1672 ARTICLE 43.

extent as to incapacitate the performance of professional duties. Any
person who is a licentiate under this sub-title, or who is an applicant for
examination for licensure to practice osteopathy in this State, against
whom any of the foregoing charges are preferred, for causing the revocation
or suspension of license or for causing the refusal of the right to be examined
for licensure, shall be furnished by the State Board of Osteopathic Exam-
iners with a copy of the complaint and shall have a hearing before said
board, in person or by attorney, and witnesses may be examined by said
board respecting guilt or innocence of said accused. The suspension of
license of any licentiate under this sub-title shall be removed when said
narcotic or vicious habit, hereinbefore specified, shall have been adjudged
by the proper authorities to be cured or overcome, and said suspended licen-
tiate deemed again capable of practicing his profession.

Any citizen of Maryland having information which causes him to believe
that any person has been heretofore wrongfully and improperly registered
as osteopath, upon his application to the Clerk of any Court may apply, by
petition, to the Circuit Court of the County wherein such registration was
made, or to the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, if such registration was
in Baltimore City, which petition shall be under oath, and shall state that
the petitioner is informed and believes that the person named therein has
been heretofore improperly and wrongfully registered as osteopath upon
his own application and affidavit upon the register of osteopath or book kept
for such purpose in any Court of this State, for the reason (as said peti-
tioner is empowered) that such person was not lawfully practicing oste-
opathy in the State of Maryland as a duly qualified osteopath in said State
entitled to be registered as an osteopath upon his own application to the
Clerk of the said Court; and that said petitioner prays that the name of
such person shall be struck from the registry of osteopath aforesaid. Upon
the filing of such petition the Court or one of the judges thereof shall pass
an order requiring the person therein alleged to be wrongfully or improperly
registered to answer the same, under oath, on or before a date to be named
within thirty days from the date of such order, and to show cause, if any
there is, why the prayer of such petition should not be granted, which order
shall be served upon said last named person; and if said petition shall not
be answered within the time named, as aforesaid, or if the answer thereto
shall be adjudged insufficient by the Court, then the Court shall pass an
order directing that the name of such person alleged to be wrongfully or
improperly registered shall be stricken from the registry of osteopathic
physicians where the same shall have been registered; but if said petition
shall be answered by the defendant, being the person against whom it is
exhibited by an answer under oath, fairly and fully denying the allegations
of said petition, the issues thus raised shall be heard and determined by the
Court, and either party may be entitled to a jury trial before a jury of the
regular panel empannelled to try common law cases in said Court; and the
defendant shall be competent and compellable to testify at such hearing
and upon such hearing the Court shall render judgment with costs against
the unsuccessful party. And if it shall determine that said defendant was
not practicing osteopathy in the State of Maryland on or before the date of