Sec. 20-74e. Exempt activities.
Sec. 20-74e. Exempt activities. (a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as
preventing or restricting the practice, services or activities of: (1) Any person licensed
in this state by any other law from engaging in the profession or occupation for which
he is licensed; (2) any person employed as an occupational therapist or occupational
therapy assistant by the government of the United States, if such person provides occupational therapy solely under the direction or control of the organization by which he is
employed and limits the use of such title to such employment; (3) any person pursuing
a course of study leading to a degree or certificate in occupational therapy at an accredited
or approved educational program if such activities and services constitute part of a
supervised course of study and if such person is designated by a title which clearly
indicates his or her status as a student or trainee; or (4) any person fulfilling the supervised
field work experience requirements of section 20-74b if such activities and services
constitute a part of the experience necessary to meet the requirements of that section.
(b) Any occupational therapist who is licensed or authorized to practice in another
state, United States possession or country who is either in this state for the purposes of
consultation, provided such practice is limited to such consultation for less than thirty
days in a three-hundred-and-sixty-five-day year, or for conducting a teaching or clinical
demonstration in Connecticut with a program of basic clinical education, graduate education or postgraduate education in an approved school of occupational therapy or its
affiliated clinical facility or health care agency or before a group of licensed occupational
therapists, provided such teaching demonstration is for less than thirty days in a three-hundred-and-sixty-five-day year, shall not be prohibited from such consultation or
teaching by this chapter.
(c) No provision of this chapter shall be construed to prohibit physicians or qualified
members of other licensed or legally recognized professions from using occupational
therapy as part of or incidental to their profession, under the statutes applicable to their
profession, except that such persons may not hold themselves out under the title occupational therapist or as performing occupational therapy.
(P.A. 78-253, S. 5, 11.)