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Chapter 18.32 RCW

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HTMLPDF 18.32.002Findings—Purpose.
HTMLPDF 18.32.005Regulation of health care professions—Criteria.
HTMLPDF 18.32.010Words defined.
HTMLPDF 18.32.020Practice of dentistry defined.
HTMLPDF 18.32.030Exemptions from chapter.
HTMLPDF 18.32.0351Commission established—Membership.
HTMLPDF 18.32.0353Commission—Removal of member—Order of removal—Vacancy.
HTMLPDF 18.32.0355Commission—Qualifications of members.
HTMLPDF 18.32.0357Commission—Duties and powers—Attorney general to advise, represent.
HTMLPDF 18.32.0358Commission successor to other boards.
HTMLPDF 18.32.0361Compensation of commission members.
HTMLPDF 18.32.0363Examinations—Contracts for administration—Multistate.
HTMLPDF 18.32.0365Rules.
HTMLPDF 18.32.039Application of uniform disciplinary act.
HTMLPDF 18.32.040Requirements for licensure.
HTMLPDF 18.32.050Compensation and reimbursement for administering examination.
HTMLPDF 18.32.091License required.
HTMLPDF 18.32.100Applications.
HTMLPDF 18.32.110Application fee.
HTMLPDF 18.32.160Licenses—Who shall sign.
HTMLPDF 18.32.170Duplicate licenses—Fee.
HTMLPDF 18.32.180License renewal.
HTMLPDF 18.32.185Inactive license status.
HTMLPDF 18.32.190Licenses display—Notification of address.
HTMLPDF 18.32.195Licensure without examination—Dental school faculty and residents.
HTMLPDF 18.32.215Licensure without examination—Licensed in another state.
HTMLPDF 18.32.220Certificate available for dentists going out-of-state.
HTMLPDF 18.32.222Commission report—Foreign-trained dentists—Licensure.
HTMLPDF 18.32.226Community-based sealant programs in schools.
HTMLPDF 18.32.390Penalty—General.
HTMLPDF 18.32.530"Unprofessional conduct."
HTMLPDF 18.32.533Unprofessional conduct—Abrogation of copayment provisions.
HTMLPDF 18.32.534Dentist health program—Content—License surcharge.
HTMLPDF 18.32.640Rules—Administration of sedation and general anesthesia.
HTMLPDF 18.32.655Commission—Supervision of records—Rules.
HTMLPDF 18.32.665Advertising—False—Credit terms.
HTMLPDF 18.32.675Practice or solicitation by corporations prohibited—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 18.32.677Interference with licensee's independent clinical judgment.
HTMLPDF 18.32.683Patient abandonment.
HTMLPDF 18.32.685Prescriptions—Filled by druggists.
HTMLPDF 18.32.695Identification of new dental prostheses.
HTMLPDF 18.32.705Identification of previously fabricated prostheses.
HTMLPDF 18.32.715Identification of dental prostheses—Violation.
HTMLPDF 18.32.725Sanitary regulations.
HTMLPDF 18.32.735Unlawful practice—Hygienists—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 18.32.745Unlawful practice—Employing unlicensed dentist—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 18.32.755Advertising—Names used—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 18.32.765Pilot project—Commission—Authority over budget.
HTMLPDF 18.32.775Disciplinary proceedings—Cost and fee recovery.
HTMLPDF 18.32.785Pain management rules—Criteria for new rules.
HTMLPDF 18.32.800Opioid drug prescribing rules—Adoption.
HTMLPDF 18.32.810Opioid drugs—Right to refuse.

Notes:

Anesthesia, administration for nondental purposes: RCW 18.71.030.
Dental hygienists: Chapter 18.29 RCW.
Dentists, actions against, limitation of: RCW 4.16.350.
Health professions account—Fees credited—Requirements for biennial budget request—Unappropriated funds: RCW 43.70.320.
Lien of doctors: Chapter 60.44 RCW.
Rebating by practitioners of healing professions prohibited: Chapter 19.68 RCW.