(a) Required qualifications. An applicant applying for reciprocal licensure shall meet the following requirements:

1. (1)

   1. (A) The applicant shall hold a substantially similar license in another United States jurisdiction.
   2. (B) A license from another state is substantially similar to an Arkansas chiropractic license if the other state’s licensure qualifications require:

(i) Completion of not less than a minimum of sixty (60) semester credit hours of college education to include a minimum of thirty (30) semester credit hours in the field of science; and

1. (ii) Possession of a valid Doctor of Chiropractic degree from a chiropractic institution whose requirements include:

(a) (a) A course of instruction of not less than:

1. (1) (1) Four (4) years of nine (9) academic months each; or
2. (2) (2) Four thousand four hundred (4,400) fifty-minute resident class hours; and

(b) (b) One hundred twenty (120) classroom hours of physiological therapeutics.

1. (C) The applicant shall hold his or her occupational licensure in good standing.

   1. (D) The applicant shall not have had a license revoked for:

      1. (i) An act of bad faith; or
      2. (ii) A violation of law, rule, or ethics.
   2. (E) The applicant shall not hold a suspended or probationary license in a United States jurisdiction;
2. (2) The applicant shall be sufficiently competent in the practice of chiropractic; and
3. (3) Practice management, ethics, and jurisprudence, physical/clinical diagnosis, chiropractic examination procedures, chiropractic adjusting and manipulation, X-ray interpretation, and chiropractic philosophy.

(b) Required documentation.

1. (1) An applicant shall submit:

   1. (A) A fully executed application;
   2. (B) The required fee; and
   3. (C) The documentation described below.

2. (2) As evidence that the applicant’s license from another jurisdiction is substantially similar to Arkansas’s, the applicant shall submit the following information:

   1. (A)

      1. (i) Evidence of current and active licensure in that state.
      2. (ii) The Arkansas State Board of Chiropractic Examiners may verify this information:

(b) (b) By telephone to the other state’s licensing board; and

1. (B)

   1. (i) Evidence that the other state’s licensure requirements match those listed in subdivision (a)(1)(B) of this section.

      1. (ii) The Arkansas State Board of Chiropractic Examiners may verify this information:

(b) (b) By telephone to the other state’s licensing board.

1. (3) To demonstrate that the applicant meets the requirements in subdivisions (a)(1)(C) – (a)(1)(E) of this section, the applicant shall provide the Arkansas State Board of Chiropractic Examiners with:

   1. (A) The names of all states in which the applicant is currently licensed or has been previously licensed; and

   2. (B)

      1. (i) Letters of good standing or other information from each state in which the applicant is currently or has ever been licensed showing that the applicant:

(b) (b) Does not hold a license on suspended or probationary status as described in subdivision (a)(1)(E) of this section.

1. (ii) The Arkansas State Board of Chiropractic Examiners may verify this information:

(b) (b) By telephone to the other state’s licensing board.

1. (4) As evidence that the applicant is sufficiently competent in the field of chiropractic, an applicant shall:

   1. (A) Pass parts I, II, III, and IV and the physiological therapeutics section of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners exam, as well as the Arkansas State Board of Chiropractic Examiners’ jurisprudence exam; and
   2. (B) Submit one (1) letter of recommendation from a licensed chiropractor who has been licensed five (5) or more years.