NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1963 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1195

HOUSE BILL 1337

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 90-191, PERTAINING TO PODIATRISTS, IN ORDER TO REQUIRE THAT APPLICANTS FOR EXAMINATION FOR A LICENSE TO PRACTICE PODIATRY SHALL HAVE TWO YEARS OF COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTION AS A PREREQUISITE FOR APPLICATION, AND TO FURTHER PROVIDE THAT WHEREVER THE WORD "CHIROPODY" APPEARS IN ARTICLE 12 OF CHAPTER 19, THAT THE WORD "PODIATRY" SHALL BE SUBSTITUTED THEREFOR.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  General Statute 90-191 is amended by deleting the period after the words "high school", which appear in line six of the text thereof, and by adding after the words "high school" the following words: "and two (2) years of instruction in a college or university approved by the American Association of Colleges and Universities."

Sec. 2.  Wherever the word "Chiropody" appears in Article 12 of Chapter 90 of the General Statutes, the same is hereby deleted and the word "Podiatry" is substituted therefor.

Sec. 3.  The provisions of this Act as set out in Section 1, pertaining to the qualifications of applicants for a license to practice, shall not apply to any student presently engaged in a course of study in pre-podiatry or podiatry or to any person legally licensed by the Board of Podiatry Examiners prior to the effective date of this Act, nor shall such provisions apply to persons seeking a license to practice podiatry who have been previously licensed by the Board of Examiners of another state and have applied to the North Carolina Board for the issuance of a license on reciprocity.

Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5.  This Act shall be effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 25th day of June, 1963.