Exemptions from licensure requirements are generally set forth
in division (A) of section
4732.22 of the Revised Code. In
addition, exemptions from licensure requirements shall include:
(A) A person who holds a license
issued by the state board of education authorizing the practice of school
psychology, while practicing school psychology within the scope of employment
by a board of education or by a private school meeting the standards prescribed
by the state board of education under division (D) of section 3301.07 of the
Revised Code, or while acting as a school psychologist within the scope of
employment in a program for children with disabilities established under
Chapter 3323. or 5126. of the Revised Code. A person exempted under this
division shall not offer psychological services to any other individual,
organization, or group unless the person is licensed by the state board of
psychology;
(B)(A) A nonresident
temporarily employed in this state to render psychological services for not
more than thirty days a year who successfully submits a board-prescribed
application prior to practicing in Ohio and who, in the opinion of the board,
meets the standards for admission to the psychology examination as described in
rule
4732-9-01 of the Administrative
Code and who holds whatever license or certificate, if any, is required for
such practice in his/her home state or home country; however, a nonresident
providing the board with evidence from the "Association of State and Provincial
Psychology Boards" that he/she holds an active inter-jurisdictional practice
certificate (IPC) shall be deemed to qualify for permission to practice under
this paragraph; nonresidents shall have authorization to practice for not more
than thirty days yearly upon written authorization granting the nonresident
permission to practice;
(C)(B) Any student or
other person working under the supervision of a psychologist or school
psychologist licensed under this chapter, while engaging in training
experiences or carrying out specific tasks, under the license holder's
supervision, as an extension of the license holder's legal and ethical
authority as specified under this chapter. The person working under the license
holder's supervision shall not represent oneself to the public as a
psychologist or school psychologist, and supervised persons shall be ascribed
an appropriate title by the supervisor from those listed in paragraphs (E),
(F), (G), (H), (I) and (J) of rule
4732-13-03 of the Administrative
Code;
(D)(C) A student in an
accredited educational institution, while carrying out activities that are part
of the prescribed course of study, provided such activities are supervised by a
professional person who is qualified to perform such activities and is licensed
under this chapter or is a qualified supervisor pursuant to rules of the
board;
(E)(D) Recognized
religious officials, including ministers, priests, rabbis, imams, Christian
science practitioners, and other persons recognized by the board, conducting
counseling when the counseling activities are within the scope of the
performance of their regular duties and are performed under the auspices or
sponsorship of an established and legally cognizable religious denomination or
sect, as defined in current federal tax regulations, and when the religious
official does not refer to the official's self as a psychologist and remains
accountable to the established authority of the religious denomination or
sect;
(F)(E) A person in the
employ of the federal government, including use of an official title, insofar
as such activities are a part of the duties in his/her position;
(G)(F) A
person licensed, certified, or registered under a provision of the Revised Code
other than in Chapter 4732. of the Revised Code, providing he/she is practicing
those arts and utilizing psychological procedures that are allowed and within
the standards and ethics of the other profession or within new areas of
practice that represent appropriate extensions of that profession and providing
he/she does not hold himself/herself out to the public by the title
"psychologist";
(H)(G) Persons using the
term "social psychologist," "experimental psychologist," "developmental
psychologist," "research psychologist," "cognitive psychologist," and other
terms used by those in academic and research settings who possess a doctoral
degree in psychology from an educational institution accredited or recognized
by national or regional accrediting agencies as maintaining satisfactory
standards and who do not use such a term in the solicitation or rendering of
professional psychological services;
(I)(H) A person who is
teaching, even when dealing with psychological subject matter, provided it does
not otherwise involve the professional practice of psychology in which student
or client welfare is directly affected;
(J)(I) A person who is
conducting research in the field of psychology, provided it does not otherwise
involve the professional practice of psychology in which student or client
welfare is directly affected.
