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Tit. VI, Ch. T. OSTEOPATHY AND SURGERY. §§ 1326-al5-l326-al7.
SEC. 1326-al5. Display of license.
1 Every holder of a license shall display it in a conspicuous place
2 in the holder's principal office, place of business or employment.
[39 G. A., ch. 77, § 14.]
SEC. 1326-al6. Existing statutes—applicability.
1 Subject only to the limitation that obtaining license, refusal to
2 license, revocation or suspension of license of osteopathic physicians
3 or osteopathic surgeons shall be governed by the provisions of this
4 chapter and to the further limitation that nothing found in the chapter
5 shall authorize such physician or surgeon to prescribe or give internal
6 curative medicines, and subject further to the limitation that one
7 licensed to practice as an osteopathic physician only shall not perform
8 major or operative surgery, such words as physician, regular prac-
9 ticing physician, doctor, doctor of medicine, regular practitioner, medio
ical practitioner, medical school, medical college, or their equivalents,
11 wheresoever found in any existing law or statute, shall, both as to
12 privilege, duty and obligation, be enlarged to include osteopathic phy-
13 sicians and osteopathic physicians and surgeons to like effect as if the
14 words osteopathic physician or osteopathic physician and surgeon were
15 written out in such statute.
[S., '13, § 2583-b; 39 G. A., ch. 77, § 15.]
SEC. 13S6-al7. Refusal, suspension or revocation of license—witnesses—production
of testimony—oaths.
1 The state board of osteopathy may either refuse to issue or may
2 suspend or revoke any license for any one or any combination of the
3 following causes :
4 1. Conviction of a felony, as shown by a certified copy of the
5 record of the court of conviction ;
6 2. The obtaining of or an attempt to obtain a license, or prac-
7 tice in the profession, or money, or any other thing of value, by
8 fraudulent misrepresentations ;
9 3. Gross malpractice ;
10 4. Continued practice by a person knowingly having an infec-
11 tious or contagious disease;
12 5. Advertising, practicing, or attempting to practice under a
13 name other than one's own ;
14 6. Advertising by means of knowingly false or deceptive state-
15 ments ;
16 7. Habitual drunkenness, or habitual addiction to the use of
17 habit-forming drugs.
18 The state board of osteopathy may neither refuse to issue, nor
19 refuse to renew, nor suspend, nor revoke any license, however, for
20 any of these causes, unless the person accused has been given at least
21 twenty days' notice in writing of the charge against him and a public
22 hearing by the state board of osteopathy.
23 The state board of osteopathy shall have the power to compel
24 the attendance of witnesses and the production of relevant books and
25 papers for the investigation of matters that may come before them
26 and the presiding officers of said board, chosen by the board, may
27 administer the requisite oaths and such board shall have the same