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examination, be a graduate of a reputable and legally incorporated school
of chiropody, acceptable to the Board. Thereupon the said applicant shall
be subjected to an examination.
An. Code, sec. 312. 1916, ch. 173, sec. 9.
371. Any one who shall practice or attempt to practice chiropody in
this State without having complied with the provisions of this sub-title
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
not less than Fifty Dollars nor more than Two Hundred Dollars, and in
default of payment of such fine shall be imprisoned for not less than thirty
nor more than ninety days. Such fines, when collected, are to be paid into
the treasury of the State of Maryland. Nothing in this sub-title, however,
shall be construed to interfere with physicians in the discharge of their
professional duties.
An. Code, sec. 313. 1916, ch. 173, sec. 10.
372. The Board of Chiropody Examiners may revoke by a majority
vote of its members any certificate which it has issued and cause the name
of the holder to be stricken from the book of registration by a certificate
to the Clerk of the Court in which the name of the person whose license is
revoked is registered for any of the following causes:
(a) If any person, who, in any affidavit or examination required of an
applicant for examination, certificate or registration under the laws regu-
lating the practice of chiropody, shall willfully make a false statement in a
material regard;
(b) Any person who shall allow or permit others than him or herself to
practice under a certificate or license issued to him;
(c) Any person convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude;
(d) Any person habitually indulging in the use of ardent spirits, nar-
cotics, stimulants or any other substance which impairs intellect and judg-
ment to such an extent as, in the opinion of the Board of Chiropody Exam-
iners, to incapacitate such person from the performance of his professional
duties;
(e) Any person against whom charges, upon which a revocation of his
or her certificate may be based have been made, shall be notified of the fact
and a copy of the charges shall be sent him or her by the Board of Chiropody
Examiners, and such shall be given a fair and impartial trial by the said
Board of Chiropody Examiners whose decision shall be made by a majority
of said Board of Chiropody Examiners. Any person aggrieved by a decision
of the said Board of Chiropody Examiners may appeal from such decision
to the Circuit Court in the County in which the name of such person is
registered, or, if such resides in Baltimore City, to the Circuit Court of
Baltimore City.
An. Code, sec. 314. 1916, ch. 173, sec. 11. 1924, ch. 589, sec. 314.
373. Chiropody as defined by this sub-title is the surgical, medical or
mechanical treatment of all ailments of the human foot, except the correc-
tion of deformities requiring the use of the knife, amputation of the foot
or toes or the use of an anesthetic other than local.
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