Section 118147 - Acceptance of home-generated sharps wasteNotwithstanding 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.Ca. Health and Saf. Code § 118147
Added by renumbering Section 25070.4 by Stats. 1996, Ch. 536, Sec. 16. Effective January 1, 1997.