36-252. Chief of state laboratory; appointment; qualifications
A. The state laboratory shall be under the supervision of a chief who shall be appointed by the director of the department of health services.
B. The laboratory chief shall be a skilled pharmaceutical chemist or bacteriologist and analyst of foods, water supplies and drugs.
Structure Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 36 - Public Health and Safety
§ 36-102 - Department of health services; director; appointment; compensation
§ 36-103 - Department organization; deputy director; assistant directors
§ 36-103.01 - Governmental units succeeded; statutory references to succeeded governmental units
§ 36-105 - Information; state-federal cooperation
§ 36-106 - Acquisition of lands and buildings
§ 36-107 - Power to promulgate rules concerning confidential nature of records
§ 36-108 - Indirect cost fund; use; exemption
§ 36-108.01 - Department of health services funds; purposes; annual report
§ 36-109 - Hospitals; health care facilities; substance abuse treatment; reporting requirements
§ 36-110 - County or district liaison; duties
§ 36-111 - Hearings and appeals
§ 36-114 - Limitation upon authority to impose treatment
§ 36-115 - Promulgation of rules
§ 36-117 - Services for licensing agencies; costs
§ 36-118 - Director's seal; authentication of records
§ 36-119 - Breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic special plate fund
§ 36-120 - Multiple sclerosis awareness fund
§ 36-121 - Childhood cancer and rare childhood disease research fund
§ 36-122 - Public health emergencies fund; exemption; report
§ 36-123 - Opioid abuse prevention campaign
§ 36-123.02 - Alzheimer's disease research fund; exemption
§ 36-123.03 - Congenital heart defect special plate fund
§ 36-125.04 - Financial statements; uniform accounting report; exemption
§ 36-125.05 - Uniform patient reporting system; statistical and demographic reports; exemption
§ 36-125.06 - Comparative report; brochure
§ 36-125.07 - Uniform billing; third party payors; exception; definitions
§ 36-126 - Violation; civil penalties
§ 36-132 - Department of health services; functions; contracts
§ 36-133 - Chronic disease surveillance system; confidentiality; immunity; violation; classification
§ 36-134 - Asbestosis and mesothelioma
§ 36-136 - Powers and duties of director; compensation of personnel; rules; definitions
§ 36-137 - Annual report of director
§ 36-138 - Oral health fund; nonlapsing
§ 36-140 - Violation; classification
§ 36-142 - Diabetes action plan team; report
§ 36-143 - Care and treatment for residents twenty-one and older with cystic fibrosis; costs
§ 36-144 - Home care services; disclosure; definition
§ 36-145 - Family planning services; grant application; distribution of monies
§ 36-146 - Veteran suicides; annual report; distribution
§ 36-147 - Annual expenditure report; medical marijuana fund; justice reinvestment fund
§ 36-148 - Annual distribution report; smart and safe Arizona fund
§ 36-152 - Authority to provide services; fees
§ 36-153 - Authority to contract for services and fees
§ 36-154 - Limitation of authority regarding services and fees
§ 36-155 - Personnel and equipment
§ 36-157 - County authority to provide services; fees
§ 36-158 - Authority to receive funds; disbursement
§ 36-159 - Authorized court action to collect fees
§ 36-160 - Confidentiality of records; unauthorized disclosures unlawful; classification
§ 36-172 - Workforce data repository fund; exemption
§ 36-173 - Advisory committee; membership
§ 36-183 - Boards of health of local health departments; membership; terms
§ 36-183.01 - County hospital under board of health or hospital board; powers and duties
§ 36-183.02 - Sanitary regulations; notice
§ 36-183.03 - Maintaining unsanitary premises; violation; classification
§ 36-183.04 - Notice of violation; civil penalties; administrative hearings
§ 36-183.05 - Violations; injunctive relief; civil penalties; consent decrees
§ 36-183.06 - Health inspectors; violations; notice to appear
§ 36-183.07 - Violation; classification
§ 36-184 - Boards of health of local health departments; organization; meetings; powers and duties
§ 36-185 - Local department of health funds
§ 36-186 - Director of county health department; powers and duties
§ 36-187 - County treasurer as treasurer of local departments of health; duties; collection of fees
§ 36-190 - Participation of incorporated cities and towns in health services
§ 36-191 - Violation; classification
§ 36-192 - County health departments; naloxone kits
§ 36-195 - Establishment of advisory committee by authorized local agency
§ 36-196 - Duties and responsibilities
§ 36-199 - Suicide mortality review team; members; duties
§ 36-199.01 - Access to information; confidentiality; violation; classification
§ 36-202.01 - Admission of juveniles to state hospital
§ 36-203 - Persons with intellectual disabilities assigned to state hospital; department duties
§ 36-206 - Duties of superintendent; clinical assessment
§ 36-207 - Fingerprinting requirements; definition
§ 36-208 - Employees; compensation
§ 36-209 - Reports by superintendent and director
§ 36-211 - Income from land rentals and permanent funds
§ 36-212 - Maximum security area required
§ 36-213 - Store and canteen; deposit
§ 36-214 - Arizona state hospital; private operation
§ 36-215 - State hospital revolving fund; nonreversion
§ 36-216 - Budget for state hospital
§ 36-217 - State hospital; annual report
§ 36-218 - Arizona state hospital charitable trust fund
§ 36-219 - Contracting requirements; art therapy services; definition
§ 36-252 - Chief of state laboratory; appointment; qualifications
§ 36-253 - Chief of state laboratory; powers and duties
§ 36-254 - Evidentiary effect of certificate of chief of state laboratory
§ 36-255 - Reports by laboratory chief
§ 36-261 - Children who have a chronic illness or physical disability; program
§ 36-272 - Biomedical research
§ 36-274 - Disease control research fund; lapsing; investment
§ 36-275 - Health research fund
§ 36-302 - System of vital records; powers and duties of the state registrar
§ 36-303 - System of public health statistics; powers and duties of the department
§ 36-311 - Appointment and removal of local registrars and deputy local registrars
§ 36-312 - Local registrars and deputy local registrars; powers and duties
§ 36-313 - Deputy local registrars; compensation
§ 36-321 - Information required for a certificate
§ 36-322 - Sealing a certificate
§ 36-323 - Amending registered certificates: corrections
§ 36-324 - Vital records; copies; access
§ 36-325 - Death certificate registration; moving human remains; immunity
§ 36-325.01 - Delayed death certificate registration
§ 36-326 - Disposition-transit permits
§ 36-327 - Disinterment-reinterment permit
§ 36-328 - Registration of a death certificate for a foreign presumptive death
§ 36-329 - Fetal death certificate registration
§ 36-329.01 - Delayed fetal death certificate registration
§ 36-330 - Certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth; requirements
§ 36-330.01 - Delayed registration of certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth
§ 36-331 - Duties of persons in charge of place of disposition
§ 36-332 - Notification of death to responsible person and release of human remains
§ 36-333 - Birth certificate registration
§ 36-333.01 - Late birth certificate registration
§ 36-333.02 - Delayed birth certificate registration
§ 36-333.03 - Record of birth; petition; requirements; notice; court order; definition
§ 36-334 - Determining maternity and paternity for birth certificates
§ 36-335 - Birth registration for foundlings
§ 36-336 - Adoption certificate
§ 36-337 - Amending birth certificates
§ 36-338 - Certificates of foreign birth for adoptees
§ 36-339 - Missing children; notification; flagging birth certificate records; definitions
§ 36-341 - Fees received by state and local registrars
§ 36-341.01 - Vital records electronic systems fund; purpose; nonlapsing
§ 36-342 - Disclosure of information; prohibition
§ 36-343 - Duty to provide information to the state registrar
§ 36-344 - Violation; classification
§ 36-345 - Effect of registration
§ 36-351 - Duties of the director; Arizona state library, archives and public records
§ 36-401 - Definitions; adult foster care
§ 36-403 - Licensure by counties and municipalities
§ 36-404 - Limitation of disclosure of information
§ 36-405 - Powers and duties of the director
§ 36-405.01 - Health screening services; violation; classification
§ 36-405.02 - Outpatient behavioral health and other related health care services; employees; rules
§ 36-406 - Powers and duties of the department
§ 36-407 - Prohibited acts; required acts
§ 36-407.01 - Hospitals; visitation; religious purposes
§ 36-407.03 - Hospitals; visitation policy; exceptions
§ 36-408 - Required reports from health care institutions
§ 36-410 - County standards and guidelines; delegation
§ 36-411.01 - Adult residential care institutions; recidivism reduction services; rules
§ 36-412 - Nursing care institutions; employment
§ 36-414 - Health services licensing fund; exemption
§ 36-415 - Breast density mammography results; notification
§ 36-416 - Registered dietitians; qualified nutrition professionals; hospital orders; definitions
§ 36-417 - Use of compliance surveys; advertisement; requirements
§ 36-418 - Behavioral health residential facilities; reporting requirement
§ 36-419 - Do-not-resuscitate orders; minors; parental communication; definitions
§ 36-420.02 - Additional charges for medical or forensic interview or examination; prohibition
§ 36-421 - Construction or modification of a health care institution
§ 36-423 - Hemodialysis technicians; minimum requirements; definition
§ 36-425.01 - Home health agencies; licensure; definition
§ 36-425.02 - Nursing care institutions; quality rating; issuance of license
§ 36-425.04 - Hospice service agencies; policies and procedures; controlled substances
§ 36-425.05 - Intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities; licensure
§ 36-425.06 - Secure behavioral health residential facilities; license; definition
§ 36-425.07 - Nursing-supported group homes; licensure
§ 36-426 - Hospital providers of extended care services
§ 36-427 - Suspension or revocation; intermediate sanctions
§ 36-428 - Hearings by the director
§ 36-429 - Removal of licensee; temporary management continued operation
§ 36-430 - Unlicensed operation prohibited; injunction
§ 36-431 - Violation; classification
§ 36-431.01 - Violations; civil penalties
§ 36-431.02 - Nursing care institution resident protection revolving fund; use; nonreversion
§ 36-432 - Urgent care centers; posting requirements
§ 36-433 - Receipt of report and complaint; investigation
§ 36-434 - Outdoor behavioral health care programs; licensing requirements; inspections
§ 36-434.01 - Outpatient surgical centers; hospitals; surgical smoke evacuation systems; definitions
§ 36-435 - Staff privileges for podiatrists
§ 36-436 - Filing and review of rates and rules as prerequisite to operation
§ 36-436.02 - Increases of rates or charges; filing
§ 36-436.03 - Public availability of rates and charges
§ 36-437 - Health care facilities; charges; public availability; direct payment; notice; definitions
§ 36-439.01 - Colocation of licensees
§ 36-439.02 - Colocators; collaborating outpatient treatment centers; requirements
§ 36-439.03 - Use of treatment areas
§ 36-439.04 - Colocation; outpatient treatment centers; health care providers
§ 36-441 - Health care utilization committees; immunity; exception; definition
§ 36-445 - Review of certain medical practices
§ 36-445.01 - Confidentiality of information; conditions of disclosure
§ 36-445.02 - Immunity relating to review of medical practices
§ 36-445.03 - Limitation of publication; identity of patient confidential
§ 36-445.04 - Freestanding urgent care center incident reporting; confidentiality requirement
§ 36-446.01 - Licensure or certification requirements
§ 36-446.02 - Board of examiners; terms; meetings; quorum; effect of vacancies; compensation
§ 36-446.03 - Powers and duties of the board; rules; fees; fingerprinting
§ 36-446.04 - Qualifications; period of validity; exemption
§ 36-446.05 - Reciprocity; present administrators
§ 36-446.06 - Temporary licenses and certificates
§ 36-446.09 - Violations; classification
§ 36-446.10 - Confidentiality of records; release of complainant's name and nature of complaint
§ 36-446.11 - Relief from civil liability
§ 36-446.13 - Unlawful act; unlicensed operation; injunction
§ 36-447.01 - Nursing care institutions; notification of services; screening; annual reviews
§ 36-447.02 - Nursing care institutions; therapeutic substitutions
§ 36-448.02 - Pain management clinics; licensure requirements; rules
§ 36-448.52 - Recovery care centers; licensure
§ 36-448.53 - Recovery care centers; administration; bylaws; administrator; duties; notification
§ 36-448.54 - Admission of patients
§ 36-448.55 - Medical staff; requirements; nursing care
§ 36-449.03 - Abortion clinics; rules; civil penalties
§ 36-450.01 - Reporting procedures
§ 36-450.02 - Nonretaliatory policy; definition
§ 36-461 - Exceptions to this article
§ 36-462 - License requirements; training and consultation
§ 36-463.01 - Licensure of laboratories located in a health care institution
§ 36-463.02 - Inspections; exemptions; disciplinary action
§ 36-466 - Advisory committee on clinical laboratories; membership; duties
§ 36-467 - Reports by laboratories
§ 36-470 - Examination of specimens; written requests; reports of results; retention of test records
§ 36-471 - Persons authorized to collect human specimens or blood
§ 36-472 - Rebates, fee-splitting and solicitation of referrals prohibited
§ 36-472.01 - Billing for laboratory costs; definition
§ 36-473 - Grounds for denial, suspension or revocation of license
§ 36-474 - Investigation of complaints; notice of hearing
§ 36-476 - License surrender; certification
§ 36-479 - Violations; classification
§ 36-495.01 - Licensure program; rules
§ 36-495.03 - License application; issuance; expiration
§ 36-495.04 - Laboratory director; duties
§ 36-495.05 - Provisional licenses
§ 36-495.07 - Inspection; investigations
§ 36-495.08 - Reports by laboratories
§ 36-495.09 - Suspension, revocation or denial of license; hearing
§ 36-495.10 - Operation of unlicensed laboratory; cease and desist order; injunction; letter
§ 36-495.11 - Violation; classification
§ 36-495.12 - Violations; civil penalties
§ 36-495.13 - Powers of the director
§ 36-495.14 - Out-of-state laboratories; licensure; reciprocity
§ 36-495.15 - Environmental laboratory licensure revolving fund; use
§ 36-495.16 - Environmental laboratory advisory committee; membership; duties; compensation
§ 36-502 - Powers and duties of the director of AHCCCS; rules; expenditure limitation
§ 36-503 - Medical director of evaluation agency or mental health treatment agency; deputy
§ 36-503.01 - Duty of attorney general or county attorney
§ 36-503.02 - Apprehension and transportation by authorized transporters; immunity
§ 36-503.03 - Civil commitment treatment population; cap
§ 36-504 - Notice of patients' rights; notification to family
§ 36-506 - Civil rights not impaired; discrimination prohibited
§ 36-507 - Patient's rights to privacy and to personal possessions
§ 36-508 - Disposition of patient's personal property
§ 36-509 - Confidential records; immunity; definition
§ 36-509.01 - Case records; involuntary treatment hearings; confidentiality; definition
§ 36-510 - Patient's compensation for work
§ 36-510.01 - Notice; personal service of process
§ 36-511 - Quality of treatment
§ 36-512 - Emergency medical care
§ 36-513 - Seclusion; restraint; treatment
§ 36-514 - Visitation; telephone; correspondence; religious freedom
§ 36-515 - Limitation of liability; false application; classification
§ 36-516 - Violation of person's rights
§ 36-517 - Cruelty to mentally disordered person; classification
§ 36-517.02 - Limitation of liability; exception; discharge of duty; immunity for disclosure
§ 36-518 - Application for voluntary admission; admission to agency; minors; transportation
§ 36-518.01 - Case review of voluntary admission of minor
§ 36-519 - Discharge of voluntary patients
§ 36-520 - Application for evaluation; definition
§ 36-521.01 - Considerations for screening, evaluation and involuntary treatment
§ 36-522 - Voluntary evaluation
§ 36-523 - Petition for evaluation
§ 36-524 - Application for emergency admission for evaluation; requirements; immunity
§ 36-525 - Apprehension and transportation by peace officers; immunity
§ 36-526 - Emergency admission; examination; petition for court-ordered evaluation
§ 36-527 - Discharge and release; relief from civil liability
§ 36-528 - Emergency patients; duties of agency; notification of family member; right to counsel
§ 36-529 - Order for evaluation; order for detention; hearing; personal service of court orders
§ 36-530 - Evaluation and treatment
§ 36-531 - Evaluation; possible dispositions; release
§ 36-533 - Petition for treatment
§ 36-534 - Change to voluntary status; discharge; notice; hearing
§ 36-537 - Powers and duties of counsel
§ 36-538 - Independent evaluator
§ 36-539 - Conduct of hearing; record; transcript
§ 36-540 - Court options; immunity; rules
§ 36-540.01 - Conditional outpatient treatment
§ 36-541 - Mandatory local treatment; placement at state hospital
§ 36-545 - Voluntary admissions to the state hospital; reimbursements; indigents
§ 36-545.02 - State hospital reimbursements; disposition of funds
§ 36-545.04 - Costs of court proceedings; compensation for evaluation and testimony
§ 36-545.08 - Arizona state hospital fund; purpose
§ 36-545.09 - Building renewal fund; purpose
§ 36-546 - Judicial review; right to be informed; request; jurisdiction
§ 36-546.01 - Expedited appeal to the court of appeals
§ 36-550.01 - Statewide plan for community residential treatment
§ 36-550.02 - County responsibilities in statewide planning process
§ 36-550.03 - Statewide plan implementation; contract requirements; exception
§ 36-550.04 - Evaluation system; contract requirements
§ 36-550.06 - Client eligibility
§ 36-550.07 - Community residential treatment system planning grants
§ 36-550.09 - Secure behavioral health residential facility; court determination; findings
§ 36-551.01 - Persons with developmental disabilities; rights guaranteed
§ 36-552 - Developmental disabilities function; expenditure limitation
§ 36-553 - Developmental disabilities advisory council; membership; duties; reporting requirements
§ 36-554 - Powers and duties of director
§ 36-555 - Coordination of programs by department with special education programs
§ 36-556 - Coordination with department of health services; duties of department
§ 36-557 - Community developmental disability services; service providers
§ 36-558 - Establishment and maintenance of programs and services; definition
§ 36-558.02 - State operated service center
§ 36-559 - Eligibility for developmental disabilities programs, services and facilities
§ 36-561 - Prohibiting certain treatment or drugs; use of aversive stimuli
§ 36-562 - Schedule of financial contribution; review of payment order
§ 36-563 - Review and appeal; hearing
§ 36-565 - Periodic evaluations of persons with developmental disabilities
§ 36-566 - Request for termination from a state facility, program or service
§ 36-567 - Music therapists; minimum qualifications; definition
§ 36-568.01 - Confidentiality of records
§ 36-568.02 - Confidentiality of health information
§ 36-569 - Prohibitions; violations; classification
§ 36-571 - Developmental disabilities fund; disbursement; federal monies
§ 36-572 - Client developmental disability services trust fund; donation account
§ 36-573 - Annual report; group home incident reports; contracts
§ 36-574 - Children's autism services; contract
§ 36-575 - Contracting requirements; art therapy services; definition
§ 36-582 - Residential facilities; zoning; notice; appeal
§ 36-591 - Group homes; licensing; notification requirements; exception; annual inspection
§ 36-593 - Adult developmental homes; child developmental homes; provisional licenses
§ 36-594 - Denial, suspension or revocation of license; definition
§ 36-594.01 - Fingerprinting of contract providers and home and community based service providers
§ 36-595 - Programmatic and contractual monitoring; deemed status
§ 36-595.01 - Access to facilities
§ 36-595.02 - Investigation of complaints
§ 36-596 - Coordination of benefits; third party payments; definition
§ 36-596.01 - Liens; perfection; recording; assignment; notice of lien; compromise
§ 36-596.52 - Family support program; administration
§ 36-596.53 - Payor of last resort
§ 36-596.54 - Family support vouchers and subsidies
§ 36-596.55 - Community based services
§ 36-596.56 - Eligibility; program plans; burial arrangements
§ 36-596.57 - Admission; legislative appropriation; exception
§ 36-601 - Public nuisances dangerous to public health
§ 36-601.01 - Smoke-free Arizona act
§ 36-603 - Right to enter premises for inspection or abatement
§ 36-604 - Health menace near military encampments; classification
§ 36-605 - Common towel or drinking cup provided in public place; classification
§ 36-606 - Pesticide illness; medical education; reports
§ 36-621 - Report of contagious diseases
§ 36-622 - Report by hotel keepers of contagious diseases
§ 36-623 - Report by physician of death from contagious disease
§ 36-624 - Quarantine and sanitary measures to prevent contagion
§ 36-626 - Disinfection or destruction of contaminated bedding and other articles
§ 36-627 - Temporary hospitals for persons with contagious disease
§ 36-628 - Provision for care of persons afflicted with contagious disease; expenses
§ 36-630 - Violation; classification
§ 36-664 - Confidentiality; exceptions
§ 36-665 - Order for disclosure of communicable disease related information
§ 36-666 - Violation; classification; immunity
§ 36-668 - Private right of action
§ 36-669 - Human immunodeficiency testing of prisoners
§ 36-670 - Good samaritan; deceased person; disease testing; petition; hearing; notice; exception