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§43A-5-104.
§43A-5-104.
Any physician who falsely certifies to the mental illness, alcohol
dependency, or drug dependency of any person, or whose false
certificates as to mental illness, alcohol dependency, or drug
dependency of any person is proved to be the result of negligence or
deficient professional skill, or who signs such a certificate for
pecuniary reward, or promise thereof, or other consideration of value
or operating to his advantage, other than the professional fee usually
paid for such service, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon
conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not to exceed One
Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or to imprisonment in the county jail
not to exceed one (1) year, or both such fine and imprisonment.
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