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      Sec. 53-341. Use of title "doctor". No person engaged in the practice of any branch of the art of healing the sick or injured or professing to be engaged in such practice shall make use of the title "doctor" or any abbreviation thereof without further specification or qualification descriptive of the school or kind of practice engaged in by such person or advertise as possessing such title unless such person has received a degree of doctor of medicine or doctor of dental surgery from a reputable university or college authorized by law to confer such a degree. No person who has not been legally licensed or registered to practice any branch of the healing arts in this state shall use or advertise or permit to be used or advertised in connection with such person's name or any trade name in the conduct of any occupation or profession involving or pertaining to public health the title "doctor" or any abbreviation thereof or any designation tending to designate the capability to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure of any human disease, pain, injury, deformity or physical condition, actual or imaginary, except that any dentist who has received a degree of doctor of dental surgery from a reputable university or college authorized by law to confer such degree and who is licensed to practice dentistry in this state may be designated as the possessor of such degree or title. No provision of this section shall apply to any person admitted to practice under the provisions of the Medical Registration Act of 1893. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than sixty days or both.

      (1949 Rev., S. 8646; P.A. 99-102, S. 50.)

      History: P.A. 99-102 deleted obsolete reference to osteopathy and made technical changes re gender neutrality.