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128 DENTAL LAWS CONDENSED.
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Sec. 191. State Dental Society.—The Dental Society of the
State of New York is continued, and shall be composed of eight
delegates from each district society divided into four classes of two
delegates, each to be elected annually, and of two delegates from
each incorporated dental school of the State to be elected annually.
The State Dental Society shall annually meet on the second Wed-
nesday of May, or at such other time and at such place as may be
determined on in the by-laws of the society or by resolution, at
the preceding annual meeting. Twenty members shall be a quorum.
The society shall elect annually a president, vice president, secretary
and treasurer, who shall hold their offices for one year, and until
others shall be chosen in their places, and may elect not more than
sixteen permanent members at any annual meeting from among
eminent dentists of the State, who shall have all the privileges of
delegate members. The society may elect honorary members from
any State or county not eligible, to regular membership, who shall
not be entitled to vote or hold any office in the society.
Sec. 192. District Dental Societies.—The existing district
dental societies are continued. In any judicial district in which a
district dental society is not now incorporated, fifteen or more den-
tists of such district authorized to practise dentistry in this State
may become a district dental society of such district, by publishing
a call for a meeting of the dentists of the district to be held at a
time and place mentioned therein within the district, in at kast one
newspaper in each county of the district, at least once a week for
at least four weeks immediately preceding the time when such meet-
ing is to be held, and by meeting at the time and place specified in
such notice with such dentists authorized to practise dentistry in
the district as may respond to such call, and by making and filing
with the secretary of the State Dental Society a certificate, to be
executed and acknowledged by the dentists so meeting, or by at
least fifteen of them, which shall set forth that such meeting has
been held pursuant to such notice, the corporate name of the society,
which shall be the district dental society of the judicial district
where located, the names and places of residences of the officers
of the society for the first year, or until the first annual meeting,
which officers shall be a president, vice president, secretary and
treasurer, the time and place of the annual meeting of the society,
the general objects and purposes of the association and the names
of eight delegates to the State society divided into four classes of
two delegates each, to hold office until the first, second, third and
fourth annual meeting thereafter, respectively. And thereon the
persons executing such certificate and all other dentists in good
standing and authorized to practise dentistr\^ in such district, who
shall subscribe to its by-laws, shall be a corporation by the name
expressed in such certificate.