No person shall act as a director in a clinical laboratory located in or accepting specimens from New York state or in a blood bank located in or collecting, processing, storing or distributing blood products in New York state unless a valid certificate of qualification has been issued as provided in section five hundred seventy-three of this title. A certificate shall be issued authorizing the holder to perform or direct one or more procedures or one or more categories of such procedures.
N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 572