§ 3402 - Prohibitions; offenses; exemptions - Vermont Statutes

§ 3402. Prohibitions; offenses; exemptions

(a) Except as provided in section 3412 of this title, no person shall practice acupuncture unless he or she is licensed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

(b) No person shall use in connection with the person's name any letters, words, or insignia indicating or implying that the person is an acupuncturist unless the person is licensed in accordance with this chapter. The only title a licensed acupuncturist may use in reference to that license is "licensed acupuncturist" or its abbreviation, as "Lic. Ac."

(c) A person who violates any of the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) of this section shall be subject to the penalties provided in subsection 127(c) of Title 3.

(d) Nothing in subsection (a) of this section shall prevent a student from performing acupuncture under the supervision of a competent licensed acupuncturist instructor:

(1) within a school or a college or an acupuncture department of a college or university which is licensed by the Vermont state department of education or certified by the Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine; or

(2) as a student in a director-approved apprenticeship; or

(3) as an intern in any hospital.

(e) Nothing in subsection (a) of this section shall prevent a person who is licensed or certified as an acupuncturist in another state or Canadian province from practicing acupuncture for no more than five days in a calendar year as part of a health care professional educational seminar or program in Vermont, if the educational seminar or program is directly supervised by a Vermont-licensed health care professional whose scope of practice includes acupuncture. (Added 1993, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; amended 1997, No. 40, § 38; 2001, No. 136 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. June 13, 2002; 2005, No. 148 (Adj. Sess.), § 38; 2007, No. 29, § 54.)