Chapter 112

Section 49. No corporation hereinafter formed or organized shall conduct a dental office and no person shall conduct a dental office under any name other than that of the dentist actually owning the practice. The provisions of statute shall not apply to a professional corporation…

Section 5. The board shall investigate all complaints relating to the proper practice of medicine by any person holding a certificate of registration under sections two to twelve A, inclusive, or of section sixty-five so far as it relates to medicine and report the same to the pr…

Section 50. A person shall be deemed to be practicing dentistry if he holds himself out as being able to diagnose, treat, operate or prescribe for any disease, pain, injury, deficiency, deformity or other condition of the human teeth, alveolar process, gums or jaws, and associate…

Section 50A. Every registered dentist who writes a prescription upon a prescription blank of a hospital or clinic shall print or type his name directly below his signature thereon.

Section 51. The board may examine a person of good moral character who is not less than 19 years of age, upon the payment of a fee determined annually by the secretary of administration and finance pursuant to section 3B of chapter 7, in subjects considered essential for a dental…

Section 51A. The board shall adopt rules and regulations for a system of continuing education, compliance with which shall be a requirement and condition precedent to the renewal of licenses issued by the board.

Section 52. Any person who falsely asserts that he has a certificate granted by the board, or who, having such certificate or a duplicate thereof, fails to exhibit the same as required by section forty-five, or who falsely and with intent to deceive claims to be a graduate of any…

Section 52A. No registered dentist, person practicing dentistry, or dental hygienist shall include, or permit, or cause to be included, in any newspaper, radio, or television advertisement, or in any display sign, personal solicitation or other manner of advertising, any written …

Section 52B. The clerk of a court in which a registered dentist or dental hygienist is convicted under the preceding section shall forthwith certify such conviction to the board, and the board may, after a hearing, revoke or suspend the registration of the convicted registrant. T…

Section 52C. No person engaged in the business of supplying, constructing, reproducing, relining, repairing, adding or directing the application of any substance of a permanent nature to dentures, bridges, appliances or other structures to be worn as substitutes for natural teeth…

Section 52D. The board, after due notice and hearing, may suspend, revoke or cancel any certificate, registration, license or authority issued by it, of any dentist convicted in any court in the commonwealth of a felony related to the practice of dentistry.

Section 52E. The board, after due notice and hearing, may suspend, revoke, cancel or reprimand the holder of any certificate, registration, license or authority issued by it, of any dentist whom it finds has engaged in repeated irregularities in billing an insurance company or ot…

Section 52F. The board may, without a hearing, suspend or refuse to renew a registrant's license if the board finds that the health, safety or welfare of the public warrants such summary action; provided, however, that the board shall, within seven days of such summary action, af…

Section 52G. No person filing a complaint, making a report, providing information or otherwise assisting the board for purposes of said board's discharge of its duties and functions pursuant to sections forty-three to fifty-three, inclusive, shall be liable in any cause of action…

Section 52H. (a) For the purpose of this section, the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings: ''Board'', the board of registration in dentistry established in section 19 of chapter 13. ''Unified recovery and monitoring pr…

Section 53. Nothing in sections forty-three to fifty-two, inclusive, shall apply to treatment by a registered physician not practicing dentistry, in case where he deems treatment necessary for the relief of his patients, or prevent a registered dentist of another state or his ass…

Section 54. The board of registration in veterinary medicine, in sections fifty-five to sixty, inclusive, called the board, may make by-laws and rules consistent with law necessary to carry out the provisions of said sections. Three members of the board shall constitute a quorum …

Section 54A. In sections fifty-four to sixty, inclusive, the following words shall have the following meanings: ''Animal'', any animal other than man including wild or domestic fowl, birds, fish or reptiles, living or dead. ''Approved veterinary school'', any veterinary college o…

Section 55. Applications for registration as veterinarians, signed and sworn to by the applicant, shall be made upon blanks furnished by the board. Each applicant who shall furnish the board with satisfactory proof that he is eighteen years of age or over, of good moral character…

Section 55A. The board shall determine the qualifications and educational experience of those applicants for registration who are graduates of a non-approved veterinary school. If the board finds that the applicant meets the minimum requirements as determined for a graduate of an…

Section 56. Examinations shall be in part in writing, shall be in English, and of a scientific and practical character. They shall include the subjects of anatomy, surgery, physiology, animal parasites, obstetrics, pathology, bacteriology, diagnosis and practice, therapeutics, ph…

Section 56A. The board may issue without examination a temporary permit to practice veterinary medicine in the commonwealth to any person who is a graduate of an approved veterinary school. Such temporary permit may be granted for a period of six months and may be renewed once fo…

Section 56B. Every registered veterinarian who writes a prescription upon a prescription blank of a hospital or clinic shall print or type his name directly below his signature thereon.

Section 56C. Any person who is a licensed or registered veterinarian in another state and who has been engaged in the practice of veterinary medicine for at least five consecutive years, and who presents to the board a copy of his certificate of registration or license, certified…

Section 56D. The board shall have the authority to grant to any school of veterinary medicine located in the commonwealth an institutional license, upon the payment of an annual fee of twenty-five dollars, under which veterinarians, who are not otherwise licensed as herein provid…

Section 56E. Any veterinary student, enrolled in an accredited school or college of veterinary medicine, who is engaged in clinical training under the direct supervision and control of a veterinarian duly registered under the provisions of section fifty-six D, or under the direct…

Section 57. The board shall keep a register of all veterinarians registered by it, which shall be open to public inspection, and shall make an annual report. It shall investigate all complaints of the violation of any provision of section fifty-nine and of section sixty-five, so …

Section 58. Any person shall be regarded as practicing veterinary medicine within the meaning of this section who either directly or indirectly, diagnoses, makes a prognosis, treats, administers, prescribes, operates on, manipulates or applies any drug, biologic, or chemical or a…

Section 58A. Any veterinarian duly registered under the provisions of section fifty-five, or who is a resident of another state or in the District of Columbia and duly registered therein who, in good faith, as a volunteer and without fee, renders emergency care or treatment to an…

Section 58B. A veterinarian who, while in the normal course of business, observes an animal whom such veterinarian knows or reasonably suspects has been the victim of animal cruelty prohibited under sections 77 or 94 of chapter 272 shall report said suspected animal cruelty to a …

Section 59. Any person who, not then being lawfully authorized to practice veterinary medicine and being so registered or exempt from registration, all as defined in the previous section, shall practice or attempt to practice veterinary medicine or who held himself out to the pub…

Section 59A. Any veterinarian may dispose of any animal abandoned in his establishment, provided he shall give notice of his intention to do so to the owner at his last known address by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, and has allowed a period of ten days t…

Section 5A. The board shall have the authority, after a hearing pursuant to chapter thirty A, to impose restrictions on a physician's license prohibiting the physician from performing certain medical procedures or operations, or from performing procedures except under certain con…

Section 5B. Any professional medical association, society, body, professional standards review organization, or similarly constituted professional organization, whether or not such association, society, body, or organization is local, regional, state, national, or international i…

Section 5C. Every insurer or risk management organization which provides professional liability insurance to a registered physician shall report to the board any claim or action for damages for personal injuries alleged to have been caused by error, omission, or negligence in the…

Section 5D. Any officer or employee of any agency, executive office, department, board, commission, bureau, division or authority of the commonwealth, or of any political subdivision thereof which is engaged in the provision or oversight of medical or health services, shall repor…

Section 5E. Any registered physician who does not possess professional liability insurance shall report to the board every settlement or arbitration award of a claim or action for damages for death or personal injury caused by negligence, error or omission in practice, or the una…

Section 5F. Any health care provider, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and eleven, shall report to the board any person who there is reasonable basis to believe is in violation of section five, or any of the regulations of the board, except as otherwise prohibited…

Section 5G. (a) No person or health care provider who communicates with a peer review committee, administrative subcommittee, ethics committee or other similar committee of a health care provider, professional society of health care providers or entity which pays professional lia…

Section 5H. Whenever it appears that any physician licensed in the commonwealth may be incompetent or unable to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety because such physician's ability to practice is impaired due to mental illness or physical illness, the board may ord…

Section 5I. The board shall have authority to require hospitals, physicians, health maintenance organizations and other medical service providers to provide data to it as to the results of specific surgical and other procedures performed by physicians on a physician by physician …

Section 5J. The board shall file annually, but not later than March first of each succeeding year after the effective date of this section, a report of all matters referred to the board under section five to five H, inclusive, to the special commission on medical malpractice esta…

Section 5K. The board is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations relative to the prioritization of investigation of complaints and reports received by the board, and the establishment of timelines for the investigation and resolution of such complaints or reports. In promu…

Section 5L. The board shall by regulation establish qualifications, standards and criteria no less stringent than the most current standards of the American College of Radiology, which shall apply to all physicians who read and interpret mammography.

Section 5M. The board shall promulgate regulations addressing the issue of physician investment and ownership in for-profit acute-care hospitals and health maintenance organizations.

Section 5N. The board of registration in medicine established pursuant to section 5B shall, in collaboration with experts in violence and injury prevention, and in coordination with relevant training accreditation bodies, develop or provide for, and make available for voluntary p…

Section 5O. (a) For purposes of this section ''telehealth'' shall mean the use of synchronous or asynchronous audio, video, electronic media or other telecommunications technology, including, but not limited to: (i) interactive audio-video technology; (ii) remote patient monitori…

Section 6. Except as provided in section sixty-five, whoever, not being lawfully authorized to practice medicine within the commonwealth and registered under section two, or corresponding provisions of earlier laws, or under section one or two of chapter five hundred and twenty-s…

Section 60. Sections fifty-four to fifty-nine, inclusive shall not prohibit advice or service, in a case of emergency, by a person other than a registered veterinarian, nor shall they prohibit farmers from rendering services to their neighbors, if they do not hold themselves out …

Section 60A. The following words as used in sections sixty A to sixty L, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, shall have the following meanings:— ''Architect'', any person who engages in the practice of architecture as hereinafter defined. ''Architect emeritus'', an …