Section 1-702 - Licenses required - Practice of healing arts or medicineA. It shall be unlawful for any person to establish, operate or maintain in the State of Oklahoma a hospital without first obtaining a license therefor in the manner hereinafter provided. Hospitals operated by the federal government, the Department of Corrections, state mental hospitals, and community-based structured crisis centers as defined in Section 3-317 of Title 43A of the Oklahoma Statutes, shall be exempt from the provisions of this article.B. A hospital may be licensed as a general medical surgical hospital with one or more specialty services or combination of specialty services in a single license.C. Nothing in this article shall authorize any person to engage, in any manner, in the practice of the healing arts.Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 1-702
Amended by Laws 2016 , c. 95, s. 1, eff. 11/1/2016.Added by Laws 1963, c. 325, art. 7, § 702, operative 7/1/1963. Amended by Laws 1996, c. 354, § 49, eff. 11/1/1996; Amended by Laws 1999 , HB 1184, c. 93, §2, eff. 11/1/1999.