(4) Technician.
(a) A technician shall meet one of the following requirements:
1. Successful completion of two years of academic study (a minimum of 60 semester hours or equivalent) in an accredited college or university and have an associate's degree in Medical Technology;or
2. Graduation from high school and subsequent to graduation has had two years of experience as a technician trainee in a clinical Independent Clinical Laboratories Chapter 420-5-8 and Independent Physiological Laboratories laboratory of a hospital, a health department, a university, or a medical research institution or in a clinical laboratory providing
equivalent training accepted by the Alabama Department of Public Health; or
3. Graduation from high school and successful completion of an official military laboratory procedures course of at least 12 calendar months of study and has had at least one year of
experience as a technician trainee in a clinical laboratory of a hospital, a health department, a university, or a medical research institution or in a clinical laboratory providing equivalent training accepted by the Alabama Department of Public Health.
(b) No clinical laboratory technician performs procedures in the absence of a qualified clinical laboratory technologist, supervisor, or director.