Chap. 82.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1649 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, relating to and regulating the practice of dentistry,
and the powers of the Virginia State Board of Dental Examiners to suspend
and revoke certificates and licenses. [H B 53]

Approved February 28, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
sixteen hundred and forty-nine of the Code of Virginia as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1649. The Virginia State Board of Dental Examiners may
revoke or suspend the certificate and license of any licensed dentist for
any one or more of the following causes:

1. Fraud, deceit or misrepresentation in obtaining a license, or the
presentation to the board of any diploma, license or certificate, illegally
or fraudulently obtained ; or

2. The commission of a criminal operation, or the conviction of a
felony ; or

3. Chronic or persistent inebriety, or addiction to drugs, to such an
extent as to render him unsafe or unreliable as a practitioner of dentis-
try, or such gross immorality as tends to bring reproach upon the
dental profession; or

4. Any unprofessional conduct likely to defraud or to deceive the
public or the commission of any fraud upon the public or individual
patients in obtaining or attempting to obtain practice; or

5. Wilful negligence in the practice of dentistry; or

6. The employment of unlicensed persons or of persons whose cer-
tificate and license have been finally suspended or revoked to perform
work which under this chapter, can only be legally done by persons
holding a license to practice dentistry in this State, provided, however,
that a person whose certificate and license has been finally suspended
or revoked may be employed pending an appeal if he has given bond
as provided in the next succeeding section; or

7. Advertising to practice without causing pain or advertising pro-
fessional superiority or the performance of professional services in a
superior manner, or advertising prices, terms, or fees for professional
services or advertising by means of large display, glaring light signs, or
containing as a part therof the representation of a tooth, teeth, bridge
work or any portion of the human head, or employing or making use
of advertising solicitors or free publicity press agents, or advertising
any free dental work or free examination, or advertising to guarantee
any dental service, or advertising to use any drug, nostrum, patent or
proprietary drug or medicine of an unknown formula, or advertising
or publishing or circulating false claims or misleading statement of
art, skill or knowledge, or advertising the methods of treatment or
practice, or advertising in any other manner which tends to deceive or
defraud the public; or

8. Accepting employment by or working in the office of any indi-
vidual firm or corporation that is violating any of the provisions of this
section for which the certificate and license of any licensed dentist may
be revoked or suspended, and failing to sever such relationship after
notice in writing so to do from the Virginia State Board of Examiners.