Chap. 45.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1767 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by acts of 1906, chapter 134, who may practice den-
tistry.

Approved February 25, 1910.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
seventeen hundred and sixty-seven of the Code of Virginia, as amended
and re-enacted by the acts of the general assembly of Virginia, nineteen
hundred and six, chapter one hundred and fifty-four, be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows

§1767. Who may practice dentistry.—From and after the passage of
this act it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the practice of
dentistry in the Commonwealth of Virginia or to assist in the practice
of dentistry for compensation as either assistant or employee, or to re-
ceive license from any commissioner of the revenue unless such person
shall have obtained a certificate from the board of examiners, as provided
in section seventeen hundred and sixty-nine of this chapter, as herein
amended and re-enacted: provided, that persons who held license to
practice dentistry in this Commonwealth on the twenty-eighth day of
January, eighteen hundred and ninety, or who have been authorized and
empowered “to practice dentistry under any special enabling act of the
general assembly passed prior to the tenth day of July, nineteen hun-
dred and two, and have complied with the requirements of section seven-
teen hundred and seventy-four, as herein amended and re-enacted, shall be
otherwise exempt from the provisions of this section: and provided fur-
ther, that nothing contained in this section shall prevent any authorized
physician or surgeon from extracting teeth, or any other person from
extracting teeth for any one suffering from toothache, or to prevent a
bona fide student in regular attendance upon any dental college in this
State from practicing dentistry, under the direct supervision of one of
its teachers, in the regular infirmary of such college.