Title 08, Business and Professions
52 chapters · 1,415 sections in this title.
AS 08.95.010 Creation and membership of the board.
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(a) There is created the Board of Social Work Examiners composed of five members, as follows: one member licensed under this chapter as a baccalaureate social worker; one member licensed under this chapter as a master social worker; two members licensed under this chapter as clin…
AS 08.95.020 Board meetings.
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The board shall hold at least two meetings each year. The board may hold additional meetings at the call of the chair or of a majority of the board members.
AS 08.95.030 Duties.
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The board shall (1) issue licenses to qualified applicants; (2) adopt regulations (A) requiring that continuing education requirements be satisfied before a license is renewed; (B) establishing a code of professional ethics that a licensee must observe; (C) establishing standards…
AS 08.95.040 Continuing education requirement.
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(a) The board shall adopt continuing education requirements for persons licensed under this chapter. Continuing education requirements that must be satisfied before the first biennial renewal of a person's license must include a minimum of 45 hours of education or training with a…
AS 08.95.050 Disciplinary sanctions.
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Article 2. Licensing. (a) The board may impose a disciplinary sanction under AS 08.01.075 if it finds that a licensee (1) secured a license through deceit, fraud, or intentional misrepresentation; (2) engaged in deceit, fraud, or intentional misrepresentation in the course of pro…
AS 08.95.100 License required.
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(a) A person who practices clinical social work without obtaining a license under this chapter to practice clinical social work is guilty of a class B misdemeanor unless the person is (1) licensed under a provision of this title that is outside this chapter, is practicing within …
AS 08.95.110 License requirements.
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(a) The board shall issue a license to practice clinical social work to a person who (1) has received a master's degree or a doctoral degree in social work from a college or university approved by the board; (2) has completed, within the 10 years before application for licensure …
AS 08.95.120 Licensing by credentials.
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(a) The board shall issue a license to practice clinical social work if the applicant (1) holds a current license to practice clinical social work in another jurisdiction that, at the time of original issuance of the license, had requirements for licensure equal to or more string…
AS 08.95.125 Temporary license to practice social work.
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(a) On receipt of a completed application for a social worker license, a request for a temporary license, and payment of the application fee and temporary license fee determined under AS 08.01.065(c), the board, a member of the board, or an employee of the department designated b…
AS 08.95.130 Display of license.
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Article 3. General Provisions. A person licensed under this chapter shall display the license in a conspicuous place where the licensee practices.
AS 08.95.900 Confidentiality of communication.
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(a) A licensed social worker, and the social worker's employees or other persons who have access to the social worker's records, may not reveal to another person a communication made to the licensee by a client about a matter concerning which the client has employed the licensee …
AS 08.95.905 Immunity relating to certain reports.
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A person licensed under this chapter who, in good faith and without malice, discloses to the appropriate licensing board that another licensed practitioner of the healing arts has allegedly committed an act of unprofessional or unlawful conduct in the provision of health or menta…
AS 08.95.910 Exemptions. [Repealed, § 27 ch 118 SLA 1998.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 08.95.911 Exemption.
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(a) Notwithstanding AS 08.95.100(b)(1), a person who, on June 30, 2001, was employed or providing services under the title social worker may, without obtaining a license under this chapter, continue to use the title social worker while the person is employed by the same emplo…
AS 08.95.920 Unified occupation. [Repealed, § 9 ch 36 SLA 2005.]
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[Repealed or reserved.]
AS 08.95.990 Definitions.
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In this chapter, (1) board means the Board of Social Work Examiners; (2) clinical social work means the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders and the use of techniques of applied psychotherapy of a nonmedical nature while practicing social work; (3) clinical social worker mean…