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Every act or omission designated as a misdemeanor in this subtitle unless
otherwise provided, shall be punishable by [any trail magistrate] THE DISTRICT
COURT FOR CARROLL COUNTY or the Circuit Court for Carroll County,
and the offender upon conviction, is subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred
dollars ($100.00) or to confinement in the county jail for not more than thirty (30)
days, or both in the discretion of the [magistrate] DISTRICT or Circuit Court. If
the act or omission is of a continuing nature and is persisted in, in violation of the
provisions of this subtitle or of any rule or regulation formulated thereunder, a
conviction for one offense shall not be a bar to the conviction for a continuation of
such offense subsequent to the first or any succeeding conviction.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take
effect July 1, 1973.

Approved April 26, 1973.

CHAPTER 105
(Senate Bill 812)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 504(c), 506(a), 506(b),
508, and 512 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971
Replacement Volume), title "Health," subtitle "Chiropractic," to modify the
definition of "chiropractic" and "practice of chiropractic," to clarify certain
language, to grant to the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners the right to
suspend a license under certain circumstances, to provide for continuing
educational requirements as a condition for holding a license, to place the
renewal license fee within the discretion of the said Board, and to provide for an
increase in the reciprocity license fee.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF

MARYLAND, That Sections 504(c), 506(a), 506(b), 508, and 512 of Article 43 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1971 Replacement Volume), title "Health,"
subtitle "Chiropractic," be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

504.

(c) Chiropractic is hereby defined to be a drugless health system, the basic
principle of which teaches that disease [is] MAY BE caused by interference with
the transmission of nerve impulses. The practice of chiropractic is defined as
diagnosis, the location of disaligned or displaced vertebrae of the human spinal
column, the procedure preparatory to and the adjustment by hand of such
misaligned or displaced vertebrae of the spinal column and [its] SKELETAL
articulations, by any method not including the use of drugs, surgery, obstetrics or
osteopathy, nor any branch of medicine; providing that nothing herein contained
shall be construed to prohibit the use by any licensed chiropractor of the selection
of food materials necessary for the nourishment of the body and measures of
cleanliness incident to the care of the human body.

506.

(a) The State Board of Chiropractic Examiners may refuse to grant OR MAY
SUSPEND or [may] revoke a license to practice chiropractic in this State, or may
cause a [licentiate's] LICENSEE'S name to be removed from the records in the