37-4-326. Acts constituting misdemeanors. Any person, company, or association shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable with a fine of not less than $50 or more than $200 or by imprisonment for not more than 6 months in the county jail or by both such fine and imprisonment who shall:
     (1) sell or barter or offer to sell or barter any diploma or document conferring or purporting to confer any dental degree or any certificate or transcript made or purporting to be made pursuant to the laws regulating the license and regulation of dentists;
     (2) purchase or procure by barter any such diploma, certificate, or transcript with intent that the same shall be used as evidence of the holder's qualification to practice dentistry or in fraud of the laws regulating such practice;
     (3) with fraudulent intent, alter in a material regard any such diploma, certificate, or transcript;
     (4) use or attempt to use any such diploma, certificate, or transcript which has been purchased, fraudulently issued, counterfeited, or materially altered, either as a license or color of license to practice dentistry or in order to procure registration as a dentist;
     (5) practice dentistry under a false or assumed name;
     (6) in an affidavit required of an applicant for examination, license, or registration under this chapter, willfully make a false statement in a material regard;
     (7) engage in the practice of dentistry under any title or name without causing to be displayed in a conspicuous manner and in a conspicuous place in his or her office the required annual registration certificate for the current year; or
     (8) within 10 days after demand made by the secretary of the board, fail to furnish to said board the names and addresses of all persons practicing or assisting in the practice of dentistry in the office of said person, company, or association at any time within 60 days prior to said notice, together with a sworn statement showing under and by what license or authority said person, company, or association and said employee are and have been practicing dentistry, but said affidavit shall not be used as evidence against said person, company, or association in any proceeding under this section.

     History: En. Sec. 18, Ch. 48, L. 1935; re-en. Sec. 3115.18, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 66-918.