The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1938-09-15

nally determine the accusation or complaint
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
sand charges or any of them true, the Board
may proceed to suspend or 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 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-
tlnent relative or proper questions, he shall
be deemed in contempt of said Board and it
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 jurisdic-
ton of the contempt, and the person charged
may purge himself of the contempt in the same
$500
and the same penalties may be imposed, and
the same punishment may be inflicted as in
the ease of 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.
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
hall foil 30,
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 on 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 the door of his office in addition to
those on the door or wall of such building.
Is. Any person shall be deemed to be prac-
ticng dentistry, within the meaning of this
Act, (a) who is a manager, proprietor, con-
ductor of, or an operator in, any place in which
any dental service any dental operation is
performed within the mouth of any person;
or (b) who for a fee, salary other renuner-
alton reward, paid or to be paid to himself
or to another, gratuitously otherwise, per-
forms any such service or operation; or (c)
who diagnoses or treats, attempts to dag
nose or treat, any disease, lesion, melocclu-
sion, maposition of a tooth, gum or jaw, in
any person, mechanically, incidentally, by
of x-ray, or otherwise; or Id who attempts
to perform in the mouth of any person any
operation incident to the repair or replacement
of a tooth teeth or (e) who publicly or pri-
vately applies to himself the title Dentist or
Dental Surgeon" uses the letters DDS.
or DMD., any other titles letters in
connection with his name which, in any way,
represent him being competent ready to
perform any dental service or, any dental OPP
Grafton in any human mouth. This subsection
shall have no application to any person who is
the holder of dental degree who does not,
either directly or 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
rooms of reputable dental college; to a le-
gally qualified physician or surgeon unless he
practices dentistry as a specially; to a dental
surgeon of the United States Army, Navy,
Public Health Service Veterans Bureau, in
the discharge of his official duties nor to
lawful practitioner of dentistry of another
State, territory foreign country making d
clinical demonstration before q dental --iety,
dental convention, association of dentists, or
dental college, in performing professional
duties in connection with a 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 eleemosynary institutions, or to business corr
porations which may maintain clinics for pu-
pills inmates or employees only which shall
public school clinic, State institution, eeemosy-
nary institution, or business corporation shall
advertise in any manner or by any method,
either directly or indirectly, anything relative
to the practice of dentistry. Such institutions
prohibited not only from Advertising in vio-
lation of this act but are 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
ment of Health, or the Director of the Public
l. -
from brOadeasting 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 as
jurors in any of the Courts of this State, dur"
ing the continuance of the practice of their
profession.
IS. 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, at
tempt to practice dentistry within the State OF
Maryland, without having license as herein
before provided or during the period of suspen-
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, 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 offense,
shall be confined not more than six months in
Jail fined not less than three hundred dollars
or more 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 or registration
shall be included in the term subsequent Of
Tense. Every conviction of unlawful practice
subsequent to first conviction thereof shall
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
resident of the City of Baltimore or of the
Counties of this State for a violation of this
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-
tionaI the decision so holding shall not be
construed as impairng any other provision of
this Act. 1t is hereby declared the legislative
intent that this Act would have been adopted
bad such unconstitutional provisions not been
included therein.
%. Nothing contained in this Article shall
prevent, or be construed rs in any way to him
der the prosecution, conviction punishment
the provisions of Chapter 564 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 1st, 1887.
Approved: May IS, 1887.
NOW, THEREFORE,. /, HARRY w. NICE,
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MARY
LAND pursuant to the authority and direc-
ton contained in Section 5 (a) of Article 16
of the Constitution of Maryland. do hereby