NRS652.080. License required; term; renewal; inactive status; licensure of laboratory located outside state.

      1.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 652.217 and 652.235, no person may operate, conduct, issue a report from or maintain a medical laboratory without first obtaining a license to do so issued by the Division pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

      2.  A license issued pursuant to the provisions of subsection 1 is valid for 24 months and is renewable biennially on or before the date of its expiration.

      3.  No license may be issued to a laboratory which does not have a laboratory director.

      4.  A license may be placed in an inactive status upon the approval of the Division and the payment of current fees.

      5.  The Division may require a laboratory that is located outside of this state to be licensed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter before the laboratory may examine any specimens collected within this state if the Division determines that the licensure is necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare of the residents of this state.

      (Added to NRS by 1967, 926; A 1973, 660; 1975, 1162; 1995, 794, 1590; 1997, 1124)