Certain applicants, how examined. Percentage required to pass. diploma. preliminary education. Proviso. (d) The applicant shall, if possible, be examined in materiamedica and therapeutics and practice of medicine by those members of the board or by a qualified examiner appointed by the board, belonging to the same school as the applicant, and no applicant shall be rejected because of his adherence to any particular system of practice. (e) An average percentage of at least seventy-five per cent of correct answers shall be required from every candidate. No additional fee shall be charged by this board for the registration of those who successfully pass such examination: Proviso as to Provided, however, That such applicant for examination shall have a diploma from from a legally incorporated, regularly established and reputable college of medicine within the states, territories, districts and provinces of the United States or within any foreign nation (provided such foreign nation accord a like privilege to graduates of approved medical colleges of this State) having at least a four years' course of seven months in each calendar year, as shall be approved and Proviso as to designated by the Board of Registration in Medicine: Also provided, That such applicant shall have, previous to the beginning of his course in medicine, a diploma from a recognized and reputable high school, academy, college or university, having a classical course, or shall pass an examination equivalent at least to the minimum standard of preliminary education adopted and published by the board before examiners appointed by and in accordance with the regulations of aforesaid board, and at such time and place as the board may designate: Provided, A student entering a college in Michigan, having a preliminary examination of a standard approval by the Board of Registration in Medicine shall not be required to take this examination: Provided, That this requirement of preliminary education shall not apply to those students who, on the date of the passage of this act, were regularly registered as students of legally organized and reputable medProviso as to ical colleges approved of by said board: And provided, also, That the requirement of medical education shall not apply to those graduates of legally organized and reputable medical colleges approved of by said board who had graduated from such colleges, previous to the date of the passage of this act; and students complying with the other provisions of this section, who on January first of the present year were regularly registered as students of legally organized and reputable medical colleges of this State, approved of by said board, may obtain a certificate of registration as graduates of such colleges and without examination by the board upon payment Board to adopt of a fee of ten dollars. The Board of Registration in Medicine shall, from time to time, adopt and publish a minimum standard of medical education, and no medical college shall be approved and designated by said board under this subdivision one, of section three, unless, in the judgment of the board, it conforms with such standard; Proviso as to students in college. college graduates. standard for colleges. having foreign Second, The applicant shall be registered and given a certifi- Applicants eate of registration if he shall present a certified copy or cer- certificates. tificate of registration or license which has been issued to said applicant in any foreign nation where the requirements of registration shall be deemed by said Board of Registration in Medicine to be equivalent to those of this act: Provided, Proviso. Such country shall accord a like privilege to holders of certificates from this board. The fee for registration from applicants of this class shall be twenty-five dollars; other states. Third, The applicant shall be registered and given a certifi- Certificates of cate of registration if he shall present a certified copy of certificate of registration or license which has been issued to said applicant within the states, territories, districts or provinces of the United States where the requirements for registration shall be deemed by the Board of Registration in Medicine to be equivalent to those of this act, and shall otherwise conform to the rules and regulations agreed upon between the State Board of which he is a licentiate and said board relative to the recognition and exchange of certificates between states: Provided, Such state shall accord a like privi- Proviso. lege to holders of certificates from this board. The fee for registration from applicants of this class shall be twenty-five dollars; obtaining Fourth, If any person shall unlawfully obtain and procure Penalty for himself to be rigistered under this section, either by false unlawfully and untrue statements contained in his application to the certificate. Board of Registration in Medicine, or by presenting to said board a false or untrue diploma or license, or one fraudulently obtained, he shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than three hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment at hard labor for not less than one year, nor more than three years, or both, at the discretion of the court, and shall forfeit all rights and privileges obtained or conferred upon him by virtue of such registration as a physician or surgeon; ing, etc. Fifth, Any person who shall swear falsely in any affidavit Penalty for or oral testimony made or given by virtue of the provisions of false swearthis act, or the regulations of the Board of Registration in Medicine, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to all the pains and penalties of perjury; may refuse to certificate. Sixth, The Board of Registration in Medicine shall refuse When board to issue a certificate of registration provided for in this sec- grant, or may tion to any person guilty of grossly unprofessional and dis- revoke honest conduct of a character likely to deceive the public, and said board shall, after due notice and hearing, revoke a certificate issued subsequent to the date of the passage of this act, or subsequent to the date of the passage of act number two hundred thirty-seven of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, for like cause or for offenses involving moral advertising. turpitude, habitual intemperance, the drug habit, or for fraud or perjury in connection with obtaining of a certificate of registration, or for a certificate obtained or issued through error, when such offenses shall have been legally established Proviso as to in a court of competent jurisdiction: And provided further, After the passage of this act, the board may at its discretion revoke the certificate of registration, after due notice and hearing of any registered practitioner who inserts any advertisement in any newspaper, pamphlet, circular, or other written or printed paper, relative to venereal diseases or other matter of any obscene or offensive nature derogatory to good morals. Penalty for practicing without certificate. SEC. 7. Any person who shall practice medicine or surgery in this State without first complying with the provisions of this act, or any person who shall violate its provisions (except as heretofore provided in section three of this act), shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each offense. It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorneys of the counties of this State to prosecute violations of the provisions of this act. Approved June 4, 1903. How may refund or [No. 192.] AN ACT to authorize boards of supervisors of counties and township boards of organized townships to refund and extend the time of payment of the bonded indebtedness of counties and townships in the State of Michigan. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The boards of supervisors of any counties and extend bonds. the township boards of any organized townships in the State of Michigan, at, after or before the maturity of any bonds of said counties or townships, respectively, shall have power to refund and extend the time of payment of such bonds by retiring and cancelling such bonds of such counties and townships, respectively, and issuing in lieu thereof an equal amount of the coupon bonds of any such counties or townships, to be designated as "refunding bonds," which shall state upon their face the purpose for which they were issued, which refunding bonds may be exchanged for such original bonds of equal amount; or such refunding bonds, in the discretion of any such board of supervisors, or any township, board, as the case may be, may be sold for cash at not less than their par value, and the proceeds of any such sales shall be applied to paying off, cancelling and retiring any such bonds so intended to be refunded, retired and cancelled, and for no other purpose: Provided, however, That such bonds Proviso. may be refunded before their maturity only when the same can be done with the consent of the holders thereof at a lower rate of interest than that borne by bonds so refunded, bonds how interest. SEC. 2. The refunding bonds authorized to be issued by the Refunding provisions of this act, when issued by the board of supervisors signed. of any county, shall be signed by the chairman thereof and countersigned by the clerk thereof, and the interest coupons shall be signed by such clerk. Such refunding bonds so authorized to be issued by townships [township] boards shall be signed by the supervisor of such township and countersigned by the township clerk. All such refunding bonds shall bear a Rate of rate of interest not exceeding six per cent per annum, which may be payable annually or semi-annually, and such interest and the principal of such refunding bonds shall be payable at such place or places as shall be designated by the authority issuing the same, which shall be stated upon the face of the bonds and interest coupons. Such refunding bonds shall be made to become due and payable at such time and times as the authorities so issuing the same shall provide. In no case, however, shall the time be of longer duration than the time for which the bonds were originally issued. how levied, SEC. 3. For the purpose of providing for the payment of Tax to pay, the several installments of interest that shall accrue upon etc. such refunding bonds and creating a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof at maturity, the boards of supervisors of such counties and the township boards of such townships, respectively, shall, at their annual meetings, levy a sufficient tax, in addition to other taxes now authorized by law, upon the real and personal property subject to taxation in such counties and townships, respectively, to pay such interest as the same shall become due and to create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal sum of any such refunding bonds so issued at the maturity thereof; and such taxes shall be collected as other taxes are collected, and when so collected shall be applied to the payment of such installments of interest, and to the principal sum of such refunding bonds, as the same shall become due as aforesaid, and to no other purposes. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Act amended. Relative to lights in basements. [No. 193.] AN ACT to amend act number two hundred two of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled "An act to provide fans or blowers in all workshops or establishments where wheels composed partly of emery, or buffing wheels or emery belts are used," approved May seventeenth, eighteen hundred ninety-nine, by adding a new section thereto, following section five, to stand as section five-a of said act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number two hundred two of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, entitled "An act to provide fans or blowers in all workshops or establishments where wheels composed partly of emery, or buffing wheels or emery belts are used," approved May seventeenth eighteen hundred ninety-nine, is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto, to follow section five, and to stand as section five-a of said act and to read as follows: SEC. 5a. No person shall be employed to operate any of the wheels, buffers or belts mentioned in this act in any basement so-called, or any room lying wholly or partly beneath the surface of the ground, unless such work rooms shall be provided with sufficient means of light, heat and ventilation as shall be prescribed by the State Factory Inspector. Approved June 9, 1903. May sell timber. Proviso. [No. 194.] AN ACT to authorize and empower the Commissioner of the The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The Commissioner of the State Land Office is hereby authorized and empowered to sell the timber from State swamp, primary school and tax homestead lands, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the board of control of State swamp lands; and he is also further authorized and empowered to sell the timber from Agricultural College lands under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the State Board of Agriculture: Provided, That said lands shall have been offered at public sale pursuant to act number twenty-one of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventy-three, and have been held by the State for one year after such public offering. Approved June 9, 1903. |