The procurement, processing, distribution, or use of whole human blood, plasma, blood products and blood derivatives for the purpose of injecting or transfusing them into the human body shall be construed as to the transmission of serum hepatitis to be the rendition of a service by every person participating therein and shall not be construed to be a sale.
A.R.S. § 36-1151
Definition of blood services
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 73 Md. App. 1 - Roberts v. SUBURBAN HOSPITAL ASS'N, INC. (1987)
Most recently applied in Weishorn v. Miles-Cutter (December 1998)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Arizona State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Arizona statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.