HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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reregistration, i.e., periodic registration renewal. On
analysis, the Commission to Revise the Annotated Code has
found that these provisions serve no substantive purpose
that could not be accomplished more directly by the pattern
followed under present Art. 43 for the licensing of most
other health occupations. That pattern requires that the
practitioner have a license and renew the license
periodically. An auxiliary procedure under which the
practitioner also must be registered to practice and which
then substitutes a periodic reregistration requirement for
the periodic license renewal requirement is superfluous.
Moreover, the references to registration and reregistration
may mislead the physician by implying that the physician's
license is fundamentally different from the license held by
any of the other health practitioners who practice under
statutes without references to registration.

It is a precept of the Commission to revise the law in
a clear, straightforward manner, and once something is said,
to say it the same way each time it is said. To obtain
clarity and consistency and to avoid the superfluous and
misleading aspects of the present references, throughout
this title all references to the requirement that a
physician must be registered are deleted and references to
periodic license renewal are substituted for all references
to periodic reregistration. These are changes in form only;
no change in substance is intended.

TITLE 15. PODIATRISTS.

SUBTITLE 1. DEFINITIONS; GENERAL PROVISIONS.

15-101. DEFINITIONS.

(A)  IN GENERAL.

IN THIS TITLE THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANINGS
INDICATED.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This subsection presently appears as
Art. 43, § 492(a).

The only changes are in style.

See also § 1-101 of this article for other
applicable definitions.

(B)  BOARD.

"BOARD" MEANS THE STATE BOARD OF PODIATRY EXAMINERS.

REVISOR'S NOTE: This subsection presently appears as
Art. 43, § 492(b).

No changes are made.

(C) LICENSE.