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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>76301</law_id><section_number>54.1-2932</section_number><catch_line>Issuance of licenses to practice</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><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>Upon completion of an application satisfactory to the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, applicants shall be granted licenses to practice medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, or podiatry and each license shall show plainly on its face the school or branch of the <span class="dictionary">healing arts</span> in which the holder thereof is permitted to practice. All licenses shall be attested by the signature of the president and secretary of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span>, respectively.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 54-309; 1958, cc. 161, 461; 1968, c. 766; 1970, c. 69; 1980, c. 157; 1985, c. 96; 1988, c. 765; 2013, c. 144.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
