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ARTICLE 32

ARTICLE 32.

DENTISTRY.

	1. Unlawful to practice without license.	13. Hearings.
	2-3. Dental Examiners; appointment;	14-15. Signs.
	terms; meetings.	16. Who regarded as practicing dentistry.
	4-5. Examinations; applicants; --'registra-	17. Rights of physicians and surgeons.
	tion.	18. Exemption from jury service.
	6 Lost licenses.	19. May sue or be sued.
	7. Fees.	20. Penalties.
	8. Expenses of 'Board.	21. Prosecution.
	9. Transcripts of records.	22. Severability clause.
	10. Revocation or suspension of license.	23. Prosecution of past offenses.
	11. Advertising prohibited.	24. Advertising and solicitation; penalty.
	12. Appeals.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1...1912, sec. 1. 4904, 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. 1937, ch. 306, sec. 1.

1. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the practice of
dentistry in the State of Maryland, unless such person shall have obtained
a license from the State Board of Dental Examiners of the State of Mary-
land as hereinafter provided, except that the license of any dentist, existing
on June 1, 1937, shall continue in force unless suspended or revoked by
the Board in the manner hereinafter provided.

All licenses issued by the Board shall be issued to individual persons,
and it shall be unlawful for any dentist to practice in this State under any
name except his own true name. No license shall be issued to any corpora-
tion, association, partnership, parlor, or any entity or association of any
kind or character. It shall be unlawful for any individual or group of
individuals to practice dentistry in this State as a corporation or under
a corporate name; or under a partnership name; as an association or under
an association name; as a parlor or under any parlor name, or an entity
or under the name of any entity of any kind or character.

1933, ch. 564, sec. 2. 1937, ch. 306, 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, residents of the
State of Maryland, each of whom shall have been in active practice in the
State for at least five years immediately preceding his appointment. No
member of the faculty or teaching staff of any university or college in the
State of Maryland which offers undergraduate courses in dentistry shall
be eligible for appointment. The members of the Board as at present con-
stituted shall hold office for the residue of the respective terms for which
they have been appointed. On the expiration of the term or terms for
which any one or more of the members of the present Board may have
been appointed, in pursuance of this Article, the Governor shall appoint