2011 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 61: Professional and Occupational Licenses
Article 14B: Speech-Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Practices, 61-14B-1 through 61-14B-25
Section 61-14B-8: Exemptions. (Repealed effective July 1, 2016.)

61-14B-8. Exemptions. (Repealed effective July 1, 2016.)

A. Nothing in the Speech Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Practices Act shall be construed to prevent qualified members of other recognized professions that are licensed, certified or registered under New Mexico law or regulation from rendering services within the scope of their license, certificate or registration, provided they do not represent themselves as holding a license in speech language pathology, audiology or hearing aid dispensing.

B. Any person not meeting the requirements for licensure as a speech language pathologist or audiologist under the provisions of the Speech Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Practices Act, may practice as a speech pathologist or audiologist until July 1, 1997 if:

(1) he is employed as a speech pathologist or audiologist on a waiver license issued by the state department of public education prior to the effective date of that act; and

(2) he is actively seeking the educational requirements for licensure under that act.

C. Nothing in the Speech Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Practices Act prevents qualified members of other recognized professional groups, such as licensed physicians, dentists or teachers of the deaf, from doing appropriate work in the area of communication disorders consistent with the standards and ethics of their respective professions.

D. Nothing in the Speech Language Pathology, Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensing Practices Act restricts the activities and services of a speech language pathology or audiology graduate student at an accredited or approved college or university or an approved clinical training facility; provided that these activities and services constitute part of his supervised course of study and that he is designated as a speech language pathology or audiology graduate student or other title clearly indicating the training status appropriate to his level of training.