GEORGIA CODE (Last Updated: August 20, 2013) |
Title 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES |
Chapter 34. PHYSICIANS, ACUPUNCTURE, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS, CANCER AND GLAUCOMA TREATMENT, RESPIRATORY CARE, CLINICAL PERFUSIONISTS, AND ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS PRACTICE |
Article 8. ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS PRACTICE |
Section 43-34-197. Supervision of assistants and technicians
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- (a) No person shall work as an assistant to an orthotist, prosthetist, or prosthetist orthotist and provide patient care services or fabrication of orthoses or prostheses unless he or she is doing the work under the supervision of a licensed orthotist, prosthetist, or prosthetist orthotist.
(b) No person shall work as a technician unless the work is performed under the supervision of a person licensed under this article.
Code 1981, § 43-34-197, enacted by Ga. L. 2002, p. 1273, § 1; Ga. L. 2005, p. 526, § 3/HB 608; Ga. L. 2009, p. 859, § 1/HB 509.