Section 326-N:6 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Use of Certified Community Health Worker Designation; ExemptionsI. In order to use the title "certified community health worker", the initials "CCHW", or other designation indicating that the individual is a certified community health worker, an individual shall be certified pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.II. To ensure compliance with the provisions of this chapter or any rule that the executive director has adopted and promulgated pursuant to this chapter, the office of professional licensure and certification may issue cease-and-desist orders to persons violating the provisions of this chapter.III. A community health worker shall engage only in those activities authorized pursuant to this chapter and by rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. While engaging in practice as a community health worker, an individual shall not engage in or perform any act or service for which another professional certificate, license, or other legal authority is required.IV. Certification as a community health worker is voluntary. Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring community health workers to be certified for purposes of employment. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent or restrict the practice, service, or activities of any individual simultaneously certified as a community health worker and licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise legally authorized in the state to engage in the practice of another profession if that individual does not, while engaged in the authorized practice of another profession, use any name, title, the initials "CCHW", or other designation indicating that the individual is a certified community health worker.Added by 2024, 289:6, eff. 1/1/2025.