Purpose.

The Alabama State Occupational Therapy Practice Act is enacted to safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare, and to assure the availability of high quality occupational therapy services to persons in need of such services. It is the purpose of this chapter to provide for the regulation of persons offering themselves as occupational therapists or as occupational therapy assistants.

(Acts 1990, No. 90-383, p. 515, §2.)