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HSC § 118147
Where this section sits in the code
- Health and Safety Code - HSC
- DIVISION 104. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH [106500. - 119406.]
- PART 14. MEDICAL WASTE [117600. - 118360.]
- CHAPTER 7. Medical Waste Treatment Facility Permits [118130. - 118210.]
Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a registered medical waste generator, which is a facility specified in subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 117705, may accept home-generated sharps waste, to be consolidated with the facility’s medical waste stream, subject to all of the following conditions:
(a) The generator of the sharps waste, a member of the generator’s family, or a person authorized by the enforcement agency transports the sharps waste to the medical waste generator’s facility.
(b) The sharps waste is accepted at a central location at the medical waste generator’s facility.
(c) A reference to, and a description of, the actions taken pursuant to this section are included in the facility’s medical waste management plan adopted pursuant to Section 117960.
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