2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 61 - Professional and Occupational Licenses
Article 8 - Podiatry
Section 61-8-3 - License required. (Repealed effective July 1, 2024.)
Unless licensed as a podiatrist pursuant to the provisions of the Podiatry Act or exempted from that act pursuant to Section 61-8-4 NMSA 1978, no person shall practice podiatry.
History: 1953 Comp., § 67-6-3, enacted by Laws 1977, ch. 221, § 3; 1998, ch. 24, § 3.
ANNOTATIONSDelayed repeals. — For delayed repeal of this section, see 61-8-17 NMSA 1978.
Cross references. — For Uniform Licensing Act, see 61-1-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
For the Parental Responsibility Act, see 40-5A-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
For prohibition against use of fluoroscopic or X-ray machine for shoe-fitting, see 74-3-14 NMSA 1978.
The 1998 amendment, effective July 1, 1998, substituted "pursuant to the provisions of" for "under" and inserted "or exempted from that act pursuant to Section 61-8-4 NMSA 1978" near the end of the section.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 61 Am. Jur. 2d Physicians, Surgeons and Other Healers § 43.
Practicing medicine, surgery, dentistry, optometry, podiatry or other healing arts without license as a separate or continuing offense, 99 A.L.R.2d 654.
Regulation of chiropody, 45 A.L.R.4th 888.
70 C.J.S. Physicians, Surgeons, and Other Health-Care Providers § 12.
