394 ARTICLE 32.

ARTICLE 32.

DENTISTRY.

	1. Unlawful to practice without license. 2. Dental examiners; appointment; terms. 3. Officers; meetings; seal; report. 4. Examination of applicants; who may be registered without exam- ination. 5. Examination fees. 6. Compensation and expenses of examiners.	7. Transcripts from records to be evi- dence. 8. Cancellation of certificates; certain advertising prohibited. 9. Who regarded as practicing dentis- try. 10. Penalties. 11. Rights of physicians and surgeons. 12. Exemption from jury service. 13. Prosecution of past offenses.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1884, ch. 150.

1886, ch. 372. 1896, ch. 378, sec. 1. 1920, ch. 481, sec. 1.

1933, ch. 564, sec. 1.

1. It shall be unlawful for any person to practice dentistry in this
State within the meaning and penalties of this Article, and as defined in
Section 9 thereof, unless such person shall previously have been examined
and obtained a license as hereinafter provided, and unless such person
shall exhibit on the door or front of the building wherein he shall practice
or attempt to practice dentistry, a sign on which shall be the name of such
person, provided that any person practicing or attempting to practice
dentistry, in any building containing more than ten offices, may exhibit
-such sign on the door of his office instead of on the door or front of such
building.

1933, ch. 364, sec. 2.

2. There shall be a State Board of Dental Examiners (hereinafter
called the Board) whose duty it shall be to carry out the purposes and
enforce the provisions of this Article. Said Board shall consist of six
registered and practicing dentists of recognized ability and honor, resi-
dents of the State of Maryland, each of whom has held the degree of Doctor
of Dental Surgery for at least five years, no member of the faculty or
teaching staff of any university or college having a dental department in
the State of Maryland shall be eligible for appointment. The members
of the Board as at present constituted shall hold office for the residue of
the respective terms for which they have been appointed. On the expira-
tion of the term or terms for which any one or more of the members of the
present Board may have been appointed, and on the expiration of the
term or terms for which any one or more of the members of the present
Board shall have been appointed in pursuance of this Article, the Gov-