1999 Minnesota Statutes

     148.76 Prohibited conduct. 

    Subdivision 1.  No person shall:  

    (1) provide physical therapy unless the person is licensed 
 as a physical therapist under sections 148.65 to 148.78; 

    (2) use the title of physical therapist without a license 
 as a physical therapist issued under sections 148.65 to 148.78; 

    (3) in any manner hold out as a physical therapist, or use 
 in connection with the person's name the words or letters 
 Physical Therapist, Physiotherapist, Physical Therapy 
 Technician, Registered Physical Therapist, Licensed Physical 
 Therapist, P.T., P.T.T., R.P.T., L.P.T., or any letters, words, 
 abbreviations or insignia indicating or implying that the person 
 is a physical therapist, without a license as a physical 
 therapist issued under sections 148.65 to 148.78.  To do so is a 
 gross misdemeanor; 

    (4) employ fraud or deception in applying for or securing a 
 license as a physical therapist.  

    Nothing in sections 148.65 to 148.78 prohibits a person 
 licensed or registered in this state under another law from 
 carrying out the therapy or practice for which the person is 
 duly licensed or registered. 

    Subd. 2.  No physical therapist may: 

    (1) treat human ailments by physical therapy after an 
 initial 30-day period of patient admittance to treatment has 
 lapsed, except by the order or referral of a person licensed in 
 this state to practice medicine as defined in section 147.081, 
 the practice of chiropractic as defined in section 148.01, the 
 practice of podiatry as defined in section 153.01, the practice 
 of dentistry as defined in section 150A.05, or the practice of 
 advanced practice nursing as defined in section 62A.15, 
 subdivision 3a, when orders or referrals are made in 
 collaboration with a physician, chiropractor, podiatrist, or 
 dentist, and whose license is in good standing; or when a 
 previous diagnosis exists indicating an ongoing condition 
 warranting physical therapy treatment, subject to periodic 
 review defined by board of physical therapy rule; 

    (2) treat human ailments by physical therapy treatment 
 without first having practiced one year under a physician's 
 orders as verified by the board's records; 

    (3) use any chiropractic manipulative technique whose end 
 is the chiropractic adjustment of an abnormal articulation of 
 the body; and 

    (4) treat human ailments other than by physical therapy 
 unless duly licensed or registered to do so under the laws of 
 this state. 

    HIST: 1951 c 479 s 12; 1980 c 412 s 10; 1985 c 182 s 3; 1986 c 
 444; 1988 c 549 s 5; 1991 c 106 s 6; 1991 c 199 art 2 s 1; 1998 
 c 317 s 10; 1999 c 245 art 9 s 61