Circumstances under which care or services may be provided - Practice without license or registration - Fines.

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A. A licensed pedorthist may only provide care or services pursuant to an order from a licensed podiatrist, physician, or chiropractor, when addressing a medical condition, or when evaluating, planning treatment, measuring, designing, fabricating, assembling, fitting, adjusting, managing of the patient, or servicing necessary to accomplish the application of a pedorthic device for the prevention or amelioration of painful or disabling conditions of the foot and ankle.

B. Effective January 1, 2002, any person who holds himself or herself out to be a pedorthist or uses the title pedorthist or common variants of that title without holding an appropriate license issued by the State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision, or who, without being registered by the Board, dispenses pedorthic devices, or who is in violation of any provision of the Oklahoma Licensed Pedorthists Act shall be subject to an administrative fine for each day found to be in violation. The amount of any fine shall be determined by the Board within limits set by the Board pursuant to rules adopted and promulgated by the Board and may be in addition to any other penalty provided by the Board or otherwise provided by law.

Added by Laws 2001, c. 190, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2001.


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