(a) Identification.
         A powered patient transfer device is a device consisting of a wheeled stretcher and a powered mechanism that has a broad, flexible band stretched over long rollers that can advance itself under a patient and transfer the patient with minimal disturbance in a horizontal position to the stretcher.
     
    
        
        (b) Classification.
         Class II (special controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of  part 807 of this chapter subject to  § 880.9.
     
    
        
            Code of Federal Regulations
        
        [45 FR 69682-69737, Oct. 21, 1980, as amended at 63 FR 59229, Nov. 3, 1998]