152D.4 - SCOPE OF CHAPTER.

        152D.4  SCOPE OF CHAPTER.
         The provisions of this chapter do not apply to any of the
      following:
         1.  Persons otherwise licensed to practice medicine and surgery,
      osteopathic medicine and surgery, optometry, occupational therapy,
      nursing, chiropractic, podiatry, dentistry, or physical therapy, and
      licensed physician assistants who do not represent themselves to the
      public as athletic trainers.
         2.  Elementary or secondary school teachers, coaches, or
      authorized volunteers who do not hold themselves out to the public as
      athletic trainers.
         3.  Students of athletic training who practice athletic training
      under the supervision of a licensed athletic trainer in connection
      with the regular course of instruction at a school providing athletic
      training instruction.
         4.  An athletic trainer who is in this state temporarily with an
      individual or group that is participating in an athletic event and
      who is licensed, certified, or registered by another state or
      country, or certified as an athletic trainer by the board of
      certification of the national athletic trainers association or its
      successor organization.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         94 Acts, ch 1132, §4; 2004 Acts, ch 1045, §5, 6; 2006 Acts, ch
      1010, §55; 2008 Acts, ch 1088, §141