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No person who is exempt from licensure under subdivision 4 of \u00a7\u00a7 54.1-3501, 54.1-3601 or \u00a7 54.1-3701 shall hold himself out as a provider of sex offender treatment services unless he is certified as a sex offender treatment provider by the Board of Psychology.\n\n","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":1375331,"text":"No person, including licensees of the Boards of Counseling; Medicine; Nursing; Psychology; or Social Work, shall claim to be a certified sex offender treatment provider unless he has been so certified. 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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?941+ful+CHAP0778\">778<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1999, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?991+ful+CHAP0630\">630<\/a>; in 2000, chapter <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?001+ful+CHAP0473\">473<\/a>.<\/p>","references":[{"id":368858,"section_number":"54.1-3600","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/54.1-3600\/"}],"refers_to":[{"id":368832,"section_number":"54.1-3501","catch_line":"Exemption from requirements of licensure","order_by":null,"url":"\/54.1-3501\/"},{"id":368859,"section_number":"54.1-3601","catch_line":"Exemption from requirements of licensure","order_by":null,"url":"\/54.1-3601\/"},{"id":368878,"section_number":"54.1-3701","catch_line":"Exemption from requirements of licensure","order_by":null,"url":"\/54.1-3701\/"}],"permalink":{"id":1471043,"object_type":"law","relational_id":368871,"identifier":"54.1-3611","token":"54.1\/III\/36\/54.1-3611","url":"\/54.1-3611\/","edition_id":2,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/54.1-3611\/","token":"54.1\/III\/36\/54.1-3611","dublin_core":{"Title":"Restriction of practice; use of titles","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 54.1-3611","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>No person, including licensees of the <span class=\"dictionary\">Boards<\/span> of Counseling; Medicine; Nursing; Psychology; or Social Work, shall claim to be a <span class=\"dictionary\">certified sex offender treatment provider<\/span> unless he has been so certified. 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