148B.6  Waiver of requirements for licensing.
  1.  The board may waive the examination and grant a license to a person certified prior to January 1, 1981, as an occupational therapist registered (O.T.R.) or a certified occupational therapy assistant (C.O.T.A.) by the American Occupational Therapy Association.
  2.  The board shall waive the education and experience requirements for licensure in section 148B.5, subsections 1 and 2, for applicants for a license who present evidence to the board that they have been engaged in the practice of occupational therapy on and prior to January 1, 1981. Proof of actual practice shall be presented to the board in a manner as it prescribes by rule. To obtain the benefit of this waiver, an applicant must successfully complete the examination within one year from January 1, 1981. However, the waiver is conditional upon the applicant satisfying the education and experience requirements of section 148B.5, subsections 1 and 2, within five years of the waiver being granted and if those requirements are not satisfied at the expiration of those five years the board shall revoke the license.
  3.  The board may waive the examination and grant a license to an applicant who presents proof of current licensure as an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant in another state, the District of Columbia, or a territory of the United States which requires standards for licensure considered by the board to be equivalent to the requirements for licensure of this chapter.
[C81, §148B.6]