The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 460
CHIROPRACTIC MEDICINE

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F.S. 460.412

460.412 Sexual misconduct in the practice of chiropractic medicine.—The chiropractic physician-patient relationship is founded on mutual trust. Sexual misconduct in the practice of chiropractic medicine means violation of the chiropractic physician-patient relationship through which the chiropractic physician uses said relationship to induce or attempt to induce the patient to engage, or to engage or attempt to engage the patient, in sexual activity outside the scope of practice or the scope of generally accepted examination or treatment of the patient. Sexual misconduct in the practice of chiropractic medicine is prohibited.

History.—ss. 1, 7, ch. 79-211; s. 311, ch. 81-259; ss. 2, 3, ch. 81-318; ss. 17, 18, ch. 86-285; s. 4, ch. 91-429; s. 277, ch. 98-166.

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Amendments to 460.412

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 460.412

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 460.412.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

S. MADDOX, v. DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION,, 592 So. 2d 717 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1991)

. . . Section 460.412, Florida Statutes, titled “Sexual misconduct in the practice of chiropractic,” provides . . .

DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL REGULATION, v. WAGNER, D. C., 405 So. 2d 471 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1981)

. . . practice or the scope of generally accepted examination or treatment of a patient in violation of Sections 460.412 . . . of law, the hearing officer set forth the applicable statutes, stating that a violation of Section 460.412 . . . The facts as found by the hearing officer clearly constituted a violation of Sections 460.412 and 460.413 . . .