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MS Code § 73-24-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 24 - Mississippi Occupational Therapy Practice Act|§ 73-24-11. Advisory Council in Occupational Therapy

  There is hereby established the Mississippi Advisory Council in Occupational Therapy under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Health.   The council shall consist of five (5) members appointed by the board, four (4) of whom shall be appointed from a list of names submitted by the Mississippi Occupational Therapy Association, all of whom shall be residents of this state. The persons appointed from the list submitted by the association shall have been engaged in rendering occupational therapy services to the public, teaching or research in occupational therapy at least four (4) years immediately preceding their appointment. At least three (3) members shall be occupational therapists and one (1) member shall be either an occupational therapist or an occupational therapy assistant. These members shall at all times be holders of valid licenses for the practice of occupational therapy in this state, except for the members of the first council, who shall fulfill licensure requirements of this chapter. The remaining member shall be a member of another health profession or member of the public with an interest in the rights of the consumers of health services.   Appointments made thereafter shall be for terms of three (3) years, with no person being eligible to serve more than two (2) full consecutive terms. Terms shall begin on the first day of the calendar year and end on the last day of the calendar year or until successors are appointed, except for the first appointed members, who shall serve through the last calendar day of the year in which they are appointed before commencing the term prescribed by this section.   In the event of a vacancy in one (1) of the positions the association may recommend, as soon as practical, at least two (2) and not more than three (3) persons to fill that vacancy. The board shall appoint, as soon as practical, one (1) of these persons who shall fill the unexpired term. If the association does not provide a recommendation, the board shall appoint a person to the unexpired term.   The council shall meet during the first month of each calendar year to select a chairperson and for other appropriate reasons. Further meetings may be convened at the call of the chairperson, or the written request of any two (2) members of the council. Three (3) members of the council shall constitute a quorum for all purposes. All meetings of the council shall be open to the public, except that the council may hold executive sessions under the Mississippi Open Meetings Law, Section 25-41-1 et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 73-24-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 24 - Mississippi Occupational Therapy Practice Act|§ 73-24-13. Duties and powers of State Board of Health

  The board shall administer, coordinate and enforce the provisions of this chapter, evaluate the qualifications, and approve the examinations for licensure under this chapter, and may issue subpoenas, examine witnesses and administer oaths.   The board shall adopt such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this state, as may be necessary to effectuate the provisions of this chapter, the practice of occupational therapy in this state, and may amend or repeal the same as may be necessary for such purposes, with the advice of the council. Such rules and regulations shall be adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 25-43-1 et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972.   The board shall conduct hearings and keep such records and minutes as are necessary to carry out its functions. It shall provide reasonable public notice to the appropriate persons as to the time and place of all hearings authorized under this chapter in such a manner and at such times as it may determine by the board's rules and regulations.   The board shall investigate alleged or suspected violations of the provisions of this chapter or other laws of this state pertaining to occupational therapy and any rules and regulations adopted by the board; for this purpose, any authorized agents of the department shall have the power and right to enter and make reasonable inspections of any place where occupational therapy is practiced, and may inspect and/or copy any records pertaining to clients or the practice of occupational therapy under this chapter.   The conferral or enumeration of specific powers elsewhere in this chapter shall be construed as a limitation of the general functions by this section.
MS Code § 73-24-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 24 - Mississippi Occupational Therapy Practice Act|§ 73-24-15. Financing of administration of chapter; accounting of funds; reimbursement of expenses of members of council

  The administration of the provisions of this chapter shall be financed from income accruing from fees, licenses and charges assessed and collected by the board and from such other funds available to the board. In addition, the board shall receive and account for all funds received and shall keep such funds in a separate fund which is hereby created within the State Treasury. Funds collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be used solely for the expenses incurred in the administration of the provisions of this chapter, which may include full or partial financing of continuing professional education programs promulgated by the council under Section 73-24-29. Such funds shall be subject to audit by the State Auditor.   Members of the council shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be reimbursed for their expenses actually incurred in the execution of their powers and duties, including mileage, as provided in Section 25-3-41, Mississippi Code of 1972.
MS Code § 73-24-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 24 - Mississippi Occupational Therapy Practice Act|§ 73-24-17. Board to issue licenses and notices; board to publish license standards and rules and regulations

  The board shall issue licenses and notices of renewal, revocation, suspension or reinstatement, and shall publish annually the names of persons licensed under this chapter and the names of the persons whose licenses have been subjected to disciplinary action under this chapter.   The board shall publish and disseminate to all licensees, in an appropriate manner, the license standards prescribed by this chapter, any amendments thereto, and such rules and regulations as the board may adopt under the authority of Section 73-24-13 within sixty (60) days of their adoption.
MS Code § 73-24-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 24 - Mississippi Occupational Therapy Practice Act|§ 73-24-21. Grant of license to persons registered or certified by American Occupational Therapy Association; waiver of licensing requirements; persons licensed in another state; foreign trained persons

  The board shall grant a license to any person certified prior to July 1, 1988, as an Occupational Therapist Registered (OTR) or a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) by the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). The board may waive the examination, education or experience requirements and grant a license to any person certified by AOTA after July 1, 1988, if the board determines the requirements for such certification are equivalent to the requirements for licensure in this chapter.   The board may waive the examination, education or experience requirements and grant a license to any applicant who shall present proof of current licensure as an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant in another state, the District of Columbia or territory of the United States which requires standards for licensure considered by the board to be equivalent to the requirements for licensure of this chapter. The issuance of a license by reciprocity to a military-trained applicant or military spouse shall be subject to the provisions of Section 73-50-1.   Foreign trained occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants shall satisfy the examination requirements of Section 73-24-19. The board shall require foreign trained applicants to furnish proof of good moral character and completion of educational and supervised fieldwork requirements substantially equal to those contained in Section 73-24-19 before taking the examination.
MS Code § 73-24-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 24 - Mississippi Occupational Therapy Practice Act|§ 73-24-23. Issuance of license or limited permit; right of licensee to use certain titles

  The board shall issue a license to any person who meets the requirements of this chapter and upon payment of the license fee.   The board shall issue a limited permit to persons who have completed the education and experience requirements of this chapter upon payment of the limited permit fee. This permit shall allow the person to practice occupational therapy or assist in the practice of occupational therapy, as the case may be, under the supervision of an occupational therapist who holds a current license in this state and shall be valid until the date on which the results of the next qualifying examination have been made public. The limited permit can be renewed one (1) time if the applicant has failed the examination.   Any person who is issued a license as an occupational therapist under this chapter may use the words "licensed occupational therapist," "occupational therapist licensed," "occupational therapist," or he may use the letters "L.O.T.," "O.T.L." or "O.T." in connection with his or her name or place of business to denote licensure under this chapter.   Any person who is issued a license as an occupational therapy assistant under this chapter may use the words "occupational therapy assistant," "licensed occupational therapy assistant" or "occupational therapy assistant licensed," or may use the letters "O.T.A.," "L.O.T.A." or "O.T.A.L.," in connection with his name or place of business to denote licensure under this chapter.
MS Code § 73-24-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 24 - Mississippi Occupational Therapy Practice Act|§ 73-24-27. License renewal; late renewal; inactive status; renewal of suspended license; reinstated license subject to renewal requirements

  Except as provided in Section 33-1-39, any license issued under this chapter shall be subject to renewal and shall expire unless renewed in the manner prescribed by the rules and regulations of the board, upon the payment of a renewal fee and demonstration of completion of continuing professional education. The board may provide for the late renewal of a license upon the payment of a late fee in accordance with its rules and regulations, but no late renewal of a license may be granted more than two (2) years after its expiration.   Upon request and payment of the license fee required, the board shall grant inactive status to a licensee who: (a) does not practice as an occupational therapist or an occupational therapy assistant, (b) does not hold himself or herself out as an occupational therapist or an occupational therapy assistant, and (c) does not maintain any continuing education requirements.   A suspended license is subject to expiration and may be renewed as provided in this section, but such renewal shall not entitle the suspended licensee to engage in the licensed activity or in any other conduct or activity in violation of the order of judgment by which the license was suspended. If a license revoked on disciplinary grounds is reinstated, the licensee, as a condition of reinstatement, shall pay the renewal fee and any late fee that may be applicable. The procedure for the reinstatement of a license that is suspended for being out of compliance with an order for support, as defined in Section 93-11-153, shall be governed by Section 93-11-157 or 93-11-163, as the case may be.
MS Code § 73-24-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 24 - Mississippi Occupational Therapy Practice Act|§ 73-24-29. Fees

  The board is empowered to prescribe and publish reasonable fees for the following purposes:   Application fee which is nonrefundable;   Initial license fee;   Renewal of license fee;   Late renewal fee;   Limited permit fee;   Reinstatement of license fee;   Inactive license fee.     Such fees shall be commensurate to the extent feasible with the cost of fulfilling the duties of the board and council as defined by this chapter; however, no individual fee shall exceed One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00).   Any increase in the fees charged by the board under this section shall be in accordance with the provisions of Section 41-3-65.
MS Code § 73-26-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 26 - Physician Assistants|§ 73-26-1. Definitions

 As used in this chapter:   "Board" means the State Board of Medical Licensure.   "Physician assistant" means a person who meets the board's criteria for licensure as a physician assistant and is licensed as a physician assistant by the board. Nothing in this chapter authorizes the licensure of anesthesiologist's assistants.   "Supervising physician" means a doctor of medicine or a doctor of osteopathic medicine who holds an unrestricted license from the board, and who is in the full-time practice of medicine and who has been approved by the board to supervise physician assistants.   "Supervision" means overseeing and accepting responsibility for the medical services rendered by a physician assistant in a manner approved by the board.
MS Code § 73-26-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 26 - Physician Assistants|§ 73-26-5. Rules and regulations; appointment of task force

  The board shall promulgate and publish reasonable rules and regulations necessary to enable it to discharge its functions and to enforce the provisions of law regulating the practice of physician assistants. Those rules shall include, but are not limited to: qualifications for licensure for physician assistants; scope of practice of physician assistants; supervision of physician assistants; identification of physician assistants; grounds for disciplinary actions and discipline of physician assistants, which through June 30, 2020, shall specifically include discipline for violation(s) of the provisions of Sections 41-121-1 through 41-121-9 relating to deceptive advertisement by health care practitioners; and setting and charging reasonable fees for licensure and license renewals for physician assistants. However, nothing in this chapter or in rules adopted by the board shall authorize physician assistants to administer or monitor general inhaled anesthesia, epidural anesthesia, spinal anesthesia or monitored anesthesia as utilized in surgical procedures. In addition, the board shall not adopt any rule or regulation or impose any requirement regarding the licensing of physician assistants that conflicts with the prohibitions in Section 73-49-3. The board shall promulgate rules for licensure and license renewals in accordance with Section 33-1-39.   If the board appoints a task force or committee to address physician assistant regulation, at least one (1) member of the task force shall be a nurse practitioner who is a member of the Mississippi Board of Nursing or a nurse practitioner appointee selected by the board from a list of three (3) recommendations submitted by the Mississippi Nurses Association, and at least one (1) member shall be a physician assistant selected by the board from a list of three (3) recommendations submitted by the Mississippi Academy of Physician Assistants.
MS Code § 73-27-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 27 - Podiatrists|§ 73-27-1. Podiatry defined

  The practice of podiatric medicine is that profession concerned with the prevention, examination, diagnosis and medical, surgical and adjuvant treatment of conditions of the human foot. For the purposes of this chapter, "foot" means that part of the human anatomy which consists of the tarsal bones, metatarsal bones and phalanges.   A podiatrist is a medical care provider who engages in the practice of podiatric medicine.   A podiatrist may prescribe and administer drugs and tests, excluding general and spinal anesthesia, that are essential to the practice of podiatric medicine when used for or in connection with treatment of disorders of the human foot.
MS Code § 73-27-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 27 - Podiatrists|§ 73-27-3. Board of medical licensure to examine; podiatry advisory committee

  The State Board of Medical Licensure shall examine all applicants as hereinafter provided in this chapter.   There is established the Podiatry Advisory Committee to the State Board of Medical Licensure. The advisory committee shall be composed of three (3) licensed and practicing podiatrists in the State of Mississippi. The members of the advisory committee shall be appointed by the executive director of the board from a list of six (6) podiatrists recommended by the Mississippi Podiatric Medical Association who have practiced in the state for not less than three (3) years immediately before their appointment. The podiatrists appointed to the advisory committee shall serve for terms of three (3) years from the time of their appointment. Any vacancy occurring on the advisory committee before the expiration of a term shall be filled by appointment of the executive director of the board from a list of at least two (2) podiatrists recommended by the Mississippi Podiatric Medical Association who have practiced in the state for not less than three (3) years immediately before their appointment. Any appointment to fill a vacancy shall be only for the remainder of the unexpired term.   The Podiatry Advisory Committee shall advise and make recommendations to the State Board of Medical Licensure on all podiatry matters that come before the board. The board shall allow the advisory committee sufficient time to adequately prepare any materials or other information that the committee wants to present or deliver to the board on any matter or issue affecting podiatry. The board shall not make any final decision or take any final action on any podiatry matter until the board has reviewed any materials or other information presented or delivered to it by the advisory committee, provided that the information is delivered within the time period prescribed by the board.
MS Code § 73-27-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 27 - Podiatrists|§ 73-27-7. Examinations; when held

 All examinations shall be held concurrently with the regular examinations of the state board of medical licensure.
MS Code § 73-27-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 27 - Podiatrists|§ 73-27-9. Examinations; fees; subjects; minimum requirements for licenses; re-examination

 Any person not exempt from examination under Section 73-27-5, Mississippi Code of 1972, and desiring a license to practice podiatry shall, upon application to the State Board of Medical Licensure and payment of a fee prescribed by the State Board of Medical Licensure, not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), be examined in the following subjects: anatomy, histology, physiology, chemistry, pharmacy, materia medica, therapeutics, bacteriology, pathology, surgery, dermatology, neurology, physical therapy, diagnosis and roentgenology, orthopedics, chiropody and chiropodial surgery, limited in their scope to the treatment of the human foot and leg, and if found qualified shall receive a license. The minimum of requirements for license shall be a general average of seventy-five percent (75%) of all the subjects involved, provided that a grade of not less than sixty percent (60%) be made on any one (1) subject or branch given in the examination held. Applicants examined and being refused a license shall be entitled to reexamination upon payment of an additional fee prescribed by the State Board of Medical Licensure, not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), for each examination.
MS Code § 73-27-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 27 - Podiatrists|§ 73-27-11. License; recorded; displayed

 All licenses shall be recorded in the office of the circuit clerk in which the licensee practices within sixty (60) days from date of issuance. All licenses shall be conspicuously displayed at the offices or other places of practice.
MS Code § 73-27-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 27 - Podiatrists|§ 73-27-15. Practicing without license

 It shall be unlawful for any person to profess to be a podiatrist, to practice or assume the duties incident to podiatry without first obtaining from the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure a license authorizing the practice of podiatry in this state, except as otherwise provided by this chapter.
MS Code § 73-27-16 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 73 - Professions and Vocations|Chapter 27 - Podiatrists|§ 73-27-16. Reinstatement of revoked or suspended licenses

  A person whose license to practice podiatry has been revoked or suspended may petition the Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure to reinstate this license after a period of not less than one (1) year has elapsed from the date of the revocation or suspension. The procedure for the reinstatement of a license that is suspended for being out of compliance with an order for support, as defined in Section 93-11-153, shall be governed by Section 93-11-157 or 93-11-163, as the case may be.   The petition shall be accompanied by two (2) or more verified recommendations from podiatrists licensed by the Board of Medical Licensure to which the petition is addressed and by two (2) or more recommendations from citizens each having personal knowledge of the activities of the petitioner since the disciplinary penalty was imposed and such facts as may be required by the board.  The petition may be heard at the next regular meeting of the Board of Medical Licensure but not earlier than thirty (30) days after the petition was filed. No petition shall be considered while the petitioner is under sentence for any criminal offense, including any period during which he is under probation or parole. The hearing may be continued from time to time as the Board of Medical Licensure finds necessary. Any final action by the board on a petition under this section shall be made with the advice of the advisory committee.    In determining whether the disciplinary penalty should be set aside and the terms and conditions, if any, which should be imposed if the disciplinary penalty is set aside, the Board of Medical Licensure may investigate and consider all activities of the petitioner since the disciplinary action was taken against him, the offense for which he was disciplined, his activity during the time his certificate was in good standing, his general reputation for truth, professional ability and good character; and it may require the petitioner to pass an oral examination.   The Secretary-Treasurer of the Board of Medical Licensure shall enter into his records of the case all actions of the Board of Medical Licensure in setting aside a disciplinary penalty under this section and he shall certify notices to the proper court clerk. The clerk shall make such changes on his records as may be necessary.