32-1421

32-1421. Exemption from licensing requirements

A. This article does not apply to any person while engaged in:

1. The provision of medical assistance in case of an emergency.

2. The administration of family remedies including the sale of vitamins, health foods or health food supplements or any other natural remedies, except drugs or medicines for which an authorized prescription is required by law.

3. The practice of religion, treatment by prayer or the laying on of hands as a religious rite or ordinance.

4. The practice of any of the healing arts of and by Indian tribes in this state.

5. The lawful practice of any of the healing arts to the extent authorized by a license issued by this state.

6. Activities or functions which do not require the exercise of a doctor of medicine's judgment for their performance, are not in violation of the laws of this state, and are usually or customarily delegated to such persons by a doctor of medicine under the doctor's direction or supervision or are performed in accordance with the approval of a committee of physicians in a licensed health care institution.

7. The official duties of a medical officer in the armed forces of the United States, the United States veterans administration or the United States public health service or their successor agencies, if such duties are restricted to federal lands.

8. Any act, task or function competently performed by a physician assistant in the proper performance of the physician assistant's duties.

9. The emergency harvesting of donor organs by a doctor of medicine or team of doctors of medicine licensed to practice medicine in another state or country for use in another state or country.

B. This article does not apply to any doctor of medicine residing in another state, federal jurisdiction or country who is authorized to practice medicine in that jurisdiction, if he engages in actual single or infrequent consultation with a doctor of medicine licensed in this state and if the consultation regards a specific patient or patients.