CHAPTER 23

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-887.1, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to medical doctors’ revenue licenses. re et
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Approved September 25, 1956
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 58-387.1, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended
and reenacted as follows:
§ 58-387.1. Except as herein otherwise provided, every practicing
medical doctor, in addition to being subject to the regulatory laws of this
State relating to the profession of medicine, shall obtain a revenue license.
A revenue license granted to practice medicine in any county or city shall
authorize such medical doctor to practice throughout the Commonwealth.
Every medical doctor who has been licensed for less than five years shall
pay a license of fifteen dollars per year; and every medical doctor who has
practiced for five years or more shall pay a license of twenty-five dollars
per year; provided, that a medical doctor whose receipts for the preceding
year were less than five hundred dollars shall pay a license of fifteen dollars.

A medical doctor who has practiced medicine regularly prior to
January 1, 1909, shall not be subject to the provisions of this section; nor
shall this section apply to any medical doctor who is an intern in a licensed
hospital during the twelve months next following his graduation from
medical school, provided such intern engages in no medical practice other
than as such intern during such twelve months of internship.

A revenue license shall not be required for any intern or trainee in
any hospital where any such intern or trainee is in the United States on
a nonimmigrant visa under the Exchange Visitors Program under Public
Law 402, 80th Congress, as amended. Provided, however, that any such
intern or trainee who continuously resides in this Commonwealth for a
period in excess of two years shall not thereafter be exempt from such
revenue license.

2. This section shall be in force for the license year beginning January
first, nineteen hundred fifty-seven, and for every license year thereafter
until otherwise provided by law.