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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="4-505" title_number="4" title_name="Dentistry" subtitle_number="5">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Board of Dental Examiners shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Define, for the purpose of this section, the terms “dental radiation technologist” and “practice dental radiation technology”;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Adopt rules and regulations concerning qualifications, training, certification, monitoring of, and enforcement requirements for a dental radiation technologist; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Provide for a requirement to ensure competency in new safety and technological advances.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The qualifications required of applicants for Board certification as a dental radiation technologist shall include requirements established by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The American Dental Association; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any applicable federal standards for training and certification.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Except as provided in §§ 10–14A–03 and 10–14B–03 of the State Government Article, an individual must be certified by the Board as a dental radiation technologist before a licensed dentist may employ the individual to practice dental radiation technology.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Except as provided in §§ 10–14A–03 and 10–14B–03 of the State Government Article, an individual may not practice dental radiation technology unless certified by the Board.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>An applicant for a certificate to practice as a dental radiation technologist shall submit to a criminal history records check in accordance with § 4–302.2 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>At least 1 month before a certificate expires, the Board shall send to each certificate holder, by electronic means or first–class mail to the last known electronic or physical address of the certificate holder, a renewal notice that states:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The date on which the current certificate expires;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The date by which the renewal application must be received by the Board for the renewal to be issued and mailed before the certificate expires; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The amount of the renewal fee.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>An individual may be simultaneously certified as a dental radiation technologist under this section and as an expanded function dental assistant.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Beginning October 1, 2027, the Board shall require a criminal history records check in accordance with § 4–302.2 of this subtitle for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Certificate renewal applicants as determined by regulations adopted by the Board; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Each former certificate holder who files for reinstatement after failing to renew a certificate.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Board may not renew or reinstate a certificate if the criminal history record information required under § 4–302.2 of this subtitle has not been received.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
