General Licensure Requirement

No person shall engage in the practice of social work, perform or offer to perform social work services, use the title “social worker” or any derivative thereof, make any written, oral or electronic representation that he or she is a social worker, or otherwise hold himself or herself out to the public as able to engage in the practice of social work, unless he or she has first obtained a license to practice social work from the Board pursuant to M.G.L. c. 112, § 131 and 258 CMR 9.00, or is exempt from the licensure requirement pursuant to M.G.L. c. 112, §§ 131 and 134 and 258 CMR 9.02.