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 DENTAL SURGERY.

CHAPTER 58.

[S. F. 7.]

REGULATING THE PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY.

AN ACT to Revise and Amend an Act Entitled "An act to Insure the Better Education of Practitioners of Dental Surgery, and to Regulate the Practice of Dentistry in the Territory of Dakota."

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

§ 1. WHO MAY PRACTICE-LICENSE.] That it shall unlawful for any person who is not, at the time of the passage of this act, lawfully entitled to practice dentistry in this State, pursuant to the provisions of the act of which this act is a revision and amendment, to practice or attempt to practice dentistry in this State, unless such persons shall have first received a license to practice dentistry from the Board of Dental Examiners, as hereinafter provided.

§ 2. BOARD OF EXAMINERS. ] A Board of Examiners to consist of five practicing dentists is hereby created, whose duties it shall be to carry out the purposes and enforce the provisions of this act. The members of said board shall be appointed by the Governor. The term for which the members of said board shall hold their offices shall be five years, except that the members of the board appointed by the Governor pursuant to the provisions of the act to which this is an amendment, residing in North Dakota, and acting as such at the time this act shall take effect shall hold their respective offices until the close of the term for which they were respectively appointed. The offices of those living in South Dakota are hereby declared vacant and shall be filled as in case of any other vacancy. Any vacancy in said board, whether by removal, death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by the Governor. No person who shall be in any manner pecuniarily interested in, or who shall be officially connected with, any dental college or dental department of any school or university, shall be appointed a member of said board.

§ 3. OFFICERS-RECORD.] Said board shall have power to make reasonable rules and regulations for carrying into effect and maintaining the provisions of this act. It shall choose one of its members president and one secretary thereof, and shall hold regular meetings twice in each year, and such other regular and