To the secretary of the board, for temporary license, $5 (Code, 3,130).
To clerk of the court, for registration and certificate, 25 cents.
To clerk of the county, for registration on removal, no fee (Act 1889, c. 181, s. 4).
North Dakota.
Board of Examiners.—The governor appoints a State board of examiners of nine members, eight of whom are practising physicians in good standing; no member of any college or university having a medical department shall be appointed. Two members shall be homœopathic physicians and one a lawyer (Act 1890, c. 93, s. 1).
The board must hold meetings for examination at such place or places as it may designate on the first Tuesday of January, April, July, and October of each year, and such other meetings as it may appoint and must keep a record of its proceedings with a register of every applicant for a license with his or her age, the time spent in the study of medicine, and the name and location of all institutions granting to such applicant a degree or a certificate of lectures in medicine or surgery, and whether the applicant was rejected or licensed; and said books and register shall be prima facie evidence of all matters therein recorded (ib., s. 2).
Qualification.—All persons hereafter commencing the practice of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics in any of its branches shall apply to the board for a license, and at the time and place designated by the board, or at its regular meeting, be examined in anatomy, physiology, chemistry, histology, materia medica, therapeutics, preventive medicines, practice of medicine, surgery, obstetrics, diseases of women and children, of the nervous system, of the eye and ear, medical jurisprudence, and such other branches as the board shall deem advisable, and produce evidence of having attended three courses of lectures of at least six months each; the examination must be both practical and scientific, but of sufficient severity to test the candidate’s fitness to practise medicine, surgery, and obstetrics. When desired, the said examination may be conducted in the presence of the dean of any medical school or the president of any medical society of the State. After examination the board must grant a license to practise medicine, surgery, and obstetrics; seven members must consent. The board may revoke or refuse a license for unprofessional, dishonorable, or immoral conduct, chronic or persistent inebriety, the practice of criminal abortion, or for publicly advertising special ability to treat or cure diseases which, in the opinion of the board, it is impossible to cure. In complaints for violating the provisions of this section, the accused shall be furnished with a copy of the complaint, and given a hearing before the board in person or by attorney. Appeal lies from refusal or revocation to the appointing power (ib., s. 3).
The person receiving a license must file it, or a certified copy, with the register of deeds where he resides. On removal into another county he must procure from said register a certified copy of his license and file it with the register of deeds in the county to which he shall remove (ib., s. 4).
Exceptions.—The act does not apply to commissioned surgeons of the United States army or navy, to physicians or surgeons in actual consultation from other States or Territories, or to actual medical students practising medicine under the direct supervision of a preceptor (ib., s. 5).
Penalty.—Practising without a license or contrary to the act is a misdemeanor punishable with a fine of from $50 to $200, or imprisonment in a county jail from ten to sixty days, or both.