Chapter 49. To amend "An Act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery, to license physicians and surgeons, and to punish persons violating the provisions thereof in the District of Columbia," approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six
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CHAP. 49.— An Act To amend "An Act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery, to license physicians and surgeons, and to punish persons violating the provisions thereof in the District of Columbia," approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. January 19, 1905.[[H. R. 15820](/us/bill/34/hr/15820).][[Public, No. 16](/us/pl/34/16).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section eight of “AnDistrict of Columbia.Issue of licenses to practice medicine, etc., in.Vol. 29, p. 200, amended.
Act to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery, to license physicians and surgeons, and to punish persons violating the provisions thereof in the District of Columbia.' approved June third, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, be amended by striking out the following words: “*Provided,* That a license shall be issued upon application, free of cost and without examination, to each physician who is registered at the health office of the District of Columbia at the time of the passage of this Act, and to physicians who may change their residence to the District of Columbia from any State or Territory where medical laws and medical examining boards exist, the presentation of a certificate or license from a medical examining board, if found upon due inquiry to be true and genuine, being sufficient evidence of right to registration and certification under the provisions of this Act: *Provided,* That the medical laws and examining boards of such States and 610Territoires grant equal rights and recognition to the licentiates of the board herein created,” and by inserting in lieu thereof, after section eight, the following:
Sec. 8a. Requirements of practitioners from other Stales, etc.That the board of medical supervisors of the District of Columbia be, and is hereby, authorized and directed to license to practice medicine and surgery in said District, without examination, any applicant for such license who has been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in any other jurisdiction, whether a State, Territory, or insular possession of the United States, or a foreign country, subject, to the following conditions:
" “a. Good moral character, etc., required.No applicant shall be licensed who is not of good moral character and free from mental defects and drug habits liable to interfere with the proper practice of medicine and surgery; “b. Two years' prior practice necessary.Nor who, at the time of. making application, and for not less than two years prior to the date thereof, has not been lawfully authorized to practice medicine and surgery, and actually engaged in such practice, in the jurisdiction wherein he resides;
“c. Equal conditions as to requirements.Nor unless the applicant acquired the right to practice medicine and surgery in such jurisdiction under conditions equivalent to those with which he would have had to comply in order then to have practiced medicine and surgery in the District of Columbia; “d. Privileges granted licentiates must be equal.Nor unless the jurisdiction, by virtue of whose license the applicant seeks exemption from examination in the District of Columbia, grants to licentiates of the board of medical supervisors of said District privileges equivalent to those which the applicants seeks;
“e. Fees.Nor until the applicant has paid to the board of medical super-visors aforesaid such fee as may be fixed and required by the regulations of said board, but not more than the fee charged under similar circumstances by the jurisdiction by virtue of whose license the applicant seeks exemption from examination. Certificates for license in other jurisdictions.“And said board of medical supervisors is further authorized and directed to issue in favor of its licentiates such certificates, if any, as may be necessary to enable such licentiates, without examination, to obtain licenses to practice medicine and surgery in other jurisdictions, Fees.and to collect for the issue of such certificates such fees as may be necessary to defray the cost of issuing the same and to use such fees for that purpose.
Board to determine matters of fact.“And said board of medical supervisors is further authorized to determine all matters of fact required to be determined in the execution of the provisions of this section.” " Approved, January 19, 1905.