It is declared to be a policy of the State of North Carolina that, in order to safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare; to protect the public from being misled by incompetent, unqualified, unscrupulous, and unauthorized persons and from unprofessional conduct on the part of qualified speech and language pathologists and audiologists and to help assure the availability of the highest possible quality speech and language pathology and audiology services to the communicatively handicapped people of this State, it is necessary to provide regulatory authority over persons offering speech and language pathology and audiology services to the public.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-292
Declaration of policy
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Bd. of Examiners v. STATE BD. OF EDUC. (1996)
Most recently applied in North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech & Language Pathologists & Audiologists v. North Carolina State Board of Education (March 1996)
1975, c. 773, s. 1; 2023-129, s. 12.1(a).
Official source: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.