Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...e of podiatric practice. The proposed rule defines the terms “human leg” and “surgical treatment” as used in section 461.003(3), Florida Statutes (1997) * , and purports to implement that law under the specific authority granted the Board by section 461.005, Florida Statutes. The Board’s rulemaking authority under section 461.005 encompasses the implementation of the provisions by which chapter 461 confers duties upon the Board. Those duties include matters which require the Board’s assessment as to the lawful scope of podiatric practice. E.g. § 461.013(l)(u), Fla. Stat. The Board’s proposed rule is thus within the section 461.005 grant of rulemaking authority, insofar as the rule provides a permissible explication and definition of the statutory terminology used in section 461.003 to describe the practice of podiatric medicine....