Section 101160 Of Article 5. Municipal And County Laboratories From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 101. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 5.
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. (a) Any city or county public health laboratory established
for the purposes set forth in this chapter and its personnel shall
be approved by the State Department of Health Services and shall
comply with the requirements of CLIA.
(b) For purposes of this section, "CLIA" means the federal
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (42 U.S.C. Sec.
263a; P.L. 100-578) and the regulations adopted thereunder by the
federal Health Care Financing Administration and effective on January
1, 1994, or any later date, when adopted in California pursuant to
subdivision (b) of Section 1208 of the Business and Professions Code.