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2012 Idaho Statutes
Title 54 - PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS, AND BUSINESSES
Chapter 51 - NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS LICENSING ACT
Section 54-5103 - LICENSE REQUIRED.


ID Code § 54-5103 (2012) What's This?

54-5103. License required. (1) No person shall hold himself or herself out to others as a naturopathic physician or practice naturopathic medicine as defined herein without first applying for and receiving a license. Persons who are not licensed pursuant to this chapter may provide natural health care services as defined herein pursuant to sections 54-5107 and 54-1804, Idaho Code.

(2) A person holds himself or herself out to others as a naturopathic physician when the person adopts or uses any or all of the following designations: "naturopathic physician," "physician of naturopathic medicine," "physician of natural medicine," "doctor of naturopathic medicine," or its abbreviation "N.M.D."

(3) The titles and terms in subsection (2) of this section identify naturopathic physicians and are restricted to describing and identifying licensed practitioners. Nothing herein contained shall prohibit or restrict the right to use or employ the titles "doctor of naturopathy," "naturopathic doctor," or the designation "N.D." by a person who has:

(a) Received a doctor of naturopathy degree from a school, college or institution that is licensed, or exempt from licensure as a religious school, college or institution, by the appropriate state educational licensing agency in which its principal operations or offices are located;
(b) Completed a doctoral level course of study that includes coursework and practical experience, which may include apprenticeship, of at least eight hundred (800) hours, upon completion of which a doctor of naturopathy degree is conferred;
(c) Practiced as a doctor of naturopathy for twenty (20) years prior to the effective date of this chapter;
(d) Practiced as a doctor of naturopathy for at least five (5) years and received a doctor of naturopathy degree prior to the effective date of this chapter; or
(e) Received a license pursuant to this chapter.

(4) No person who does not meet the criteria set forth in this section may use the titles and terms contained in subsection (3) of this section.


History:

[54-5103, added 2005, ch. 329, sec. 1, p. 1027.]

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