Ark. Code Ann. § 17-81-305 (2026)

1. To qualify for licensure, an applicant shall:
   1. Be at least twenty-one (21) years of age;
   2. Have successfully completed not less than a minimum of sixty (60) semester credit hours of college education, to include a minimum of thirty (30) semester credit hours in the field of science;
   3. Not have had a license to practice chiropractic in any other state suspended or revoked nor have been placed on probation for any cause;
   4. Possess a valid “doctor of chiropractic” degree from a chiropractic institution whose requirements include a course of instruction of not fewer than four (4) years of nine (9) academic months each or not fewer than four thousand four hundred (4,400) fifty-minute resident class hours and include one hundred twenty (120) classroom hours of physiological therapeutics;
   5. Possess a valid National Board of Chiropractic Examiners certificate, to include Parts I, II, III, and IV and the physiological therapeutics section;
   6. [Repealed.]
   7. Not have been convicted of a felony;
   8. Not be an habitual user of intoxicants, drugs, or hallucinatory preparations;
   9. Pay the application fee as provided in § 17-81-304; and
   10. Cause a certified chiropractic college transcript or National Board of Chiropractic Examiners transcript to be submitted directly from the respective institutions.
2. An applicant graduated, as of July 19, 1971, from a school or college of chiropractic, the requirements and course of instruction of which were equal and comparable to other recognized schools or colleges of chiropractic at the time of his or her attendance, may be acceptable.
3. For students enrolled in any approved chiropractic school or college which may not, at the passage date of this act, meet the requirements as set forth in subdivision (a)(4) of this section, the Arkansas State Board of Chiropractic Examiners may waive the requirement in individual cases at its discretion.

History. Acts 1971, No. 706, § 10; A.S.A. 1947, § 72-424; Acts 1987, No. 354, § 6; 1989, No. 763, § 1; 1991, No. 786, § 25; 1993, No. 1219, § 14; 1999, No. 1553, § 9; 2016, No. 200, § 5; 2019, No. 990, § 60.

Publisher's Notes. In reference to the term “at the passage date of this act,” Acts 1971, No. 706, was signed by the Governor on April 28, 1971, and took effect ninety days after adjournment of the General Assembly on April 19, 1971.

Acts 1991, No. 786, § 37, provided, “The enactment and adoption of this Act shall not repeal, expressly or impliedly, the acts passed at the regular session of the 78th General Assembly. All such acts shall have full effect and, so far as those acts intentionally vary from or conflict with any provision contained in this Act, those acts shall have the effect of subsequent acts and as amending or repealing the appropriate parts of the Arkansas Code of 1987.”

Amendments. The 2016 amendment substituted “for licensure” for “to take the examination” in the introductory language of (a); inserted “and IV” in (a)(5); and deleted (d).

The 2019 amendment repealed (a)(6).