2006 Alabama Code - Section 34-24-51 — Practicing medicine or osteopathy without license.

Any person who practices medicine or osteopathy or offers to do so in this state without a certificate of qualification having been issued in his behalf by the State Board of Medical Examiners and without a license and certificate of registration from the State Licensing Board for the Healing Arts shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined for each offense not less than $100.00 nor more than $1,000.00 and may be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than one month nor more than six months. However, nothing in this section or article shall apply to fellows, residents, interns or medical students who are employed by or who are taking courses of instruction at the University of Alabama School of Medicine or such other medical schools or colleges, hospitals or institutions in Alabama as may be approved by the Board of Medical Examiners; and provided, that the work of the fellows, residents, interns or medical students is performed within the facilities of such medical schools or colleges, hospitals or institutions under the supervision of a licensed physician and as an adjunct to his course of study or training, and until said fellows, residents, interns or students meet training requirements for licensure under the laws of the State of Alabama and the regulations of the Board of Medical Examiners of the State of Alabama. Nothing in this section shall be construed as applying to any person practicing chiropractic, dentistry, podiatry, optometry or any other branch of the healing arts, except medicine and osteopathy, pursuant to a license which has been issued, or which may hereafter be issued, by any state licensing board and who are practicing within the scope of such license.

(Code 1876, §4244; Code 1886, §4078; Code 1896, §5333; Code 1907, §7564; Acts 1915, No. 623, p. 661; Code 1923, §5191; Code 1940, T. 46, §262; Acts 1959, No. 109, p. 620, §3; Acts 1973, No. 1120, p. 1882; Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 161, p. 405, §2.)