Iowa § 147.13 - 147.13 Designation of boards.
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§ 147.13. 147.13 Designation of boards.
The boards provided in section 147.12 shall be designated as follows: 1. For medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, acupuncture, and genetic counseling, the board of medicine. 2. For physician assistants, the board of physician assistants. 3. For psychology, social work, applied behavior analysis, marital and family therapy, and mental health counseling, the board of behavioral health professionals. 4. For podiatry, the board of podiatry. 5. For chiropractic, the board of chiropractic. 6. For physical therapy and occupational therapy, the board of physical and occupational therapy. 7. For nursing and midwifery, the board of nursing. 8. For dentistry, dental hygiene, and dental assisting, the dental board. 9. For optometry, the board of optometry. 10. For speech pathology and audiology, the board of speech pathology and audiology. 11. For cosmetology arts and sciences, the board of barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences. 12. For pharmacy, the board of pharmacy. 13. For mortuary science, the board of mortuary science. 14. For dietetics, the board of dietetics. 15. For respiratory care and polysomnography, the board of respiratory care and polysomnography. 16. For massage therapy, the board of massage therapy. 17. For athletic training, the board of athletic training. 18. For interpreting, the board of sign language interpreters and transliterators. 19. For nursing home administration, the board of nursing home administrators. 20. For orthotics, prosthetics, and pedorthics, the board of podiatry. [C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §2450; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §147.13] 84 Acts, ch 1075, §8; 85 Acts, ch 168, §4; 88 Acts, ch 1225, §5; 91 Acts, ch 229, §2; 92 Acts, ch 1205, §14; 93 Acts, ch 86, §12; 96 Acts, ch 1036, §11; 98 Acts, ch 1053, §9; 2000 Acts, ch 1002, §1; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §422, 433; 2006 Acts, ch 1155, §3, 15; 2007 Acts, ch 10, §32; 2007 Acts, ch 218, §197; 2008 Acts, ch 1088, §12, 141; 2009 Acts, ch 41, §52; 2012 Acts, ch 1101, §3; 2015 Acts, ch 57, §3; 2015 Acts, ch 70, §4; 2018 Acts, ch 1052, §3, 12; 2018 Acts, ch 1106, §4, 14; 2023 Acts, ch 99, §2, 3; 2023 Acts, ch 127, §2; 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §226, 486, 487 Referred to in §147.1, 147.82, 232.69, 235B.16, 280.13C, 422.7(16) Wed Dec 10 22:58:31 2025 Iowa Code 2026, Section 147.13 (36, 0)
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