The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-09-08

| nally determine the accusation or complaint
in the absence of the accused. If the accused
pleads guilty, or refuses to answer the charger
or upon hearing thereof the Board shall fms
said charges or any of them true the Board
may proceed to suspend or revoke the license
OF the accused for such length of time rs the
Board, in its discretion shall deem proper The
Board and the accused may have the benefit OF
counsel. The Board shall have the power to ad-
minister oaths, take the dispositions of Wit
nesses in the manner provided by law in civiz
cases, and to compel the attendance of Wit
nesses by subpoena issued over the signature
of the secretary of the Board. The Board shall
issue for any and all witnesses requested in
writing by the accused
Whenever any person subpoenaed to appear
and give testimony shall refuse to appear or
testify before said Board, or to answer any per-
tinent. relative or proper questions, he shaE
be deemed in contempt of said Board and E
shall be the duty of the presiding officer OF
said Board to report the fact to the Superior
Court of Baltimore City in the event the party
guilty of contempt resides in said City, or has
place OF business in said City, or to the
Judge of the Circuit Court of the County
wherein the party guilty of said contempt re.
sides; thereupon the Court shall issue an at
tachment in the usual form, directed to the
Sheriff of the City or County commanding said
Sheriff to attach said person and forthwith
bring him before the Court. On the return OF
said attachment and the production of the per-
son attached, the Court shall have jursdis-
ton of the contempt, and the person charged
may purge himself of the contempt in the
way, and the same proceedings shall be had
and the same penalties may be imposed, ana
the same punishment may be inflicted as il
the case of a witness subpoenaed TO appear
and give evidence in the trial of civil cause
The Board shall have the power in its discre
ton, to authorize the payment of fees ane-
travelling expenses of witnesses called before
the Board and examined in any proceeding
properly before the Board.
10. All signs prohibited by this Act shall be
removed within three months after the pas
sage of this Act Any person or persons who
shall prohibit neglect, fail refuse to remove
any sign prohibited by this Act is guilty of
violation of this Act and subject to the penal
ties thereof.
IA. Each person holding license under this
Act shall exhibit the door or the wall Of the
building wherein he shall practice dentistry
not than two signs on which shall be
placed the name and title degree of such
person, the letters of which shall not exceed
three inches square. Any person practicing
dentistry in any building may exhibit such
sign on the door of his office in addition 10
those the door wall of such building
Is. Any person shall be deemed to be prGe'
ticng dentistry, within the meaning of this
Act, (a) who is a manager, proprietor or con-
ductor of, or an operator in, any place in which,
any dental service or any dental operation rS
performed within the mouth of any person.
or (b) who for fee, salary, or other remuner-
alton or reward, paid to be paid to himself
or to another, gratuitously or otherwise, per
forms any such service or operation; or tc1
who diagnoses or treats, attempts to dag
sion, or malposition of tooth, gum or jaw, in
any person, mechanically incidentally, by use
of x-ray, or otherwise; (d) who attempts
to perform in the mouth of any person any
operation incident to the repair or replacement
of tooth teeth or (e) who publicly or prt-
vately applies to himself the title Dentist OF
Dental Surgeon" or uses the letters DDS.
or D.M.D., or any other titles letters in
connection with his nanG which, in any way
represent him as being competent or ready 70
perform any dental service or any dental op~
Grafton in any human mouth. This subsection
shall have no application to any person who as
the holder of a dental degree who does NOT
either directly indirectly, practice, or at
tempt to practice, dentistry as hereinbefore set
forth in this Section Is.
16. Nothing in this Act shall apply TO a
bona fde student of dentistry in the CLINIC
of reputable dental college, to ie
gally qualified physician or surgeon unless ne
practices dentistry as a specially; to den4ai
surgeon of the United States Army, Navy.
Public Health Service Veterans Bureau, in
tho dischar%c Of his official duties; nor to q
lawful practitioner Of dentistry of another
State, territory or foreign cor~try milking e.
clinical demonstration before dental society
dental convention, association of dentists, &C
dental college, in performing professional
duties in connection with a specific case
which he may have been called to the State OF
Maryland Nothing in this Article shall apply
to public school clinics, to state institutions
to eleemosynary institutions, or to business cor
porations which may maintain clinics for pu"
pills, inmates or employees only which shall
employ only legally qualified dentists. No euG@
public school clinic, State institution, eleemosy-
nary institution, or business corporation shan
advertise in any manner or by any method
either directly or indirectly, anything relative
to the practice of dentistry. Such institutions
are prohibited not only from Advertising in viSs
lation of this act but prohibited from adver
Using in any manner anything relative TO the
practice of dentistry.
Nothing in this Article shall pro-
hibit the Dental Division of the State Depart
,aapfn Of tbo So h. Dt,hIT
School Clinics of the City Health Department
from broadcasting educational programs oVer
the radio.
II. All persons now authorized to practice
dentistry in this State, and those who may be
hereafter registered under the provisions OF
this Article shall be exempt from service ar
jurors in any of the Courts of this State, dur
ing the continuance of the practice of Their
profession
18. The Board shall always be designated
the state Board of Dental Examiners, and
under this name it shall have the right to sue
be sued in the Courts of this State.
10. Any person who shall practice, at
tempt to practice dentistry within the State OF
Maryland without having a license as hereiR-
before provided during the period of suspeR.
sion or revocation of such license previously
granted shall be deemed guilty of misdemea-
nor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
not less than fifty dollars nor more than three
hundred dollars, or be confined not more than
six months in Jail in the discretion Of the
Judge Judges of the Circuit Court of the
respective counties of this State, the Judge
or Judges of the Criminal Court of Baltimore
City, before whom the matter shall be tried7
and upon conviction of a subsequent offenses
shall be confined not more than six months In
Jail or fined not less than three hundred dollars
or than five hundred dollars. Any vio-
ton of this Article by person convicted under
the then existing laws of this State of practic-
ing dentistry without license registration
shall be included in the term subsequent Of
Tense. Every conviction of unlawful practice
subsequent to a first conviction thereof SHAH
be a conviction of subsequent offense.
20. 1t shall be the duty of the States At
torney of the City of Baltimore or of the var
ions counties of this State to prosecute any
resident of the City of Baltimore or Of the
Counties of this State for a violation of thiE
law The Attorney General or one of his As
sistants shall be the legal adviser of the Board.
q. CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRUCTION
The provisions of this Act are severable, and
if any of its provisions are declared unconstitu-
tional. the decision holding shall not be
construed as imparing any other provision Oh
this Act. lt is hereby declared the legislative
intent that this Act would have been adoptec
had such unconstitutional provisions not been
included therein
%. Nothing contained in this Article SHAH
prevent, or be construed as in any way to him
der the prosecution, conviction or punishment
of any person who may offend against any OF
the provisions of Chapter 564 of the Acts OF
the General Assembly of Maryland of 1888.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That thM
Act shall take effect on June LIST, 1887.
Approved: Nav IS, 1887.
NOW, THEREFORE, 1, HARRY W. NICE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MARY
LAND Dursuant to the authority and direc-