149.1 - PERSONS ENGAGED IN PRACTICE -- DEFINITIONS.
149.1 PERSONS ENGAGED IN PRACTICE -- DEFINITIONS.
1. For the purpose of this subtitle the following classes of
persons shall be deemed to be engaged in the practice of podiatry:
a. Persons who publicly profess to be podiatric physicians or
who publicly profess to assume the duties incident to the practice of
podiatry.
b. Persons who diagnose, prescribe, or prescribe and furnish
medicine for ailments of the human foot, or treat such ailments by
medical, mechanical, or surgical treatments.
2. As used in this chapter:
a. "Board" means the board of podiatry, created under chapter
147.
b. "Human foot" means the ankle and soft tissue which insert
into the foot as well as the foot.
c. "Podiatric physician" means a physician or surgeon
licensed under this chapter to engage in the practice of podiatric
medicine and surgery. Section History: Early Form
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2542; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73,
75, 77, 79, 81, § 149.1] Section History: Recent Form
88 Acts, ch 1199, §2; 95 Acts, ch 108, § 9; 2007 Acts, ch 10,
§108; 2009 Acts, ch 133, §199
Referred to in § 149.5