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license. L'pon tlie revocation of any license, the fact shall be noted
upon the records of the Regents and the Hcense shall be marked as
cancelled, of the date of its revocation. Upon presentation of a
certificate of such cancellation to the clerk of any county wherein
the licentiate may be registered, said clerk shall note the date of
the cancellation on the register of dentists and cancel the registration.
A conviction of felony shall forfeit a license to practise dentistry,
and upon presentation to the Regents or a county clerk by any
public officer or officer of a dental society of a certified copy of a
court record showing that a ])ractitioner of dentisty has been con-
victed of felony, that fact shall be noted on the record of license
and clerk's register, and the license and registration shall be marked
"cancelled." Any person who. after conviction of a felony shall
practise dentistry in this State, shall be subject to all the penalties
prescribed for the unlicensed practice of dentistry, providing that if
such conviction be subsequently reversed upon appeal and the ac-
cused acquitted or discharged, his license shall become again oper-
ative from the date of such acquittal or discharge.
Sec. 202. Construction of This Article.—This article shall not
be construed to prohibit an unlicensed person from performing
merely mechanical work upon inert matter in a dental office or
laboratory, or the student of a licentiate from assisting the latter in
his performance of dental operations while in the presence and
under the personal supervision of his instructor ; or a student in an
incorporated dental school or college from performing operations
for purposes of clinical study under the supervision and instruction
of preceptors ; or a duly licensed physician from treating diseases of
the mouth or performing operations in oral surgery. But nothing
in this article shall be construed to permit the performance of inde-
pendent dental operations by an unlicensed person under cover of
the name of a registered practitioner or in his office. Nor shall
anything in this article be construed to require of students matricu-
lated in registered dental or medical schools before the first day of
January, 1905, any other or higher qualification for the dental
license or degree than was demanded by existing laws as interpreted
by the regulations of the Regents at the date of their matriculation.
Sec. 203. Penalties. a. A person who, in any county of this
State, practises or holds himself out to the public as practising
dentistry, not being at the times of said practice or holding out, a
dentist licensed to practise as such in this State and registered iri
the office of the clerk of such county, pursuant to the gen-
eral laws regulating the practice of dentistry, is guilty of a
misdemeanor, and punishable upon conviction of a first of-
fense by a fine of not less than .$50, and upon conviction of a subse-
quent ofifense by a fine of not less than $100. or by imprisonment
for not less than two months or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Any violation of this section by a person theretofore convicted under