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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>59538</law_id><section_number>54.1-2902</section_number><catch_line>Unlawful to practice without license</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>54.1-111</reference><reference>54.1-2951.4</reference><reference>54.1-3300.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="29">Medicine and Other Healing Arts</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General Provisions</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>It is unlawful for any person to practice medicine, osteopathic medicine, chiropractic, or podiatry or as a <span class="dictionary">physician assistant</span> in the Commonwealth without a valid unrevoked license issued by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 54-274; 1950, p. 98; 1958, c. 161; 1962, c. 127; 1966, c. 657; 1970, c. 69; 1973, cc. 105, 514, 529; 1975, c. 508; 1976, c. 15; 1980, c. 157; 1982, c. 220; 1985, cc. 303, 347; 1986, c. 377; 1988, c. 765; 1996, cc. 937, 980; 2000, c. 688; 2021, Sp. Sess. I, c. 210.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
