Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 332
Dentists
←332.011
Section 332.021.1
332.031→
August 28, 2015
Dental board, members, qualifications, appointment, terms, vacancy, how filled--board may sue and be sued.
332.021. 1. "The Missouri Dental Board" shall consist of seven
members including five registered and currently licensed dentists, one
registered and currently licensed dental hygienist with voting authority as
limited in subsection 4 of this section, and one voting public member. Any
currently valid certificate of registration or currently valid specialist's
certificate issued by the Missouri dental board as constituted pursuant to
prior law shall be a valid certificate of registration or a valid
specialist's certificate, as the case may be, upon October 13, 1969, and
such certificates shall be valid so long as the holders thereof comply with
the provisions of this chapter.
2. Any person other than the public member appointed to the board as
hereinafter provided shall be a dentist or a dental hygienist who is
registered and currently licensed in Missouri, is a United States citizen,
has been a resident of this state for one year immediately preceding his or
her appointment, has practiced dentistry or dental hygiene for at least
five consecutive years immediately preceding his or her appointment, shall
have graduated from an accredited dental school or dental hygiene school,
and at the time of his or her appointment or during his or her tenure on
the board has or shall have no connection with or interest in, directly or
indirectly, any dental college, dental hygiene school, university, school,
department, or other institution of learning wherein dentistry or dental
hygiene is taught, or with any dental laboratory or other business
enterprise directly related to the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene.
3. The governor shall appoint members to the board by and with the
advice and consent of the senate when a vacancy thereon occurs either by
the expiration of a term or otherwise; provided, however, that any board
member shall serve until his or her successor is appointed and has
qualified. Each appointee, except where appointed to fill an unexpired
term, shall be appointed for a term of five years. The president of the
Missouri Dental Association in office at the time shall, at least ninety
days prior to the expiration of the term of a board member other than the
dental hygienist or public member, or as soon as feasible after a vacancy
on the board otherwise occurs, submit to the director of the division of
professional registration a list of five dentists qualified and willing to
fill the vacancy in question, with the request and recommendation that the
governor appoint one of the five persons so listed, and with the list so
submitted, the president of the Missouri Dental Association shall include
in his or her letter of transmittal a description of the method by which
the names were chosen by that association.
4. The public member shall be at the time of his or her appointment a
citizen of the United States; a resident of this state for a period of one
year and a registered voter; a person who is not and never was a member of
any profession licensed or regulated pursuant to this chapter or the spouse
of such person; and a person who does not have and never has had a
material, financial interest in either the providing of the professional
services regulated by this chapter, or an activity or organization directly
related to any profession licensed or regulated pursuant to this chapter.
All members, including public members, shall be chosen from lists submitted
by the director of the division of professional registration. The list of
dentists submitted to the governor shall include the names submitted to the
director of the division of professional registration by the president of
the Missouri Dental Association. This list shall be a public record
available for inspection and copying under chapter 610. Lists of dental
hygienists submitted to the governor may include names submitted to the
director of the division of professional registration by the president of
the Missouri Dental Hygienists' Association. The duties of the dental
hygienist member shall not include participation in the determination for
or the issuance of a certificate of registration or a license to practice
as a dentist. The duties of the public member shall not include the
determination of the technical requirements to be met for licensure or
whether any person meets such technical requirements or of the technical
competence or technical judgment of a licensee or a candidate for
licensure.
5. The board shall have a seal which shall be in circular form and
which shall impress the word "SEAL" in the center and around said word the
words "Missouri Dental Board". The seal shall be affixed to such
instruments as hereinafter provided and to any other instruments as the
board shall direct.
6. The board may sue and be sued as the Missouri dental board, and
its members need not be named as parties. Members of the board shall not
be personally liable, either jointly or severally, for any act or acts
committed in the performance of their official duties as board members; nor
shall any board member be personally liable for any court costs which
accrue in any action by or against the board.
(L. 1969 S.B. 97, A.L. 1981 S.B. 16, A.L. 1983 S.B. 313, A.L. 1988
H.B. 1573, A.L. 1993 S.B. 27, A.L. 1999 H.B. 343, A.L. 2011 H.B.
464 merged with H.B. 555)
1999
1999
332.021. 1. "The Missouri Dental Board" shall consist of seven members
including five registered and currently licensed dentists, one registered and
currently licensed dental hygienist with voting authority as limited in
subsection 4 of this section, and one voting public member. Any currently
valid certificate of registration or currently valid specialist's certificate
issued by the Missouri dental board as constituted pursuant to prior law shall
be a valid certificate of registration or a valid specialist's certificate,
as the case may be, upon October 13, 1969, and such certificates shall be
valid so long as the holders thereof comply with the provisions of this
chapter.
2. Any person other than the public member appointed to the board as
hereinafter provided shall be a dentist or a dental hygienist who is
registered and currently licensed in Missouri, is a United States citizen,
has been a resident of this state for one year immediately preceding his or
her appointment, has practiced dentistry or dental hygiene for at least five
consecutive years immediately preceding his or her appointment, shall have
graduated from an accredited dental school or dental hygiene school, and at
the time of his or her appointment or during his or her tenure on the board
has or shall have no connection with or interest in, directly or indirectly,
any dental college, dental hygiene school, university, school, department, or
other institution of learning wherein dentistry or dental hygiene is taught,
or with any dental laboratory or other business enterprise directly related
to the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene.
3. The governor shall appoint members to the board by and with the
advice and consent of the senate when a vacancy thereon occurs either by the
expiration of a term or otherwise; provided, however, that any board member
shall serve until his or her successor is appointed and has qualified. Each
appointee, except where appointed to fill an unexpired term, shall be
appointed for a term of five years. The president of the Missouri Dental
Association in office at the time shall, at least ninety days prior to the
expiration of the term of a board member other than the dental hygienist or
public member, or as soon as feasible after a vacancy on the board otherwise
occurs, submit to the director of the division of professional registration a
list of five dentists qualified and willing to fill the vacancy in question,
with the request and recommendation that the governor appoint one of the five
persons so listed, and with the list so submitted, the president of the
Missouri Dental Association shall include in his or her letter of transmittal
a description of the method by which the names were chosen by that
association.
4. The public member shall be at the time of his or her appointment a
citizen of the United States; a resident of this state for a period of one
year and a registered voter; a person who is not and never was a member of
any profession licensed or regulated pursuant to this chapter or the spouse
of such person; and a person who does not have and never has had a material,
financial interest in either the providing of the professional services
regulated by this chapter, or an activity or organization directly related to
any profession licensed or regulated pursuant to this chapter. All members,
including public members, shall be chosen from lists submitted by the
director of the division of professional registration. Lists of dental
hygienists submitted to the governor may include names submitted to the
director of the division of professional registration by the president of the
Missouri Dental Hygienists' Association. The duties of the dental hygienist
member shall not include participation in the determination for or the
issuance of a certificate of registration or a license to practice as a
dentist. The duties of the public member shall not include the determination
of the technical requirements to be met for licensure or whether any person
meets such technical requirements or of the technical competence or technical
judgment of a licensee or a candidate for licensure.
5. The board shall have a seal which shall be in circular form and which
shall impress the word "SEAL" in the center and around said word the words
"Missouri Dental Board". The seal shall be affixed to such instruments as
hereinafter provided and to any other instruments as the board shall direct.
6. The board may sue and be sued as the Missouri dental board, and its
members need not be named as parties. Members of the board shall not be
personally liable, either jointly or severally, for any act or acts committed
in the performance of their official duties as board members; nor shall any
board member be personally liable for any court costs which accrue in any
action by or against the board.
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