§392-26  Care by physician or equivalentrequired.  (a)  An individual shall be ineligible to receive temporarydisability benefits with respect to any period during which the individual isnot under the care of a person duly licensed to practice medicine, surgery,dentistry, chiropractic, osteopathy, or naturopathic medicine, who shallcertify, in the form and manner specified by regulation of the director, thedisability of the claimant, the probable duration thereof, and such othermedical facts within the person's knowledge as required by regulation.

(b)  This section shall not apply to anindividual who, pursuant to the teachings, faith, or belief of any group,depends for healing upon prayer or other spiritual means.  In that case thedisability, the probable duration thereof, and any other pertinent factsrequired to be certified by regulation of the director shall be certified, inthe form and manner specified by the regulation, by a duly authorized oraccredited practitioner of such group.

(c)  The proof of disability duly certified bya person licensed to practice medicine, surgery, dentistry, chiropractic,osteopathy, or naturopathic medicine, or an authorized or accreditedpractitioner of any group which depends for healing upon prayer or other spiritualmeans shall be submitted by such certifying person to the disabled employeewithin seven working days after the date on which the employee was examined andfound disabled.  If the certifying person fails to submit the required proofwithin seven working days, the director, upon notification by the insurer, maylevy a penalty of $25 for each delinquent certification where the certifyingperson fails to show good cause for the person's failure to file on time. [L1969, c 148, pt of §1; am L 1971, c 109, §1(b); am L 1973, c 172, §1; am L1974, c 154, §1; am L 1979, c 105, §41; gen ch 1985; L Sp 2009, c 22, §11(2)]