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Cal. Health & Safety Code § 118147

Medical Waste Treatment Facility Permits

Known as the Medical Waste Management Act

The act spans §§ 117600–118360 (152 sections).

Added by renumbering Section 25070.4 by Stats. 1996, Ch. 536, Sec. 16

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.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.