Tennessee Code Title 63. Professions of the Healing Arts § 63-1-123

(a) Any person, except those expressly exempted from this chapter by § 63-1-110 or § 63-1-111 who practices the healing arts as defined in this chapter, or any branch thereof, without first complying with this chapter, including all laws now in force regulating the practice of the various branches of the healing arts, and any person who violates this chapter commits a Class B misdemeanor.

(b) Each time any person practices the healing arts, or any branch thereof, without meeting all the requirements of laws now in force and of this chapter constitutes a separate offense. Any person filing or attempting to file as that person's own a diploma or license of another or a forged affidavit of identification commits a felony and is subject to the punishment prescribed by law for the crime of forgery.