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WV Code § 30-16-8 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 16. Chiropractors|§30-16-8. Licensing of Foreign Graduates

(a) Any person wanting to practice chiropractic in this state who is a graduate of a chiropractic school located outside the United States, its territories or possessions, shall establish to the board that the applicant:(1) Possesses a degree of doctor of chiropractic or a board approved equivalent based upon satisfactory completion of educational programs acceptable to the board;(2) Is eligible by virtue of his or her chiropractic education and training for unrestricted licensure or authorization to practice chiropractic in the country in which he or she received that education and training;(3) Has successfully completed all required parts of the examination conducted by the national board of chiropractic;(4) Has a demonstrated command of the English language; and(5) Has satisfied all applicable requirements of the United States immigration and naturalization service.(b) All credentials, diplomas and other required documentation in a foreign language submitted to the board by or on behalf of an applicant, shall be accompanied by notarized English translations acceptable to the board.
WV Code § 30-16-9 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 16. Chiropractors|§30-16-9. Licensure by Endorsement; Temporary Licensure; Restricted Licensure

(a) The board is authorized, in its discretion, to issue a license by endorsement to an applicant who:(1) Has complied with all current chiropractic licensing requirements except for the oral examination;(2) Has passed a chiropractic licensing examination given in English in another state, the District of Columbia or a territory or possession of the United States, that the board determines is equivalent to its own current examination requirements;(3) Has a valid current chiropractic license in another state, the District of Columbia or a territory or possession of the United States without any past or current disciplinary action taken upon that license; and(4) Successfully completes an oral examination administered by the board covering jurisprudence and clinical competency.(b) No license may be issued under the provisions of this section until the person applying has paid to the board the prescribed fee.(c) The board is authorized, in its discretion, to issue a temporary license to visiting chiropractic physicians and visiting professors for the treatment of individuals involved with special events to applicants demonstrably qualified for a full and unrestricted chiropractic license under the requirements of this article and that hold a current valid license in another state, territory or possession of the United States or the District of Columbia without any past or current disciplinary actions against that license. A temporary license may not be issued under the provisions of this section until the person applying has paid to the board the prescribed fee.(d) The board is authorized to issue conditional, restricted or otherwise circumscribed licenses for a limited and specific period of time as it determines necessary.
WV Code § 30-16-10 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 16. Chiropractors|§30-16-10. Licensing Chiropractors From Other States; Fee

Persons licensed to practice chiropractic under the laws of any other state, territory or the District of Columbia having requirements equivalent to those of this article, and extending like privileges to practitioners of this state, may in the discretion of the board be licensed to practice in this state without examination. No license may be issued under the provisions of this section until the person applying has completed satisfactorily an oral examination and has paid the fee required by the board.
WV Code § 30-16-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 16. Chiropractors|§30-16-12. Impaired Chiropractors

(a) As contained in this section the term impairment is defined as the inability of a licensee to practice chiropractic with reasonable skill and safety by reason of:(1) Mental illness;(2) Physical illness, including, but not limited to, physical deterioration that adversely affects cognitive, motor or perceptive skills; or(3) Habitual or excessive use or abuse of drugs defined in law as controlled substances, of alcohol or other substances that impair ability.(b) The board may after a probable cause determination and hearing require a licensee or applicant to submit to a mental or physical examination or a chemical dependency evaluation by physicians designated by the board. The results of the examination or evaluation are admissible at any hearing before the board despite any claim of privilege under contrary rule or statute. Every person who receives a license to practice chiropractic or files an application for a license to practice chiropractic thereby consents to submit to a mental or physical examination or a chemical dependency evaluation and has waived all objections to the admissibility of the results in any hearing before the board. If a licensee or applicant fails to submit to an examination or evaluation when properly directed to do so by the board, the board may enter a final order upon proper notice, hearing and proof of their refusal.(c) Upon the determination by the board after examination and hearing that a licensee is impaired the board shall take one or more of the following actions:(1) Direct the licensee to submit to care, counseling or treatment acceptable to the board;(2) Suspend, limit or restrict the chiropractic license for the duration of the impairment; or(3) Revoke the chiropractic license.(d) Any licensee or applicant prohibited from practicing chiropractic under this section, shall at reasonable intervals be afforded an opportunity to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the board that he or she can assume or begin the practice of chiropractic with reasonable skill and safety.
WV Code § 30-16-13 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 16. Chiropractors|§30-16-13. Protected Action, Immunity and Communication

(a) There is no monetary liability on the part of, and no cause of action for damages arising against, any current or former member, officer, administrator, peer review committee member, staff member, committee member, examiner, representative, agent, employee, consultant, witness or any other person serving or having served the board, either as a part of the board's operation or as an individual, as a result of any act, omission, proceeding, conduct or decision related to his or her duties undertaken or performed in good faith and within the scope of the function of the board.(b) A current or former member, officer, administrator, staff member, committee member, examiner, representative, agent, employee, consultant or any other person serving or having served the board may request the state to defend him or her against any claim or action arising out of any act, omission, proceeding, conduct or decision related to his or her duties undertaken or performed in good faith and within the scope of the function of the board.(c) Every communication made by or on behalf of any person, institution, agency or organization to the board or to any person designated by the board relating to an investigation or the initiation of an investigation, whether by way of report, complaint or statement, is privileged. No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, is permitted against the person, institution, agency or organization by whom or on whose behalf the communication was made in good faith.
WV Code § 30-16-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 16. Chiropractors|§30-16-14. Enforcement

(a) The board shall enforce the provisions of this article and the rules adopted under this article. If any person refuses to obey any decision or order of the board, the board or, upon the request of the board, the Attorney General or the appropriate prosecuting attorney, may file an action for the enforcement of the decision or order, including injunctive relief, in the circuit court of the county of residence of the person. After due hearing, the court shall order the enforcement of the decision or order, or any part thereof, if legally and properly made by the board and where appropriate, injunctive relief. The board is authorized to issue a cease and desist order to restrain any person or any corporation or association and its officers and directors from violating the provisions of this article.(b) Each of the following acts is a misdemeanor, punishable upon conviction by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than maximum allowed by state law, or by confinement in a county or regional jail for not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court:(1) The obtaining of or attempt to obtain a license by the use of fraud, deceit or willful misrepresentation;(2) The practice or attempting to practice as a chiropractor without a license granted under the provisions of this article, or practicing or attempting to practice while the license is suspended or after the license has been revoked;(3) The use of any title to induce belief that the use of the title is engaged in the practice of chiropractic, if the use of the title has not fully complied with the provisions of this article;(4) The buying, selling or fraudulent procurement of any diploma of, or license to practice chiropractic; and(5) The violation of any provision of this article regulating the practice of chiropractors.(c) Each day any person violates a provision of this article is a separate and distinct offense.
WV Code § 30-16-15 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 16. Chiropractors|§30-16-15. Annual Renewal; Failure to Renew; Reinstatement

(a) All holders of certificates of license to practice chiropractic in this state shall renew them annually on or before July 1, of each year by:(1) Paying the board an annual renewal fee in an amount determined by the board;(2) Returning the renewal application form with all required information complete and accurate; and(3) Presenting to the board evidence of completion of at least eighteen hours of continuing education each year of which up to six hours may be mandated in special subjects by the board.(b) The board shall propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, establishing all additional continuing education requirements and all criteria for fulfillment of the continuing education requirements.(c) The board shall notify each certificate holder by mail, at least thirty days prior to July 1, of each year, of the necessity of renewing his or her certificate. Failure to renew a certificate of license to practice chiropractic operates as an automatic suspension of the rights and privileges granted by its issuance.(d) A certificate or license suspended by a failure to make the required annual renewal may be reinstated by the board, except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, upon:(1) Presentation of evidence of completion of the required hours of continuing education for each year the license has been suspended; and(2) Payment of all fees that would have been paid if the certificate holder had maintained the certificate in good standing and the payment to the board of a reinstatement fee in an amount to be determined by the board.(e) No certificate may be reinstated after a lapse of two years. After a lapse of two years, a license may be issued only after the former certificate holder, subsequent to the lapse, has fulfilled all other requirements of licensure as set forth in section six of this article and has passed the national special purposes examination for chiropractic examination.
WV Code § 30-16-17 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 16. Chiropractors|§30-16-17. Who May Practice Chiropractic; Title of Chiropractor; Minimum Education Required for Spinal Manipulation

(a) No person licensed under chapter thirty of this code may perform or authorize a spinal manipulation or spinal adjustment without having first received a minimum of four hundred hours of classroom instruction in spinal manipulation or spinal adjustment and a minimum of eight hundred hours of supervised clinical training at a facility where spinal manipulation or spinal adjustment is a primary method of treatment. Violation of this section is an unlawful practice of chiropractic and is grounds for the offending health care provider's licensing board to suspend, revoke or refuse to renew provider's license or take any other disciplinary action allowed by law.(b) Every chiropractor who has complied with the provisions of this article is entitled to practice chiropractic in this state. The title of chiropractor shall be doctor of chiropractic and is designated by the letters "D.C." The titles "D.C.," doctor of chiropractic, chiropractor, chiropractic physician are interpreted as the same.
WV Code § 30-16-18 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 16. Chiropractors|§30-16-18. Scope of Practice; Chiropractic Assistants; Expert Testimony

(a) Any chiropractor who has complied with the provisions of this article may use any instrument or procedure, for the purpose of diagnosis and analysis of disease or abnormalities: Provided, That the person is trained to perform the procedures and use the instruments through a chiropractic college approved by the counsel on chiropractic education or its successor. Any chiropractor properly qualified under this article may engage in the use of physiotherapeutic devices, physiotherapeutic modalities, physical therapy and physical therapy techniques. Licensed chiropractors may also employ properly trained chiropractic assistants to perform duties under supervision that are generally conducted by chiropractic assistants which are not otherwise prohibited by the board. The board shall propose and promulgate rules in accordance with the provisions governing legislative rules, contained in article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code governing chiropractic assistants, including, but not limited to, minimum qualifications, scope of practice, and supervision requirements. A licensed chiropractor may not engage in conduct outside this scope and beyond his or her training and knowledge.(b) A doctor of chiropractic duly licensed under this article is presumed to be competent to testify before the circuit courts of this state or in any other state administrative proceeding as an expert witness.
WV Code § 30-16-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 16. Chiropractors|§30-16-19. Duty of Chiropractor to Observe Health Rules; Reports of Health Officer and Local Registrar of Vital Statistics

Doctors of chiropractic shall observe and are subject to all state and municipal rules in regard to the control of infectious diseases, and to any and all other matters pertaining to public health. They shall report to the public health officer in the manner required by law. It is the duty of each doctor of chiropractic in this state to report to the registrar of vital statistics of his or her magisterial district, within ten days of its occurrence, any death which may come under his or her supervision, with a certificate of the cause of death and correlative facts as may be at that time required by the division of health.
WV Code § 30-16-20 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 16. Chiropractors|§30-16-20. Use of Physiotherapeutic Devices; Electrodiagnostic Devices; Specialty Practice

(a) No chiropractor may use any physiotherapeutic devices or electrodiagnostic devices in practice until he or she has certified to the board that he or she has completed at least the minimum classroom hours required for certification in the use of these procedures in classes sponsored by or conducted by a chiropractic college approved by the council of chiropractic education or its successor.(b) Electrodiagnostic devices include, but are not limited to, the following: Videofluoroscopy and diagnostic ultrasound, including needle and surface electromyography, nerve conduction velocity studies, somatosensory testing and neuromuscular junction testing. The board may designate other devices as electrodiagnostic devices covered by this section by rule.(c) As contained in this section, the term "specialty" includes, but is not limited to, orthopedics, neurology, chiropractic sports physician, radiology, pediatrics, nutrition, rehabilitation, acupuncture, chiropractic internist, behavioral health, diagnostic imagining and physiotherapeutics. No chiropractor is permitted to practice in a specialty in the chiropractic field or hold himself or herself out as being a specialist in the chiropractic field until the licensee has successfully completed a certified program in that specialty at a chiropractic college approved by the council on chiropractic education or its successor and approved by the board. The program shall consist of a minimum number of hours to be determined by the board. Successful completion of the final certification exam is required.
WV Code § 30-16-21 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 16. Chiropractors|§30-16-21. Chiropractic Corporations

(a) One or more individuals, each of whom is licensed to practice chiropractic within this state may organize and become a shareholder or shareholders of a chiropractic corporation. Individuals who may be practicing chiropractic as an organization created otherwise than pursuant to the provisions of this section may incorporate under and pursuant to this section. This section is not intended to amend the statutory or common law as it relates to associations or partnerships, except to allow partnerships of chiropractors to organize as a chiropractic corporation.(b) A chiropractic corporation may render professional service only through officers, employees and agents who are themselves duly licensed to render chiropractic service within this state. The term "employee" or "agent" as used in this section, does not include secretaries, clerks, typists, paraprofessional personnel or other individuals who are not usually and ordinarily considered by custom and practice to be rendering chiropractic services for which a license is required.(c) This section does not modify the law as it relates to the relationship between a person furnishing chiropractic services and his or her client, nor does it modify the law as it relates to liability arising out of the professional service relationship. Except for permitting chiropractic corporations this section is not intended to modify any legal requirement or court rule relating to ethical standards of conduct required of persons providing chiropractic services.(d) A chiropractic corporation may issue its capital stock only to persons who are duly licensed by the board.(e) When not inconsistent with this section, the organization and procedures of chiropractic corporations shall conform to the requirements of article one, chapter thirty-one of this code.
WV Code § 30-16-22 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 16. Chiropractors|§30-16-22. Offenses; Penalties

(a) Each of the following acts shall constitute a misdemeanor, punishable upon conviction by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court, and each day any person shall so violate any provisions of this article shall constitute a separate and distinct offense:(1) The obtaining of or attempt to obtain a license by the use of fraud, deceit or willful misrepresentation;(2) The practice, or attempting to practice, as a chiropractor without a license granted under the provisions of this article, or practicing or attempting to practice while said license is suspended, or after said license has been revoked;(3) The use of any title to induce belief that the user of said title is engaged in the practice of chiropractic, if the user of said title has not fully complied with the provisions of this article;(4) The buying, selling or fraudulent procurement of any diploma of, or license to practice, chiropractic;(5) The violation of any provision of this article regulating the practice of chiropractors.(b) A person shall not engage in the practice of chiropractic or hold himself or herself out as qualified to practice chiropractic or use any title, word or abbreviation to indicate to or induce others to believe that he or she is licensed to chiropractic in this state unless he or she is actually licensed under the provisions of this article. Any person who violates the provisions of this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than three months, or both fined and imprisoned.
WV Code § 30-17-1 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 17. Sanitarians|§30-17-1. Unlawful Acts

It is unlawful for any person to practice or offer to practice environmental health science and public health sanitation in this state without being licensed, certified or permitted under the provisions of this article, or to advertise or use any title or description tending to convey the impression that the person is a registered sanitarian, sanitarian or sanitarian-in-training unless he or she has been duly authorized under the provisions of this article, and the license, certification or permit has not expired or been suspended or revoked.
WV Code § 30-17-2 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations|Article 17. Sanitarians|§30-17-2. Applicable Law

The practice of environmental health science and public health sanitation, and the board are subject to the provisions of article one of this chapter, the provisions of this article and any rules promulgated hereunder.