Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 028 - Podiatry, Board of Registration › Sub-Agency 0001 - Podiatry, Board of Registration › Appendix A - Wyoming Podiatry Practice Act WS 33-9-101 Through 33-9-113

Current through July 13, 2024
33-9-101. Definitions.
(a) Unless the context requires otherwise in this act
				
									33-9-101 through
				33-9-113, the following
				definitions shall prevail:
(i) "Podiatry" means the diagnosis or the medical, mechanical
				or surgical treatment of the ailments of the human foot. It includes the
				fitting or the recommending of appliances, devices or shoes for the correction
				or relief of minor foot ailments, but does not include the amputation of the
				foot or toes, or the administration of anesthetics other than local. A general
				anesthesia shall be administered in a hospital by an anesthesiologist or
				certified nurse anesthetist authorized under the laws of this state to
				administer anesthesia. Podiatrists are permitted to use and to prescribe drugs
				and controlled substances as may be necessary in the practice of podiatry. The
				word "podiatry" for the purposes of this act is synonymous in meaning to the
				word "chiropody".
33-9-102. Board of Registration
				in Podiatry.
(a) There is created and established the state board of
				registration in podiatry which shall be composed of three (3) practicing
				podiatrists of integrity and ability, who shall be residents of the state of
				Wyoming and who shall have practiced podiatry continuously in the state for a
				period of two (2) years immediately prior to their appointment. The members of
				the board shall be appointed by the governor. Annually, the governor shall
				appoint one (1) member who shall be a licensed podiatrist possessing the
				qualifications above specified, who shall serve for a period of three (3) years
				or until his successor has been appointed. The governor may remove any board
				member as provided in W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				9-1-202.
(b) Any vacancy which occurs on the board shall be filled by an
				appointment of the governor and the podiatrist so appointed shall hold office
				until the expiration of the term. Members of the board shall elect one (1)
				member as president and one (1) member as secretary-treasurer.
33-9-103. License Required to
				Practice. It is unlawful for a person to profess to be a podiatrist, to
				practice or assume the duties incident to podiatry or to advertise in any form
				or hold himself out to the public as a podiatrist, or in a sign or
				advertisement to use the word "podiatrist", "foot correctionist", "foot
				expert", "foot specialist", "chiropodist" or any other term or designation
				indicating to the public that he is holding himself out as a podiatrist or foot
				correctionist in any manner, without first obtaining from the board a license
				authorizing the practice of podiatry in this state under this act
				
									33-9-101 through
				33-9-113.
33-9-104. Applications for
				Licenses. Persons who wish to practice podiatry in this state shall make
				application on a form authorized and furnished by the board for a license to
				practice podiatry. This application shall be granted to an applicant after he
				has furnished satisfactory proof that he has satisfactorily completed two (2)
				years in a recognized college of liberal arts or of the sciences, and that he
				is a graduate of a regularly established school of podiatry recognized by the
				American podiatry association and the board which requires as a prerequisite to
				graduation the completion of at least three thousand three hundred sixty
				(3,360) scholastic hours of classroom work. A school of podiatry shall not be
				accredited by the board if it does not require for graduation at least four (4)
				years of instruction in the study of podiatry. After the application has been
				accepted by the board, together with the payment of the license fee, the
				applicant must pass a satisfactory examination as prepared under the rules and
				regulations of the board.
33-9-105. Examinations.
				Examinations of applicants for a license to practice podiatry shall be in the
				English language and shall include both clinical and written tests as the board
				shall determine. The examinations shall embrace the subjects of histology,
				surgery, hygiene, dermatology, anatomy, physiology, chemistry, bacteriology,
				pathology, diagnosis and treatment, pharmacology, therapeutics, clinical
				podiatry and such other subjects as the board may prescribe, a knowledge of
				which is commonly and generally required by the practitioners of podiatry. This
				section shall not be construed to require of the applicant a medical or
				surgical education. The minimum requirements for a license to practice under
				W.S. W.S.
				33-9-101 through
				33-9-113 is a general passing
				grade average of seventy-five percent (75%) in all of the subjects involved and
				not less than sixty percent (60%) in any one (1) subject. At the time of making
				application to practice, an examination and license fee of not more than one
				hundred dollars ($100.00) shall be paid to the board. An applicant failing in
				the examination and being refused a license is entitled, within six (6) months
				of the refusal, to a reexamination, but only two (2) such reexaminations shall
				be granted to any one (1) applicant. The board may make such rules and
				regulations governing the conduct of the examinations as shall be necessary,
				and wilful violation of such rules and regulations shall subject the applicant
				to the cancellation of the examination and loss of the fee.
33-9-106. Registration with
				County Clerk. Every person to whom a certificate of registration and license
				has been issued under this act
				
									33-9-101 through
				33-9-113, within one (1) month
				from the date of receipt of the certification of registration and license,
				shall deliver the certificate to the county clerk of the county in which the
				person has his legal residence or usual place of business, and pay a recording
				fee of two dollars ($2.00). The county clerk to whom such certificate is
				presented shall register the name and address of the person designated in the
				certificate together with the date and number inscribed thereon, and this
				record shall be open to public inspection.
33-9-107. Licensing Matters. A
				license issued under W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				33-9-101 through
				33-9-113 shall be designated a
				"registered podiatrist's license" and may not contain any abbreviations thereof
				nor any other designation or title except that a statement of limitation shall
				be contained in the license referring to the licensee as a "registered
				podiatrist - practice limited to the foot", so as not to mislead the public
				with respect to their right to treat other portions of the body. A renewal
				license fee of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) shall be due to the
				board annually on July 1 each year, and if not paid within three (3) months the
				license shall be revoked and may be reissued only upon an additional
				application and payment of a fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00). Licenses
				shall be conspicuously displayed by podiatrists at their offices or other
				places of practice.
33-9-108. Disposition of Fees.
				All fees and money shall be received and collected as provided by law. The
				state treasurer shall place ten percent (10%) of the money in the general fund
				of the state and the remainder in an account within the earmarked revenue fund
				which shall be subject at all times to warrant of the state auditor drawn upon
				vouchers issued and signed by the president and the secretary-treasurer of the
				board.
(a) This act
				
									33-9-101 through
				33-9-113 does not apply to the
				commissioned podiatrists of the United States armed services in the actual
				performance of their official duties, to physicians or surgeons, to osteopathic
				physicians and surgeons regularly licensed under the laws of Wyoming, nor to
				any visiting podiatrist called into consultation in this state from another
				state where he is duly qualified under the laws of that state to practice
				podiatry.
(b) This act
				
									33-9-101 through
				33-9-113 shall not prohibit the
				fitting, recommending, advertising, adjusting or sale of corrective shoes, arch
				supports or similar mechanical appliances or foot remedies by retail dealers or
				manufacturers.
(a) After notice and opportunity for hearing under the terms of
				the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act
				
									16-3-101 through
				16-3-115, the board may revoke or
				refuse to renew a license granted under this act
				
									33-9-101 through
				33-9-113 to any person otherwise
				qualified who is guilty of any of the following violations:
(i) Obtaining a license by fraudulent representation;
(ii) Incompetency in practice;
(iii) Use of untruthful or improbable statements to patients or
				in his advertisements;
(iv) Alcoholism or habitual use of controlled substance;
(v) Unprofessional conduct; or
(vi) Selling or giving away alcohol or controlled substances
				for illegal purposes, but the board may reissue a license after six (6) months
				if in its judgment the act, acts or conditions of disqualification have been
				remedied.
33-9-111. Reciprocal Licenses.
				The applicant may be registered and given a certificate or registration and
				license if he presents satisfactory proof of the endorsement from his state
				board of having practiced podiatry, and the possession of a certificate of
				podiatry qualification or license issued to the applicant at least one (1) year
				prior to filing of application for reciprocal privileges. The certificate upon
				which reciprocity is requested shall have been issued in the United States or
				within any foreign country where the requirements for the certificate of
				qualification or license of the applicant at the date of application are deemed
				by the board to be equivalent to those of this act
				
									33-9-101 through
				33-9-113, and the state or country
				from which the applicant has received a license has like reciprocal privileges
				with the state of Wyoming, and the applicant has passed that state or country's
				examination in clinical podiatry. The fee for registration of applicants for
				reciprocity shall be not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), and for the
				endorsement of reciprocity to another state, not more than twenty-five dollars
				($25.00).
33-9-112. Compensation of Board.
				Each member of the board shall receive reimbursement for per diem, mileage and
				expenses for attending meetings, in the same manner and amount as state
				employees. Any incidental expenses necessarily incurred by the board or any
				member, if approved by the board, shall be paid from the state treasury, but
				only from the fees received under the provisions of this act
				
									33-9-101 through
				33-9-113 that are paid into the
				state treasury by the board.
33-9-113. Penalties. Any person
				violating any of the provisions of this act
				
									33-9-101 through
				33-9-113 is guilty of a
				misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than
				one hundred dollars ($100.00) or imprisonment for not more than six (6) months,
				or both, for each offense.