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TN Code § 68-29-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-116. Licenses Required for Medical Laboratory Personnel — Supervision of Employees

  No person shall act as a medical laboratory director, supervisor, technologist, technician, laboratory trainee or special analyst and accept a specimen for laboratory examination, unless such person has obtained a license and is registered to act in such capacity by the board; provided, that this section shall not apply to pathologists certified or eligible for certification by the American Board of Pathology, or any other person recognized by the board as having special qualifications and who is duly licensed and registered to practice medicine in the state of Tennessee.   Persons who collect specimens or report the results of an examination shall be under the supervision of a licensed medical laboratory director, medical laboratory supervisor, or medical laboratory technologist or other persons so designated by the regulations promulgated under authority of this chapter.
TN Code § 68-29-117 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-117. Applications for Licenses for Laboratory Personnel — Fees — Issuance of License — Temporary Licenses

  An application for a license as a medical laboratory director, supervisor, technologist, technician or special analyst shall be made under oath on forms provided by the board.   The following fees shall apply to this section:  A nonrefundable application fee shall be set annually by the board; and   An examination fee in the form of a check or money order, which shall accompany the application. Such fee will be set annually by the board. This fee shall not exceed the cost incurred by the board in purchasing the examination. This fee is only applicable when an examination is required by the regulations governing this chapter. If the applicant does not pass the examination, the applicant shall be assessed the cost of each subsequent examination taken. The examination fee may be refunded if the applicant does not take an examination; provided, that the request for a refund is made in writing by the applicant in question.     A license shall be issued authorizing the performance of one (1) or more categories after the applicant has met the requirements for a license as indicated in the regulations governing this chapter. An individual who was serving as a director of a medical laboratory on May 26, 1967, may continue to direct the medical laboratory; provided, that the laboratory meets all requirements of the regulations governing this chapter.    The board may issue a temporary license as a medical technician, medical technologist, special analyst, or medical laboratory director, to an applicant who has successfully completed the academic course work, clinical training, and all board designated requirements for the license sought, and who is scheduled to take the next available board approved examination.   If an applicant passes the examination, the temporary license shall remain valid until the board grants or denies the license application.   If the applicant fails the examination, the temporary license shall remain valid only until the results of the examination are available to the board.   If the applicant fails to take the scheduled examination, the temporary license becomes void on the day of examination. In cases of severe hardship, the board may, in its discretion, and upon application, issue a second temporary license, which, if granted, shall remain valid until the results of the second examination are available to the board.   No individual may be issued more than one (1) temporary license, except as provided by subdivision (d)(4).   The recipient of a temporary license issued under this subsection (d) shall work only under the direct supervision of licensed medical laboratory personnel appointed by the laboratory supervisor as preceptor to the temporary licensee. This preceptor shall hold a license equal to or higher than the temporary licensee's level of licensure.
TN Code § 68-29-118 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-118. Minimal Qualifications for Medical Laboratory Personnel and Special Analysts

  The board shall prescribe minimum qualifications for medical laboratory personnel, to include generalists, specialty and subspecialty categories as dictated by current laboratory practices, and special analysts in microbiology, serology, biochemistry, hematology, immunohematology and biophysics.   The board shall issue a license to any person who meets the minimum qualifications and who demonstrates that such person possesses the character, training and ability to qualify in those areas for which the license is sought.   Persons who perform analytic testing or report the results of an examination shall be under the supervision of a licensed medical laboratory director, medical laboratory supervisor, or medical laboratory technologist, or other person so designated by the rules and regulations promulgated under the authority of this chapter and the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.
TN Code § 68-29-119 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-119. License Renewal — Fees — Penalties

 Each licensee must renew the licensee's license on forms provided by the board and pay a fee as set by the board. The fee, in the form of a check or money order, shall accompany the renewal application. If a licensee fails or neglects to register such licensee's license by the prescribed time, the licensee's license shall be automatically revoked. The license may be restored by paying all registration fees due, plus a penalty fee. Such penalty fee shall be set by the board.
TN Code § 68-29-120 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-120. Registration of Laboratory Trainees

  The board shall register as a laboratory trainee, at no cost, each qualified person who desires trainee status in any laboratory that is approved for training by the board.   Registration of a medical laboratory trainee shall not be valid for a period in excess of two (2) years.
TN Code § 68-29-121 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-121. Examination of Human Specimens — Reports of Examinations

  No person, except patients who are performing tests on themselves by order of their physician, shall examine human specimens without the written request of a physician, an intern or resident in an American Medical Association approved training program, a duly licensed optometrist, a duly licensed dentist, a duly licensed chiropractic physician, or other health care professional legally permitted to submit to a medical laboratory a written request for tests appropriate to that professional's practice, or the written request of a law enforcement officer acting in accordance with § 55-10-406.   The results of a test shall be reported directly to the physician, optometrist, dentist, chiropractic physician, designated entity or other health care professional who requested it. The report shall include the name of the director and the name and address of the medical laboratory in which the test was actually performed.   All specimens accepted by medical laboratory personnel and/or special analysts shall be tested on the premises, except that specimens for infrequently performed tests may be forwarded for examination to another medical laboratory licensed under this chapter or licensed or exempt under the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1967, codified in 42 U.S.C. § 263a. This shall not be construed as prohibiting the referral of specimens to a medical laboratory excepted under § 68-29-104. However, the medical laboratory director of the referring medical laboratory shall assume complete responsibility.
TN Code § 68-29-122 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-122. Collection of Specimens — Restrictions — Licensing of Collection Stations

  The medical laboratory board shall be responsible for the establishment of the procedures and standards to be used for the proper collection, handling and preanalytic processing of laboratory samples and may promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for such procedures and standards.   When blood is withdrawn from a patient in a home for the aged, nursing home residential hospice or recuperation center, or from a patient of a home care organization as these terms are defined in § 68-11-201, the procedure shall be performed by a trained phlebotomist or a person who has been properly trained to draw blood and has been licensed in this state by the appropriate board for the respective health care profession of such person.   Collection stations owned and operated as part of a laboratory licensed in Tennessee do not require an additional license. Collection stations owned and operated by laboratories in other states are required to have a Tennessee license. Collection stations shall comply with rules and regulations prescribed by the board.
TN Code § 68-29-123 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-123. Representation of Unlicensed Laboratory Prohibited — Requirements for Collection, Transportation and Preservation of Specimens Prescribed by Board

  No person shall represent, or maintain an office or specimen collection station or other facilities for the representation of any medical laboratory situated in this state or any other state, that makes examinations in connection with the diagnosis and control of diseases, unless the medical laboratory is licensed in accordance with this chapter.   The board may, from time to time, determine which tests may be performed on specimens shipped through the mails and may prescribe requirements for collection, transportation and preservation of such specimens.   A medical laboratory located in another state, which provides services to patients in this state, shall be subject to § 68-29-129(7) and any other requirements deemed necessary by the board pursuant to this chapter to protect the health and safety of patients in this state.
TN Code § 68-29-124 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-124. Records of Medical Laboratory Services

 Records involving medical laboratory services and copies of requests and reports of laboratory tests shall be kept for a period of time and in a manner prescribed by the board. They shall be made available to authorized personnel of the board during regular operation hours of the laboratory for inspection.
TN Code § 68-29-125 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-125. Quality Control Programs

 Each medical laboratory director shall establish the director's own quality control program acceptable to the board, including use of, where applicable, reference or control sera and other biological samples, concurrent calibration standards, and control charts recording.
TN Code § 68-29-126 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-126. Suspension, Revocation or Denial of Medical Laboratory License — Grounds

 The board has the power to suspend or revoke a medical laboratory license or to deny the issuance or renewal of a license or deny approval whenever a medical laboratory owner or director or owner of a medical laboratory training facility commits any of the following offenses:   Making false statements on an application for a medical laboratory license or any other documents required by the board;   Permitting unauthorized persons to perform technical procedures or to issue or sign reports;   Demonstrating incompetence or making consistent errors in the performance of medical laboratory examinations and procedures;   Reporting that is erroneous;   Performing a test and rendering a report on a test to a person not authorized by law to receive such services;   Referring a specimen for examination to a medical laboratory which has not been licensed under this chapter, with exceptions noted in § 68-29-104;   Rendering a report on medical laboratory work actually performed in another medical laboratory without designating the name of the director and the name and address of the medical laboratory in which the test was performed;   Having professional connection with or lending the use of the name of the licensed medical laboratory or its director to an unlicensed medical laboratory;   Making statements, in writing or orally, of a character tending to deceive or mislead physicians, dentists or hospitals;   Performing cytological and anatomical pathological examinations in a medical laboratory not under the direction of a pathologist certified or eligible for certification by the American Board of Pathology, licensed to practice medicine in the state of Tennessee;   Violating or aiding and abetting in the violation of any provision of this chapter or the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter;   Failing to file any request or report required by this chapter or the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter; or   Fraudulent advertising for patronage of the general public by means of bills, posters, circulars, letters, newspapers, magazines, directories, radio, television, or any other medium.
TN Code § 68-29-127 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-127. Suspension, Revocation or Denial of Personnel Licenses — Grounds

 The board has the power to suspend or revoke the licenses of medical laboratory personnel or special analysts or to deny the issuance of a license or a registration certificate whenever medical laboratory personnel or special analysts commit any of the following offenses:   Making a false statement on an application for a license or any other document required by the board;   Engaging or attempting to engage or representing oneself as entitled to perform any medical laboratory procedure or category of procedures not authorized in such person's license;   Demonstrating incompetence or making consistent errors in the performance of medical laboratory examinations or procedures;   Reporting that is erroneous;   Performing a test and rendering a report on a test to a person not authorized by law to receive such services;   Having been convicted of a felony or of any crime involving moral turpitude under the laws of any state or of the United States. The record of conviction or a certified copy of the record shall be conclusive evidence of such conviction;   Providing professional services while mentally incompetent, or under the influence of alcohol, a narcotic, or other controlled, dangerous substance that is in excess of therapeutic amounts or without valid medical indication;   Violating or aiding and abetting in the violation of any provisions of this chapter or the rules or regulations promulgated under this chapter;   Immoral or unethical conduct; or   Fraudulent advertising for patronage of the general public by means of bills, posters, circulars, letters, newspapers, magazines, directories, radio, television, or any other medium.
TN Code § 68-29-128 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-128. Suspension or Revocation of Licenses — Procedure

 The Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5, shall govern the hearing and judicial review of all proceedings for suspension or revocation of licenses under this chapter.
TN Code § 68-29-129 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-129. Violations of Chapter

 It is a violation of this chapter for any person to:   Operate, maintain, direct or engage in the business of operating a medical laboratory, unless such person has obtained a medical laboratory license from the board, or is exempt under § 68-29-104;   Operate, maintain, direct or engage in the business of operating a medical laboratory during a suspension of a license or after revocation of a license;   Conduct, maintain, or operate a medical laboratory, unless such medical laboratory is under the direct and responsible supervision and direction of a person licensed under this chapter or is exempt under § 68-29-116;   Allow any person to perform medical laboratory procedures, except individuals licensed and registered under this chapter;   Accept specimens for tests from, and make reports to, persons who are not legally qualified or authorized to submit specimens to medical laboratories and to receive such reports. However, this does not prohibit the referral of specimens from one (1) licensed medical laboratory to another licensed under this chapter or to a laboratory named in § 68-29-104; provided, that the report indicates clearly the medical laboratory performing the test and the name of the director of such medical laboratory;   Make any test or examination in a medical laboratory, unless the person is licensed or authorized to make such tests under this chapter;   Solicit the referral of specimens to such person's or any other medical laboratory or contract to perform medical laboratory examinations of specimens in a manner that offers or implies an offer of rebates to a person or persons submitting specimens, other fee-splitting inducements, participation in any fee-splitting arrangements, or other unearned remuneration;   Violate or aid and abet in the violation of any provision of this chapter or the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter; or   Operate, maintain, direct or engage in the business of operating a medical laboratory school, unless such school has been issued a certificate of approval by the board.
TN Code § 68-29-130 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-130. Penalty for Violation

 The performance of any acts specified in § 68-29-129 by any person is a Class B misdemeanor.
TN Code § 68-29-131 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-131. Injunctive Relief

 The board, through the attorney general and reporter, in addition to the powers and duties expressed in this chapter with respect to the denial of a license, denial of a certificate of registration, and suspension or revocation of a license, is empowered to petition any chancery court having jurisdiction of any person within this state, who is conducting a medical laboratory without a license or is performing as medical laboratory personnel without a license, or to whom a license has been denied, or to whom a certificate of registration has been denied, or whose license has been suspended or revoked, to enjoin such person or persons from continuing to violate this chapter or to enjoin the future operation or maintenance of a medical laboratory until compliance with this chapter or the rules and regulations promulgated under this chapter has been demonstrated to the satisfaction of the board.
TN Code § 68-29-132 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-132. Disposition of Fees

 All fees for licensing and registration provided for under this chapter shall be credited to the board and used by the board for the administration of this chapter in accordance with former § 4-3-1011 [transferred to § 9-4-5117].
TN Code § 68-29-133 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-133. Agreements to Perform Laboratory Tests for Other States

 The commissioner is authorized to enter into agreements pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act, compiled in title 12, chapter 9, with the commissioner's official counterpart in other states to perform on behalf of another state, examinations or tests upon specimens collected in that state, when it is determined by the commissioner that performing the examinations or tests would result in a cost savings in the operation of the division of laboratories or otherwise benefit the citizens of Tennessee.
TN Code § 68-29-134 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-134. Administrative Support

 The board shall receive administrative support from the division of health related boards of the department of health.
TN Code § 68-29-135 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 29 - Tennessee Medical Laboratory Act|§ 68-29-135. Medical Laboratory Directors — Restricted Licenses — Qualifications

  In addition to other persons permitted by law or rule to be a medical laboratory director, a person shall be qualified to serve as a medical laboratory director with a restricted license for a hospital licensed under this title for thirty (30) beds or fewer if the person is a physician licensed under title 63, chapter 6 or 9, and is otherwise qualified as determined by the board. A physician serving as a medical laboratory director pursuant to this section is authorized to delegate day-to-day operation of the laboratory to a medical laboratory supervisor.   In addition to other persons permitted by law or rule to be a medical laboratory supervisor, a person shall be qualified to serve as a medical laboratory supervisor with a restricted license for a hospital licensed under this title for thirty (30) beds or fewer if the person possesses at least a three-year undergraduate degree in any medical science, plus one (1) year of training in medical laboratory science, and is otherwise qualified as a medical laboratory supervisor as determined by the board.   The board is authorized to issue limited medical laboratory director and limited medical laboratory supervisor licenses in accordance with this section.