J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                     1283

CHAPTER 725
(House Bill 675)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 34 of
Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1965 Replace-
ment Volume), title "Health," subtitle "Miscellaneous Provisions,"
to require THAT the State Board of Health and Mental Hygiene
establish minimum standards and qualifications and license labora-
tories of the State which make examinations in connection with
diagnosis and control of human diseases, providing a power of
revocation of licenses and penalties for unlicensed operation of
said laboratories AND TO EXCEPT SOME LABORATORIES
AND LABORATORY DIRECTORS FROM THESE REQUIRE-
MENTS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, AND FURTHER
PROVIDING THAT NO REPRESENTATION OR SERVICE
SHALL BE PERFORMED IN THIS STATE ON BEHALF OF
ANY LABORATORY NOT SITUATED IN THIS STATE UN-
LESS SUCH LABORATORY MEETS THE MINIMUM STAND-
ARDS AND QUALIFICATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE UN-
DER THE AUTHORITY OF THIS SECTION, AND MAKING
UNLAWFUL THE SOLICITATION OR ADVERTISING ON
BEHALF OF ANY LABORATORY COVERED BY THIS SEC-
TION.                      

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 34 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1965 Replacement Volume), title "health;" subtitle "Miscellaneous
Provisions," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:                           

34.                                                 ■

(A) The State Board of Health and Mental Hygiene [is here-
by authorized and empowered to] shall establish such minimum
standards and qualifications [as it may consider necessary] for any
laboratories in the counties of the State and in Baltimore City, which
make examinations in connection with the diagnosis and control of
human diseases[.] as it may consider necessary to assure to the
citizens of the State safe and reliable laboratory 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 except a physician performing labora-
tory examinations on his own patients shall file with the Board an
application setting forth the name of the owner, the type of labora-
tory 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 issu4 a
permit to operate. The Board shall conduct periodic inspections to
assure continuing compliance. No person, partnership, association
or corporation shall operate such a laboratory without such a per-
mit; the Board is authorized and empowered to refuse to issue, to
suspend or to revoke a permit to operate, if, after inspection and due
notice, a laboratory fails to comply with minimum standards or
qualifications or with the provisions of any rules or regulations
regularly, adopted by the Board. Any person operating such a labora-