§ 5-30-1 “Chiropractic medicine” defined
§ 5-30-1.05 Chiropractor and chiropractic references
§ 5-30-1.1 Board of chiropractic examiners
§ 5-30-2 Board of examiners – Rules and regulations – Oaths – Seal
§ 5-30-3 License and annual registration required – Practice of physiotherapy
§ 5-30-4 Penalties for unauthorized practice
§ 5-30-5 Complaints of unauthorized practice
§ 5-30-6 Qualifications and examinations of applicants
§ 5-30-7 Certification of chiropractic physicians authorized to practice in other states
§ 5-30-8 Certification to practice physiotherapy
§ 5-30-9 Method and scope of examinations – Reexaminations
§ 5-30-10 Issuance and registration of certificates
§ 5-30-11 Rights and duties of chiropractic physicians
§ 5-30-12 Annual registration – Payment of fees
§ 5-30-13 Continuing education requirements – Grounds for refusal, revocation, or suspension of certificates
§ 5-30-14 Appeals from director and division
§ 5-30-15 Disposition of fees – Compensation of board members
§ 5-30-16 Fee splitting
§ 5-30-17 Applicability of chapter 37 of this title to chiropractic medicine
§ 5-30-18 Receipts

Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 5-30 - Chiropractic Physicians

  • abandonment: means a situation where the owner of a building has intended to abandon the building and has manifested the intent with some act or failure to act. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-44-2
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Age: means anyone over the age of eighteen (18). See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Amortization: Paying off a loan by regular installments.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • Appurtenant land: means only the land and related facilities which are currently dedicated to the federally insured or assisted rental units, and does not include land which may be dedicated to nonfederally insured or assisted units under common ownership, whether or not the land is currently dedicated to federally insured or assisted rental units. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-45-4
  • Armed forces: means the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Merchant Marines, or Air Force of the United States and the Rhode Island National Guard. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3
  • Association of unit owners: means all of the unit owners acting as a group in accordance with the declaration and bylaws. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-36-3
  • Building: means a building, containing four (4) or more units, or two (2) or more buildings, with a total of four (4) or more units for all the buildings, and comprising a part of the property. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-36-3
  • Building: means any building or structure used for residential purposes or used for retail stores, shops, salesrooms, markets, or similar commercial uses, or for offices, banks, civic administration activities, professional services, or similar business or civic uses. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-44-2
  • Commission: means the Rhode Island commission for human rights created by § 28-5-8. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3
  • Common expenses: means and includes:

    (i)  All sums lawfully assessed against the unit owners;

    (ii)  Expenses of administration, maintenance, repair, or replacement of the common areas and facilities;

    (iii)  Expenses agreed upon as common expenses by the association of unit owners;

    (iv)  Expenses declared common expenses by provisions of this chapter, or by the declaration or the bylaws. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-36-3

  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Condominium: means the ownership of a single unit in a multi-unit project together with an undivided interest in common in the common areas and facilities of the property. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-36-3
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Corporation: means the Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation, a corporation, instrumentality and agency of the state established pursuant to the Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation act, chapter 55 of Title 42. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-45-4
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Declaration: means the instrument by which the property is submitted to the provisions of this chapter, as it from time to time may be lawfully amended. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-36-3
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Default: means the failure to perform on time any obligation set forth in the rental agreement or this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-42-2
  • Default: means the failure to pay obligations incurred by the storage of a vessel and associated charges. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-46-2
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the department of administration. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-45-4
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Development: means any structure or group of structures situated in the state which is federally insured or assisted; provided, however that the term "development" does not include any structure or group of structures which are not federally insured or assisted, although such structures may be commonly owned with units that receive such federal assistance or sent to such units; and provided further than this chapter shall not apply to a development whose owner gave notice to the United States department of housing and urban development pursuant to § 262 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987, 42 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-45-4
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Disability: means a disability as defined in § 42-87-1. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3
  • Discriminate: includes segregate, separate, or otherwise differentiate between or among individuals because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, lawful source of income, military status as a veteran with an honorable discharge or an honorable or general administrative discharge, servicemember in the armed forces, country of ancestral origin, disability, age, housing status, or familial status or because of the race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, lawful source of income, military status as a veteran with an honorable discharge or an honorable or general administrative discharge, servicemember in the armed forces, country of ancestral origin, disability, age, housing status, or familial status of any person with whom they are, or may wish to be, associated. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Dry dock: means any space and/or real property designed and/or used for the purpose of renting or leasing storage space for vessels. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-46-2
  • Electronic mail: means an electronic message or executable program or computer file that contains an image of a message transmitted between two (2) or more computers or electronic terminals and includes electronic messages that are transmitted within or between computer networks from which a confirmation or receipt is received. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-42-2
  • Electronic mail address: means a destination commonly expressed as a string of characters, consisting of a unique user name or mailbox and a reference to an Internet domain, whether or not displayed, to which an electronic mail message can be sent or delivered. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-42-2
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Facility: means a marina, boatyard, or marine repair facility that provides, as part of its commercial operation, the storage of vessels. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-46-2
  • Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
  • Familial status: means one or more individuals who have not attained the age of eighteen (18) years being domiciled with:

    (A)  A parent or another person having legal custody of the individual or individuals; or

    (B)  The designee of the parent or other person having the custody, with the written permission of the parent or other person, provided that, if the individual is not a relative or legal dependent of the designee, that the individual shall have been domiciled with the designee for at least six (6) months. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3

  • Federally insured or assisted: means any:

    (i)  Low income housing units insured or assisted under §§ 221(d)(3) and 236 of the National Housing Act, 12 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-45-4

  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • gender identity or expression: includes a person's actual or perceived gender, as well as a person's gender identity, gender-related self image, gender-related appearance, or gender-related expression; whether or not that gender identity, gender-related self image, gender-related appearance, or gender-related expression is different from that traditionally associated with the person's sex at birth. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Housing accommodation: includes any building or structure, or portion of any building or structure, or any parcel of land, developed or undeveloped, that is occupied or is intended, designed, or arranged to be occupied, or to be developed for occupancy, as the home or residence of one or more persons. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3
  • housing status: means the status of having or not having a fixed or regular residence, including the status of living on the streets or in a homeless shelter or similar temporary residence. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3
  • in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Inter vivos: Transfer of property from one living person to another living person.
  • Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
  • Interested party: means any owner, mortgagee, lienholder, or other entity or person who or that possesses an interest of record in any property that becomes subject to the jurisdiction of the court pursuant to this chapter and any applicant for the appointment of a receiver pursuant to this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-44-2
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Last known address: means that address or electronic mail address provided by the occupant in the latest rental agreement or the address or electronic mail address provided by the occupant in a subsequent written notice of a change of address. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-42-2
  • Last known address: means that address provided by the owner in the latest storage agreement or the address provided by the owner in a subsequent notice of a change of address. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-46-2
  • lawful source of income: means and includes any income, benefit, or subsidy derived from child support; alimony; Social Security; Supplemental Security Income; any other federal, state, or local public assistance program, including, but not limited to, medical or veterans assistance; any federal, state, or local rental assistance or housing subsidy program, including Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers as authorized by 42 U. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Limited common areas and facilities: means and include those common areas and facilities designated in the declaration as reserved for use of a certain unit or units to the exclusion of the other units. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-36-3
  • loaned: means a deposit with a museum that: (i) Title to the property is not transferred to the museum, (ii) The loan agreement for such deposit does not include a provision that the museum acquire title at some time after such deposit is made; or (iii) The loan agreement for such deposit includes an option for the museum to acquire title at some time after such deposit is made;

    (4)  "Lender" means a person (an individual, association, partnership, corporation, trust, estate, or other entity, excluding the property of any agency or public body as defined in § 38-1-1. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-44.1-1

  • Management committee: means the committee as provided in the declaration charged with and having the responsibility and authority to make and to enforce all of the reasonable rules and regulations covering the operation and maintenance of the property. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-36-3
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Museum: means an organized and permanent nonprofit or public institution in Rhode Island operated by, or a division of, a nonprofit corporation, trust, association, educational institution, or public agency, that is primarily educational, scientific, historic, or aesthetic in purpose, and that owns, borrows, cares for, studies, archives, or exhibits property. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-44.1-1
  • Neighboring landowner: means any owner of property, including any entity or person who or that is purchasing property by land installment contract or under a duly executed purchase contract, that is located within two hundred feet (200?) of any property that becomes subject to the jurisdiction of the court pursuant to this chapter. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-44-2
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • oath: includes affirmation; the word "sworn" includes affirmed; and the word "engaged" includes either sworn or affirmed. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-11
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Occupant: means a person, or his or her sublessee, successor, or assign, who is entitled to the use of the storage space at a self-service storage facility under a rental agreement, to the exclusion of others. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-42-2
  • Operator: means the proprietor, operator, lessor, or sublessor of a dry dock facility, his or her agent, or any other person authorized by him or her to manage the facility or to receive rent from the owner under a rental agreement. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-46-2
  • Owner: includes any person having the right to sell, rent, lease, or manage a housing accommodation. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3
  • Owner: means the proprietor, operator, lessor, or sublessor of a self-service storage facility, his or her agent, or any other person authorized by him or her to manage the facility or to receive rent from an occupant under a rental agreement. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-42-2
  • Owner: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, joint venture, or business entity which holds title to a development. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-45-4
  • Owner: means a person, other than a lienholder, having a property interest in or title to a vessel. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-46-2
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means individual, corporation, partnership, association, trustee or other legal entity. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-36-3
  • Person: includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associations, organizations, corporations, labor organizations, mutual companies, joint stock companies, trusts, receivers, legal representatives, trustees, other fiduciaries, or real estate brokers or real estate salespersons as defined in chapter 20. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3
  • person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Personal property: means movable property not affixed to land and includes, but is not limited to, goods, wares, merchandise, motor vehicles, watercraft, motorcycles, trailers, recreational vehicles (RVs), furniture, and household items. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-42-2
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Preliminary hearing: A hearing where the judge decides whether there is enough evidence to make the defendant have a trial.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Property: means and includes the land, the building, all improvements and structures thereon, all easements, rights, and appurtenances belonging thereto, and all articles of personal property intended for use in connection therewith. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-36-3
  • Property: means any tangible object in the possession of and under a museum's care that has intrinsic educational, scientific, historical, artistic, aesthetic, or cultural value, excluding the property of any agency or public body as defined in § 38-1-1. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-44.1-1
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Public nuisance: means a building that is a menace to the public health, welfare, or safety; or that is structurally unsafe, unsanitary; or not provided with adequate safe egress; or that constitutes a fire hazard; or is otherwise dangerous to human life; or is otherwise no longer fit and habitable; or that, in relation to existing use, constitutes a hazard to the public health, welfare, or safety by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, obsolescence, or abandonment. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-44-2
  • Publication: means inclusion in the online publication of lists of abandoned property established pursuant to § 33-21. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-44.1-1
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • real estate: may be construed to include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and rights thereto and interests therein. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-10
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Record of survey map: means a plat or plats of survey of the property and of all units in the property submitted to the provisions of this chapter, which may consist of a three-dimensional, horizontal, and vertical delineation of all such units. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-36-3
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Rental agreement: means any written agreement or lease that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions, rules, or any other provisions concerning the use and occupancy of a self-service storage facility. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-42-2
  • seal: shall be construed to include an impression of the seal made with or without the use of wax or wafer on the paper. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-15
  • Self-service storage facility: means any real property designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage space to occupants who are to have access to the space for the purpose of storing and removing personal property. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-42-2
  • Senior citizen: means a person sixty-two (62) years of age or older. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • sexual orientation: means having, or being perceived as having, an orientation for heterosexuality, bisexuality, or homosexuality. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Storage agreement: means any written agreement or lease that establishes or modifies the terms, conditions, rules, or any other provisions concerning the storage of a vessel in a dry dock facility. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-46-2
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
  • Tenant: means a tenant, subtenant, lessee, sublessee, or other person entitled to possession, occupancy, or receiving the benefits of, a federally insured or assisted rental unit within a development. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-45-4
  • Tenant association: means an association or other organization that represents at least a majority of the tenants in federally insured or assisted rental units in a development, excluding those tenants which have not resided in the development for at least ninety (90) days and those tenants who have been an employee of the owner during the preceding one hundred twenty (120) days. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-45-4
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • town: may be construed to include city; the words "town council" include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
  • town council: include city council; the words "town clerk" include city clerk; the words "ward clerk" include clerk of election district; the words "town treasurer" include city treasurer; and the words "town sergeant" include city sergeant. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-9
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
  • Unit: means a part of the property intended for any type of independent use, including one or more rooms or spaces located in one or more floors (or part or parts of floors) in a building. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-36-3
  • unit: means that part of a development which is rented or offered for rent for residential occupancy and includes an apartment, efficiency apartment, room, suite of rooms, and any appurtenant land to the rental unit. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-45-4
  • Unit number: means the number, letter or combination thereof designating the unit in the declaration and in the record of survey map. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-36-3
  • Unit owner: means the person or persons owning a unit in fee simple and an undivided interest in the fee simple estate of the common areas and facilities in the percentage specified and established in the declaration. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-36-3
  • United States: include the several states and the territories of the United States. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-8
  • Use restrictions: means any federal, state, or local statute, regulation, ordinance, or contract which as a condition of receipt of any housing assistance, including a rental subsidy, mortgage subsidy or mortgage insurance, to a development:

    (i)  Establishes maximum limitations on tenant income as a condition of eligibility for occupancy of the units within a development; or

    (ii)  Imposes any restrictions on the maximum rents that could be charged for any of the units within a development; or

    (iii)  Requires that rents for any of the units within a development be reviewed by any governmental body or agency before the rents be implemented. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-45-4

  • Vessel: means every description of watercraft used or capable of being used as a means of transportation on water and any personal property located thereon and shall include its appurtenances. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-46-2
  • victim: means a family or household member and all other persons contained within the definition of those terms as defined in § 12-29-2. See Rhode Island General Laws 34-37-3