CHAPTER 394
An Act to amend and reenact § 54-276 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to exceptions and exemptions to the prohibition of the practice of
the healing arts by unlicensed persons.

[S 289]

Approved March 30, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

Hae That § 54-276 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 54-276. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent or
forbid the domestic administration of family remedies, or the manufacture
or sale of proprietary medicines in this State by licensed druggists, or the
advertising or sale of commercial appliances or remedies, nor to prevent
or forbid the fitting by nonitinerant persons or manufacturers of artificial
eyes, limbs or other apparatus or appliances or the fitting of plaster cast
counterparts of deformed portions of the body by a nonitinerant brace-
maker or prosthetist for the purpose of having a three-dimensional record
of the deformity, provided such bracemaker or prosthetist has received a
prescription from a licensed physician directing the fitting of such casts,
provided that these specified activities are conducted in conformity with
the law of Virginia authorizing and regulating such activities.

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