Volume 58 · 805
Public Law 78–587
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Columbia”, approved February 27, 1929.
Approved December 15, 1944
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Columbia”, approved February 27, 1929.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the, United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 25 of
Healing Arts Practice Act, D. C,, amendment.
the Act entitled “An Act to regulate the practice of the healing art to protect the public health in the District of Columbia”, approved February 27, 1929, is amended by striking out the following language
D. C. Code § 2–123.
in the first sentence of said section: “that he practiced the healing art under authority of said license for not less than two consecutive years immediately preceding the date of his application,” and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “that he practiced the healing art after the
Reciprocal licensing provisions.
issuance of said license for not less than one continuous year out of three years immediately preceding the date of his application”; and inserting after the words “District of Columbia.” at the end of the first sentence of said section the following: “The required one continuous year’s practice may be either private, institutional or governmental, or a combination thereof.”; and striking out the words “without examination” wherever they appear in the second and third sentences of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “under substantially the same terms and conditions”.
Approved December 15, 1944.