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Section 36-8-17 - Acts constituting unprofessional or dishonorable conduct--No basis for criminalprosecution.

36-8-17. Acts constituting unprofessional or dishonorable conduct--No basis for criminal prosecution. Unprofessional or dishonorable conduct as used in this chapter shall be construed to include:
(1) To offer, give, or promise, either directly or indirectly, any gift in return for the procurement of a patient or patients for podiatric treatment;
(2) To request, list, accept, or receive any rebates or commission for prescribing or recommending any footwear, drug, medicine, or any other article, to his patients;
(3) To prescribe, dispense, or pretend to use, in treating any patient, any secret remedial agent, or manifest or promote its use in any way, or guarantee or imply to guarantee any treatment, therapy or remedy whatsoever;
(4) To practice podiatry under a trade name, under the name of another podiatrist, or use any title other than that of podiatrist, provided however, the term "foot specialist" may be used as explanatory terms of the title podiatrist;
(5) To conduct the practice of podiatry in connection with any of the following: beauty parlor, barbershop, Turkish bath, shoe store, department store, massage parlor, or any other such commercial establishment;
(6) To employ a solicitor or solicitors to obtain business;
(7) To willfully betray professional secrets;
(8) To willfully violate the rules and regulations made and promulgated by the Board of Podiatry Examiners.
Unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, as defined in this section, shall not be the basis for criminal prosecution unless otherwise declared unlawful.

Source: SDC 1939, § 27.0808 as added by SL 1959, ch 131, § 9; revised pursuant to SL 1972, ch 15, § 4.

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