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3to:e l%alth QfflDer
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hur film ~Q;rlnhi la. wQ44
Her L&y publlo health numes, as-
l5tgAuuto?pims sro3 unltsd
stubs Fubllo Health &mica
and,pal& by the ulllt0d states
iUbli0 &a&h &Wyico for 8W-
vice in Qr~ooae urea8
On ;UblfC h8Clt.bnuTB1~=:%
YitiB8 hi the80 Wea8 without
obt.nir,lc& a lLce%a tc ;rac-
t1oc &WlAg lr,Tsraarr
proYlaQd
t::asenurm8 have shown,thsm-
ssl~es to bo m&tared nurses
allable for listing 00 the
Clril Sanioe r&mrdr of tho
fedoml goTrrnMAt?
'The Pa?iC a-n&or: ot health 8e?Yiaoe
in defense aran ,4-i&& EsOe88itakd 8mh% rroti-
yities OA :he p.?rtai the Publie Health Serrlce~
tC 38Si8t tho TZioU8 8tfit88, fn line With
tbld policy tho Publlo Heeltab SarPiOo bn8 al)-
alg33U to Tara
asrtdn &octorr 0nd nur8b8.
thrwgh owrtt48y of the Ssnio8, ~l~oatlun&a~
the Oireetion of the Btato Hea.lthOfticer .but
the8e $ndiY~duti8Crb ~seleotsb by tkm t?nh.
Stat@8 mbllc H8alth Senfcb iroSa oiril 8orTioe
rollt aab 0re k(L d.iXOOtl~ fZ’WS fU&@ti StiM~8 .
tar their 8U nr 00, en6 thulr 8btiCN lenst b.
aoztai~ero~or a tomgorary abaraotar rho ouch
cur8a8 are ell&blr for tXtti8sSrt5 other aroaa .
OS nse& at any tine. o&3 #UDh tHUX8tOr &#
0QlWrr.d.
Honor&b16 06Orga Ti. Cox, Page I:
~WlICal DsfIoer8 arrI&d to thi8 ,Statr
troa the U. 8. Publlo Health Sorvlee ara not
required to obtain a 1Iceosr to praotleo In
Tax38 nlnor thlr autter 8euaa adoguatsly cover-
od by the Stat. law. EiovIYW, the Stat8 Sootird
Of b'U8e -h4r8 AUr8.S 80 8#-
hU6 illfOl'itl46
Ui&‘aad that they murt be 1iOMi8d ik Tema.
Thir wwku a 8erious harlrhlp rim?, these
aUI'8oL1km assigned OA 8n 4Ki18r~OAC)-bfi8Iahad
may be tmnsterred frsquettly. . . ,*
TiMa 71, Ch6ptOr 7, Of the ikIae6 clYf1 stEtUtC8
ot 1926, presorlbes the r&WJuilWWDt8 for a -moon deelring
to praatiaa t8 a 'grsiduats osrtliled re&stored nur8V ln
Texas. On9 of the require2anir I6 the *pent ct a foe af
sittebn dolbr6 to the State Eoard oi mm k1~138r8~
(Artlcl, (319) BerIde jlS)‘li34At of the 038 Dafd person 3!uSt
pass an amninatlon preacribsd by the Board (Article 4ZlQ)
or hold *a reglrtratlen aertlricatr 86 a ;ro-t4sa1onal nurd
frm another State whom requlroLc;lts art sqilal tz those
Of 'hXLL8.* (&tlols &El)
Am010 776, 0s the POE& Code Or i9zS I6 8.6 SOi-
lowu :
*t;D jM:103 &all fraotlca ZulrSI~ se cr
ol8IaIng,to be a graduate oertiiid regicstar-
od nur80 without 6 iiCUn3e cr p4rdt trOZ the
State Bomd of Wrre r%a!A.nor6, rklch lfeews
Or peXidt It&B11 h4VO bran rs&Stc:-ed With thr
county OlWk Of the CDWlty in vihichhe Or rho
reridsr within l p a r lo d of thirty dap.
WhD htXl r@Odtd hi8 Q;P h.r liCCtL8e
accordlag to law &hell be styled a
ad nurm 1 snci no other .serson shall csaum
auoh~tltfs iiruse th ubbrarlcticm '9 . I:.’ Or
any other to:$ndioats t&t ha Dr ahe Ik c
yaOu8te oortiflsci rsGIstc,-ed numo: and my
pOl'8OA Yiolatiq; any jX'O-?iSiOQOf thle artI
or rhc Ihal mke uny f418e re?re34At%tiC%3
tD 8tifd board in a>plyI~ for a liCenO sball
be ilned aot leas than ttwitp-Zivs nor 9ore
thawtko ha~drud an3 fifty dollnrs.'
Artlals 45E.a axmgta ca&ln penona tqa thr~re-
qulrumntr of eald Chapter 7 In tha follting lM6UaEeI
no.?orcrble 0t3Or60 N. COx, h&O 3
'This law ehall not be con6trued to'apsly
to the gretultou~ ourslng OS the slak by
frisnd8, ncr any ~;erBOn nUr815& the edak for
hire who does not 15 any way aeeume or rofesa
to praotloe as a graduste certIrle6 re 6f stared
IlUFtS..*
Article 799 of the Penal Code of 19Zb, in like::.
lmguage, exes~ts~tha sam persons Zroz the panal~provI6lon6
hLOV4 quoted.
:ie have been ONlly lnformod by you thr.t the ;ub-
UC health mmas rerarrud to by yr&ir. the letter vated
above do not a66tme or profess to preatlce in Tern8 a8 mid-
uate certified reglsterad nuraesi that they periom pre-
ve?;tIre servicas ozly; thr:t they hold thenoelvea out 6lqly
&6 "';;ublicHealth Nur606"; and that they use oeithcr the
title TiaZlatered !;urean nor the ibitiale *R. N."-
Under t&e faats stated, it Is our opinion that
thb second era::~tIon Frovlted in Article CC28 of the Civil
3totuta.q end Article 777 or the Pczal code applies to ?ub-
llc health jurors al;ployed by the WItad States
and :ge.Id
Fublla lioalth service and by t&t 3arvioe asslg~ed to‘work
In defense areas in 'Isme under tha direction of the State
Helth Clffiaerlend thetiforo tW&t such nurse6 are sot
required to Obtalc a St&e llcanm to praotice nursfne; III
Terns.
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Tours very truly