---
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"
date: "2026-07-12"
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 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.)