Section 36-28-8 - Exemption from medical educational qualifications for applicants certified by churchor religious denomination.
36-28-8. Exemption from medical educational qualifications for applicants certified by church or religious denomination. Notwithstanding the provisions of § 36-28-12, nothing in this chapter or the rules thereunder shall be construed to require an applicant for a license as a nursing facility administrator or a temporary license, who is certified by a recognized church or religious denomination which teaches reliance on spiritual means alone for healing as having been approved to administer institutions certified by such church or denomination for the care and treatment of the sick in accordance with its teachings, to demonstrate proficiency in any medical techniques or to meet any medical educational qualifications or medical standards not in accord with the remedial care and treatment provided in such institutions.
Source: SL 1969, ch 113, § 4; SDCL Supp, § 34-12A-6; SL 1986, ch 302, § 102.