California Business and Professions Code

§ 2570.3

BPC § 2570.3 Effective Jan 1, 2024Div. 2 · Ch. 5.6

Statute text

(a)A person shall not practice occupational therapy or hold themselves out as an occupational therapist or as being able to practice occupational therapy, or to render occupational therapy services in this state unless the person is licensed as an occupational therapist under the provisions of this chapter. A person shall not hold themselves out as an occupational therapy assistant or work as an occupational therapy assistant under the supervision of an occupational therapist unless the person is licensed as an occupational therapy assistant under this chapter.

(b)Only an individual may be licensed under this chapter.

(c)This chapter does not authorize an occupational therapist to practice physical therapy, as defined in Section 2620; speech-language pathology or audiology, as defined in Section 2530.2; nursing, as defined in Section 2725; psychology, as defined in Section 2903; marriage and family therapy, as defined in Section 4980.02; clinical social work, as defined in Section 4996.9; professional clinical counseling, as defined in Section 4999.20; educational psychology, as defined in Section 4989.14; or spinal manipulation or other forms of healing, except as authorized by this section.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 131, Sec. 4. (AB 1754) Effective January 1, 2024.