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RI Gen L § 5-31.1-21 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-21 - Biennial registration.

§ 5-31.1-21. Biennial registration.(a) Effective beginning in the calendar year 2006, on or before the first day of May in each even-numbered year, the board shall mail an application for biennial registration to every person to whom a license to practice dentistry, dental hygiene, or DAANCE-certified maxillofacial surgery assisting in this state has been granted by the constituted licensing authority in the state. Every licensed person who intends to engage in the practice of his or her profession during the ensuing two (2) years shall register his or her license by filing with the board that application, executed together with any registration form and fee that is established by regulation by the director, on or before the first day of June in each even-numbered year. Upon receipt of that application and fee, the board shall issue a registration certificate, effective July 1 and expiring two (2) years following June 30, and that registration certificate shall render its holder a registered practitioner of dentistry or dental hygiene for that registration period.(b) The registration certificate of all dentists, dental hygienists, or DAANCE-certified maxillofacial surgery assistants whose renewals, accompanied by the prescribed fee, are not filed on or before the first day of July automatically expire. The board may, in its discretion and upon the payment by the dentist, dental hygienist, or DAANCE-certified maxillofacial surgery assistant of the current registration fee, plus an additional fee as set forth in § 23-1-54, reinstate any certificate expired under the provisions of this section. All unexpended monies in the account of the board of dentistry are transferred to the new board of dentistry as created by this chapter as of June 2, 1988.(c) Dentists, dental hygienists, and DAANCE-certified maxillofacial surgery assistants not intending to practice in this state may request, on a biennial basis, to be placed on inactive status. Those requests must be made, in writing, to the dental administrator and must be accompanied by fees as set forth in § 23-1-54. Persons on inactive status may be reinstated by paying the current, annual-registration fee and must meet any requirements established by this chapter and as are further prescribed by the rules and regulations.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2; P.L. 1988, ch. 169, § 1; P.L. 1993, ch. 310, § 1; P.L. 2001, ch. 77, art. 14, § 6; P.L. 2005, ch. 219, § 1; P.L. 2005, ch. 232, § 1; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 39, § 5; P.L. 2012, ch. 241, art. 9, § 5; P.L. 2014, ch. 95, § 1; P.L. 2014, ch. 163, § 1.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-22 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-22 - Limited registrations.

§ 5-31.1-22. Limited registrations.An applicant for limited registration under this chapter who furnishes the board with satisfactory proof that the applicant is eighteen (18) years of age or older and of good moral character, that the applicant has graduated from a dental school accredited by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation or its designated agency and approved by the board, and that the applicant has been appointed an intern, resident, fellow, or dental officer in a hospital or other institution maintained by the state, or by a city or town, or in a hospital or clinic that is incorporated under the laws of this state or in a clinic that is affiliated with a hospital licensed by the department of health, or in an outpatient clinic operated by the state, may, upon the payment as set forth in § 23-1-54, be registered by the board as a hospital dental officer for any time that the board prescribes; but that limited registration entitles the applicant to practice dentistry in the hospital or other institution designated on his or her certificate of limited registration, or outside that hospital or other institution for the treatment, under the supervision of one of its dental officers who is a licensed dentist, in the state of persons accepted by it as patients, or in any hospital, institution, clinic, or program affiliated for training purposes with the hospital, institution, or clinic designated on this certificate, which affiliation is approved by the board, and in any case under regulations established by that hospital, institution, or clinic. Each hospital, institution, or clinic shall annually submit to the board a list of training programs that comply with the terms of this section. Limited registration under this section may be revoked at any time by the board. The board and/or the director may promulgate any rules and regulations that it deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2; P.L. 2001, ch. 77, art. 14, § 6; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 39, § 5; P.L. 2012, ch. 241, art. 9, § 5.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-23 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-23 - Limited registration - Academic faculty - Fees.

§ 5-31.1-23. Limited registration — Academic faculty — Fees.(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a dentist of noteworthy and recognized professional attainment, who is a clearly outstanding dentist and who has been offered by the dean of a medical school, dental school, or school of dental hygiene in this state a full-time academic appointment, is eligible for a limited registration while serving on the academic staff of the medical school, dental school, or school of dental hygiene. Upon recommendation of the dean of an accredited school of medicine, dentistry, or school of dental hygiene in this state, the board in its discretion, after being satisfied that the applicant is a graduate of a foreign dental school and a person of professional rank whose knowledge and special training will benefit that medical school, dental school, or school of dental hygiene may issue to that dentist a limited registration to engage in the practice of dentistry to the extent that the practice is incidental to a necessary part of his or her academic appointment and then only in the hospital or hospitals and outpatient clinics connected with the medical school, dental school, or school of dental hygiene.(b) Except to the extent authorized by this section, the registrant shall not engage in the practice of dentistry or receive compensation for it, unless he or she is issued a license to practice dentistry in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. The registration is valid for a period of not more than one year expiring on the 30th day of June following its initial effective date but may be renewed annually. The registration shall automatically expire when the holder's relationship with the medical school, dental school, or school of dental hygiene is terminated.(c) The application fee for the registration authorized and for initial annual renewal under this section is as set forth in § 23-1-54. Subsequently, fees are as promulgated by the director.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2; P.L. 2001, ch. 77, art. 14, § 6; P.L. 2007, ch. 73, art. 39, § 5; P.L. 2012, ch. 241, art. 9, § 5.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-24 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-24 - Violations - Penalties.

§ 5-31.1-24. Violations — Penalties.Unless another penalty is provided by the laws of this state, any person who violates any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation adopted under this chapter, shall upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-25 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-25 - Injunction of violations.

§ 5-31.1-25. Injunction of violations.When it appears to the director and/or board that any person is violating any of the provisions of this chapter, the director and/or board may cause to be instituted an action to enjoin that violation in a court of competent jurisdiction and the court may restrain, and/or enjoin any person, firm, corporation, or association from violating any of the provisions of this chapter without regard to whether proceedings have been or may be instituted before the board or whether criminal proceedings have been or may be instituted.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-26 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-26 - Severability.

§ 5-31.1-26. Severability.If any provision of this chapter or any rule or regulation made under this chapter, or the application of this chapter to any person or circumstances is held invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this chapter, rule, or regulation, and the application of that provision to other persons or circumstances, is not affected.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-28 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-28 - Hospital disciplinary powers.

§ 5-31.1-28. Hospital disciplinary powers.(a) The board of trustees of a hospital or other appropriate authority licensed pursuant to the laws of the state is authorized to suspend, deny, revoke, or curtail the staff privileges of any staff member for good cause which includes the grounds specified in § 5-31.1-10 for unprofessional conduct; provided, that the procedures for those actions comply with the procedures, if any, that are outlined by the joint commission for accreditation of hospitals.(b) There is no liability on the part of and no cause of action of any nature arises against any hospital, hospital board of trustees, or any hospital medical staff committee, where instituted by hospital bylaws, for any action taken in good faith in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.(c) Any disciplinary action against a dentist or dental hygienist that involves loss of privileges, including for administrative reasons, shall promptly be reported to the board of examiners in dentistry by the hospital.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-29 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-29 - Privileges and immunities for peer review activities.

§ 5-31.1-29. Privileges and immunities for peer review activities.(a) Neither the proceedings nor the records of peer-review boards as defined in § 5-31.1-1 are subject to discovery or admissible in evidence in any case save litigation arising out of the imposition of sanctions upon a dentist or dental hygienist. Any imposition or notice of a restriction of privileges or a requirement of supervision imposed on a dentist or dental hygienist for unprofessional conduct as defined in § 5-31.1-10 is subject to discovery and admissible in any proceeding against that dentist or dental hygienist for performing or against any dental-care facility or dental-care provider that allows the dentist to perform the dental procedures that are the subject of the restriction or supervision during the period of the restriction or supervision or subsequent to that period. Nothing contained in this section applies to records made in the regular course of business by a hospital or other provider of healthcare information. Documents or records available from original sources are not to be construed as immune from discovery or use in any civil proceedings merely because they were presented during the proceedings of the committee.(b) There is no monetary liability on the part of, and no cause of action for damages arising against, any member of an appointed peer-review board operated pursuant to written bylaws, for any act or proceeding undertaken or performed within the scope of the functions of that board.(c) There is no monetary liability on the part of, and no cause of action for damages arising against, any person on account of the communication of information in the possession of the person to any peer-review board or the board of examiners in dentistry when the communication is intended to aid in the evaluation of the qualifications, fitness, or character of a practitioner of dentistry or dental hygiene and does not represent as true any matter not reasonably believed to be true.(d) Any peer-review processes authorized by statute and carried out in good faith have the benefit of the state action exemption to the state antitrust law.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-30 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-30 - Licensure required - Dental assistants excepted.

§ 5-31.1-30. Licensure required — Dental assistants excepted.No person shall perform any act that constitutes the practice of dentistry in this state unless that person is licensed under the provisions of this chapter as a dentist or a dental hygienist, or unless that person performs limited auxiliary dental services, procedures, and duties as a dental assistant as provided by this chapter. The board of examiners in dentistry shall develop rules and procedures to implement a listing of all dental assistants practicing in the state.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2; P.L. 2013, ch. 172, § 2; P.L. 2013, ch. 201, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-32 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-32 - Disclosure of nonparticipation in dental insurance plans.

§ 5-31.1-32. Disclosure of nonparticipation in dental insurance plans.(a) Any dentist who is not a participant in a dental insurance plan and who, when treating patients of that plan, elects to use the direction to pay procedure set forth in title 27 must post a notice, in a conspicuous place in his or her offices where it can be read by his or her patients, that reads, in substance, as follows:"To my patients:"I do not participate in the dental insurance plan. You should know that you will be responsible for the payment of my dental fees."(b) Any dentist who fails to post this notice is not entitled to charge his or her patients any amount for dental fees in excess of that allowed had the dentist participated in the patients' dental insurance plan.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2; P.L. 2004, ch. 268, § 6; P.L. 2004, ch. 386, § 6.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-33 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-33 - Employment of hygienists - Practices allowed.

§ 5-31.1-33. Employment of hygienists — Practices allowed.Any licensed dentist, public institution, or school authority may employ any licensed dental hygienist, whose activities are confined to performing those services and procedures that the licensed dental hygienist has been educated to perform, and which services and procedures are, from time to time, specifically authorized by rules and regulations adopted by the board of examiners in dentistry. Nothing in this section is construed to authorize a licensed dental hygienist to perform the following: diagnosis and treatment planning, surgical procedures on hard or soft tissue, prescribe medication, or administer general anesthesia or injectables other than oral local anesthesia.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2; P.L. 2005, ch. 219, § 1; P.L. 2005, ch. 232, § 1.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-34 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-34 - Immunity from liability.

§ 5-31.1-34. Immunity from liability.No dentist licensed under the provisions of this chapter or members of the same profession licensed to practice in other states of the United States, who voluntarily and gratuitously and other than in the ordinary course of his or her employment or practice, renders emergency medical assistance to a person in need of assistance, is liable for civil damages for any personal injuries that result from acts or omissions by those persons in rendering the emergency care that constitute ordinary negligence. The immunity granted by this section does not apply to acts or omissions constituting gross, willful, or wanton negligence, or when the medical assistance is rendered at any hospital, dentist's office, or clinic where the services are normally rendered.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-35 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-35 - Penalty for violations generally - Evidence of unauthorized practice.

§ 5-31.1-35. Penalty for violations generally — Evidence of unauthorized practice.Any person who practices or attempts to practice dentistry in this state, without being licensed by and registered with the board, or without registering and obtaining annually a certificate of registration, as provided in this chapter, or who violates any of the provisions of this chapter, penalty for the violation of which is not provided by law, and any person, firm, or corporation owning or carrying on a dental business and in that business employing or permitting any person to practice dentistry in this state, without being licensed and obtaining an annual certificate as stated in this section, is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than two thousand dollars ($2,000) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or imprisoned for not more than two (2) years, either or both, in the discretion of the court. In no case where any provision of this chapter has been violated is the person violating the provision entitled to receive compensation for service rendered. The opening or maintaining of a dentist's office, displaying of a dentist's sign or door plate, or the advertising in the public prints or by cards, circulars, posters, of a readiness to practice dentistry in this state by that person, firm, or corporation is evidence of the violation.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-36 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-36 - Liability of employers and accomplices.

§ 5-31.1-36. Liability of employers and accomplices.Any person who employs, hires, procures, or induces any other person not authorized by the provisions of this chapter to perform any act that constitutes the practice of dentistry in this state or aids or abets one not authorized in that practice is guilty of a felony punishable by a fine of not less than two thousand dollars ($2000) or more than five thousand dollars ($5000), or by imprisonment for not more than two (2) years, or by both fine and imprisonment.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-37 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-37 - Persons and practices exempt.

§ 5-31.1-37. Persons and practices exempt.The following practices, acts, and operations are exempt from the operation of this chapter:(1) Physicians in the regular discharge of their duties.(2) The operation by bona fide students of dentistry or dental hygiene in the clinical departments or the laboratory of a school of dentistry or dental hygiene approved by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation or its designated agency or by the board of examiners in dentistry.(3) The practice of dentistry by licensed dentists of other states or countries while appearing and operating as bona fide clinicians or instructors in a school of dentistry or dental hygiene approved by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation or its designated agency and by the board of examiners in dentistry.(4) The practice of dentistry by licensed dentists of other states or countries in conducting or making a clinical demonstration before any bona fide dental or medical society, association, or convention; provided, that the consent of the board of examiners in dentistry to the making and conducting of the clinical demonstration must be first obtained.(5) The practice of dentistry or dental hygiene by students of a school of dentistry or dental hygiene approved by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation or its designated agency and under the supervision of a licensed dentist, in any public hospital, or any institution under the supervision of the state or in any program of the state department of health, with the approval of the board of examiners in dentistry and the authorities of the school, as a part of the required training of the student.History of Section.P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-31.1-38 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-31.1 - Dentists and Dental Hygienists|Section 5-31.1-38 - Advertising.

§ 5-31.1-38. Advertising.(a) All advertising by any facility rendering dental-care services to the public shall contain the name of the dentist or dentists who either directs or owns the facility.(b) Any person or corporation who or that operates a dental referral service that is engaged in the business of offering to refer patients to dentists must disclose in all advertising that dentists pay a fee to the referral service to participate in the service.History of Section.P.L. 1999, ch. 425, § 1.
RI Gen L § 5-32-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-32 - Electrolysis and Laser Hair Removal|Section 5-32-1 - Definitions.

§ 5-32-1. Definitions.As used in this chapter:(1) "Electrologist" means a person who is licensed by the department of health to perform electrolysis and/or laser hair removal.(2) "Electrolysis" means the method of removing hair from the human body by the application of an electrical current or any form of energy to the hair-papilla or hair germination by means of a needle or any other instrument or device to cause decomposition, coagulation, dehydration, or other form of tissue destruction, to permanently disable the hair follicle from producing hair.(3) "Laser" means the acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.(4) "Laser hair removal" means using laser light to perform hair removal or reduction or electrolysis performed with laser light.(5) "Laser light" means an intense, coherent, directional beam of light produced by stimulated emission of photons.(6) "Medical director" means a Rhode Island licensed physician.History of Section.P.L. 1943, ch. 1315, § 2; G.L. 1956, § 5-32-1; P.L. 1969, ch. 166, § 1; P.L. 2019, ch. 94, § 2; P.L. 2019, ch. 129, § 2.
RI Gen L § 5-32-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 5 - Businesses and Professions|Chapter 5-32 - Electrolysis and Laser Hair Removal|Section 5-32-2 - Penalty for unlicensed practice.

§ 5-32-2. Penalty for unlicensed practice.Every person who subsequently engages in the practice of electrolysis in this state without being licensed by the board of examiners in electrolysis is practicing illegally and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100) and every day of the continuation of illegal practice is a separate offense.History of Section.P.L. 1943, ch. 1315, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 5-32-2; P.L. 2015, ch. 141, art. 20, § 4; P.L. 2016, ch. 489, § 3; P.L. 2016, ch. 491, § 3; P.L. 2019, ch. 94, § 2; P.L. 2019, ch. 129, § 2.