312.175 Annual renewal of licenses -- Educational requirements -- Renewal notices to licensees -- Failure to renew -- Restoration of licenses. (1) Each person licensed to practice chiropractic in this state shall, on or before the first day of March, annually renew his license and pay a renewal fee of not more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each inactive licensee and not more than five hundred dollars ($500) for each active licensee each year to the board. In addition to the payment of the renewal fee, the active licensee applying for a license renewal shall furnish to the board satisfactory evidence that he has attended an educational program in the year preceding each application for renewal. Satisfactory evidence of attendance of postgraduate study at an institution approved by the board shall be considered equivalent. Provided, however, that licenses may be renewed by the board, at its discretion, and the applicant may be excused from paying the renewal fee or attending the annual educational program, or both, in instances where the applicant submits an affidavit to the board evidencing that he, for good cause assigned, suffered a hardship which prevented the applicant from renewing the license or attending the educational program at the proper time. (2) The board shall send a written notice to every person holding a valid license to practice chiropractic within this state at least forty-five (45) days prior to the first day of March in each year, directed to the last known address of the licensee, and shall enclose with the notice proper blank forms for application for annual license renewal. The board shall, within forty-five (45) days, notify every person failing to renew his license after it is due that he is delinquent and is subject to a late penalty of three hundred dollars ($300). If the licensee fails to renew his license within forty-five (45) days after the mailing of the delinquent notice then his license shall be revoked for nonrenewal. Any licensee whose license has been revoked for failure to renew his license may have his license restored upon the payment of a restoration fee not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) for each delinquent year or any part thereof in addition to the renewal fee of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) and upon presentation of satisfactory evidence of postgraduate study of a standard approved by the state board or upon a showing that he is an exception as provided for in subsection (1) of this section. (3) Any licensee whose license has been revoked for less than four (4) years, may not apply for a license pursuant to KRS 312.085. The licensee may only apply for restoration pursuant to subsection (2) of this section. (4) Any licensee whose license has been revoked for more than four (4) years may apply for a license by examination, as long as the licensee pays a restoration fee not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) for each delinquent year, or any part thereof, in addition to the renewal fee of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) and not more than three thousand dollars ($3,000). Effective: June 24, 2015 History: Amended 2015 Ky. Acts ch. 113, sec. 12, effective June 24, 2015. -- Amended 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 126, sec. 12, effective June 24, 2003. -- Amended 2001 Ky. Acts ch. 61, sec. 7, effective June 21, 2001. -- Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 252, sec. 10, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 443, sec. 6, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 426, sec. 11, effective July 15, 1988. -- Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 359, sec. 19, effective June 19, 1976. -- Created 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 179, sec. 17, effective June 14, 1962.