216                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 176

9. Disposition of fees.

The fees collected by the Board shall be placed in a special fund
to the credit of the Board and shall be used to defray the cost of
executing and enforcing the provisions of this article, including
a salary to the secretary as fixed by the Board and a per diem to
each member of the Board of twenty-five dollars for every day he
is actually employed in the discharge of his official duties, necessary
expenses of the secretary and members in the performance of their
duties, and such other expenses as the Board shall deem necessary
in carrying out the purposes of this article. The secretary shall
receive [and disburse] all moneys of the Board, and shall account
for and pay over the same to the State Comptroller [in the month of
December in each and every year; and should the amount in his
hands as of December first in any year, after deducting all ex-
penses paid or incurred, exceed five hundred dollars, the excess
shall be paid over to the State Board of Health.] who shall place
them in the special fund to the credit of the Board and any unex-
pended balance on hand at the end of each fiscal year shall be
carried forward to the credit of said fund for the following fiscal
year.

11. Grounds for revocation or suspension of licenses.

(a) Following a hearing, as hereafter provided, the Board may
revoke or suspend for such period as the Board in its sole discretion
may determine, the license of any dentist [practicing] licensed to
practice in this State, or may refuse to restore or reinstate any
suspended license of any dentist upon a finding by the Board that the
dentist or former licensee whose license was revoked or suspended:

[(1)] (b) Was convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude,
in which case a certified copy of the docket entries by the clerk of
the court wherein the final judgment was entered shall be con-
clusive evidence of the same ;

[(2)] (c) Has presented to the Board a false diploma, license
or certificate, or one obtained by false or illegal means;

[(3)] (d) Is by reason of persistent inebriety or addiction to
drugs incompetent to continue in the practice of dentistry;

[(4)] (e) Is by reason of insanity or contagious disease an im-
proper person to continue in the practice of dentistry;

[()] (f) Has practiced or offered to practice dentistry as de-
fined in this article under any name except his proper name; which
is the name as set forth in the license granted to him or has used
the name of any company, association, corporation, trade name,
parlor, dental clinic or business name in connection with the prac-
tice of dentistry as defined in this article; has permitted, directly
or indirectly, an unregistered or unlicensed dentist to practice
dentistry under his or her direction;

[(6)] (g) Has employed or made use of advertising solicitors
or free public press agents;

[(7)] (h) Has used any sign, or whose name is upon any sign,
in violation of Sec. 15 of this article;