2005 West Virginia Code - §30-28-4. — License required; treatment by referral only; limitation on practice by assistant.

§30-28-4. License required; treatment by referral only; limitation on practice by assistant.

(a) No person may present himself as an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant in this state unless she or he is licensed in accordance with the provisions of this article. No firm, partnership, association or corporation may advertise or otherwise offer to provide or convey the impression that it is providing occupational therapy unless an individual holding a current valid license or permit under this article is or will at the appropriate time be rendering the occupational therapy services to which reference is made.
(b) A licensed occupational therapist shall not treat persons by occupational therapy or otherwise other than referral by a licensed physician or surgeon, psychologist or psychiatrist, dentist, osteopathic physician or surgeon, or chiropodist or podiatrist. A licensed occupational therapy assistant shall not practice occupational therapy other than in accordance with the definitional requirements of an occupational therapy assistant as specified in subdivision (f), section three of this article.