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2010 New York Code
EDN - Education
Title 8 - THE PROFESSIONS
Article 139 - (6900 - 6910) NURSING
6903 - Practice of nursing and use of title "registered professional nurse" or "licensed practical nurse".

§ 6903. Practice  of nursing and use of title "registered professional
  nurse"  or  "licensed  practical  nurse".  Only  a  person  licensed  or
  otherwise  authorized under this article shall practice nursing and only
  a person licensed under section sixty-nine hundred five of this  article
  shall  use  the  title "registered professional nurse" and only a person
  licensed under section sixty-nine hundred six of this article shall  use
  the  title  "licensed  practical  nurse".  No person shall use the title
  "nurse" or any other title or abbreviation that would represent  to  the
  public  that  the  person  is  authorized to practice nursing unless the
  person is licensed or otherwise authorized under this article.

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