2012 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 438 OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY 438.065 Advertising or soliciting by practitioner of healing arts -- Exceptions.
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438.065 Advertising or soliciting by practitioner of healing arts -- Exceptions.
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No person licensed to practice medicine, dentistry, osteopathy, podiatry, optometry,
or chiropractic, or any other healing art in this state shall solicit persons to become
patients, or advertise by mail, card, newspaper, pamphlet, radio, television, or any
other medium, or permit his services to be advertised; provided, however, that such
person may publish a brief announcement of the opening of an office or of any
change of office location or change of office hours, and may cause to be listed in the
telephone directory and classified advertising sections thereof his name, address,
type of practice and office hours. Modest signs on the doors, windows, and walls of
the licensee's office or on the building in which he maintains an office setting out
his name, professional title in accordance with KRS 311.375, office hours and
address shall not be considered as violations of this subsection.
Each violation of subsection (1) of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not
less than two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) nor more than one thousand dollars
($1,000) or by imprisonment for not less than one (1) month nor more than twelve
(12) months or both.
Nothing contained herein prohibits the circulation of educational materials, which
are not laudatory of the author or any person with whom he is associated in the
practice of his profession, and which contain no solicitation of patients for the
author or any such associate of the author, which has been approved as to content by
the appropriate licensing agency.
History: Created 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 94, sec. 1.
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