(a) Clinical laboratories operated by the United States Government.
(b) Clinical laboratories operated and maintained purely for research or teaching purposes, and that involve no patient or public health services.
(2) Nothing in ORS 438.010 to 438.510 is intended to confer on any licensed practitioner of the healing arts any authority the practitioner would not otherwise possess under the license. [1969 c.685 §§4,20; 1973 c.829 §54; 1979 c.193 §1; 1993 c.109 §4; 2001 c.104 §170]