An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
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Volume | 1918 |
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Law Number | 212 |
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Chap. 212.—An ACT to define and regulate the practice of poropathy and
manipulative surgery, to provide license of practitioners thereof, and to
provide for a penalty for the violation of this act, and for other pur.
poses. {S B 55]
Approved March 14, 1918.
1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
system and practice of Poropathy and Manipulative Surgery is here-
by defined to be a new branch of therapeutics, and is the use and
employment of medical manipulation and absorption through the
pores of the skin and the mucus membrane, without medicine taken
through the stomach or the use of the knife, and the use and em-
plovment of healing and curative agencies and lotions.
2. That any person who shall apply to, and present and submit
to a commissioner of the revenue in any city or county of this State
who is authorized to issue licenses, a certificate in writing, sustained
by affidavit or affidavits showing that he is of good character and
that he is versed in the practice of poropathy and manipulative sur-
gerv, and has been practicing the same for a period of two years,
shall receive from the said officer a license issued by him, which shall
entitle the holder thereof to practice poropathy and manipulative
surgery, and as above defined in this State for a period of twelve
(12) months from the date of such license, provided, that no person
licensed under this act shall use, or advertise himself as having, the
Litle of doctor.
_3. That any violation of the provision of this act shall be a
misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine, not less than fift
dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or
by imprisonment of not less than thirty (30) days, nor more than
1X (6) months in jail, or by both fine and imprisonment.
4. That nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to duly
licensed physicians, to persons authorized to practice optometry,
osteopathy, or chiropractice, under the laws of the State of Virginia,
nor any other practitioner of any medical science, permitted and li-
censed under the laws of the State of Virginia.