TITLE 54

PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER 47

ACUPUNCTURE

54-4712.  Titles. Persons licensed pursuant to this chapter may use the title "licensed acupuncturist." Persons certified or granted an acupuncture technician certificate, or an acupuncture trainee permit pursuant to this chapter, may use the title "certified acupuncturist," "acupuncture technician" or "acupuncture trainee," respectively, but may not use the title "licensed acupuncturist" or "doctor," or any abbreviation thereof, unless the acupuncturist is otherwise authorized to use such title. No person authorized to practice acupuncture pursuant to this chapter may hold himself out in any way as a medical physician, doctor of osteopathy, chiropractor, physical therapist or other health care professional unless the person is properly authorized for such practice pursuant to law.

History:

[54-4712, added 1999, ch. 379, sec. 1, p. 1044; am. 2011, ch. 75, sec. 8, p. 160.]