Requirements for Individual Registration by Reciprocity

(1) Any person who is registered or licensed as a chiropractor under the laws of any other state or territory of the United States, and who applies for registration as a chiropractor in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts after December 31, 1997, shall be granted a certificate of registration by the Board if he or she submits all of the documentation required by 233 CMR 2.02(1) through (7). (2) An applicant for registration by reciprocity may submit, in lieu of the NBCE national board examination transcript required by 233 CMR 2.02(5), a certified written statement from the licensing or registration authority of the state in which he or she is licensed verifying that his or her license in that state is current and in good standing, and that he or she has practiced pursuant to that license for at least three years. Such an applicant shall be approved for registration by reciprocity only if the requirements for licensure in that state which were in effect on the date he or she obtained that license were substantially equivalent to the requirements for registration in Massachusetts which were in effect on that same date.