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Code of West Virginia, 1931
Official Recodification - Enacted December 31, 1930 - Effective January 1, 1931
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30-16-3 Ch. 30 — PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chiropractors Examination by Medical and Chiropractic Members of Public Health Council Applicants to practice chiropractic in this State shall be examined by the medical physicians who are members of the state public health council in the followin… Proofed
30-16-4 Ch. 30 — PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chiropractors Licensing Chiropractors From Other States Persons licensed to practice chiropractic under the laws of any other state having requirements equivalent to those of this article, and extending like privileg… Proofed
30-16-5 Ch. 30 — PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chiropractors Refusal to Issue, Suspension or Revocation of License The state public health council may refuse to grant, or may suspend or revoke, a license to practice chiropractic in this State upon any of the following ground… Proofed
30-16-6 Ch. 30 — PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chiropractors Fees Fees for examination and for issuing licenses to doctors of chiropractic shall be the same as in the case of the medical practitioners. Proofed
30-16-7 Ch. 30 — PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chiropractors Who May Practice Chiropractic; Title of Chiropractor Every chiropractor who has complied with the provisions of this article shall thereupon be entitled to practice chiropractic in this State. The title of a chiro… Proofed
30-16-8 Ch. 30 — PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chiropractors Practice of Chiropractic Defined The practice of chiropractic is hereby defined as physical diagnosis, nerve tracing, palpation of the segments of the spinal column, and the adjustment of misal… Proofed
30-16-9 Ch. 30 — PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chiropractors Use of Mechanical Devices Prohibited; Exceptions The use of mechanical devices of any kind or any agency whatsoever other than the human hands, in giving chiropractic treatment, is prohibited in the practice o… Proofed
30-16-10 Ch. 30 — PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chiropractors Duty of Chiropractor to Observe Health Regulations; Reports to Health Officer and Local Registrar of Vital Statistics Doctors of chiropractic shall observe and be subject to all state and municipal regulations in regard to the control of infectious diseases, and to any and all … Proofed
30-16-11 Ch. 30 — PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chiropractors Chiropractor Not Permitted to Perform Certain Acts; Exception No chiropractor or shall be permitted to prescribe for any person any medicine or drugs now or hereafter included in materia medica, or to administer any such m… Proofed
30-16-12 Ch. 30 — PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chiropractors Chiropractor Not to be Paid Fee Out of Workmen’s Compensation Fund No practitioner of chiropractic in this or any other State shall be paid any fee out of the workmen’s compensation fund, or any other fund administered under th… Proofed
30-16-13 Ch. 30 — PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chiropractors Unlawful to Practice Chiropractic Without License It shall be unlawful for any person to practice chiropractic in this State without first having obtained a license so to do, or after revocation and before rene… Proofed
30-16-14 Ch. 30 — PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chiropractors Offenses; Penalties Any person who shall practice or attempt to practice chiropractic in this State without a license to do so, or any person who shall buy, sell, or fraudulently o… Proofed
30-16-15 Ch. 30 — PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS Chiropractors Duties of Prosecuting Attorneys and Secretary of State Public Health Council It shall be the duty of the several prosecuting attorneys of this State to enforce the provisions of this article, and it shall be the duty of the secretary of … Proofed
31-1-1 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Application; Definitions Except as therein otherwise provided the sections of this article shall become and be effective from the date fixed in the act of the legislature adopting the s… Proofed
31-1-2 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Classification of Corporations; Existing and Foreign Corporations Corporations created hereunder shall be either stock or nonstock corporations. Stock corporations are those having capital stock divided into shares. Nonstock c… Proofed
31-1-3 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Powers; Provision for Compromises and Reorganizations Every corporation as such shall have succession by its corporate name for the time limited in its charter, and, if no time be limited, perpetually. It shall hav… Proofed
31-1-4 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Number of Incorporators; Purposes Incorporation Any number of persons, no fewer than three, may associate to establish stock corporation to engage in any lawful business or to promote or carry on any lawful o… Proofed
31-1-5 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Duration of Corporate Existence Every corporation formed hereunder, unless sooner dissolved, shall have the right to perpetual succession. Any existing corporation may obtain the benefit of th… Proofed
31-1-6 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Agreement of Incorporation The persons desiring to form a corporation as provide in section four hereof, shall sign, acknowledge and file with the secretary of state an agreement, in the … Proofed
31-1-7 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Issuance of Charter Upon the filing of such agreement in the office of the secretary of state, and the payment of the fees required by law, he shall issue his certificate under the… Proofed
31-1-8 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Effect of Charter; Right of Legislature to Alter Charter or Repeal Law When a certificate of incorporation shall be issued by the secretary of state, pursuant to this chapter, the incorporators named in the agreement recited therei… Proofed
31-1-9 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Time of Organization When a certificate of incorporation is issued hereunder, the incorporators named in the agreement, or a majority of them, shall appoint the time and place for h… Proofed
31-1-10 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Recordation of Certificate If the corporation has its principal office in this State, it shall cause such certificate, or a duly certified copy thereof, to be recorded in the office of th… Proofed
31-1-11 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Amendment of Charter Every corporation of this State heretofore or hereafter incorporated may, from time to time and in the manner herein provided, when and as desired, amend its ch… Proofed
31-1-12 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Same; How Made Except as herein after in this section provided, a resolution or resolutions specifically stating the proposed amendment or amendments shall be adopted by a maj… Proofed
31-1-13 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Same; Increase or Reduction of Authorized Stock If an increase of the authorized capital stock of any corporation shall have been duly authorized as provided in section eleven of this article, the amendment s… Proofed
31-1-14 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Same; Reduction of Issued Stock When, by a reduction of the number and/or par value of the shares of stock of a corporation, the amount of stock issued is thereby reduced, the stock representi… Proofed
31-1-15 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Same; Nonstock Corporations The members of a nonstock corporation may amend the charter in any respect not forbidden by law by the same proceedings by which stockholders of stock corporati… Proofed
31-1-16 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Board of Directors; Qualifications; Committees; Classes The business of every corporation organized under the provisions of this chapter, or existing under the laws of this State, shall be managed by a board of direc… Proofed
31-1-17 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Powers of Directors The board of directors may exercise all of the powers of the corporation, except such as are by law or by the charter or by the by-laws conferred upon or reserv… Proofed
31-1-18 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Corporate Officers Every corporation subject to the provisions of this article shall have a president, a secretary and a treasurer, all of whom shall be chosen by the board of dir… Proofed
31-1-19 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally By-Laws; Adoption; Amendment The power to make and alter by-laws shall be in the stockholders, but any corporation may in its charter confer that power upon the directors or other managing … Proofed
31-1-20 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally By-Laws; General Scope Every corporation may, subject to any special provisions of this article and subject to the provisions of its charter, determine by its by-laws: The manner of c… Proofed
31-1-21 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Corporate Meetings; Time; Place; Notice; Quorum The stockholders and/or directors of any corporation created under the laws of this State may hold all regular, annual and special meetings for the transaction … Proofed
31-1-22 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Classes of Stock; Certificates Filed and Recorded in Certain Cases Every corporation, other than a banking institution, shall have power to issue one or more classes of stock or one or more series of stock within any class ther… Proofed
31-1-23 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Certain Corporations Not to Issue Non Par Stock No banking institution, indemnity, company, however entitled, insurance company, industrial loan company, or building and loan association, shall issue any of i… Proofed
31-1-24 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Convertible Securities The charter of any corporation of this State having more than one class of stock may provide that shares of a stock of any class shall be convertible into share… Proofed
31-1-25 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Issue and Sale of Stock and Convertible Securities by the Board of Directors The board of directors of any corporation of this State may from time to time, subject to any limitation or restriction contained in the charter or by-laws of s… Proofed
31-1-26 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Issue of Stock and Convertible Securities by Directors on Special Authority Given by the Charter The charter of any corporation of this State may authorize the board of directors thereof to issue from time to time the shares of its stock of any class and/or… Proofed
31-1-27 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Issue of Non-Par Stock by Directors by Special Authority The charter of any corporation of this State may empower the board of directors thereof to issue from time to time the authorized shares of the stock of any cla… Proofed
31-1-28 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Issue of Stock and Securities Only When Authorized by the Stockholders; Meaning of Terms In the absence of special provisions in the charter giving to the board of directors authority to issue stock and securities, and except as otherwise provided i… Proofed
31-1-29 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Issue and Sale of Non-Par Stock, or Par Stock at Less Than Par Unless otherwise provided in the charter the stockholders may by resolution passed at any meeting thereof authorize the directors to issue from time to time the… Proofed
31-1-30 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Stock Issued as Dividend Any corporation through its board of directors may issue and distribute its shares of stock as a dividend against its accumulated earnings or surplus and the co… Proofed
31-1-31 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Books to Show Proceeds From Sales of Stocks and Securities The books of every a corporation of this State shall be so kept as to show at all times what money or other consideration was received by such corporation for t… Proofed
31-1-32 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Unlawful Issuing of Stock; Penalties Any officer or director of any corporation of this State knowingly and willfully authorizing or consenting to the issuance of unauthorized stock of such corpora… Proofed
31-1-33 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Payment for Stock; Collection of Subscriptions Unless otherwise provided by the subscription contract, the board of directors of any corporation having a capital stock may call in and demand from the stockho… Proofed
31-1-34 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Forfeiture of Stock and Amount Paid When any stockholder fails to pay any installment or call upon his stock which may have been properly assessed thereon by the directors, at the time when such p… Proofed
31-1-35 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Liability of Stockholder Every stockholder of every corporation of this State shall be liable for the benefit of the creditors of such corporation for the amount of his subscription to … Proofed
31-1-36 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Limitations of Liability of Stockholders and Subscribers No stockholder of any stock corporation chartered under this article, except of banking institutions, shall be liable to the corporation or for the debts of the… Proofed
31-1-37 Ch. 31 — CORPORATIONS Provisions Relating to Corporations Generally Certificate for Stock; Lost or Destroyed Certificate Every holder of stock in a corporation shall be entitled to have a certificate, signed by, or in the name of the corporation by, the president or a vice preside… Proofed
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