KRS 333.090: Qualifications of laboratory director -- Limit on tests.

(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, the director

of a medical laboratory shall be a physician licensed to practice medicine in

Kentucky.

(2) The director of a medical laboratory may be the holder of an earned doctoral degree,

with a chemical, physical or biological science as his major subject, from an

institution accredited by an appropriate agency of the state or by any other

equivalent accrediting agency acceptable to the cabinet or from an institution which,

in the o pinion of the cabinet, maintains standards equivalent to those of an

institution accredited as aforesaid, who subsequent to graduation has had at least

two (2) years of experience in the medical laboratory specialty for which he was

trained.

(3) In the event an individual has been serving as a director of a medical laboratory in

Kentucky for a period of not less than a year prior to January 1, 1969, he may

continue to direct such medical laboratory notwithstanding the requirement of

subsections (1) and (2) of this section, provided, however, that the cabinet may

require (in the interest of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state)

as a condition precedent to the issuance of an original or renewal license hereunder,

that such individuals de monstrate their ability satisfactorily to perform medical

laboratory examinations and to direct a medical laboratory.

(4) Tests performed in a laboratory directed by a nonphysician shall be limited to the

specialties or subspecialties of medical laboratory procedures for which the director

is personally qualified through education and experience and no medical

interpretation of test results, diagnosis, prognosis, or suggested treatment shall be

made.