PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor                             Ch. 311

CHAPTER 311

(House Bill 1163)

AN ACT concerning

Board of Chiropractic Examiners - Unauthorized Practice of Chiropractic and Injunctive

Actions

FOR the purpose of establishing certain penalties for persons found guilty of attempting
to practice or practicing chiropractic without a license or misrepresenting to the
public that the person is authorized to practice chiropractic; authorizing an action
to be maintained in the name of the State or by the Board to enjoin certain persons
from practicing chiropractic without a license or engaging in certain conduct under
certain circumstances; specifying where the action for an injunction may be brought;
specifying the effect of such an action being brought; requiring certain persons to
reimburse the Board for certain costs of the Board incurred as a result of certain
prosecutions; and generally relating to establishing certain penalties and authorizing
the bringing of certain injunctive actions against certain persons under certain
circumstances.

BY repealing

Article - Health Occupations                                                               

Section 3-506

Annotated Code of Maryland                                                               

(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)                             

BY adding to                                                                                                 

Article - Health Occupations
Section 3-316.1 and 3-506
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1994 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section(s) 3-506 of Article - Health Occupations of the Annotated
Code of Maryland be repealed.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland
read as follows:

Article - Health Occupations

3-316.1.

(A) AN ACTION MAY BE MAINTAINED IN THE NAME OF THIS STATE OR THE
BOARD TO ENJOIN:

(1) THE UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE OF CHIROPRACTIC; OR

- 1871 -