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 2-15-1731.
     (b) "Department" means the department of labor and industry provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 17.
     (2) A person is practicing osteopathy within the meaning of this chapter if the person:
     (a) appends to or uses in connection with the person's name the words "doctor or osteopathy", "diplomate of osteopathy", "osteopath", "osteopathist", "osteopathic practitioner", "osteopathic physician", or words of like import or any abbreviation of the phrases or the letters "D.O."; or
     (b) professes publicly to or, either on the person's own behalf, in person's own name, in the person's 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, either directly or indirectly, any bonus, gift, or compensation. However, this section does not restrain or restrict any legally licensed physician or surgeon in the practice of the physician's or surgeon's licensed 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; amd. Sec. 114, Ch. 483, L. 2001.