CHAPTER 127

An Act to amend and reenact § 54-274 of the Code of Virginia, as amended,
to increase from one to three dollars the license fee required of certain
practitioners of medicine or other healing arts who reside on the
border of a neighboring state or the District of Columbia. ,

[S 96]

Approved February 27, 1962
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

l. That § 54-274 of the Code of Virginia, as amended, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§54-274.— Except as otherwise provided in §§ 54-276 to 54-276.7, it
shall be unlawful for any person to practice medicine, homeopathy, osteo-
pathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, chiropody or physical therapy, or any
other school or branch of the healing arts in the State without a valid un-
revoked certificate or license authorizing such practice issued by the Board
of Medical Examiners pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and duly
recorded as hereinafter provided; and it shall be unlawful for any person
who holds a valid unrevoked certificate or license permitting him to
practice in Virginia to practice the school or branch of the healing arts
for which he holds such certificate or license except within the scope of
the definition of such practice contained in § 54-278.

The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prevent or
prohibit any person entitled to practice his profession under any prior
law on June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and forty-four, from con-
tinuing such practice within the scope of the definition of his particular
school of practice contained herein, but in all other respects the provisions
of this chapter shall be applicable; nor shall the provisions of this section
be construed to prevent or prohibit any person, residing on the border
of a neighboring state or the District of Columbia and entitled to practice
his profession under the laws of that state, from practicing within Vir-
ginia, provided that in Virginia he does not open an office or appoint places
to meet his patients or receive calls, and provided that the other state
or district extends a similar privilege to the citizens of Virginia; and
provided that each practitioner claiming exemption under the provisions
of this section shall file with the Board of Medical Examiners in such man-
ner as it prescribes evidence of his right to such exemption. Upon proof
of such right to the satisfaction of the Board and payment of * three
dollars license fee to the Board it shall enter the name of the applicant
in a register kept for that purpose and shall issue to the applicant a cer-
tificate in evidence of such registration, and the registration and certifi-
cation shall be renewed annually on payment of the license fee, under
conditions prescribed by the Board.

2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.