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practic schools and colleges. A license shall be granted to all applicants
who shall correctly answer seventy-five percentum (75%) of all questions
asked, and if any applicant shall fail to answer correctly sixty percentum
(60%) of the questions on any branch of said examination he or she shall
not be entitled to a license.

(c) Chiropractic is hereby defined to be a drugless health system, the
basic principle of which teaches that disease is caused by interference with
the transmission of nerve impulses. The practice of Chiropractic is de-
fined as diagnosis, the location of misaligned or displaced vertebrae of
the human spinal column, the procedure preparatory to and the adjust-
ment by hand of such misaligned or displaced vertebrae of the spinal
column and its articulations, by any method not including the use of
drugs, surgery or obstetrics, nor any branch of medicine, nor osteopathy,
for the purpose of relieving such interference.

An. Code. 1924, sec. 386. 1920, ch. 666, sec. 8. 1929, ch. 534, sec. 386.
386. (a) The State Board of Chiropractic Examiners may refuse to
grant or may revoke a license to practice Chiropractic in this State, or
may cause a licentiate's name to be removed from the records in the office

of the recorder of deeds of this State upon any of the following grounds,
to wit: The attempt to do other than is permitted under this license in an

effort to deceive the public the employment of fraud or deception in apply-
ing for a license or in passing an examination provided for in this sub-
title, the practice of Chiropractic under a false or assumed name, or the
impersonation of another practitioner of like or different name, the con-
viction of a crime involving moral turpitude, habitual intemperance, in
the use of ardent spirits, narcotics or stimulants to such an extent as to
incapacitate him or her for the performance of his or her professional
duties. Any person who is a licentiate, or is an applicant for a license to
practice Chiropractic against whom any of the foregoing grounds for
revoking or refusing a license is presented to said Board with the view of
having the Board revoke or refuse to grant a license, shall be furnished with
a copy of the complaint, and shall have a hearing before said Board in
person or by attorney, or both, and witness may be examined by said
Board respecting the guilt or innocence of said accused.

(b) Said Board may at any time within two years of the refusal or
revocation or cancellation of registration under this section, by a majority
vote, issue a new license or grant a license to the person affected, restoring
him to or conferring upon him all rights and privileges of, and pertaining
to the practice of Chiropractic as defined and regulated by this sub-title.
Any person to whom such have been restored shall pay to the secretary-
treasurer the sum of $25 upon issuance of a new license.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 388. 1920, ch. 666, sec. 10. 1929, ch. 534, sec. 388.
388. All persons practicing Chiropractic within this State shall pay on
or before the first day of September of each year, after a license is issued
to them, as herein provided, to said Board of Chiropractic Examiners, a