---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 113"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "113"
heading: "Teachers’ certificates dependent on passing examination on effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/113"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Instruction as to Nature and Effect of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics"
---

# §113. Teachers’ certificates dependent on passing examination on effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics


No certificate shall be granted to any person to teach in the public [schools](/usc/20/5802.md?p=a-11) of the District of Columbia or Territories who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the nature and the effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics upon the human system.


## Source credit

(May 20, 1886, ch. 362, § 3, 24 Stat. 69.)