588 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 306
to a legally qualified physician or surgeon unless he practices
dentistry as a specialty; to a dental surgeon of the United
States Army, Navy, Public Health Service or Veterans Bureau,
in the discharge of his official duties; nor to a lawful practi-
tioner of dentistry of another State, territory or foreign coun-
try making a clinical demonstration before a dental society,
dental convention, association of dentists, or dental college,
or 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 corporations which may maintain clinics for pupils,
inmates or employees only which shall employ only legally
qualified dentists. No such public school clinic, State insti-
tution, eleemosynary 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 are prohibited not only from advertising in viola-
tion of this Act, but are prohibited from advertising in any
manner anything relative to the practice of dentistry. Nothing
in this Article shall prohibit the Dental Division of the State
Department of Health, or the Director of the Public School
Clinics of the City Health Department from broadcasting edu-
cational programs over the radio.
17. 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 during the continu-
ance 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.
19. Any person who shall practice, or attempt to practice
dentistry within the State of Maryland, without having a li-
cense as hereinbefore provided or during the period of suspen-
sion or revocation of such license previously granted shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor 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 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
offense, shall be confined not more than six months in jail or
fined not less than three hundred dollars or more than five
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