HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 579

place and in lieu thereof twenty-three new sections to be
known as Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10a, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22, for the purpose of
licensing dentists, which licenses shall be issued to indi-
vidual dentists; providing for a State Board of Dental
Examiners, its organization and duties; providing for the
giving of examinations and licenses by said Board; provid-
ing for the issuance of new licenses in place of those that
are lost or destroyed; providing for fees upon taking of
examinations; providing for the revocation and suspension
of licenses; prohibiting advertising by dentists; providing
appeals from the ruling of the Board; defining dentistry;
creating certain exceptions to the Act; providing for
penalties, and providing other matters incidental to the
general purpose of the Act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted ly the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 1 to 13, inclusive, of Article 32 of the Code
of Public General Laws of Maryland, 1935 Supplement, Flack's
Edition, title "Dentistry", be, and the same are hereby, re-
pealed; and that twenty-three new sections, to be known as
Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10a, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22, be, and they are hereby, enacted in
lieu and in place thereof, said new sections to read as follows:

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 Maryland as hereinafter
provided, except that the license of any dentist, existing at
the time of the passage of this Act, shall continue in force
unless suspended or revoked by the Board in the manner here-
inafter provided.

All licenses issued by the Board shall be issued to indi-
vidual 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 corporation, associa-
tion, 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 partner-
ship 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.

2. There shall be a State Board of Dental Examiners, here-
inafter called the Board whose duty it shall be to carry out
the purposes and enforce the provisions of this Article. Said