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VERMONT

MEDICAL LICENSE LAWS OF VERMONT. No 133. AN ACT CREATING A BOARD OF MEDICAL REGISTRATION.

It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont:

SECTION 1.-A state board of medical registration is hereby created. Said board shall consist of seven (7) members, three (3) of whom shall be of the regular school of practice; two (2) of the homeopathic school of practice, and two (2) of the eclectic school of practice, and each shall be a graduate of a legally chartered medical college or university, having the power to confer the degree of doctor of medicine and surgery. .

SEC. 2. . . . . The appointments as provided in this section shall be made from a list to be nominated by the Vermont medical society. Vermont homeopathic medical society, or Vermont eclectic medical society, according as the term of office of the members representing each of these different schools of practice is about to expire, said list to contain at least twice the number to be appointed. .

In case, however, that no nominations are made by the said medical societies, then the governor shall appoint such physicians as he may choose, having regard to maintaining the same proportion of regular, homeopathic, and eclectic physicians as constituted the original board.

Vacancies in said board shall be filled by the governor and the person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold office during the unexpired term of the member whose place he is to fill, and shall be of the same school of practice.

SEC. 7.-Any person twenty-one years of age and of good moral character, who is a graduate of a legally chartered medical college or university, having power to confer degrees in medicine and surgery, and such medical college or university being recognized as determined by the board, shall upon payment of a fee of fifteen dollars, be entitled to examination, and, if found qualified, shall be licensed to practice medicine and surgery in this state and receive a license certificate signed by the president and secretary of the board.

A person refused a license may be re-examined at any regular meeting of the board within one year of the time of such refusal without additional fee. . . .

SEC. 8.-The examination shall be in whole, or in part, in writing and shall be of a practical character, sufficiently strict to test the quali fications of the applicant as a practitioner of medicine.

The examination shall embrace the general subjects of anatomy physiology, chemistry, pathology, practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynecology, hygiene, and materia medica; but it is hereby 1 As amended in 1906.

provided the examination in materia medica shall be conducted by the members of the board who represent the same school of practice as that of which the applicant is a graduate.

Each applicant shall pass at least an average of 75 per cent to entitle him to a license.

SEC. 9.-A person to whom a license certificate is thus issued in order to make it valid shall within thirty days from date thereof, cause the same to be recorded in the office of the secretary of state, in a book to be provided by said secretary of state, for that purpose for which the record fee shall be twenty-five cents.

SEC. 11.-Any person who shall advertise or hold himself out to the public as a physician or surgeon, or who shall assume the title of doctor in the treatment of disease by any system or method shall, for the purposes of this act be deemed a physician or practitioner of medicine or surgery. Nothing, however, in this act shall in any way affect the provisions of No. 110 of the acts of 1902 or apply to persons licensed by any other board having legal authority to issue licenses in this state.

SEC. 12.-It shall be the duty of the board to investigate all complaints of disregard, noncompliance or violation of the provisions of this act, and to bring all such cases to the notice of the proper prosecuting officer.

SEC. 13. This act shall not apply to persons legally licensed to practice medicine and surgery under the provisions of former acts nor to persons who resided and practiced medicine in the state five years previous to the 28th day of November, 1876, nor to commissioned officers of the U. S. army, navy, or marine hospital service, nor to the practice. of midwifery by women in the town or locality in which they reside, nor to a physician or surgeon who is called from another state, or the Dominion of Canada, to treat a particular case, and who does not otherwise practice in this state, provided however, that such non-resident physician is legally licensed where he resides and provided further that the state from which he comes or the Dominion of Canada, grants the same privilege to legally licensed practitioners of the state of Vermont.

Nothing in this act, however, shall be construed to permit any nonresident physician or surgeon from coming into the state in consultation with a legally qualified practitioner in this state.

SEC. 14. The board shall issue licenses without examination to reputable physicians and surgeons who shall personally appear and present a certified copy of certificate of registration, or license, which has been issued to said applicant in another state in the union where the requirements for registration shall be deemed by said board to be equivalent to those of this state, provided such state shall accord a like privilege to holders of a license granted under the laws of this state.

Each applicant for such license shall pay to the board the sum of ten dollars.

VIRGINIA

MEDICAL LAWS OF VIRGINIA.

An act to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to amend and re-enact sections 1744, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1749, 1750 and 1752, of Chapter 77 of the Code, regulating the practice of Medicine and Surgery in Virginia. Approved March 7, 1900.

SEC. 1744.-Board of Medical Examiners; number and terms of members. There shall be for this state a board of medical examiners consisting of one member for each congressional district in this state, and three for the state at large, and in addition, two homeopathic physicians from the state at large, whose term of office shall be for four years or until their successors are appointed and qualified. The term of office of the board first appointed after this act takes effect shall commence on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and two, but the board in office under the law in force at the time of the passage of this act shall constitute a board of medical examiners under this act until a new board shall be appointed and qualified.

SEC. 1747.-Examination of applicants for the practice of medicine and surgery; re-examination; fees of Board. [This Act has been amended and re-enacted by an Act approved April 23, 1903, which reads as follows:]

It shall be the duty of the said board, at any of its said meetings, to examine all persons making application to them, who shall desire to commence the practice of medicine or surgery in this State; provided, said applicant shall produce before said Board a diploma, or other satisfactory evidence of his graduation in some medical college or institution teaching the art of healing human diseases chartered by the State or Territory in which the same is situated; provided, that any under-graduate taking a graded course in any regularly chartered medical school such be entitled to examination on such branch or branches as he or she may present a certificate from the said college of having passed a satisfactory examination, and having once passed a satisfactory examination on each of such branches before the State Board of Medical Examiners, no further examination shall be required on such branch or branches; but an applicant failing to pass a satisfactory examination on any of such branches shall not be permitted to be examined on any such branch or branches until he or she presents a diploma of graduation as doctor of medicine from some regularly chartered college of medicine. And when an applicant shall have passed an examination satisfactory as to proficiency before the Board in session, the president thereof shall grant

to such applicant a certificate to that effect: provided, however, that any applicant professing a system of medicine which does not require the use of drugs in the treatment of disease shall be exempt from standing an examination of materia medica.

A fee of ten dollars shall be paid to said Board, through such officers or members as it may designate, by each applicant before such examination is had. And in case any applicant shall fail to pass a satisfactory examination, he shall not be permitted to stand any further examination within the next six months thereafter, nor shall he have again to pay the fee prescribed as aforesaid: provided however, no applicant shall be rejected upon his examination on the account of his adherence to any particular school of medicine or system of practice, nor on account of his views as to the method of treatment and care of diseases: and provided, further, that when in the opinion of the president of the Board any applicant has been permitted by good cause from appearing before the Board, he shall have authority, in his discretion, to grant a special permit to such applicant to practice medicine or surgery until he shall have an opportunity to appear before the board in session for examination, which said special permit shall be revokable at the discretion of the president: and in no case shall it entitle the holder thereof to practice after the next regular meeting of said board.

The said board shall have, in their discretion, authority to accept in lieu of examination of an applicant, a diploma or other satisfactory evidence of the graduation of the applicant in some medical college chartered by the State or Territory in which the same is situated, and a certificate from the examining board of any State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia showing that said applicant has passed a satisfactory examination as to his proficiency, and obtained license from said board to practice medicine and surgery in said State, Territory, or district, provided, that any person who was examined by the State Examining Board prior to January first, nineteen hundred, and whose fee for such examination was duly paid, but who failed to pass said examination, shall have the right and privilege of taking the examination before the State board, notwithstanding the provisions of this act.

SEC. 1749.-Applicant to have certificate of Board recorded; fee of Clerk. Before any person who obtains a certificate as aforesaid may lawfully practice medicine or surgery in this State, he shall cause the said certificate to be recorded in the clerk's office of the county or corporation in which he resides in this State, or if he resides in the city of Richmond, in the clerk's office of the Chancery Court of said city; but if he does not reside in the State of Virginia, he shall cause the said certificate to be recorded in the clerk's office of the county or corporation in which he offers to practice in this State, or in the clerk's office of the Chancery Court of the city of Richmond, if he offers to practice in said.

city. The certificate shall be recorded by the clerk in a book to be kept for that purpose, and it shall be indexed in the name of the person to whom the certificate is granted. The clerk's fee for recording shall be the same as for recording a deed.

SEC. 1750.-Who prohibited from practicing medicine or surgery without a certificate; penalty for practicing illegally; what courts have jurisdiction to inflict. [This act has been amended and re-enacted by an Act approved April 24, 1903, and should read as follows]: No person who shall have commenced the practice of medicine or surgery in this State since the first day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, or who shall hereafter commence the practice of the same, shall practice as a physician or surgeon for compensation without having first obtained a certificate from the State board of medical examiners and caused the same to be recorded as aforesaid, or a special permit from the president of said board.

Provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to or limit in any manner the manufacture or sale of proprietary medicines, or to apply to, affect or interfere in any way with the operation of any hospital now established in this State, or any person while engaged in conducting such hospital, if there be a licensed physician resident and practicing therein, or to any person who commenced the practice of osteopathy in this State prior to January first, nineteen hundred and three.

SEC. 1752. Who exempt from examination.-Nothing in this chapter shall be taken as including or effecting in any way any dentist or midwife, nor any commissioned officer or contract surgeon of the United States army, navy, or marine hospital service in the performance of his duties as such, nor to any physician or surgeon residing in any other State or Territory of the United States, or in the District of Columbia, called into consultation in a special case with a physician or surgeon. residing in this State, nor shall this chapter be construed as effecting or changing in any way the laws in reference to the license tax required to be paid by physicians, surgeons and dentists.

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