The state chiropractic board shall evaluate schools and colleges of chiropractic and approve those institutions that it determines are capable of adequately training individuals for the practice of chiropractic in this state, except that in appropriate cases, the board may accept the approval of an institution that has been made pursuant to an evaluation conducted by the council on chiropractic education or another entity acceptable to the board.

Terms Used In Ohio Code 4734.21

  • Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
  • Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • practice of chiropractic: means utilization of the relationship between the musculo-skeletal structures of the body, the spinal column, and the nervous system in the restoration and maintenance of health, in connection with which patient care is conducted with due regard for first aid, hygienic, nutritional, and rehabilitative procedures and the specific vertebral adjustment and manipulation of the articulations and adjacent tissues of the body. See Ohio Code 4734.01
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59

When determining if a school or college of chiropractic should receive the board’s approval or continue to be approved, the board may make on-site inspections, reviews, and inquiries as it considers necessary. The board may charge a school or college of chiropractic a fee to cover the reasonable costs incurred by the board in conducting any inspection, review, or inquiry related to the approval of the school or college.

The board shall maintain a list of schools and colleges of chiropractic approved under this section. On request, the board shall provide a copy of the list to the person making the request.

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