree as deter
• § 1260.1 — The department shall issue a histocompatibility laboratory director’s license to each person who meets the qualifications specified in Section 1209.
• § 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 reasonable qualificatio
• § 12601 — This chapter is designed to protect purchasers of any commodity within its provisions against deception or misrepresentation.
• § 12602 — (a) It is unlawful for any person engaged in the packaging or labeling of any commodity for distribution or sale, or for any person (other than a common carrier for hire, a contract carrier for hire,
• § 12603 — No person subject to the prohibition in Section 12602 shall distribute any packaged commodity unless it is in conformity with regulations that shall be established by the secretary that shall provide:
• § 12605 — No person subject to the prohibition contained in Section 12602 shall distribute or cause to be distributed in commerce any packaged commodity if any qualifying words or phrases appear in conjunction
• § 12606 — (a) No container wherein commodities are packed shall have a false bottom, false sidewalls, false lid or covering, or be otherwise so constructed or filled, wholly or partially, as to facilitate the p
• § 12606.2 — (a) This section applies to food containers subject to Section 403(d) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.
• § 12607 — Whenever a packaged commodity is offered for sale, exposed for sale or sold without a statement of net quantity appearing thereon as required by this chapter, the sealer shall in writing order the com
• § 12609 — The secretary shall adopt necessary regulations to carry out the purpose of this division and for the testing of packages to verify the net quantity statements.
• § 1261 — (a) (1) 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 baccalaureate or an equivalent or h
• § 1261.5 — (a) The department may issue limited clinical laboratory scientist’s licenses in chemistry, microbiology, toxicology, histocompatibility, immunohematology, genetic molecular biology, cytogenetics, lab
• § 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 this state as a cytogenetic technologist wh
• § 12610 — The secretary may promulgate regulations similar to those promulgated by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services or the Federal Trade Commission pursuant to the federal Fair Packaging
• § 12611 — It is unlawful to pack, ship, or sell any commodity in a container which does not conform to all the specifications of this chapter; or which is not conspicuously marked, branded, or otherwise labeled
• § 12612 — The sale of any commodity packaged in a container, wherein both the container and the contents thereof comply with any act of Congress or rules or regulations promulgated thereunder, appertaining to w
• § 12613 — If any provision of this chapter is less stringent or requires information different from any requirement of Section 4 of the act of Congress entitled “Fair Packaging and Labeling Act” (P.
• § 12615.5 — The violation of any provision of this chapter, except the provisions of Section 12604.
• § 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 scienti
• § 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 eligible to be reexamined a third t
• § 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, providing those
• § 1264 — (a) (1) The department shall issue a clinical chemist, clinical microbiologist, clinical toxicologist, clinical genetic molecular biologist, clinical laboratory geneticist, clinical reproductive biolo
• § 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 pursuant to thi
• § 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 of the Health and Safety Code may submit
• § 1265.2 — (a) For purposes of this section, “digital materials” means digital laboratory data, digital results, and digital images that do not require a microscope or other equipment essential to a separate lab
• § 1265.3 — (a) On or before June 30, 2025, the department shall consult with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the purpose described in subdivision (b).
• § 12655 — It is the intent of the Legislature to encourage the unit pricing of all canned, bottled, and packaged foods, packaged produce, and bakery goods; paper, plastic, wood, and metal products packaged in c
• § 12656 — The department, in cooperation with the retail food industry, shall adopt a standardized format for unit pricing that shall be available to a retailer upon request.
• § 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.
• § 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.
• § 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 person duly licensed under this chapt
• § 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 a physician and sur
• § 1269.3 — (a) Notwithstanding Sections 1206.
• § 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 that is not authorize
• § 127 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this code, the director may require such reports from any board, commission, examining committee, or other similarly constituted agency within the department as
• § 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, except that those persons employ
• § 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.
• § 12700 — A weighmaster is any person who, for hire or otherwise, weighs, measures, or counts any commodity and issues a statement or memorandum of the weight, measure, or count which is used as the basis for e
• § 12700.5 — (a) A weighmaster is not required to provide weighing services to the general public.
• § 12701 — The following persons are not weighmasters: (a) Retailers weighing, measuring, or counting commodities for sale by them in retail stores in the presence of, and directly to, consumers.
• § 12702 — “Weighmaster,” when used without qualification, includes a deputy weighmaster.
• § 12703 — Except as provided in Section 12701, no person shall perform any acts described in Section 12700, unless licensed as a weighmaster pursuant to this chapter and unless the current license fee and any p
• § 12703.1 — (a) In addition to any other requirements for issuance of a license pursuant to this chapter, if the applicant is a recycler or junk dealer as defined in Section 21601, the department shall require th
• § 12704 — (a) A weighmaster shall pay to the department the following license fee for each license year as applicable to the operation: (1) Seventy-five dollars ($75) if the weighmaster is operating at a fixed
• § 12705 — Any change in the legal entity of a licensed weighmaster requires the new legal entity to obtain a weighmaster license before operating as a weighmaster.
• § 12706 — (a) The secretary may assign or reassign dates for the expiration of licenses for any weighmaster.
• § 12707 — Each license required by this chapter shall be renewed annually, on or before the first day of the first month of the licensee’s license year, by application to the secretary, accompanied by the annua
• § 12708 — The secretary may refuse to grant any license provided for by this chapter, or may refuse to renew any license, and may revoke or suspend any license when, after a hearing conducted pursuant to Chapte
• § 12709 — (a) All license fees collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund to be expended by the department for the administration and enforcement of thi
• § 1271 — (a) A cytotechnologist shall not examine more than 80 gynecologic slides in a 24-hour period when performing a manual review of slides.
• § 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 cell blocks
• § 12710 — A weighmaster may employ or designate any person to act for the weighmaster as a deputy weighmaster and shall be responsible for all acts performed by that person.
• § 12710.5 — (a) At any time during the license year, any weighmaster may replace deputies without payment of additional fees by forwarding to the department the name of any replacement deputy and replaced deputy.
• § 12711 — A weighmaster shall issue a weighmaster certificate whenever payment for the commodity or service represented is dependent on a written or printed weight, measure, or count.
• § 12712 — (a) A weighmaster certificate may be signed and issued by a weighmaster other than the weighmaster actually determining the weight, measure, or count of any commodity, if both of the following conditi
• § 12713 — (a) A weighmaster is responsible for ensuring that the weighmaster certificates issued by him or her, or a deputy acting for him or her, are complete and contain all the information required by Sectio
• § 12714 — (a) There shall appear in an appropriate and conspicuous place on each certificate, and all copies thereof, the following legend: WEIGHMASTER CERTIFICATE THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the following describe
• § 12714.5 — All information contained on the certificate shall be clear and legible.
• § 12715 — Each certificate shall provide for the following information as applicable to the transaction: (a) The date on which the weight, measure, or count was determined.
• § 12716 — All weighmasters shall keep and preserve, as records, for a period of four years, all copies of voided certificates, records, and worksheets required by this chapter and true copies of all weighmaster
• § 12716.5 — A certificate on which a weight, measure, or count error is discovered after issuance shall be corrected by issuing a correction certificate to all parties who were issued the original certificate.
• § 12717 — Any weighing, measuring, or counting instrument or device, as defined in Section 12500, which is used by a weighmaster and for which specifications and tolerances have been adopted by the secretary, s
• § 12718 — Any person who does any of the following acts is guilty of a misdemeanor: (a) Requests any person to weigh, measure, or count any commodity falsely or incorrectly.
• § 12718.5 — Subdivision (g) of Section 12718 does not apply to any of the following: (a) Persons engaged in the business of printing, distributing, or selling weighmaster certificate forms.
• § 12719 — When the weight or measure of a vehicle, container, or pallet and its net contents has been recorded on a weighmaster certificate, it is unlawful for any person to remove a part of, or add to, the net
• § 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 in t
• § 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 a proficiency testin
• § 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 by the department or by a prof
• § 12720 — When the tare weight of a vehicle or the weight of the vehicle and its contents have been recorded on a weighmaster certificate, it is unlawful for any person to alter the tare weight of the vehicle p
• § 12721 — Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the vehicle, container, pallet, or commodity for which the weight, measure, or count is being certified shall actually be weighed, measured, or counted at
• § 12722 — (a) In accordance with this chapter and regulations adopted by the secretary, any weighmaster may use a tare weight for a vehicle, container, or pallet that has been previously determined by a weighma
• § 12723 — The secretary shall adopt regulations for the establishment of vehicle, container, and pallet tares, including, but not limited to, the adoption of conditions of use, certificate requirements, sample
• § 12724 — (a) Except as provided in this section, a weighmaster weighing a vehicle for certification shall determine both gross and tare weights with all persons off the scale and vehicle, unless both the gross
• § 12725 — A weighmaster shall not certify to the gross weight of a vehicle if all of the following conditions prevail: (a) The scale is located at the site where the vehicle is loaded.
• § 12726 — (a) If doubt or differences arise as to the accuracy of the weight, measure, or count of any amount or part of any commodity, unladen vehicle, or container for which a weighmaster certificate has been
• § 12727 — The secretary may, at any time, require a vehicle to proceed to the nearest vehicle scale for the purpose of weight verification.
• § 12728 — (a) No weighmaster shall weigh a vehicle, or combination of vehicles, for certification, when part of the vehicle, or connected combination, is not resting on the scale.
• § 12729 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.
• § 12730 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 12701 or this section, farm products sold by bulk weight or delivered to a processing or conditioning establishment for processing, conditio
• § 12731 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code, where livestock is sold on the basis of weight at a public sales yard, or by or at any livestock market, market agency, or dealer which is subjec
• § 12732 — In addition to the certificate requirements of Sections 12714, 12714.
• § 12733 — In all cases where scrap metal and salvage materials are purchased or sold by dealers, brokers, or commission merchants on the basis of weight or measure, the quantity of the scrap metal and salvage m
• § 12734 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this division, the weight of squid, Pacific whiting, or anchovy, certified pursuant to this chapter, may be determined by computation based upon volumetric measu
• § 12735 — The secretary may adopt any rules and regulations that are reasonably necessary for the purpose of carrying out this chapter.
• § 12737 — (a) Any weighmaster weighing any vehicle moving construction materials, including, but not limited to, earth, stone, rock, sand, gravel, limestone, ready mixed concrete, cementitious materials, recycl
• § 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 lesions),
• § 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 with the multidisciplinary
• § 128 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it is a misdemeanor to sell equipment, supplies, or services to any person with knowledge that the equipment, supplies, or services are to be used in the pe
• § 128.5 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if at the end of any fiscal year, an agency within the Department of Consumer Affairs, except the agencies referred to in subdivision (b), has unencumbe
• § 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.
• § 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 l
• § 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 biol
• § 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 cha
• § 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
• § 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 i
• § 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 chap
• § 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.
• § 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
• § 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 departm
• § 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
• § 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 o
• § 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 cont
• § 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 perf
• § 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 t
• § 129 — (a) As used in this section, “board” means every board, bureau, commission, committee, and similarly constituted agency in the department that issues licenses.
• § 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 statute
• § 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 i
• § 12925 — No person purchasing wool from a producer shall make a specific deduction for tags, fribs, crutchings or other off-wools, either on a basis of the percentage of the weight or percentage of the value o
• § 12930 — As used in this article “cotton” includes raw cotton, cotton linters, and cotton batting.
• § 13 — The term “materia medica” as used in this code or in any initiative act referred to in this code, means those substances listed in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, the official Homeopathic Ph
• § 130 — (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the term of office of any member of an agency designated in subdivision (b) shall be for a term of four years expiring on June 1.
• § 1300 — The amount of application, registration, certification, and license fees under this chapter shall be as follows: (a) The application fee for a histocompatibility laboratory director’s, clinical labora
• § 1300.1 — (a) The application, registration, certification, and license fees specified in Section 1300 shall be adjusted annually in the manner specified in Section 100450 of the Health and Safety Code.
• § 1300.2 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the total fees collected under this chapter shall not exceed the costs incurred by the department for licensing, certification, inspection, or othe
• § 1301 — (a) The annual renewal fee for a clinical laboratory license or registration set under this chapter shall be paid during the 30-day period before the expiration date of the license or registration.
• § 1301.1 — Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the department may establish such license periods and renewal dates for all licenses issued under this chapter in a manner as to best distribute th
• § 1302 — (a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury, the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Fund.
• § 131 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no member of an agency designated in subdivision (b) of Section 130 or member of a board, commission, committee, or similarly constituted agency in the depa
• § 1310 — If the department determines that a laboratory that has been issued a license or registration under this chapter, except for a laboratory only performing tests or examinations classified as waived und
• § 1311 — The department shall have three years from the date of a violation of this chapter or of a regulation adopted thereunder to file a civil or administrative action.
• § 132 — No board, commission, examining committee, or any other agency within the department may institute or join any legal action against any other agency within the state or federal government without the
• § 1320 — The department may deny, suspend, or revoke any license or registration issued under this chapter for any of the following reasons: (a) Conduct involving moral turpitude or dishonest reporting of test
• § 1321 — For purposes of this chapter, a conviction means a plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere.
• § 1322 — The proceedings under this chapter for the suspension or revocation of a license or registration shall be conducted in accordance with Section 100171 of the Health and Safety Code.
• § 1323 — The department may temporarily suspend a license or registration prior to any hearing, when it has determined that the action is necessary to protect the public welfare.
• § 1324 — Except for a person or entity whose license was revoked automatically under Section 1265, no person or entity who has owned or operated a clinical laboratory that had its license or registration revok
• § 1325 — Notwithstanding Sections 1267 and 1322, the license or registration of a clinical laboratory that has been excluded from participation under the Medicare program (Title XVIII of the Social Security Ac
• § 1326 — The department may bring an action to enjoin the violation or threatened violation of this chapter or the regulations adopted pursuant thereto in the superior court in and for the county in which the
• § 1327 — The department may enter into agreements with the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the use of the services or facilities of the department for carrying out the provisions of CLIA.