New Jersey Board of Dentistry Law
DEPARTMENT OF LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
45:6-2. Officers; meetings; quorum; rating of dental schools, etc.; reports; seal The board shall, at its annual meeting, elect from its members a president, and an officer to be known as secretary-treasurer, which officer may or may not be a member of the board; and it shall hold at least two meetings annually for examining and licensing persons to practice dentistry, at which meetings five members shall constitute a quorum. The board shall have power to determine the good standing and repute of any dental school, college or department of a university, and may from time to time designate, in a public manner, schools, colleges or departments of universities, whose diplomas will be received by it; and it shall annually make a report of its proceedings to the governor and to the New Jersey State Dental Society. The seal heretofore adopted by it shall continue to be the common seal of the board. 45:6-3. Rules; examinations; qualifications of applicants for examination The board shall from time to time adopt rules for its own government and for the examination of candidates for licenses to practice dentistry. Any rule altering the nature or increasing the severity of the examination or the subjects to be included therein shall not be enforced until six months after its adoption and public promulgation. The examination of applicants shall be confined to written or oral, or both written and oral, examinations upon subjects properly relating to the science of dentistry, the knowledge of which is necessary to the proper and skillful practice of said science. The board may also require from applicants, as part of the examination, demonstration of their skill in operative and prosthetic dentistry. No person shall be examined by the board unless he is at least 18 years of age, of good moral character, and shall present to the board a certificate from the Commissioner of Education of this State, showing that before entering a dental college he had obtained an academic education consisting of a four years' course of study in an approved public or private high school or the equivalent thereof, unless he has been graduated in course with a dental degree from a dental school, college or department of a university approved by the board, or holds a diploma or license conferring full right to practice dentistry in some foreign country and granted by some authority recognized by the board. Any member of the board may inquire of any applicant for examination concerning his qualifications, and may take testimony of anyone in regard thereto, under oath, which he is hereby empowered to administer. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no person who is a graduate of an unapproved dental school shall be examined by the board unless he has successfully completed at least two years of study of a board approved curriculum at a dental school, college or department of a university approved by the board, with a dental degree having been conferred by the school. Amended by L.1939, c. 108, p. 389, s. 1; L.1983, c. 541, s. 1, eff. Jan. 17, 1984. 45:6-4. Application and fee Every applicant for a license shall file his application with and pay a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) to the secretary-treasurer of the board and present himself for examination at the first regular meeting of the board after such application, due notice of which shall be given. Such fee shall not be refunded, unless from sickness or other good cause appearing to the satisfaction of the board such applicant was prevented from attending and completing such examination. Further or subsequent examinations under such application may be given to applicants, in the discretion of the board, upon payment of an additional fee of twenty dollars ($20.00). Amended by L.1949, c. 52, p. 340, s. 2.
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