O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 43-34-197 (2019)

Supervision of assistants and technicians

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Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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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.

History

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.

Annotations

Code Commission notes. - Pursuant

to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2002, Code Section 43-34-67, as enacted by Ga. L. 2002, p. 1273, § 1, was redesignated as Code Section 43-34-197.