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by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment,
or by both fine and imprisonment.
Sec. 2. A person only shall be deemed to be licensed to
practice dentistry in this State who shall have attained the full
age of twenty-one years, shall have had properly granted to him
or her either by the Dental Society of the State of New York or
by an incorporated medical or dental school or college, approved
by the Dental Society of New York, a proper diploma conferring
a recognized medical or dental degree, and shall have made the
registration required by section three of this Act: Provided, fur-
ther, That no diploma shall be deemed valid within the provis-
ions of this Act if conferred irregularly, through fraud or false
representation or without substantial compliance by the person
to whom it may have been granted or the corporation conferring
it with the general statutory requirements of this State as to
course and duration of preparatory and professional study, and
also with the regulations of said State Society and of the corpo-
ration conferring the diploma as to study, attendance, examination
and character, or if conferred by a school or college not recog-
nized by said State Society as reputable and providing an ade-
quate course of instruction and maintaining a proper standard of
attainment, character and attendance: Provided, also, That all
persons lawfully licensed and registered at the time this Act shall
take effect shall be deemed lawfully licensed and registered here-
under, subject only to the provisions of section three of this Act
as to removal of practice.
Sec. 3. Every person practicing dentistry in this State shall
register in the office of the clerk of the county where his place of
business is located and the office of the clerk of any county, into
which he shall remove or in which he shall carry on his business,
in a book to be prepared and kept by the clerk for that purpose,
his name, age, office and postoffice address, legal authority for
practicing dentistry in this State, and the date of such registra-
tion, which he shall be entitled to make only upon presenting to
the county clerk a certificate from the member of the State Board
of Censors appointed by the State Dental Society for the judicial
district in which said county is situated, to the effect that said
applicant for registration has received a proper diploma, as pro-
vided in section two of this Act, and upon the making by said ap-
plicant of an affidavit stating his name, age, and legal authority
to practice dentistry within this State. Every such certificate of