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  "heading": "License required, examining board",
  "text": "No one shall practice the branch of medicine known as podiatry nor advertise or hold out as a podiatrist unless duly licensed to do so by the board after examination conducted by the board or a committee thereof.\n\nWhen acting as a board of examiners of applicants for licenses to practice podiatry in this state, the board or the committee thereof, may appoint two members of the Louisiana State Podiatrists' Association to constitute and form part of this examining board under rules and regulations adopted by the board.",
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