2006 Code of Virginia § 54.1-2956.1 - Powers of Board concerning occupational therapy

54.1-2956.1. Powers of Board concerning occupational therapy.

The Board shall be empowered to take such actions as may be necessary toensure the competence and integrity of any person who practices occupationaltherapy or claims to be an occupational therapist or who holds himself out tothe public as an occupational therapist or who engages in the practice ofoccupational therapy, and to that end it may license practitioners asoccupational therapists.

In addition, the Board shall designate in regulation those credentialingorganizations from which a person may obtain initial certification as anoccupational therapy assistant in order to hold himself out to be oradvertise that he is an occupational therapy assistant or use the designation"O.T.A." or any variation thereof.

(1989, c. 306; 1998, c. 593; 2000, c. 782; 2004, c. 61.)