CHAPTER 98

An Act to amend and reenact 8§ 54-806 and 54-308, as amended, of the
Code of Virginia, relating to requirements for admission to examina-
tion for certificates to practice certain healing arts. rH 242]

Approved March 8, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That §§ 54-306 and 54-308, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be
amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 54-306. The Board shall admit to Part II examination any candi-
date who has successfully passed Part I examination, and who meets the
further requirements of this chapter. The Board may, in its discretion,
admit to Part II examination any candidate who has had five or more years
of gal and reputable practice, in which event such candidate shall not be
required to take and the Part I examination, but all other require-
ments of this section be met, including the full period of study leading
to the professional degree and the passing of the Part II examination. In
addition to these requirements, every candidate for Part II examination
must submit evidence verified by affidavit and satisfactory to the Board.
that he is twenty-one years of age or older, is of good moral character,
and that he has studied that branch of the healing arts in which he desires
a certificate to practice for not less than four school years, including four
satisfactory courses of at least eight months each, or for not less than
thirty-two months with four equivalent satisfactory courses of at least
eight months each, in one or more recognized professional schools in the
United States or Canada, which school or schools at the time of such study
were on the published list of approved schools prepared by the following
organizations, respectively: For medical schools, the Council on Medical
Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association and the
Executive Council of the Association of American Medical Colleges; for
osteopathic schools, the American Osteopathic Association ; for chiropractic
schools, the International Chiropractors Association or the * American
Chiropractic Association, Incorporated; and for naturopathic schools, the
American Naturopathic Association. , |

Except as otherwise provided herein, no candidate shall be admitted
to the Part II examination unless he holds a degree or certificate of gradua-
tion from a professional school in the United States or Canada which at
the time of the candidate’s attendance met the requirements prescribed
herein for schools of attendance and study. However, the Board may, in
its discretion, after July one, nineteen hundred sixty-six license by examt-
nation a graduate prior to 1944 of an unaccredited medical school and
may admit to the examination any graduate of a medical school outside
of the United States and Canada, if the Board is satisfied from the evi-
dence submitted that the candidate’s postgraduate training or experience,
or his professional education supplemented by the internship training
required by § 54-306.3, is of such duration and character that his qualifica-
tions are equal to those required of other candidates for admission to the
examination. Every such candidate shall meet the other requirements of
ae article, including the full period of study leading to the professional

egree.

§ 54-308. Examinations of applicants to practice chiropody shall be
in one part, and shall include the subjects named in § 54-301. Each can-
didate must submit evidence, verified by affidavit and satisfactory to the
Board, that he or she:

(a) Is twenty-one years of age or more.

(b) Is of good moral character.

(c) Is a graduate of an accredited high school, or has completed the
full equivalent of a grammar school and a four-year high school course.

(d) Has completed successfully at least a two-year academic course in
an accredited college. , ,

_(e) Is a graduate of a recognized school of chiropody (podiatry)
having a minimum requirement for graduation of four school years in
attendance, which school at the time of such attendance maintained stand-
ards which qualified it for inclusion on the list of approved schools by the
* American Podiatry Association.

The fee for the examination of chiropody shall be fifty dollars.