The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-08-18

the purpose If the accused does not appear the
Board may proceed with the hearing and f.
nally determine the accusation OF compliant
in the absence of the accused. If the accused
pleads guilty or refuses to answer the charges
or upon hearing thereof the Board shall find
SAID charges or any of them true, the Board
| may proceed to suspend revoke the license
of the accused for such length of time as 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 adj
| minister oaths, take the dispositions of wit
| nesses in the manner provided by law in civil
| cases, and to compel the attendance Of wit
| nesses by subpoena issued over the signature
of the secretary of the Board. The Board shah
! 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 to answer any per.
| tnent relative proper questions, he SHAH
I be deemed in contempt of said Board and if
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
a place of business in said City. or to the
| Judge of the Circuit Court of the County
| wherein the party guilty of said contempt
| sides; thereupon the Court shall issue at
| tachment in the usual form, directed to the
| Sheriff of the City 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 jurisdic-
| ton of the contempt and the person charged
| may purge himself of the contempt in the same
way, and the same proceedings shall be had
| and the penalties may be imposed, and
| the punishment may be inflicted il
| the of a witness subpoenaed to appear
and give evidence in the trial of a civil cause
| The Board shall have the power in its discre-
| ton, to authorize the payment of fees and
travelling expenses of witnesses called before
the Board and examined in any proceeding
| properly before the Board.
49, 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 a license under this
| Act shall exhibit the door the wall of the
| building wherein he shall practice dentistry,
| not more than two signs on which shall be
placed the name and title or 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 to
| those on the door wall of such building.
Is. Any person shall be deemed to be prac-
ticing dentistry, within the meaning of this
| Act, (a) who is Il manager proprietor, or con-
| ductOr Of or an operator in any place IN whleE
any dental service or any dental operation Is
| performed within the mouth of any person.
| or (b) who for fee, salary, or other remuner-
| alton or reward, paid or to be paid to himself
| or to another, gratuitously or otherwise, per
| forms any such service or operation; or tef
| who diagnoses treats, or attempts to dag
nose or treat. any disease, lesion, melocclu-
/ sion, or mapOStiOn of tooth, gum or Jaw, II
| any person, mechanically, incidentally by use
| of x-ray, or otherwise; I'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 prl-
vately applies to himself the title Dentist or
| Dental Surgeon" or uses the letters DDS
| or DM.D., or any other titles or letters IN
| connection with his name which, in any way
represent him as being competent or ready &c
, perform any dental service any dental op-
| Grafton in any human mouth. This subsection
| shall have no application to any person who VI
| the holder of a dental degree who does not
either directly or indirectly practice, or at
| tempt to practice, dentistry herenbef0re set
! forth in this Section Is.
16. Nothing in this Act shall apply TO L
| bona fide student of dentistry in the CLINIC
rooms of reputable dental college; to ie-
! gally qualified physician or surgeon unless ne
| practices dentistry as speciality; to a denta
| surgeon of the United States Army, Navy.
Public Health Service Veterans Bureau, IL
| the discharge of his official duties; nor to s.
| lawful practitioner of dentistry of another
/ State territory foreign country making :
clinical demonstration before dental society
J dental convention, association OF dentists, OF
dental college in performing professional
/ duties in connection with q SPECIFIC case on
| 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 ceemOsynary institutions, or to business cor
porations which may maintain clinics for pu-
| pills. inmates employees only which shaH
| employ only legally qualified dentists. No such
| public school clinic, State institution, eleemosy-
| nary institution business corporation shaE
| 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 VIC
| lation of this act but prohibited from adver-
| Using in any manner anything relative to the
practice of dentistry.
hbit the Dental Division of the State Depart
ment of Health, the Director of the Public
! School Clinics of the City Health Department
from broadcasting educational programs over
the radio.
IT, All persons now authorized to practice
dentistry in this State, and those who may he
hereafter registered under the provisions OF
| this Article, shall be exempt from service as
| 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
as the state Board of Dental Examiners. and
under this name it shall have the right to sue
or be sued in the Courts of this State.
10. Any person who shall practice, or at
; tempt to practice dentistry within the State Of
Maryland, without having a license as herein"
before provided or during the period of suspen'
sion or revocation of such license preV1SuHE
| granted shall be deemed guilty of mlsdemea-
nor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
not less than fifty dollars nor more than three
| hundred dollars, be confined not more than
six months in Jail, in the discretion of the
| Judge or Judges of the Circuit Court of the
| respective counties of this State, or the Judge
| or Judges of the Criminal Court of Baltimore
| City, before whom the matter shall be tried
| and upon conviction of a subsequent ofenses
| shall be confined not more than six months IN
| Jail or fined not less than three hundred dollars
or more than five hundred dollars. Any vio-
| ton of this Article by a person convicted under
| the then existing laws of this State of practc-
| ing dentistry without license or registration
shall be included in the term subsequent Of
| Tense Every conviction of unlawful practice
| subsequent to a first conviction thereof SHAH
| be conviction of a subsequent otfense.
20. 1t shall be the duty of the States At
| torney of the City of Baltimore or of the var
| ious counties of this State to prosecute any
resident of the City of Baltimore or of the
| Counties of this State for a violation of tins
| law. The Attorney General one of his As
sistants shall be the legal adviser of the Board
! q. CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRUCTION
| The provisions of this Act are severable, ane
il any of its provisions are declared unconstitu-
| tional, the decision holding shall not De
| construed as impairing any other provision Of
intent that this Act would have been adopted
| had such unconstitutional provisions not been
| included therein.
% Nothing contained in this Article shall
| prevent, or be construed in any way to hin
| der the prosecution, conviction or punishment
| of any person who may offend against any OF
| the provisions of Chapter 561 of the Acts OF
the General Assembly of Maryland Of 1888.
! Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this
| Act shall take effect on June LIST, 1887.
| Approved: May 1S, 1887
| NOW, THEREFORE,, l. HARRY w. NICE,
| GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MARY
| LAND, pursuant 10 the authority and direc-
ton contained in Section (al of Article le