                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POWERS OF BOARD CONCERNING OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY (§ 54.1-2956.1)

The Board shall take such actions as may be necessary to ensure the competence
and integrity of any person who practices occupational therapy or claims to be
an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant or who holds himself
out to the public as an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant
or who engages in the practice of occupational therapy, and to that end it may
license practitioners as occupational therapists or occupational therapy
assistants who have met the qualifications established in regulation by the
Board.
		The Board shall consider and may accept relevant practical experience and
didactic and clinical components of education and training completed by an
applicant for licensure as an occupational therapist during his service as a
member of any branch of the armed forces of the United States as evidence of the
satisfaction of the educational requirements for licensure as an occupational
therapist.

HISTORY: 1989, c. 306; 1998, c. 593; 2000, c. 782; 2004, c. 61; 2008, cc. 64,
89; 2011, c. 390.