Ohio Code 4755.421 – Physical therapist assistant application
(A) Each person seeking licensure as a physical therapist assistant shall file with the physical therapy section of the Ohio occupational therapy, physical therapy, and athletic trainers board an application that includes the following:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4755.421
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
(1) Name;
(2) Current address;
(3) Proof of graduation from a professional physical therapist assistant program that is accredited by a national physical therapy accreditation agency approved by the physical therapy section.
(B) On making application under division (A) of this section, the applicant shall pay a fee of not more than one hundred twenty-five dollars for the license.
(C)(1) The physical therapy section shall approve an applicant to sit for the examination required under division (A) of section 4755.431 of the Revised Code not later than one hundred twenty days after receiving an application that the section considers complete unless the board has done either of the following:
(a) Requested documents relevant to the section’s evaluation of the application;
(b) Notified the applicant in writing of the section’s intent to deny a license and the applicant’s right to request a hearing in accordance with Chapter 119 of the Revised Code to appeal the section’s intent to deny a license.
(2) If the section fails to comply with division (C)(1) of this section, the section shall refund half of the application fee to the applicant.
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