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2006 South Dakota Code - 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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