PRINTER'S NO. 1204
No. 1033 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY SHELTON, APRIL 27, 1977
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, APRIL 27, 1977
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," adding a member of the
21 public at large to State Dental Council and Examining Board
22 and making editorial changes.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 414, act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
26 No.175), known as "The Administrative Code of 1929," is amended
27 to read:
28 Section 414. State Dental Council and Examining Board.--The
1 State Dental Council and Examining Board shall consist of the
2 president of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society, [the
3 Superintendent of Public Instruction,] the Secretary of Health,
4 [and six persons,] the Commissioner of Professional and
5 Occupational Affairs and seven persons, at least one of whom
6 shall represent the public at large, whose [term] terms of
7 office shall be six years.
8 The Pennsylvania State Dental Society shall have power to
9 nominate, from its membership, at least double the number of
10 candidates required to fill the vacancies occurring annually in
11 the membership of the State Dental Council and Examining Board.
12 Such candidates shall have been engaged in the actual practice
13 of dentistry in this Commonwealth during a period of not less
14 than ten years. The Governor shall appoint members to fill all
15 vacancies, occurring from any cause, only from the candidates
16 nominated as aforesaid. No member of the faculty of a dental
17 college shall be eligible to appointment as a member of the
18 State Dental Council and Examining Board. In the event of
19 failure of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society to nominate
20 candidates, as aforesaid, the Governor shall appoint members in
21 good standing of the said society without other restriction.
22 The members of the State Dental Council and Examining Board
23 shall annually select one of their number to act as chairman,
24 and shall elect a secretary who need not be a member of the
25 board.
26 Each of the members of the State Dental Council and Examining
27 Board, other than the [Superintendent of Public Instruction]
28 Commissioner of Professional and Occupational Affairs, the
29 Secretary of Health, and the president of the Pennsylvania State
30 Dental Society, shall receive fifteen dollars per diem, while
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1 actually engaged in the work of the board, and the secretary
2 shall receive such reasonable compensation as the board shall
3 determine, with the approval of the [Superintendent of Public
4 Instruction] Commissioner of Professional and Occupational
5 Affairs.
6 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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