Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 43. PROFESSIONS AND BUSINESSES · Chapter 11. DENTISTS, DENTAL HYGIENISTS, AND DENTAL ASSISTANTS · Article 2. LICENSES FOR THE PRACTICE OF DENTISTRY

43-11-51. Practicing dentistry under another’s license.

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Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity who practices dentistry or performs any dental operation under the protection of another’s license shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500.00 nor more than $1,000.00 or by imprisonment for not less than two nor more than five years, or both.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1897, p. 119, § 14; Civil Code 1910, § 1751; Code 1933, § 84-9907; Ga. L. 1999, p. 234, § 20; Ga. L. 2004, p. 720, § 7.

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