TITLE 5

Businesses and Professions

CHAPTER 5-30

Chiropractic Physicians

SECTION 5-30-3



   § 5-30-3  License and annual registration

required – Practice of physiotherapy. –

No person may practice chiropractic medicine or any of its branches without a

certificate issued under the authority of this chapter, which certificate has

not been suspended or revoked as provided in this chapter, without registering

annually, as provided by § 5-30-12. No one may represent himself or

herself to be a chiropractic physician, or use the title "Doctor of

Chiropractic", "D.C.", "Ph.C.", "M.C.", or any word or title to induce the

belief that he or she is engaged in the practice of chiropractic medicine,

without having a certificate and registering as stated in this section. No

person who has a certificate to practice chiropractic medicine issued under the

provisions of this chapter shall practice physiotherapy or any of its branches

without a certificate authorizing him or her to do so issued under the

authority of this chapter. This section shall not be construed to prevent the

employment of corrective orthopedics and dietetics by other qualified persons.



History of Section.

(G.L. 1923, ch. 159, § 15; P.L. 1927, ch. 1067, § 1; P.L. 1928, ch.

1186, § 1; P.L. 1931, ch. 1781, § 1; G.L. 1938, ch. 275, § 15;

G.L. 1956, § 5-30-3.)