Section 317-A:4 Duties; Organization; Meetings; Records.
I. The board of dental examiners will have the following powers and duties:
(a) To examine, register and license applicants whom it finds to be qualified as provided in this chapter to practice dentistry and dental hygiene. The public member of the board shall not examine applicants in the clinical practice of dentistry or the clinical practice of dental hygiene;
(b) The dental hygiene members shall not examine applicants for the clinical practice of dentistry;
(c) To undertake, when appropriate, disciplinary proceedings and disciplinary action against licensees as authorized by RSA 317-A:17, 317-A:18, 317-A:18-a, 317-A:18-b, and any other appropriate disciplinary statutes;
(d) To obtain legal counsel, investigators, and such other assistance as may be required; to make contracts and arrangements for the performance of administrative and similar services; and to establish compensation therefor;
(e) To establish fees for examination of applicants for licenses and for renewal of licenses to practice dentistry and dental hygiene and for transcribing and transferring records and other services. The fees for dentists established by the board shall include not more than $30 of each application or renewal fee to be used for the funding of professional assistance programs or similar services as may be required under RSA 317-A:17, III(c). The fees established by the board shall be sufficient to provide revenues equal to 125 percent of the direct operating expenses of the board, including expenses under RSA 317-A:4, I(f), for the previous fiscal year;
(f) With the approval of the attorney general and the governor and council, to compensate the board's counsel, investigators, and other assistants, appointed in connection with its activities under RSA 317-A:4, 317-A:17, 317-A:18, 317-A:18-a, and 317-A:18-b, on warrant of the governor out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; provided that any sums so expended shall be included in the computation of fees established for the subsequent fiscal year under RSA 317-A:4, I(e).
(g) May request the state of New Hampshire director of dental health to serve as executive secretary to the board.
II. The board shall choose one of its members as its president and one of its members as vice-president. Five members shall constitute a quorum. The board shall meet once a year and at such other times and places as it may deem proper. A true record of all their official acts shall be made and preserved by the board's executive secretary. The records shall be public and shall be open to inspection at all reasonable times, except for records compiled in connection with disciplinary proceedings, which are subject to RSA 317-A:18.
Source. 1971, 364:1. 1979, 456:3. 1981, 482:4-6. 1986, 219:23, 24. 1989, 237:3, 4. 2000, 5:4-6. 2003, 149:1, 2, eff. July 1, 2003. 2006, 173:1, eff. May 24, 2006.