TITLE 5

Businesses and Professions

CHAPTER 5-31.1

Dentists and Dental Hygienists

SECTION 5-31.1-22



   § 5-31.1-22  Limited registrations. –

An applicant for limited registration under this chapter who furnishes the

board with satisfactory proof that the applicant is eighteen (18) years of age

or older and of good moral character, that the applicant has graduated from a

dental school accredited by the American Dental Association Commission on

Dental Accreditation or its designated agency and approved by the board, and

that the applicant has been appointed an intern, resident, fellow, or dental

officer in a hospital or other institution maintained by the state, or by a

city or town, or in a hospital or clinic which is incorporated under the laws

of this state or in a clinic which is affiliated with a hospital licensed by

the department of health, or in an out-patient clinic operated by the state,

may, upon the payment as set forth in § 23-1-54, be registered by the

board as a hospital dental officer for any time that the board prescribes; but

that limited registration entitles the applicant to practice dentistry in the

hospital or other institution designated on his or her certificate of limited

registration, or outside that hospital or other institution for the treatment,

under the supervision of one of its dental officers who is a licensed dentist,

in the state of persons accepted by it as patients, or in any hospital,

institution, clinic, or program affiliated for training purposes with the

hospital, institution, or clinic designated on this certificate, which

affiliation is approved by the board, and in any case under regulations

established by that hospital, institution, or clinic. Each hospital,

institution, or clinic shall annually submit to the board a list of training

programs which comply with the terms of this section. Limited registration

under this section may be revoked at any time by the board. The board and/or

the director may promulgate any rules and regulations that it deems necessary

to carry out the provisions of this section.



History of Section.

(P.L. 1987, ch. 358, § 2; P.L. 2001, ch. 77, art. 14, § 6; P.L. 2007,

ch. 73, art. 39, § 5; P.L. 2012, ch. 241, art. 9, § 5.)