Any person who subsequent to July thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four, and prior to January first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three, was graduated from a legally incorporated school, institution or college of chiropractic, and who has successfully completed or who shall successfully complete four courses of lectures requiring personal attendance during four full school years of at least seven months each, and who has been a resident of the State of New Jersey for at least four consecutive years terminating on December thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two, and was actively engaged in the practice of chiropractic prior to and including the month of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-two, and who is more than twenty-one years of age, of good moral character, and a citizen of the United States, shall upon a successful passing of an examination, given by the board, in the following subjects: anatomy, including neurologic and histologic anatomy, physiology, pathology, hygiene, chiropractic diagnosis, and the therapeutics of chiropractic, be granted a license to practice chiropractic in the State of New Jersey by the board. Persons coming under this special provision must make application for license to the board within ninety days after the effective date of this act. Persons applying for a license under this section shall take the required examination prior to December thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four. The records of the board and any license so issued shall state that the applicant was licensed under the exemption contained in this section.

L.1953, c. 233, p. 1703, s. 7.