37-5-101. Definitions -- practice of osteopathy. (1) Unless the context requires otherwise, in this chapter the following definitions apply:
     (a) "Board" means the board of medical examiners provided for in 2-15-1841.
     (b) "Department" means the department of commerce provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 18.
     (2) Every person is "practicing osteopathy" within the meaning of this chapter who:
     (a) appends to or uses in connection with his or her name the words "doctor of osteopathy, diplomate of osteopathy, osteopath, osteopathist, osteopathic practitioner, osteopathic physician", or words of like import or any abbreviation thereof or the letters "D.O."; or
     (b) professes publicly to or who, either on his own behalf, in his own name or in his trade name, or in behalf of any other person, corporation, association, partnership (as manager, bookkeeper, practitioner, or agent), treats, cures, alleviates, or relieves any ailment or disease of either mind or body or cures or relieves any fracture or misplacement or abnormal condition or bodily injury or deformity by any treatment or manipulation or method of manipulating a human body or any of its limbs, muscles, or parts by the use of the hands or mechanical appliances in an effort or attempt to relieve any pressure, obstruction, misplacement, or defect in any bone, muscle, ligament, nerve, vessel, organ, or part of the body, after having received or with the intent or expectation of receiving therefor, either directly or indirectly, any bonus, gift, or compensation whatsoever; provided, however, that nothing in this section restrains or restricts any legally licensed physician or surgeon in the practice of his profession.

     History: (1)En. 66-1401.1 by Sec. 141, Ch. 350, L. 1974; Sec. 66-1401.1, R.C.M. 1947; (2)En. Sec. 12, Ch. 51, L. 1905; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 112, L. 1907; re-en. Sec. 1605, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 3136, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3136, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 66-1412, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 66-1401.1, 66-1412; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 22, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 87, L. 1981.