The functions of the department, except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, comprise all functions of the state authorized by law to be exercised in relation to the administration of laws requiring tests of qualifications for licenses to practice professions and vocations and the functions of licensing practitioners and regulating the practice of such professions and vocations.
The functions of the department do not include the regulation of or the examining and licensing for the practice of civil engineering and surveying, optometry, nursing, pharmacy, medicine, dentistry, law, school teaching, or chauffeuring of common carrier motor vehicles, or the functions of:
La. R.S. § 37:11