1929 Session: Bills 122-125

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Referred to the Committee on Public Institutions, Health and Labor
1929
S. B. No. 122 By Mr. Musser (By Request)
AN ACT REGULATING THE EXAMINATION AND LICENSING
OF CHIROPODISTS, DEFINING CHIROPODY; AND PRESCRIBING THE PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah:
1 Section 1.    It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in or
2 to follow, or to attempt to engage in or to follow, the profession,
3 occupation, practice or calling of Chiropody, unless he or she shall
4 first have been registered and shall have obtained a license from
5 the Department of Registration.
6 Section 2.   Chiropody is defined as the diagnosis, medical, sur-
7 gical and mechanical treatment of all ailments of the human foot,
8 or any one or combination thereof, except the correction of deform-
9 ities requiring the use of the knife, amputation of the foot or toes,
10 or the use of an anesthetic, other than a local anesthetic.
11 Section 3.    Any person desiring to obtain a license to practice
12 Chiropody shall make application in writing, verified under oath, to
13 the Department of Registration, for examination, together with sat-
14 isfactory proof that the applicant is over the age of twenty-one
15 years, of good moral character and has obtained a preliminary edu-
16 cation, which is equivalent to four years instruction in a High School,
17 and be a graduate of a reputable and legally incorporated School of
18 Chiropody, recognized as such by the Department, and to pay to
19 the Department an examination fee, and shall be present at a time
20 specified for the examination of applicants;
21 All examinations shall be given by or under the supervision
22 of the Department of Registration.   And the Director will appoint
23 a committee of three chiropodists to conduct such examinations.   If
24 the Department is satisfied that the applicant is above the age of