Notwithstanding the provisions of NRS 652.130 and 652.150, and without requiring any examination or any other qualification than is provided in this section, the Division shall, upon application and the payment of any appropriate fee before January 1, 1972:
1. Issue a director’s license to any person who operated a laboratory in this state for at least 3 years immediately preceding January 1, 1967;
2. Issue a medical laboratory technologist’s certificate to any person who was a medical laboratory technologist in this state for at least 1 year immediately preceding January 1, 1967;
3. Issue a license to, and include in the registration list of laboratories meeting the minimum standards and qualifications of this chapter, any laboratory which was in operation in this state on January 1, 1967, which has a director meeting the qualifications provided in subsection 1; and
4. Keep on inactive status any licensee under this section who notifies the Division that he or she desires such a status and pays the current fees.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1315; A 1975, 1163; 1995, 1591)