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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>54531</law_id><section_number>54.1-2929</section_number><catch_line>Licenses required</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>54.1-111</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="29">Medicine and Other Healing Arts</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="3">Licensure of Physicians of Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine, Chiropractors, and Podiatrists</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>No person shall practice or hold himself out as qualified to practice medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, or podiatry without obtaining a license from the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> of Medicine as provided in this chapter.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 54-281; 1966, c. 657, &#xA7; 54-281.3; 1970, c. 69; 1988, c. 765; 1996, cc. 937, 980.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
