Maine Revised Statutes Title 32. Professions and Occupations § 12511. Licensure

1. Licensure required. A person may not practice acupuncture or profess to be practicing as an acupuncturist in this State unless that person holds a current and valid license from the board, except that a student of acupuncture who has completed at least one year of full-time study in a board-approved acupuncture school may practice acupuncture in a board-approved internship program. The student must be supervised, as defined by rule, by an instructor who is a licensed acupuncturist in this State and be identified as an acupuncture intern when in a clinical setting.

2. Exception. This chapter does not apply to any person who is licensed to practice any healing art or science and who is practicing acupuncture in the course of that practice and within the scope of that license.