Any person who shall buy, sell, or fraudulently obtain any diploma, license, record, or registration to practice osteopathic medicine, illegally obtained or signed, or issued unlawfully or under fraudulent representation; or who shall use any of the forms or letters, “Osteopathy,” “Osteopath,” “Osteopathist,” “Diplomate in Osteopathy,” “D.O.,” “D.Sc.O.,” “Osteopathic Physician,” “Doctor of Osteopathy,” or any other title or letters, either alone or with other qualifying words or phrases, under such circumstances as to induce the belief that the person who uses such term or terms is engaged in the practice of osteopathic medicine, or anyone who shall hold himself or herself out as practicing any other nondrug-giving school of medical practice, without having complied with this article, shall be guilty of a felony.
History. Ga. L. 1909, p. 123, § 11; Penal Code 1910, § 470; Code 1933, § 84-9918; Code 1981, § 43-34-44 ; Code 1981, § 43-34-40 , as redesignated by Ga. L. 2009, p. 859, § 1/HB 509.
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 2009, p. 859, § 1/HB 509, effective July 1, 2009, redesignated former Code Section 43-34-40 as present Code Section 43-34-36.
Structure Georgia Code
Title 43 - Professions and Businesses
§ 43-34-22. Practicing Medicine Without a License; Titles and Abbreviations; Exceptions
§ 43-34-23. Delegation of Authority to Nurse or Physician Assistant
§ 43-34-24. Drug Therapy Management; Modification by Pharmacist
§ 43-34-26.1. Vaccine Protocol Agreements
§ 43-34-27. Licensing Aliens; Licensing Canadian Medical School Graduates
§ 43-34-28. Reciprocity; Expedited License
§ 43-34-29.1. Administrative Medicine Licenses; Definitions; Requirements; Rules of Board
§ 43-34-29.3. Provider Defined; Exemption From Licensing Requirement; Reciprocating Between States
§ 43-34-31.1. Licensing of Telemedicine Physicians; Revocation
§ 43-34-32. Temporary Licenses
§ 43-34-33. Institutional Licenses
§ 43-34-34. Limited Provisional Licenses
§ 43-34-35. Issuance of License Upon Presentation of Evidence of Required Qualifications
§ 43-34-36. Passing Upon Good Standing and Reputation of Medical and Osteopathic Colleges
§ 43-34-39. Injunctions; Violations of Article as Constituting Nuisance
§ 43-34-40. Fraudulently Obtaining or Selling Records; Fraudulent Use of Terms
§ 43-34-41. Special Licenses for Volunteers
§ 43-34-44. Role of Medical Assistants Clarified
§ 43-34-45. Polysomnography; Practice
§ 43-34-46. Maintenance of Certification Programs
§ 43-34-47. Regulation of Sedation and Rescue in Office Based Surgeries; Failure to Comply