NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1969 SESSION
CHAPTER 804
SENATE BILL 701
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS TO ISSUE PROVISIONAL LICENSES TO CERTAIN QUALIFIED DENTISTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. Chapter 90 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by adding a new section immediately following G.S. 90-29.2 to read as follows:
"G.S. 90-29.3. Provisional License. (a) The North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners shall, subject to its rules and regulations, issue a provisional license to practice dentistry to any person who is licensed to practice dentistry anywhere in the United States or in any country, territory or other recognized jurisdiction, if the Board shall determine that said licensing jurisdiction imposed upon said person requirements for licensure no less exacting than those imposed by this State. A provisional licensee may engage in the practice of dentistry only in strict accordance with the terms, conditions and limitations of his license and with the rules and regulations of the Board pertaining to provisional license.
(b) A provisional license shall be valid until the date of the announcement of the results of the next succeeding Board examination of candidates for licensure to practice dentistry in this State, unless the same shall be earlier revoked or suspended by the Board.
(c) No person who has failed an examination conducted by the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners shall be eligible to receive a provisional license.
(d) Any person desiring to secure a provisional license shall make application therefor in the manner and form prescribed by the rules and regulations of the Board and shall pay the fee prescribed in Section 90-39 of this Article.
(e) A provisional licensee shall be subject to those various disciplinary measures and penalties set forth in Section 90-41 upon a determination of the Board that said provisional licensee has violated any of the terms or provisions of this Article."
Sec. 2. G.S. 90-40 is hereby amended by inserting after the word "Examiners" in the fourth line of said Section the words "or having obtained a provisional license from said Board".
Sec. 3. G.S. 90-41.1 is hereby amended by placing a comma after the word "licensee" in the first line of the text thereof and inserting after the comma "provisional licensee".
Sec. 4. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5. This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of June, 1969.