Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES · Chapter 34. PHYSICIANS, ACUPUNCTURE, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS, CANCER AND GLAUCOMA TREATMENT, RESPIRATORY CARE, CLINICAL PERFUSIONISTS, AND ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS PRACTICE · Article 8. ORTHOTICS AND PROSTHETICS PRACTICE

43-34-197. Supervision of assistants and technicians.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

(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.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

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.

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.

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