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The Health Officer of the Port of New York.

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officer may decide, or for the preservation and repair of the structures belonging to the quarantine establishment. The health officer shall keep an account of all moneys received or disbursed by him under this section. This section shall not affect the liability of masters or owners of vessels, passengers or other persons to pay for such services, labor or work as they are respectively required to pay or discharge by law. (As amended by chap. 465 of 1896, § 1, and chap. 268 of 1900. Renumbered from § 130.)

§ 125. Annual report.-The health officer shall make a report to the quarantine commissioners annually on or before January first, containing a statement of the general condition of the quarantine establishment, the statistics of the establishment in detail, and such other information and suggestions in regard to it as he may deem advisable. A duplicate copy of said report shall at the same time be filed by said health officer with the comptroller. (As amended by chap. 268 of 1900. Renumbered from § 131.)

SS 140-141

Article VIII.

ARTICLE VIII.

PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

SECTION 140. Qualifications.

141. State boards of medical examiners.

142. Certificate of appointment; oath; powesr.
143. Expenses.

144. Officers; meetings; quorum; committees.
145. Admission to examination.

146. Questions.

147. Examinations and reports.

148. Licenses.

149. Registry.

150. Registry in another county.

151. Certificate presumptive evidence; unauthorized registration

and license prohibited,

152. Construction of this article.

153. Penalties and their collection.

Definitions.-As used in this article

University means University of the State of New York. Regents means board of regents of the University of the State of New York.

Board means a board of medical examiners of the state of New York.

Medical examiner means a member of a board of medical ex aminers of the state of New York.

Medical school means any medical school, college, or depart ment of a university, registered by the regents as maintaining a proper medical standard and as legally incorporated.

Medicine means medicine and surgery.
Physician means physician and surgeon.

140. Qualifications.-No person shall practice medicine after September first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, unless previ ously registered and legally authorized or unless licensed by the regents and registered as required by this article; nor shall any person practice medicine who has ever been convicted of a felony by any court, or whose authority to practice is suspended or revoked by the regents on recommendation of a state board.

§ 141. State boards of medical examiners.-There shall continue to be three separate state boards of medical examiners of seven members each, each of whom shall hold office for three

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years from August first of the years in which appointed. One board shall represent the Medical Society of the State of New York, one the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York and one the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York. Each of these three societies shall at each annual meeting nominate twice the number of examiners to be appointed in that year on the board representing it. The names of such nominees, shall be annually transmitted under seal by the president and secretary prior to May first to the regents, who shall, prior to August first appoint from such lists the examiners required to fill any vacancies that will occur from expiration of term on August first. Any other vacancy, however, occurring, shall likewise be filled by the regents for the unexpired term. Each nominee before appointment, shall furnish to the regents proof that he has received the degree of doctor of medicine from some registered medical school and that he has legally practised medicine in this state for at least five years. If no nominees are legally before them from a society the regents may appoint from members in good standing of such society without restriction. The regents may remove any examiner for misconduct, incapacity or neglect of duty.

§ 142. Certificate of appointment; oath; powers.-Every medical examiner shall receive a certificate of appointment from the regents and before beginning his term of office shall file with the secretary of state the constitutional oath of office. Each board, or any committee thereof, may take the testimony and proofs concerning all matters within its jurisdiction. Each board may, subject to the regents' approval, make all by-laws and rules. not inconsistent with law needed in performing its duties; but no by-law or rule by which more than a majority vote is required for any specified action by the board shall be amended, suspended or repealed by a smaller vote than that required for action thereunder.

143. Expenses.--From the fees provided by this article, the regents may pay all proper expenses incurred by its provisions except compensation to medical examiners; and any surplus at the end of any academic year shall be apportioned among the three boards pro rata according to the number of candidates. whose answer papers have been marked by each.

144. Officers; meetings; quorum; committees. Each board shall anually elect from its members a president and a secretary

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for the academic year, and shall hold one or more meetings each year pursuant to call of the regents, who may also call joint meetings of the three boards or of their officers. At any meeting a majority shall constitute a quorum; but questions prepared by the boards may be grouped and edited, or answer papers of candidates may be examined and marked by committees duly authorized by the boards and by the regents.

§ 145. Admission to examination.--The regents shall admit to examination any candidate who pays a fee of twenty-five dollars and submits satisfactory evidence, verified by oath, if required, that he

1. Is more than twenty-one years of age;

2. Is of good moral character;

3. Has the general education required preliminary to receiving the degree of bachelor or doctor of medicine in this state; 4. Has studied medicine not less than four full school years of at least nine months each, including four satisfactory courses of at least six months each, in four different calendar years in a medical school registered as maintaining at the time, a satisfactory standard. New York medical schools and New York medical students shall not be discriminated against by the registration of any medical school out of the state, whose minimum graduation standard is less than that fixed by statute for New York medical schools. The regents may, in their discretion, accept as the equivalent for any part of the third and fourth requirement, evidence of five or more years' reputable practice, provided that such substitution be specified in the license;

5. Has either received the degree of bachelor or doctor of medicine from some registered medical school, or a diploma or license conferring full right to practice medicine in some foreign county. The degree of bachelor or doctor of medicine shall not be conferred in this state before the candidate has filed with the institution conferring it the certificate of the regents that before beginning the first annual medical course counted toward the degree unless matriculated conditionally as hereinafter specified (three years before the date of the degree), he had either graduated from a registered college or satisfactorily completed a full course in a registered academy or high school; or had a preliminary education considered and accepted by the regents as fully * So in the original.

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equivalent; or held a regents' medical student certificate, granted before this act took effect; or had passed regents' examinations as hereinafter provided. A medical school may matriculate conditionally a student deficient in not more than one year's academic work or twelve counts of the preliminary education requirements, provided the name and deficiency of each student so matriculated be filed at the regent's office within three months after matriculation, and that the deficiency be made up before the student begins the second annual medical course counted toward the degree. Students who had matriculated in a New York medical school before June fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and students who had matriculated in a New York medical school before May thirteen, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as having entered before June fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, on the prescribed three years study of medicine, shall be exempt from this preliminary education requirement.

A medical student certificate may be earned without notice to the regents of the conditional matriculation either before the student begins the second annual medical course counted towards the degree or two years before the date of the degree for matriculants in any registered medical school, in the four cases following:

1. For matriculants prior to May ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, for any twenty counts, allowing ten for the preliminaries, not including reading and writing;

2. For matriculants prior to May thirteen, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for arithmetic, elementary English, geography, spelling, United States history, English composition and physics, or any fifty counts, allowing fourteen for the preliminaries;

3. For matriculants prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, for any twelve academic counts;

4. For matriculants prior to January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for any twenty-four academic counts;

But all matriculants, after January first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, must secure forty-eight academic counts, or their full equivalent, before beginning the first annual medical course counted toward the degree, unless admitted conditionally, as hereinbefore specified when the deficiency must be made up before the student begins the second annual medical course counted toward the degree. (As amended by chap. 636 of 1895, and chap. III of 1896.)

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