Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-04-23
NO. 172
AN ACT TO REGULATE THE
PRACTICE OF CHIROPRACTIC

1t is hereby enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Vermont:
Section L. The governor SHALL upon
the passage of this act, appoint an ex-
aiming board consisting of three mem
bers, who shall be chropractors, whose
term of Office shall expire one two and
three years consecutively from and
after February 1, 1910, and shall annually
thereafter appoint one member for
three years, whose term of office shall
begin on February first, to fill the
vacancy caused by the expiration of the
term of Office of the outgoing member
of the board.
Sec. e. Said board when so ap-
pointed shall be designated and known
as the state board of chiropractic exam
nation and registration. No person
shall be appointed upon said board who
is not graduate of reputable school
of chiropractic and who has not been
gagged in active practice of such chiro-
practic for at least one year Immediately
preceding such appointment
Sec. 8. Said board forthwith after
the annual appointment thereto has
been made shall elect president, sec
rotary and treasurer, who shall hold
their respective Offices for one year from
the date of election and until their Sue
cessors are chosen. Said board shall
meet at least semi annually and at
least thirty days notice of the time and
place shall be given in the chiropractic
| journals circulating in this state. At
such meetings said board shall examine
applicants to practice chiropractic and
shall grant license to such as pass the
prescribed examination. Such appli-
cants shall furnish to said board salts
factory evidence of high school edu-
cation or its equivalent, shall be at least
twenty-one years of age, of good moral
character and graduates of reputable
school Of chiropractic requiring a three
years course as a resident student
therein. Applicants shall pay twenty
five dollars to the treasurer of said
board before examination; but any per-
son failing to pass such examination
may, at any time within one year,
present himself or herself for re-exam-
nation without payment of an addi-
tional fee.
Sec. 4. The examination prescribed
by said board shall include the follow
ing subjects: anatomy, physiology,
symptomatology, hygiene, chiropractic
orthopety. histology, pathology, neu-
|
and the applicant shall further be re-
CURED to give clinical demonstration
of vertebral palpation, nerve tracing
and adjusting. and such other subjects
as the board may prescribe. Applicants
shall attain a minimum grade of seventy
per cent in each subject, and a general
average of not less than seventy-fve
per cent.
Sec. 5. A person who produces salts
factory evidence of having practiced
chiropractic in another state for at
least FIVE years, and who personally
appears and presents a certified copy OF
certificate of registration or license
issued to him in such other state and a
diploma from reputable school of chiro-
practic shall, upon payment of regis
tration fee of twenty-five dollars, be
entitled to practice in this state pro-
vided that the requirements for registra-
ton of such other state are deemed by
the board equivalent to those in this
state.
Sec. E. Any chiropractor practicing
in this state six months prior to the
passage of this act and who shall be .
graduate of chartered school or COL
lege of chiropractic requiring actual
attendance in the same during his
course Shall DC granted Il ilScllsc ny
said board upon presentation of his
diploma provided that application be
made within sixty days after the taking
effect of this act and accompanied by a
fee of ten dollars.
Sec 7. A person receiving a certih-
cate of registration shall cause the same
to be recorded in the office of the secre-
tary of the state in book kept for that
purpose and shall pay a fee OF twenty
FIVE cents for recording the same.
Sec s. The treasurer OF the board
shall make quarterly reports to the
} state treasurer of registration certifi-
Gates granted and pay to the state
treasurer all money received by him for
such examinations and certificates
. Sec 9. Practitioners of chiropractic
shall be subject to the provisions of the
, law relating to contagious and infec-
tious diseases and to the granting OF
certificates of deaths.
, Sec 10. A person who practices or
, attempts to practice chiropractic with
} out complying with the provisions OF
J this act shall be imprisoned not moro
than one year or fined not more than
} FIVE hundred dollars nor less than fifty
dollars, or both.
Sec. H. This act shall take effect
from its passage.
, Approved March 20, 1919