Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-01-27
Virginia Moves
ToCut Licenses
For DC. Doctors
Arlington Delegates
Sponsor Measure
To Extend Reciprocity
BY @ stosf Correspondent OF The star

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 27.-
"Borderline reciprocity" for doc
tors in the District of Columbia
is provided in legislation spon-
sored today by the Arlington
delegation to the General As
sembly.
Under provisions of the bill,
medical men in Washington could
treat their patients in Virginia
on the same basis that Virginia
doctors have been allowed to
treat patients in the District.
Last September the issue ap-
preached a climax when the Dis
trict of Columbia Board of Lii
censure threatened to cancel
certificates of Virginia doctors
because their State had no reci-
procity law.
Action Promised.
At that time Senator Charles
r. Fenwick announced he would
sponsor bill to equalize matters.
A Virginia law required license
fee of $50 a year while the Dis
trict was granting certificates to
Virginia physicians to follow
their patients" into Washington
for only 81 year.
Delegates j. Maynard Magruder
and George Damn, also of Airing
ton, wrote the District board that
undue hardship would be worked
on a, large number of patients
living in Virginia but being treat
ed by Washington physicians.
Shortly thereafter the District
agency agreed to withhold it's sus-
pension move until the General
Assembly session gave this State
an opportunity to equalize mat
tiers.
Senator Fenwick and Delegates
Damn and Magruder will intro
duce identical bills on the subject
today. The Virginia Medical So
ciety refused to act last fall, but
referred the matter to the Vir-
ginia Board of Medical Examin-
ers. $500. -..
State Board Approves.
The State board later approved
the idea of reciprocity and since
has Endorsed the language in the
new legislation, Senator Fenwick
said.
AS drawn the measure would
solve similar borderline problems
with all adjacent Jurisdictions,
West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennes-
see and North Carolina.
1t exempts from the States $50
annual fee members of the medi-
cal profession in these borderline
areas provided he does not open
an Office or appoint places to meet
his patients or receive calls" in
Virginia. Another provision is
that the other States extend SINH
lar reciprocity.
The out-of- State medical men
would be required to file with the
Virginia Board of Medical Ex-
aminers certain proof of their
right to practice and each pay a
fee of 81 year.
Alexandria Bill Ready.
Delegate Armistead Boothe of
Alexandria said he would intro
duce two bills today. One would
make the substitute judge of the
Civil and Police Court in his home
city the ex-offlcio substitute judge
of the Juvenile and Domestic Re
lations Court. He would serve
during the absence of the juvenile
Judge.
Another is a lawyers bill" of
Statewide application. 1t would
permit any corporation domesti-
Gated in this and any other State
to hold its stockholders meetings
either in Virginia or the other
State. At present the law re-
quires stockholders meetings in
Virginia.
At yesterdays session, Senator
Fenwick introduced a bill de-
signed to equalize penalties i'm
posed on Virginia motorists when
their rights to operate a motor
vehicle have been suspended by
other States.
Senator Fenwick's bill, in effect,
requires that no penalty may be
imposed in Virginia which is more
severe than that imposed in the
other State.
State Senator Andrew w.
Clarke of Alexandria and Fairfax
County introduced the following
bills.
To impose a Statewide 2 per
cent sales tax patterned after
the District of Columbia law, a
companion bill authorizing local
Governing bodies to exempt per-
sonal property taxes if sales
tax is enacted; authorizing the
Fairfax Board of Supervisors to
issue bonds for Fairgrounds; give
the Fairfax supervisors authority
to appoint the County School
Board; abolish the State tax on
merchants capital, and regulate
applications for real estate
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