420-5-8.03 Personnel Qualifications.
(1) Director.
(a) A director shall meet one of the following requirements:
1. Is a physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama with at
least two years of pertinent laboratory experience.
2. Holds an earned doctoral degree from an accredited institution
with a chemical, physical, or biological science as his major
subject, and
(i) Is certified by the American Board of Medical
Microbiology, the American Board of Clinical Chemistry,
or other national accrediting boards with equivalent
standards accepted by the State Health Department in one
of the laboratory specialties and may direct only that
division or subspecialty for which he is certified, or
(ii) Has four or more years of general clinical laboratory
training and experience, of which at least two years were
spent acquiring proficiency in one of the laboratory
specialties in a clinical laboratory, under a director at the
doctoral level, 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.