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.)