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MA Gen L ch 112 § 12gg (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 12gg - Dispensing of 90&ndash;day Supply for Prescribed Topical Ophthalmic Products

Section 12GG. (a) A pharmacist may dispense a 90–day supply for a prescribed topical ophthalmic product when: (i) the practitioner prescribed an initial 30–day prescription for the topical ophthalmic product; (ii) the patient completed the initial 30–day prescription; (iii) the practitioner did not indicate on the original prescription that dispensing the prescription in a specific amount with periodic refills is medically necessary; and (iv) the total quantity of dosage units dispensed, including refills, does not exceed the total quantity of dosage units indicated by the practitioner on the prescription.  (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to initial prescriptions for topical ophthalmic products that are prescribed for a 90–day supply.  (c) A pharmacist shall not dispense a prescription refill pursuant to this section in excess of the initial prescribed amount if the practitioner instructs otherwise, either orally or in writing.  (d) Within a reasonable time following an increase of supply pursuant to this section, the dispensing pharmacist or the pharmacist's designee shall notify the prescribing practitioner of the increase.  (e) This section shall not apply to topical ophthalmic products that are controlled substances as defined by the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. 802, or section 1 of chapter 94C, except those classified as schedule VI prescription drugs.  (f) This section shall not apply to prescriptions dispensed in a hospital licensed pursuant to section 51 of chapter 111. No retail pharmacy, however organized, shall be exempt from this section.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 13 - Podiatry; Definition; Application of Secs. 13 to 23

Section 13. Podiatry as used in this chapter shall mean the diagnosis and the treatment of the structures of the human foot by medical, mechanical, surgical, manipulative and electrical means without the use of other than local anesthetics, and excepting treatment of systemic conditions, and excluding amputation of the foot or toes. This and the ten following sections shall not apply to surgeons of the United States army, navy or of the United States Public Health Service, nor to physicians registered in the commonwealth. The term physician and surgeon when used in sections twelve B, twelve G, twenty-three N and eighty B shall include a podiatrist acting within the limitation imposed by this section.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 14 - Practice of Podiatry; Holding Out as a Registered Podiatrist

Section 14. No person shall practice or attempt to practice podiatry in the commonwealth, or hold himself out as a podiatrist, or designate himself, or describe his occupation, by the use of any words or letters calculated to lead others to believe that he is a registered podiatrist, unless he is registered as provided in section sixteen.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 15 - Preparation and Distribution of Forms for Applications for Registration by the Board of Registration in Podiatry; Examinations

Section 15. The board of registration in podiatry, in sections sixteen to twenty-two, inclusive, called the board, shall prepare and distribute forms of applications for registration, certificates of registration and such other documents as may be necessary or convenient in carrying out sections thirteen to twenty-three, inclusive. It shall hold at least two examinations annually, at times and places to be designated by it, after due notice of the same by publication at least twice a week for three successive weeks in one or more newspapers published in the county where the examination is to be held, and it may hold other examinations as it deems necessary or proper.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 16a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 16a - Limited Registration of Podiatrists

Section 16A. An applicant for limited registration under this section may, upon payment of a fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven, be registered by the board as an intern, resident, fellow, extern, preceptor or podiatric medical officer for such time as it may subscribe if he furnishes the board with satisfactory proof that he is eighteen years of age or over and of good moral character, he has creditably completed two years of a pre-podiatric medical course of study in a college or university and not less than three and one-half years of study or the comparable requisite years of study at a legally chartered podiatric medical school offering an accelerated course or two years in a podiatry program at a medical school chartered in the commonwealth, followed by one and one-half years at a legally chartered podiatric medical school having the power to grant a degree in podiatric medicine, and that he has been appointed a resident, fellow, intern, extern, preceptor or podiatric medical officer in a health care program. All such schools and programs must be approved by the board of registration in podiatry pursuant to section sixteen and leading toward certification by speciality boards recognized by the American Podiatry Association.  Such limited registration shall entitle said applicant to practice podiatric medicine only in the hospital, institution, clinic or program designated on his certificate of limited registration, or outside such hospital, institution, clinic or program for the treatment, under supervision of one of its medical officers who is a duly registered physician, or one of its podiatric medical officers who is a duly registered podiatric physician, of persons accepted as patients, by any hospital, institution, clinic or program affiliated for training purposes with the hospital, institution, clinic or program designated on such certificate, which affiliation is approved by the board, and in any case, under regulations established by such hospital, institution, clinic or program. The name of any hospital, institution, clinic or program so affiliated and so approved shall also be indicated on such certificate. Limited registration under this section may be revoked at any time by the board.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 16b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 16b - Students of Podiatric Medicine; Limited Practice

Section 16B. A student of podiatric medicine who has creditably completed not less than two years of study in a legally chartered medical or podiatric medical school, wherever located, may practice podiatric medicine, but only under the supervision of an instructor in a legally chartered medical, or podiatric medical school, which instructor shall be a registered physician or podiatrist in the commonwealth and a duly appointed field faculty member of a legally chartered medical or podiatric medical college to which the student may be assigned. The board may, in its discretion from time to time designate other facilities or locations in which said student may practice podiatric medicine under the conditions described above. Said student of podiatric medicine shall not prescribe or dispense narcotic drugs as defined in section one of chapter ninety-four C.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 16c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 16c - Temporary Registration of Podiatrists

Section 16C. Temporary registration as a qualified podiatric physician may be granted to a visiting podiatric physician holding a license to practice in another state or territory or in the District of Columbia and having a temporary faculty appointment certified by the chairman of the board of registration in podiatry for purposes of podiatric medical education, such registration to terminate automatically upon termination of the faculty appointment and, in any event, at the end of eight months; to a podiatric physician holding a license to practice in another state or territory or in the District of Columbia to permit him to act as a substitute podiatric physician for a registered podiatric physician in the commonwealth, to be granted only upon written request of said registered podiatric physician and to be limited to three months or less; and to a podiatric physician eligible for examination or registration in the commonwealth who is a diplomate of a specialty board approved by the American Podiatry Association to permit him to act as a substitute podiatric physician for a registered podiatric physician in the commonwealth, to be granted only upon written request of said podiatric physician, to be limited to the specialty to which the applicant is certified and to be limited to three months or less. The fee for such temporary registration in any case shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 17 - Examinations

Section 17. Examinations shall be in English and shall be wholly or partly written, oral or clinical, as the board may determine, and shall include, and be limited to, subjects taught in recognized schools of podiatry.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 17a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 17a - Records of Board of Registration in Podiatry; Rules and Regulations; Reports; Investigation of Complaints

Section 17A. The board shall keep a full record of its proceedings and a registry of all persons registered by it, which shall be public records and open to inspection. The board shall make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper conduct of its duties. It shall make an annual report, including a statement of the condition of podiatry in the commonwealth.  The board shall investigate all complaints of the violation of any provision of sections thirteen to twenty-two, inclusive, or of section sixty-five relative to podiatry, and report the same to the proper prosecuting officers.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 17b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 17b - Liability of Persons Filing Complaint, Reporting or Providing Information or Assisting the Board of Registration in Podiatry

Section 17B. No person filing a complaint or reporting or providing information or assisting the board at its request in discharging its duties and functions shall be liable in any cause of action arising out of the receiving of such information or assistance, provided the person making the complaint or reporting or providing such information or assistance does so in good faith and without malice.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 18 - Refusal to Issue Certificate of Registration in Podiatry; Revocation

Section 18. The board shall refuse to issue a certificate to a person, or may, after a hearing if requested by a person to whom a certificate has been issued, revoke such certificate if, in the opinion of the board, such person is intemperate in the use of alcoholic liquors or narcotic drugs, or has been guilty of misconduct involving moral turpitude, or has been convicted of an offence involving moral turpitude, or has violated any provision of sections thirteen to twenty-three, inclusive, or of section sixty-five relative to podiatry, or has been guilty of unprofessional conduct, or is in any other manner disqualified morally, mentally or physically to receive or hold such certificate, or has in his application therefor knowingly made any false statements or presented to the board a fraudulent diploma, certificate or other document.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 19 - Unprofessional Conduct; Definition; Regulation by Board

Section 19. ''Unprofessional conduct'', as used in section eighteen, shall include: (a) the wilful betrayal of a professional secret; (b) lending the use of one's name to an unregistered podiatrist, or having professional connection with such a person or with anyone convicted of any offense involving moral turpitude; (c) the selling or giving of any substance or compound containing alcohol or narcotic drugs for other than legal purposes; (d) written or printed statements of a character tending to claim professional superiority or the performance of professional services in a superior manner; (e) the inclusion of any fraudulent, misleading or deceptive statement in any form of advertising; and (f) any violation of any rule or regulation under section seventeen A.  The board may, by regulation, in a manner consistent with the foregoing, further regulate advertising by persons subject to its jurisdiction.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 20 - Suspension of Certificate of Registration in Podiatry

Section 20. The board, after a hearing if requested by the person registered, may suspend any certificate for not more than six months because of any misconduct on the part of the person registered which would not, in its opinion, justify the revocation thereof.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 21 - Recording of Certificate of Registration in Podiatry by City or Town Clerk; Fee; Records

Section 21. Every person registered under section sixteen shall, before entering upon the practice of podiatry, submit his certificate of registration to the clerk of the city or town where he proposes to practice, and shall inform the clerk that he is the person designated therein, and shall pay him the fee provided by clause (24) of section thirty-four of chapter two hundred and sixty-two. Thereupon, the clerk shall record his name and address and the date and number of his certificate, and the said record shall be open to public inspection, and the clerk shall furnish a copy thereof to the board within one week.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 21a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 21a - Prescriptions on Hospital or Clinic Blanks; Printing of Podiatrist's Name Required

Section 21A. Every registered podiatrist who writes a prescription upon a prescription blank of a hospital or clinic shall print or type his name directly below his signature thereon.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 22 - Penalties

Section 22. Whoever obtains or attempts to obtain registration under section sixteen by any fraudulent means, or violates any provision of section fourteen, shall, except as provided in section sixty-five, be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than three months nor more than one year, or both. Whoever violates any provision of the preceding section shall be punished by a fine of not less than three nor more than twenty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 23b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 23b - Board of Allied Health Professions; Examinations; Applications for Licensure; Fees; Renewal of License

Section 23B. The board shall examine applicants for licensure in each of the fields it supervises at such times and places as it may determine and shall conduct at least two such examinations in each field in each calendar year. The board shall establish examination and testing procedures to enable the board to ascertain the competency of persons wishing to be licensed as qualified athletic trainers, occupational therapists, occupational therapy assistants, physical therapists and physical therapist assistants. Applications for such licenses, signed and sworn by the applicants shall be made on forms furnished by the board. An applicant who furnished satisfactory proof that he is of good moral character and that he has met the educational and clinical practice requirements set forth in section twenty-three F, twenty-three G, twenty-three H, twenty-three I, or twenty-three J, shall, upon payment of a fee determined by the secretary of administration and finance, be examined by the board, and if found qualified, and if he passes the examination, shall be licensed to practice.  Licenses shall expire every 2 years on the birth anniversary of the licensee. Licensees shall pay to the board a renewal fee determined by the secretary of administration and finance. The board may require specific continuing education as a condition of license renewal. The board may provide for the late renewal of a license that has lapsed and may require the payment of a late fee, an examination, continuing education, and supervised experience before issuing the renewed license. For purposes of implementing the transition to birthday renewals, for licenses renewing on or about January 2006, the board may issue licenses that expire in less than 2 years.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 23c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 23c - Athletic Trainers, Occupational Therapists or Physical Therapists or Assistants; Practice Upon Filing of License Application

Section 23C. A person who meets the qualifications to be admitted to the examination for licensure as an athletic trainer or an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant or physical therapist or physical therapist assistant, may between the date of filing an application for licensure and the announcement of the results of the next succeeding examination for licensure, according to which application he has filed, practice as an athletic trainer; as an occupational therapist or as an occupation therapy assistant under the direction of an occupational therapist duly licensed under this chapter; as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant under direction of a physical therapist duly licensed under this chapter. If any person so practicing fails to qualify for or pass the first announced examination after filing for licensure, all privileges under this section shall automatically cease upon due notice to the applicant of such failure. Such privileges shall be renewed upon filing for a second examination for licensure and shall automatically cease upon notice to the applicant that he has failed to pass the second examination. Such privileges may again be renewed upon the applicant petitioning the board for permission to file a third application and said permission being granted by the board, and shall automatically cease upon due notice that he has failed to pass the third examination. The privilege shall not exceed beyond the third examination.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 23d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 23d - Athletic Trainers, Occupational Therapists or Physical Therapists or Assistants; Licensing of Persons Registered or Licensed in Other States, Territories, etc.; Fees

Section 23D. The board may without examination, license as an athletic trainer, or an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant, or physical therapist or physical therapist assistant, any applicant who is duly licensed or registered under the laws of another state or territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. At the time of making such application, the applicant shall pay a fee determined by the secretary of administration and finance to the board.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 23e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 23e - Limitation of Application of Section to Other Practices, Services or Activities

Section 23E. Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing or restricting the practice, services, or activities of:  (a) any person licensed in this commonwealth by any other statute from engaging in the profession or occupation for which he is licensed, or  (b) any person employed as an athletic trainer or occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant or physical therapist or physical therapist assistant by the Government of the United States or any agency of it, if such person provides occupational therapy or physical therapy solely under the direction or control of the organization by which he is employed, or  (c) any person pursuing a supervised course of study leading to a degree or certificate in athletic training or occupational therapy or physical therapy at an accredited or approved educational program, if the person is designated by a title which clearly indicates his status as a student or trainee, or  (d) any person fulfilling the supervised field work experience requirements of this section, if the experience constitutes a part of the experience necessary to meet the requirement of that section, or  (e) any person performing athletic training services or occupational therapy services or physical therapy services in the commonwealth if these services are performed for no more than two days in a calendar year in association with an athletic trainer or occupational therapist or physical therapist licensed under this section, if the person is licensed under the law of another state which has licensure requirements at least as stringent as the requirements of this section.