An Act to amend the Healing Arts Practice Act, District of Columbia, 1928, and for other purpose
PL 87-248 (H.R.8032), enacted 09/14/1961

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PUBLIC LAW 87-248-SEPT. 14, 1961 
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employee boards to perform, under this paragraph, functions of the 
same character as those which may be performed thereunder by duly 
designated divisions." 
Approved September 14, 1961. 
Public Law 87-248 
September 14, 1961 
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A C T 
[H. R. 8032] 
rp^j amend the Healing Arts Practice Act, District of Columbia, 1928, and for 
other purposes. 
D. C. H e a l i n g 
Arts Practice Act, 
amendment. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 5 of the 
Healing Arts Practice Act, District of Columbia, 1928, approved 
February 27, 1929 (45 Stat. 1326, 1327), as amended (sec. 2-103, D.C. 
Code, 1951 ed.), is amended (a) by inserting the subsection designa-
tion " ( a ) " immediately before the first word of such section; and (b) 
by adding the following subsection: 
"(b) Notwithstanding the requirements of the preceding subsec-
tion relating to registration, in the case of persons presenting evidence 
of graduation from a medical school or training in a hospital not 
located in the United States, the commission is authorized to accept 
certificates from the Educational Council for Foreign Medical 
Graduates or other organizations approved by (1) the American 
Medical Association, (2) the Association of American Medical Col-
leges, (3) the Federation of State Medical Boards, and (4) the 
American Hospital Association as bein^ qualified to examine and 
evaluate the professional skill, training, and qualifications of 
graduates of foreign medical schools, such certificates to show that 
the applicants have successfully qualified under an American Medical 
Qualification Examination of such Educational Council for Foreign 
Medical Graduates, or an examination comparable in form and com-
prehensive covei'a^e of subject matter to an American Medical Quali-
fication Examination." 
SEC. 2. Section 26 of said Act approved February 27, 1929 (45 
Stat. 1326, 1336; sec. 2-122, D.C. Code 1951 ed.), is amended (a) by 
striking "studied the healing art through not less than four graded 
courses of not less than nine months each, in a professional school 
or schools registered under this Act, and has been graduated by such 
a school", and inserting in lieu thereof "been graduated from a pro-
fessional school registered under this Act"; and (b) by inserting im-
mediately after ^'Frovided^'' where it first appears in such section the 
following: "That the commission shall by rule provide for determin-
ing whether an applicant who has been graduated from a professional 
school registered under this Act at a time when such school was not 
so registered may be admitted to examination, and such commission 
shall, in determining whether any such applicant shall be admitted 
to examination under this section, take into consideration whether 
the curriculum and the qualifications of the faculty of such school were 
substantially the same during the period the school was attended by 
the applicant as they were at the time the school first became registered 
under this Act, and if the commission shall so find, such applicant 
shall be admitted to examination: Provided 
further". 
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SEC. 3. Said Act approved February 27, 1929, as amended, is 
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amended by adding the following section: 
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"SEC. 50. Wherever the term 'commission' is used in this Act, such 
"Commission". 
term shall mean the office or agency to which the Board of Commis-
sioners of the District of Columbia, pursuant to the authority con-
tained in Reorganization Plan Numbered 5 of 1952 (66 Stat. 824), 
has delegated or may from time to time delegate the functions re-
quired to be performed by this Act." 
Approved September 14, 1961. 
Public Law 87-249 
AN ACT 
September 14, 1961 
To amend the Life Insurance Act of the District of Columbia. 
[H. R. 6495] 
Be it enacted &y tlie Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 10 of ^CVD^ Jnsurance 
chapter V of the Life Insurance Act, as amended (D.C. Code 35-710), Amendment, 
is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: g^^^ 3^5'- ''^°' ^
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"(8^ A policy of group life insurance issued to a credit union 
Life savings in-
organized pursuant to the laws of the District of Columbia or pursuant utuonr.'^ ^' "^'^^^ 
to the Federal Credit Union Act, which credit union shall be deemed 
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the policyholder, to insure members of the credit union for the benefit 
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of persons other than the credit union, subject to the following 
requirements: 
"(a) The members eligible for insurance under the policy shall be 
all of the members of the credit union, or all of any class or classes 
J;hereof determined by age, or by membership in the credit union, or 
both. 
"(b) The premium for the policy shall be paid by the policyholder, 
either from the credit union's own funds, or from charges collected 
from the insured members specifically for the insurance, or both. A 
policy on which part of the premium is to be derived from funds con-
tributed by the insured members specifically for their insurance may 
be placed in force only if at least 75 per centum of the then eligible 
members, excluding any as to whom evidence of individual insurability 
is not satisfactory to the insurer, elect to make the required contribu-
tions. A policy on which no jpart of the premium is to be derived 
from funds contributed by the insured members specifically for their 
insurance must insure all eligible members, or all except any as to 
whom evidence of individual insurability is not satisfactory to the 
insurer. 
"(c) The policy must cover at least twenty-five members at date of 
issue. 
"(d) The amount of insurance on the life of any member shall not 
exceed the total amount of his shares and deposits in the credit union 
or $2,000, whichever is less. Such policy may be issued either in addi-
tion to, or in lieu of, a policy issued pursuant to section 35-710(2)." 
Approved September 14, 1961.