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Ark. Code Ann. § 17-81-305

Qualifications of applicants

Known as the Arkansas Chiropractic Practices Act

The act spans §§ 17–17 (35 sections).

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Humenansky v. Minnesota Board of Medical Examiners (1994)

Most recently applied in Humenansky v. Minnesota Board of Medical Examiners (December 1994)

Acts 1971, No. 706, § 10; A.S.A. 1947, § 72-424; Acts 1987, No. 354, § 6; 1989, No. 763, § 1; 1991, No. 786, § 25; 1993, No. 1219, § 14; 1999, No. 1553, § 9; 2016, No. 200, § 5;…

(1) To qualify for licensure, an applicant shall: Be at least twenty-one (21) years of age;

(2) Have successfully completed not less than a minimum of sixty (60) semester credit hours of college education, to include a minimum of thirty (30) semester credit hours in the field of science;

(3) Not have had a license to practice chiropractic in any other state suspended or revoked nor have been placed on probation for any cause;

(4) Possess a valid “doctor of chiropractic” degree from a chiropractic institution whose requirements include a course of instruction of not fewer than four (4) years of nine (9) academic months each or not fewer than four thousand four hundred (4,400) fifty-minute resident class hours and include one hundred twenty (120) classroom hours of physiological therapeutics;

(5) Possess a valid National Board of Chiropractic Examiners certificate, to include Parts I, II, III, and IV and the physiological therapeutics section;

(6) [Repealed.]

(7) Not have been convicted of a felony;

(8) Not be an habitual user of intoxicants, drugs, or hallucinatory preparations;

(9) Pay the application fee as provided in § 17-81-304; and

(10) Cause a certified chiropractic college transcript or National Board of Chiropractic Examiners transcript to be submitted directly from the respective institutions.

(11) An applicant graduated, as of July 19, 1971, from a school or college of chiropractic, the requirements and course of instruction of which were equal and comparable to other recognized schools or colleges of chiropractic at the time of his or her attendance, may be acceptable.

(12) For students enrolled in any approved chiropractic school or college which may not, at the passage date of this act, meet the requirements as set forth in subdivision (a)(4) of this section, the Arkansas State Board of Chiropractic Examiners may waive the requirement in individual cases at its discretion.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.