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Session Laws, 1969
Volume 692, Page 1195   View pdf image
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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                      1195

CHAPTER 491
(Senate Bill 769)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 34 (a)
and (b) of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1968
Supplement), title "Health," subtitle "Miscellaneous Provisions,"
to provide that tissue banks shall be subject to certain standards
as promulgated by the State Board of Health and Mental Hygiene;
to include blood banks within the meaning of tissue banks; and to
provide that the director of a tissue bank must be a physician
licensed to practice medicine in Maryland.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 34 (a) and (b) of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1968 Supplement), title "Health," subtitle "Miscellaneous
Provisions," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

34. Minimum standards of examining laboratories and tissue banks
(including blood banks).

(a) Establishment of standards; permit to operate laboratory;
periodic inspections; annual application required of foreign labora-
tories. The State Board of Health and Mental Hygiene shall estab-
lish such minimum standards and qualifications for any laboratories
and tissue banks in the counties of the State and in Baltimore City,
which make examinations in connection with the diagnosis and con-
trol of human diseases or which procures, processes, distributes, or
sells human tissue
as it may consider necessary to assure to the
citizens of the State these safe and reliable laboratory or health
services, and shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulations for
this purpose. Any person, partnership, association, or corporation
desiring to open or maintain such a laboratory or tissue bank except
a physician performing laboratory examinations on his own patients
shall file with the Board an application setting forth the name of the
owner, the types of laboratory or health services to be performed,
and such other information as the Board may require; the Board
shall cause an inspection to be made and, if in compliance with
minimum requirements, it shall issue a permit to operate. The
Board shall conduct periodic inspections to assure continuing com-
pliance. No person, partnership, association or corporation shall
operate such a laboratory or tissue bank without such a permit;
the Board is authorized and empowered to refuse to issue, to sus-
pend or to revoke a permit to operate, if, after inspection and due
notice, a laboratory or tissue bank fails to comply with minimum
standards or qualifications or with the provisions of any rules or
regulations regularly adopted by the Board. No person, partner-
ship, association or corporation shall represent or service or main-
tain in this State any office, representative or other facilities for
the representation or servicing of any laboratory or tissue bank
situated in this State or any other state which makes examinations
in connection with the diagnosis and control of human disease or
which procures, processes, distributes or sells human tissue
unless
the laboratory or tissue bank so represented or serviced shall meet
or exceed the minimum standards promulgated by the State Board
of Health and Mental Hygiene under and pursuant to this section,

 

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