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 720 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 513-JULY 2, 1940 [54 STAT. including the detection and prosecution of violations of this Act, together with a fee of $10 per diem for each member of said Board for each day he may be actually engaged upon business pertaining Limitation on x- to his official duties as such Board member: Provided, That such penses. expense shall in no event exceed the total of receipts. Registration. "SEC. 14. During the month of December of each year, every licensed dentist shall register with the secretary-treasurer of the Board his name and office address and such other information as the Board may deem necessary upon blanks obtainable from said sec- Fe e. retary-treasurer, and thereupon pay a registration fee of $5. On or orMaing of blan before the 1st day of November of each year it shall be the duty of the secretary-treasurer of the Board to mail to each dentist licensed in the District of Columbia, at his last-known address, a Failure toregister blank form for registration. In the event of failure to register on or before the 31st day of December a fine of $5 and the registration fee of $5 will be imposed, and should the practitioner fail to regis- ter and pay the fine imposed and continue to practice his profes- sion in the District of Columbia, he shall at the end of ten days from said date be considered as practicing illegally and penalized Reinstatement. as otherwise provided for in this Act. If he suspends his prac- tice he may, in the discretion of the Board, upon furnishing satisfac- tory evidence as to his moral character and professional standing, be reinstated at any time upon registering and paying a prescribed Printe g of feef 5. On or before the day o February, annually, said Board shall issue a printed register of the names and addresses so received, together with other information deemed interesting to the profession, a copy of which shall be mailed or otherwise sent to each Persons deemed registrant thereon. practicing dentistry. B"SEa. 15. Any person shall be deemed to be practicing dentistry who performs, or attempts or advertises to perform, any dental oper- ation or oral surgery or dental service of any kind gratuitously or for a salary, fee, money, or other remunerations paid, or to be paid, directly or indirectly, to himself or to any other person or agency; or who is a manager, proprietor, operator, or conductor of a place where dental operations, oral surgery, or dental services are per- formed; or who directly or indirectly, by any means or method, furnishes supplies, constructs, reproduces, or repairs any prosthetic denture, bridge, appliance, or any other structure to be worn in the human mouth, except on the written prescription of a duly licensed and practicing dentist; or who places such appliance or structure in the human mouth or attempts to adjust the same, or delivers the same to any person other than the dentist upon whose prescription the work was performed; or who advertises to the public, by any method, to furnish, supply, construct, reproduce, or repair any prosthetic den- ture, bridge, appliance, or other structure to be worn in the human mouth; or who diagnoses or professes to diagnose, prescribes for or professes to prescribe for, treats or professes to treat disease, pain, deformity, deficiency, injury, or physical condition of human teeth or jaws, or adjacent structures; or who extracts or attempts to extract human teeth, or corrects or attempts or professes to correct malposi- tions of teeth or of the jaws; or who gives, or professes to give interpretations or readings of dental roentgenograms; or who admin- isters an anesthetic of any nature in connection with a dental opera- tion; or who uses the words 'dentist', 'dental surgeon' 'oral surgeon', the letters 'D. D. S .', 'D. M. D.', or any other words, l etters, title, or descriptive matter which in any way represent him as being able to diagnose, treat, prescribe, or operate for any disease, pain, deformity, deficiency, injury, or physical condition of human teeth or jaws, or

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