§448-3  Practice by unlicensed employee
prohibited; penalty.  (a)  Except as provided in section 447-3, no person
who manages or conducts as manager, proprietor, conductor, or otherwise a place
where dental operations are performed, shall employ any person as operator in
dental surgery or as a practitioner, or cause to permit any person to so act,
who is not duly licensed to practice dentistry; provided that nothing in this
chapter shall prohibit any unlicensed person from performing merely mechanical
work upon inert matter in a dental laboratory.



(b)  A duly licensed and registered dentist may
employ auxiliary personnel, other than registered dental hygienists, to assist
the dentist in the practice of dentistry.  These employees shall be known as
dental assistants and shall perform all duties assigned to them under the
supervision, direction and responsibility of the dentist.  Duties of the dental
assistant and regulatory directives shall be delineated under rules which the
board of dental examiners may from time to time adopt.



(c)  Any person violating this section shall be
fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 for the first violation.  Any
person violating this section a second time shall be fined not less than $500
nor more than $2,000 and, in addition to the fine, the person's license shall
be revoked. [L 1917, c 136, §3; am imp L 1920, c 7, §3; RL 1925, §1067; RL
1935, §982; RL 1945, §2153; RL 1955, §61-3; HRS §448-3; am L 1971, c 96, §1;
gen ch 1985; am L 1986, c 217, §1]