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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="19-3C-01" title_number="19" title_name="Health Care Facilities" subtitle_number="3C" subtitle_name="Cosmetic Surgical Facilities">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Cosmetic surgical facility” means an office or a facility in which a cosmetic surgical procedure is performed.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Cosmetic surgical facility” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>An ambulatory surgical facility regulated under Subtitle 3B of this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A hospital regulated under Subtitle 3 of this title; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>An office owned or operated by one or more dentists providing services within the scope of practice of dentistry under Title 4 of the Health Occupations Article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Cosmetic surgical procedure” means the use of surgical services to reshape the structure of a human body to change the appearance of an individual.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (3) of this subsection, “cosmetic surgical procedure” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A procedure done under local anesthesia or mild sedation; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Liposuction that removes less than 1,000 cubic centimeters of aspirate.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Cosmetic surgical procedure” includes any procedure under paragraph (2) of this subsection that, under the circumstances established by the Secretary in regulations adopted under § 19–3C–02(d) of this subtitle, is a cosmetic surgical procedure.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
