Minnesota Statutes Health (Ch. 144-159) § 148.9075. Exemptions to license requirement

Subd. 2.Business or industrial organization. Nothing insections 148.88to148.98shall prevent the use of psychological techniques by a business or industrial organization for its own personnel purposes or by an employment agency or state vocational rehabilitation agency for the evaluation of the agency's clients prior to a recommendation for employment. However, a representative of an industrial or business firm or corporation may not sell, offer, or provide psychological services as specified insection 148.89, unless the services are performed or supervised by an individual licensed undersections 148.88to148.98.

Subd. 4.Clergy or religious officials. Nothing insections 148.88to148.98shall be construed to prevent recognized religious officials, including ministers, priests, rabbis, imams, Christian Science practitioners, and other persons recognized by the board, from conducting counseling activities that are within the scope of the performance of their regular recognizable religious denomination or sect, as defined in current federal tax regulations, if the religious official does not refer to the official's self as a psychologist and the official remains accountable to the established authority of the religious denomination or sect.

Subd. 5.Teaching and research. Nothing insections 148.88to148.98shall be construed to prevent a person employed in a secondary, postsecondary, or graduate institution from teaching and conducting research in psychology within an educational institution that is recognized by a regional accrediting organization or by a federal, state, county, or local government institution, agency, or research facility, so long as:

Subd. 6.Psychologist in disaster or emergency relief. Nothing insections 148.88to148.98shall be construed to prevent a psychologist sent to this state for the sole purpose of responding to a disaster or emergency relief effort of the state government, the federal government, the American Red Cross, or other disaster or emergency relief organization as long as the psychologist is not practicing in Minnesota longer than 30 days and the sponsoring organization can certify the psychologist's assignment to this state. The board or its designee, at its discretion, may grant an extension to the 30-day time limitation of this subdivision.

Subd. 7.Psychological consultant. A license undersections 148.88to148.98is not required by a nonresident of the state, serving as an expert witness, organizational consultant, presenter, or educator on a limited basis provided the person is appropriately trained, educated, or has been issued a license, certificate, or registration by another jurisdiction.

Subd. 8.Students. Nothing insections 148.88to148.98shall prohibit the practice of psychology under qualified supervision by a practicum psychology student, a predoctoral psychology intern, or an individual who has earned a doctoral degree in psychology and is in the process of completing their postdoctoral supervised psychological employment. A student trainee or intern shall use the titles as required undersection 148.96, subdivision 3.

Subd. 9.Other professions. Nothing insections 148.88to148.98shall be construed to authorize a person licensed undersections 148.88to148.98to engage in the practice of any profession regulated under Minnesota law, unless the individual is duly licensed or registered in that profession.