North Dakota Code § 43-17-02

Persons exempt from the provisions of chapter
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The provisions of this chapter do not apply to the following:
1. The domestic administration of family remedies.
2. Dentists practicing their profession when properly licensed.
3. Optometrists practicing their profession when properly licensed.
4. The practice of christian science or other religious tenets or religious rules or 
ceremonies as a form of religious worship, devotion, or healing, if the person 
administering, making use of, assisting in, or prescribing, such religious worship, 
devotion, or healing does not prescribe or administer drugs or medicines and does not 
perform surgical or physical operations, and if the person does not hold out to be a 
physician or surgeon.
5. Commissioned medical officers of the armed forces of the United States, the United 
States public health service, and medical officers of the veterans administration of the 
United States, in the discharge of their official duties, and licensed physicians from 
other states or territories if called in consultation with a person licensed to practice 
medicine in this state.
6. Doctors of chiropractic duly licensed to practice in this state pursuant to the statutes 
regulating such profession.
7. Podiatrists practicing their profession when properly licensed.
8. A nurse practicing the nurse's profession when properly licensed by the North Dakota 
board of nursing.

9. A naturopath duly licensed to practice in this state pursuant to the statutes regulating 
such profession.
10. An individual duly licensed to practice medical imaging or radiation therapy in this state 
under chapter 43-62.
11. An acupuncturist duly licensed to practice in this state pursuant to the statutes 
regulating such profession.

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