The Glenwood post., 1916-10-14
House Bill No. .178
Laws of 1915
Referred to the People Of the State Of
Colorado by Petition of Refer
endum


the Seventh day of November, A. D.
1916, there will be submitted to the
qualified electors of the State of Colo
rado, for their approval or rejection,
House Bill No. IFS, which House Bill
was filed in the office of the Secretary
of State on the Twelfth day of April,
A. d. 1915, at 2:0l O'Clock p. m, and
referred to the People of the State of
Colorado by Petition of Referendum,
containing more than the requisite
number of signatures (to-wit: 500 of
the legal voters of the State of Colo
RADIO, duly verified, in accordance with
law and filed in the office of the Sec
retary of State on the Twenty-sixth
day of June, A. D. 1915, at 11:50
CLOCK a. m.
The authority for submitting such
Act is found in Section l of ArticleV
of the Constitution of the State Of
Colorado, providing for the Initiative
and Referendum.
HOUSE BILL NO. 17S.
BY MESSRS. THOMPSON AND
CRIST
AN ACT RELATING TO THE PRAC
..TICE OF MEDICINE IN THE
STATE OF COLORADO.
Be It Enacted by the General Assem-
bly, Of the State of Colorado:
Section l. That Section 605S of the
1908 Revised Statutes of Colorado be
amended to read rs follows
Section l. A, board is hereby estab-
tablished to be known by the name and
style of the State Board of Medical
Examiners. Said board shall be COM
posed of nine, practicing physicians OF
integrity and sbility, who shall be resi-
dents of, and have been licensed to
practice medicine in this state, and
who shall have been graduated from
med:cal schools Of high educational re-
quirements and standing, and have
been engaged in the active practice OF
their profession within this state. Said
board shall perform such duties, and
possess and exercise such powers, reia-
tive to the protection of the public
health and the control and regulation
of the practice of medicine in this
state as shall be in this act prescribed
and conferred upon it.
Section 2. That Section 6059 of the
1908 Revised Statutes of Colorado be
re-enacted without. change to read as
follows:
Section 2. The governor shall ap-
point nine physicians, who shall pos
sess the qualifications specified in Sec
ton / of this act, to constitute the
members of said board. Said members
shall be so classified by the governor
that the term of office of three shall
expire in two, three and four and three
in six years from the date of appoint
ment. Bienpially thereafter the gov
-ernor shall appoint three members, who
shall possess the qualifications as spec
flied in Section l of this act, each to
serve for the term of six years, and he
shall fill vacancies in the membership
of said board as soon as practicable.
Section g. That Section 5000 of the
1908 Revised Statutes of Colorado be
amended to read as follows:
Section g. Said board shall biennial
ly elect a president. vice presldent,
and secretary-treasurer from their
membership, and shall adopt seal
which shall be affixed to all licenses
issued by them. They shall, from time
to time, adopt such rules and regula-
tions as they deem necessary for the
performance of their duties, and
schedule of mirimum educational re
uuirements which shall be without
prejudice partiality or discrimination
as to schools or systems of practice OF
medicine. When an applicant for a
license offers to the board satisfactory
proof that he has complied with such
educational requirements as are specl-
fled in said schedule, the board shall
accept such proof as sufficient evidence
of the educational qualifications of the
applicant to entitle him to license
without examination; Provided, how
ever, that any person who shall have
been lawfully engaged in the practice
of the healing art in the State OF Col"-
RADIO, for not less than three months
Immediately prior to the date upon
which this act takes effect, and is a
graduate from an institution chartered,
to teach the healing art by the state
wherein it was located which school,
in case the practitioner graduated
'therefrom prior to January lst, lSos,
required such practitioner to be in &C
tual attendance for two years of nine
months each of not less than one thous-
and hours Of instruction work In each
Of those years in order to graduate. and
which school, in case the practitioner
graduated therefrom subsequent to jan
ruary 1, 1908, required the practitioner
to be in actual attendance for three
years Of nine months each OF not less
than one thorsand hours Of instruction
work in esch Of those years in order TO
graduate, shall be granted . license TO
-SYactics medisins in the State Of Cplot
rado By tho State Board OF Aedical
Examiners without examination ~ TO
his skill or knowledge; provided fpr
-thef tAak such practitioner lhal! ma se
application 10 the said Board Of Md
jSal E1sn1iners for such license WITHIN
ninety dsys after the date upon which
this law takes effect upon such blan.
forms a. sid board shall provide ana
shall pay the fees herein prescribed
and shall furnish evidence satisfactory
to the board that he is person OF good
.,roraI crahaeter and possesses the edu'