The Portland daily press., 1895-03-15
MEDICAL REGISTRATION.
The Bill that the judiciary Committee
Has Reported.


Has Reported.
The following is the full text of the
Medical Registration bill, which has
been favorably reported by the Judiciary
committee:
An Act to regulate the practice of medi-
cine, surgery ana midwifery.
Section 1. The governor, with the ad-
vice and consent of the council, shall ap-
point six persons, residents in this State,
who shall be graduates of r legally char
tered medical college or university hAv-
ing the power to confer degrees in medi-
cine, and who shall have been actively
employed in the practice of their profess
sion for a period of five years, who shall
constitute a Board of Registration of
Medicine. Such persons shall be ap-
pointed and.hold Office for terms of two,
two, four, four, six and six years respec.
lively, beginning with the first day of
July in the present year, and until their
successors are appointed, and thereafter
the Governor, with the advice and con-
sent OF the Council, shall appoint on or
before the first day of July, every other
year, two persons qualified as azores, id,
to hold office for six years from the last
named day. No mem ber of said board
shall belong to the faculty of any medi-
cal college or university. Vacancies in
said Board shall be filed in accordance
with the provisions of this act for the
esta blishment of the original Board, and
the person appointed to fill vancancy
shall hold office during the unexpired
term of the member whose place he fills.
my mem ber Of said board may be re-
moved form office for cause by the gov
ernor, with the advice and consent of the
council, and not more than three mem
bers of said Board shall at one time be
members of any one chartered State medi-
Cal society.
Sec.2 The mem bers of said Board shall
meet On the second Tuesday of July next.
at such time and place as they may de-
tarmine, and shall Immediately proceed
to organize by electipg chairman and
secretary, who shall hold their respective
offices for the term of Two years. The
secretary shall give to the State treasurer
n bond in the penal sum of one thousand
dollars, with suffi sureties to be ap-
proved by the governor and council, for
the faithful discharge OF the duties of
his office. The said board shall hold
regular meetings. one in March, one in
July and one in Novem ber of each year,
and such additional meetings at such
times and places as it may determine.
Said board all cause seal to be en-
graved and shall keep correct records of
all its proceedings, and is hereby author
lied to make such minor rules and regu-
Ations rs shall be deemed necessary for
the successful enforcement of this act.
Secs. 1t shall be the duty of said
Board Immediately upon its s.organization
to notify all persons pracuicing medicine,
surgery or midwiferg for gain or hire as
a Livelihood in this State of the provis-
ions of this act, by publication in one or
more newspapers in each county and
every such person who is a graduate of
legally chartered medical college OF
university having power to confer de-
grees in medicine, aud every person who
has been practitioner of midwifery In
this State for period of three years next
prior to the passage hereof, shall upon
exhibition of satisfactory proof thereof
to said Board and upon the payment of
a fee of two dollars be entitled to regis
tration, and said Board shall issue to
him certificate signed by the chair
man and secretary and sealed, and said
certificate shall state the facts and the
cause of said registration aud must be
publicly displayed at the PERSONS princi-
pal place of business as long as said per-
son continues such practice for gain or
hire.
Seed. Any person not entitled to reg
istration as aforesaid, shall, upon the
payment of a fee of ten dollars, he enti-
fed by majority of the Board present
shall be registered as physician, sur
geon or midwife, and shall receive cer-
tifcate thereof as provided in section
three. Any person refused registration
may be re-eXamined at any regular meet
ing of said Board, within two years of
the time of such proposal, without ad-
ditional fee, and thereafter may be ex-
amined as often as ne may desire upon
the payment of the fee of ten dollars for
each examination. Said Board, after
conviction before proper court, for
crime in the course of professional bust
ness. and after hearing, may by unani-
nous vote revoke any certificate issued
by them and cancel the registration of
the person to whom the same was issued.
Said Board has also power TO suspend or
revoke any certificate by unanimous
vote. after dae hearing. in any case
where same certificate has been wrong
fully obtained or any fraud connected
with the said registration. All fees re-
ceived by the Board under this act shall