A license may be granted for applicants who meet the following requirements:
- A. Applicant must have been licensed for one (1) continuous year immediately preceding application to this Board.
- B. Applicants who matriculated after July 1, 1987, must meet all National Board examination requirements as set forth in Section 25-2.
- C. Applicants who matriculated prior to July 1, 1987, must have passed a state examination or passed National Board Parts I and II.
- D. Verification of licensure from every state where a license has been held, active or inactive, current or expired. Verification must be received directly from the respective state board to the South Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
- E. Applicant must take and pass the South Carolina Ethics and Jurisprudence Examination with a score of 75% or more.
- F. Applications for endorsement are valid for one year only, and the application must be completed within one (1) year of the initial application date.
- G. An applicant whose license from another state has been expired for four (4) years or less must complete a new application and provide satisfactory evidence of Board-approved continuing education (CE) hours to cover the time period during which the license was expired.
- H. An applicant whose license from another state has been expired for more than four (4) years must complete a new application and take and pass the SPEC examination or a substantially equivalent future NBCE examination, or meet requirements in effect at the time of the new application.
HISTORY: Amended by State Register Volume 17, Issue No. 4, eff April 23, 1993; State Register 23, Issue No. 6, eff June 25, 1999; State Register Volume 24, Issue No. 6, eff June 23, 2000; State Register Volume 27, Issue No. 5, eff May 23, 2003; State Register Volume 33, Issue No. 4, eff April 24, 2009; State Register Volume 37, Issue No. 6, eff June 28, 2013; SCSR 44-6 Doc. No. 4889, eff June 26, 2020; SCSR 48-5 Doc. No. 5254, eff May 24, 2024.