Texas Occupations Code

§ 157.001 — GENERAL AUTHORITY OF PHYSICIAN TO DELEGATE

OC § 157.001Title 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS · Part B. PHYSICIANS · Ch. 157. AUTHORITY OF PHYSICIAN TO DELEGATE CERTAIN MEDICAL ACTS · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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(a)A physician may delegate to a qualified and properly trained person acting under the physician's supervision any medical act that a reasonable and prudent physician would find within the scope of sound medical judgment to delegate if, in the opinion of the delegating physician:

(1)the act:

(A)can be properly and safely performed by the person to whom the medical act is delegated;

(B)is performed in its customary manner; and

(C)is not in violation of any other statute; and

(2)the person to whom the delegation is made does not represent to the public that the person is authorized to practice medicine.

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Legislative history

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.