Branch of healing art indicated by appending words or letters to name.

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A. Every person who writes or prints, or causes to be written or printed, his or her name (whether or not the word "Doctor", or an abbreviation thereof, is used in connection therewith) in connection with, as engaging in, or holding himself or herself out as engaging in, any of the branches of the healing art shall append to his or her name the letters or words set forth in Section 725.2 of this title if the person is one of the nine classes of persons listed in subsection A of Section 725.2 of this title.

B. If the person is not one of the nine classes of persons listed in subsection A of Section 725.2 of this title and is engaged in a branch of the healing art, the person shall write or print, in the same size letters as his or her name, appropriate and generally and easily understood words or letters, which clearly show and indicate the branch of the healing art in which he or she is licensed to practice and is engaged.

Added by Laws 1947, p. 357, § 1, emerg. eff. March 13, 1947. Amended by Laws 2009, c. 148, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2009.


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