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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78472</law_id><section_number>54.1-2949</section_number><catch_line>License required</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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="4">Licensure and Certification of Other Practitioners of the Healing Arts</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>It shall be unlawful for a person to practice or to hold himself out as practicing as a <span class="dictionary">physician assistant</span> or to use in connection with his name the words or letters &#x201C;<span class="dictionary">Physician Assistant</span>&#x201D; or &#x201C;PA&#x201D; unless he holds a license as such issued by the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>.</p></section></text><history>1988, c. 765; 2013, c. 144; 2016, c. 450.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
