1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 652.127, the Board, with the advice of the Medical Laboratory Advisory Committee, may prescribe and publish rules and regulations relating to:
- (a) The education, training and experience qualifications of laboratory directors and technical personnel.
- (b) The location and construction of laboratories, including plumbing, heating, lighting, ventilation, electrical services and similar conditions, to ensure the conduct and operation of the laboratory in a manner which will protect the public health.
- (c) Sanitary conditions within the laboratory and its surroundings, including the water supply, sewage, the handling of specimens and matters of general hygiene, to ensure the protection of the public health.
- (d) The equipment essential to the proper conduct and operation of a laboratory.
- (e) The determination of the accuracy of test results produced by a laboratory and the establishment of minimum qualifications therefor.
2. Any regulations adopted by the Board pursuant to this section must not require that the laboratory director of a laboratory in which the only test performed is a test for the detection of the human immunodeficiency virus that is classified as a waived test pursuant to Subpart A of Part 493 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations:
- (a) Be a licensed physician; or
- (b) Perform duties other than those prescribed in NRS 652.180.
- 3. Any regulations adopted by the Board pursuant to this section that require the laboratory director of a laboratory in which the only tests performed are tests that are classified as waived tests pursuant to Subpart A of Part 493 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations to be a licensed physician must include a licensed optometrist among the types of licensed physicians who are qualified to serve as a laboratory director of such a laboratory.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 927; A 1999, 173; 2015, 849; 2023, 1462)