MARCH, 19461 ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OPINIONS 163

to have been an amendment to Section 13 of the Med-

a certificate to practice as apossessing a certificate entexamining board, or by ;certificate entitling such applicant to practice medicine either in theDistrict of Columbia, or in any state or territory of the United States, * * * ." Thereference in the provisions of said code and earlier enactments places the "terri

uded in such definition in the same category as "any state" and the DistricColumbia, Unon color and character from the words u :ing Co. v . Collins, 69 A.C.A . 885 .)

In view of the time of enactment of the original reference tothis connection and the decisions and literature thereon as set forth herein I con-,

that the "territories" contemplated by Section 21, as it is to be read withSection 2310 of the Business and Professions Code, was intended in its "strict andtechnical sense," i . e., to mean and refer to areas which had been incorporated intothe United States so as to have acquired the status of an "inchoate" state, and wasnot intended to refer to any and all areas over which the United States might exer-

overeignty or jurisdiction of more or less degree .ore, that for the purposes of reciprocity licensure under

or licenses issued by tland Hawaii,

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the United States, but may not consider such certificatesof any other areas under the jurisdiction of the UnitedVirgin Islands, Panama Canal Zone, Guam, midway,

1913, p. 722, Ch. 354)

iness and Professions Code you are authorized to

o.

PPRENTICE STANDARDS ACT REQUIRES EM-

OUT APPRENTICE TR

PREPARED BY: It, L. CHAMBERLAIN, DEPUTY ATTORNEY C

Your letter of February I I presents two questions as follows :

0

"L Under the Shelley-Maloney~ Apprentice Labor1939 {Labor Code of California Secs . 3071 to 3090ship training program be approved without a joint

on might be issued to an applicanttice as such "issued either by the medical

ized by the law to issue a

sary

that a joint committee is an imp

the Californi a Z :.b :0

and eand, then

Weunlier a taro

riot have enaplooperators ofApprentice Lalconformed to. Pfornia later,

ed 3t pro mr rns under the act areation is necessary,

o be understood as holding that apprentices may not

ion. It is oniv when it is the desire of te Californ

establis

of an equal number o

:E?d C3r;'y_'S7~ on of an apprenG

it is our opinion. that the Counci

ery apprentice

a State or_ocal ):oinr comm,

der thep corn-

question. we -,re of the opinion that both employer

oceaure ooutside of the act are rot prohibi

Opinion No . 46-53-~Iarch 15, 19=i6

SUBJECT- BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION ACT DOES NOT PROHIBITSTOCK DIZTIDEND BASED ON SURPLUS RESULTING FROM A PRIOR .

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RTE FRB BUILDING AND LOAN

Youof Sectionposal you received

and Loanion regarding the

C AN FRAN-

orn an association for approval for the distribution of a stock

s not provide for a Joint committee or