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

O.C.G.A. § 43-34-40 (2019)

Fraudulently obtaining or selling records; fraudulent use of terms

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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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Any person who shall buy, sell, or fraudulently obtain any diploma, license, record, or registration to practice osteopathic medicine, illegally obtained or signed, or issued unlawfully or under fraudulent representation; or who shall use any of the forms or letters, ‘‘Osteopathy,’’ ‘‘Osteopath,’’ ‘‘Osteopathist,’’ ‘‘Diplomate in Osteopathy,’’ ‘‘D.O.,’’ ‘‘D.Sc.O.,’’ ‘‘Osteopathic Physician,’’ ‘‘Doctor of Osteopathy,’’ or any other title or letters, either alone or with other qualifying words or phrases, under such circumstances as to induce the belief that the person who uses such term or terms is engaged in the practice of osteopathic medicine, or anyone who shall hold himself or herself out as practicing any other nondrug-giving school of medical practice, without having complied with this article, shall be guilty of a felony.

History

Ga. L. 1909, p. 123, § 11; Penal Code 1910, § 470; Code 1933, § 84-9918; Code 1981, § 43-34-44; Code 1981, § 43-34-40, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2009, p. 859, § 1/HB 509.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. - Ga. L. 2009, p. 859, § 1/HB 509, effective July 1, 2009, redesignated former Code Section 43-34-40 as present Code Section 43-34-36.

PHYSICIANS, ASSISTANTS, & OTHERS

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Cited in Mabry v. State Bd. of Exmrs. in Optometry, 190 Ga. 751, 10 S.E.2d 740 (1940); Georgia Ass’n of Osteopathic Phy-

sicians & Surgeons, Inc. v. Allen, 31 F. Supp. 206 (M.D. Ga. 1940).