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TN Code › Title 63 › Chapter 17 › Section 63-17-102

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It is the purpose and intent of the general assembly by this enactment to safeguard the public health, safety and welfare, to protect the public from being misled by incompetent, unscrupulous and unauthorized persons and to protect the public from unprofessional conduct by qualified speech language pathologists and audiologists and hearing instrument specialists, by providing regulatory authority over persons offering speech language pathology, audiology and hearing instrument dispensing services to the public. Acts 1973, ch. 93, § 2; T.C.A., § 63-1702; Acts 1994, ch. 849, § 5; 1995, ch. 481, §§ 34, 37.

It is the purpose and intent of the general assembly by this enactment to safeguard the public health, safety and welfare, to protect the public from being misled by incompetent, unscrupulous and unauthorized persons and to protect the public from unprofessional conduct by qualified speech language pathologists and audiologists and hearing instrument specialists, by providing regulatory authority over persons offering speech language pathology, audiology and hearing instrument dispensing services to the public.

Acts 1973, ch. 93, § 2; T.C.A., § 63-1702; Acts 1994, ch. 849, § 5; 1995, ch. 481, §§ 34, 37.

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