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N.Y. Education Law § 6512: Unauthorized practice a crime

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  1. Education Law
  2. Title 8. The Professions
  3. Article 130*. General Provisions
  4. Subarticle 4. Unauthorized Acts

§ 6512. Unauthorized practice a crime. 1. Anyone not authorized to

practice under this title who practices or offers to practice or holds

himself out as being able to practice in any profession in which a

license is a prerequisite to the practice of the acts, or who practices

any profession as an exempt person during the time when his professional

license is suspended, revoked or annulled, or who aids or abets an

unlicensed person to practice a profession, or who fraudulently sells,

files, furnishes, obtains, or who attempts fraudulently to sell, file,

furnish or obtain any diploma, license, record or permit purporting to

authorize the practice of a profession, shall be guilty of a class E

felony.

2. Anyone who knowingly aids or abets three or more unlicensed persons

to practice a profession or employs or holds such unlicensed persons out

as being able to practice in any profession in which a license is a

prerequisite to the practice of the acts, or who knowingly aids or abets

three or more persons to practice any profession as exempt persons

during the time when the professional licenses of such persons are

suspended, revoked or annulled, shall be guilty of a class E felony.

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