Chap. 154.—An ACT to amend and re-enact sections 1767, 1769, 1774, and 177.
of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, regulating the practice o
dentistry.

Approved March 12, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section:
seventeen hundred and sixty-seven, seventeen hundred and sixty-nine
seventeen hundred and seventy-four, and seventeen hundred and seventy
fie of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore amended, regulating the prac:
tice of dentistry, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$1767. Who may practice dentistry—From and after the passage 0:
this act it shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the practice o!
dentistry in the Commonwealth of Virginia or to assist in the practice
of dentistry for compensation as either assistant or employee, or to re-
ive 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 prac-
tice dentistry in this Commonwealth on the twenty-cighth day of Jan-
uary, cighteen hundred and ninety, and have complied with the require-
ments of section seventeen hundred and seventy-four as herein amended
and re-enacted shall be otherwise exempt from the provisions of this
section: and provided, further, that nothing contained in this section
shall prevent any authorized physician or surgeon from extracting tecth
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.

$1769. Their duties and powers.—It shall be the duty of this board:

First. Meetings.—To meet annually at the time and place of meeting
of the Virginia State dental association, or at such other time and place
as the board shall agree upon, to conduct the examination of applicants.
‘They shall also meet for the same purpose at the call of any four mem-
hers of the board at such time and place as may be designated by said
members. Thirty days’ notice of the meetings shall be given by adver-
lising in at least two of the daily papers published in the State.

Second. Examination of applicants, etcctera.—To grant a certificate of
ability to practice dentistry to all applicants who undergo a satisfactory
examination and receive at least four affirmative votes, which certificate
shall be signed by the members of the board and be stamped with a
suitable seal (which they may adopt).

Third. Registry—To keep a book in which shall be registered the
name and qualification (as far as practicable) of every person to whom
such certificate is granted.

Fourth. Temporary certificates—Any member of the board designated
hy the president thereof may, upon presentation by any applicant of the
evidence of the necessary qualifications to practice dentistry under this
chapter, grant a temporary license to practice until the next meeting of
the board and no longer: provided, that no such temporary license shall
he granted to any person who has been rejected on an examination by the
hoard. All such temporary license shall be signed by the president and
secretary of the board. .

Said board shall inquire into the qualifications and representations of
any applicant for a license to practice dentistry, and for such purposes
shall have power to send for witnesses, papers and documents and to ag-
minister oaths.

$1774. Every person practicing dentistry in the Commonwealth of
Virginia, at the time of the passage of this act, shall annually register
his name and post-office address with the hoard of examiners before re-
newing his license, and it shall be the duty of the board to issue to each
person so registered a certificate of registration stamped with the seal of
the board, and signed by its secretary. Such person so registered may
continue such practice without incurring any of the liabilities imposed
by this chapter by annually causing his name and residence or place of
business to be registered by such board, who shall keep a book for that
purpose. Such registration may be made by furnishing proof of the
fact of being then so engaged in the manner prescribed by law. All
persons holding a certificate of ability from said board shall annually
register in like manner. A certified list of the persons registered from
rach city or county shall be furnished the clerk thereof, except that in
the city of Richmond such list shall be furnished the clerk of the chan-
cery court of said city, and the names on such lists shall be once recorded
by such clerk in a book to be kept for that purpose, for which he shall
receive a fee of fifty cents for each certificate of the persons so recorded
to be paid by said board. Every person who, prior to the passage of this
act, was duly authorized by said board to practice dentistry in this State,
and whose certificate is duly recorded as herein prescribed, shall be
allowed to continue to so practice. But no license to practice dentistry
shall be issued by any commissioner of the revenue to any person whoxe
name is not so recorded in the clerk’s office of the city or county, as
herein prescribed, and any person, who shall engage in the practice of
dentistry and fail to register annually, as herein provided, shall, after
ninety days’ notice in writing from said board of such neglect, be liable
to the penalties prescribed in section seventeen hundred and seventy-two
of this chapter.

$1775. Fees from applicants and registration.—Said board shall charge
each person who appears before them for examination a fee of ten dollars,
and shall charge for each person registering one dollar. From the funds
~0 received, all proper and reasonable expenses of the board, and each of
its members, incurred in carrying out, maintaining and enforcing the
provisions of this chapter, may be paid. No part of such expenses shall
be paid out of the State treasury. Any excess of receipts over disburse-
ments shall be held by the board to meet future expenses of the board
and members. The secretary of the board shall have custody of its
funds and may be required to give a bond in such terms as the board may
direct. An annual report of the proceedings of the board, containing an
account of all moneys received and disbursed, pursuant to this chapter,
shall he made to the governor on the first day of February of each year.