Use.

False name

Assume degrees.

False statement.

Failure to cause

4. Shall use or attempt to use any such diploma, certificate or transcript, which has been purchased, fraudulently issued, counterfeited or materially altered, either as a license or color of license to practice dentistry, or in order to procure registration as a dentist; or

5. Shall practice dentistry under a false or assumed name; or 6. Shall assume the degree of "doctor of dental surgery" or "doctor of dental medicine," or shall append the letters "D. D. S." or "D. M. D." to his or her name, not having duly conferred upon him or her, by diploma from a recognized dental college or school legally empowered to confer the same, the right to assume said title; or shall assume any title, or append any letters to his or her name, with the intent to represent falsely that he or she has received a dental degree or license; or 7. Shall in an affidavit, required of an applicant for examination, license or registration, under this act, willfully make a false statement in a material regard; or

8. Shall engage in the practice of dentistry under any title name to be or name without causing to be displayed in a conspicuous mandisplayed. ner and in a conspicuous place in his or her office the name of each and every person employed in the practice of dentistry therein, together with the word mechanic or apprentice after the name of each unlicensed person employed; or

Failure to furnish name to dental board.

9. Shall within ten days after demand, made by the secretary of the board, fail to furnish to said board the name and address of all persons practicing or assisting in the practice of dentistry in the office of said person, company or association, at any time within sixty days prior to said notice, together with a sworn statement showing under and by what license or authority said person, company or association and said employé are and have been practicing dentistry, but said affidavit shall not be used as evidence against such person, company or association in any proceeding under this section; or 10. Is practicing dentistry in the state without a license, or Practicing whose license has been revoked or suspended.

without license.

Causes for revocation

SEC. 7. There is hereby added to that certain act of the legislature of the State of California, more particularly designated and described in section one hereof, a new section, to be numbered section twenty-one and one half as follows:

Section 214. Any dentist may have his license revoked or of license. suspended by the board of dental examiners for any of the following causes:

Moral turpitude.

Unprofes

sional conduct.

1. His conviction of a felony or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, in which case the record of conviction or a certified copy thereof, certified by the clerk of the court, or by the judge in whose court the conviction is had, shall be conclusive evidence.

2. For unprofessional conduct, or for gross ignorance, or inefficiency in his profession. Unprofessional conduct shall mean employing what are known as cappers, or steerers to obtain business; the obtaining of any fee by fraud or misrepresentation; willfully betraying professional secrets; employing directly or indirectly any student or any suspended or

unlicensed dentist to perform operations of any kind, or to treat lesions of the human teeth or jaws, or correct malimposed formations thereof, except as heretofore provided in section 15; the advertisement of dental business or treatment or devices in which untruthful, improbable or impossible statements are made, or habitual intemperance or gross immorality.

ings to

license.

tions.

The proceedings to revoke or suspend any license under the Proceedfirst subdivision of section 21, must be taken by the board on revoke the receipt of a certified copy of the record of conviction. The proceedings under the second subdivision of section 21 may be taken by the board from the matters within its knowledge, or may be taken upon the information of another. All accusa- Accusations must be in writing, verified by some party familiar with the facts therein charged, and three copies thereof must be filed with the secretary of the board. Upon receiving the accusation Hearing. the board shall, if it deem it sufficient, make an order setting the same for hearing, and requiring the accused to appear and answer it at said hearing, at a specified time and place, and the secretary shall cause a copy of the order and of the accusation to be served upon the accused at least ten (10) days before the day appointed in the order for said hearing. The accused must appear at the time appointed in the order and answer the charges and make his defense to the same, unless for sufficient cause the board assign another day for that purpose. If he do not appear the board may proceed and determine the accusation in his absence. If the accused plead guilty or refuse to answer the charges, or upon the hearing thereof the board shall find them or any of them true, it may proceed to a judgment revoking his license or suspending it. The board and the accused may have the benefit of counsel, and the board shall have power to administer oaths, take the depositions of witnesses in the manner provided by law in civil cases, and to compel them to attend before it in person the same as in civil cases, by subpoena issued over the signature of the secretary and the seal of the board and in the name of the people of the State of California. Upon the revocation of any license, the fact shall be noted upon the records of the board of dental examiners and the license shall be marked as canceled, upon the date of its revocation.

SEC. 8. Section twenty-five of that certain act of the legislature of the State of California, more particularly designated and described in section one hereof, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 25. This act shall take effect immediately, and all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Board of supervisors may

land.

Proceed

CHAPTER CCXLV.

An act to amend section five and section ten of an act entitled, "An act to provide for the formation of protection districts in the various counties of this state, for the improvement and rectification of the channels of innavigable streams and watercourses, for the prevention of the overflow thereof, by widening, deepening and straightening and otherwise improving the same, and to authorize the boards of supervisors to levy and collect assessments from the property benefited to pay the expenses of the same," approved March 27, 1895, enlarging the discretion of board of supervisors concerning such districts and improvements.

[Approved March 20, 1903.]

The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section five of an act entitled, "An act to provide for the formation of protection districts in the various counties of this state, for the improvement and rectification of the channels of innavigable streams and watercourses, and straightening and otherwise improving the same, and to authorize the boards of supervisors to levy and collect assessments from the property benefited, to pay the expenses of the same," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 5. The board of supervisors of such county shall also have power to condemn land for the purpose of widening, condemn deepening and straightening any innavigable stream flowing through such protection district, or forming a boundary, or any part of a boundary thereof, and for that purpose all the provisions of part three, title seven, of the Code of Civil Procedure are hereby made applicable to the exercise of the right of eminent domain for such purposes, or to any other purpose necessary to the needs of such district when formed; provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed as interfering, conflicting or abrogating reclamation districts now established by law. Whenever such innavigable stream or watercourse forms, or the portion thereof deemed proper or necessary to be improved and rectified by widening, deepening or straightening its course, or by erecting levees or dikes upon its bank, forms the boundary line between any two or more counties in this state, the petition shall first be presented to the board of supervisors of the county in which the greatest portion of lands within the proposed district are situated, signed by at least twenty of the property holders of the district, ten (10) from each of the counties to be affected, which petition shall set forth and particularly describe the proposed boundaries of such district and the other matters required by section one of the act of which this act is amendatory, and shall pray for a district to be organized under said act; and when the board of supervisors of any one of said counties has acquired juris

ings when watercourse

forms

county

boundary.

first ac

tion may

work.

diction, as provided in section four of the act of which this County act is amendatory, the board of supervisors of each of the quiring other counties, when notified, shall proceed to improve and jurisdic rectify the channel of said stream or watercourse, so as to initiate prevent the overflow of such stream or watercourse, and in accordance with the terms of said act of which this act is amendatory. And if, after notice, given in writing by the board of supervisors of the county so first acquiring jurisdiction to the board of supervisors of said other counties, either or any county so notified shall fail for sixty days to proceed to take all necessary steps under said act for the prevention of the overflow of such stream, by widening, deepening or straightening its course, or by erecting levees or dikes upon its banks, the board of supervisors having obtained jurisdiction as above provided, and giving such notice shall proceed under the terms of said act to improve and rectify the channel of such stream or watercourse, by widening, deepening, or straightening its course, or by erecting levees or dikes upon its banks, and collect by law, from the county or counties so notified, its proportion of the costs and expenses of said improvement, which shall not exceed in the case of any county one quarter of the total cost thereof; provided, said amount shall not exceed in any case for any one county the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars. Nothing herein shall authorize the alteration of the boundary lines of any county, and said boundary lines shall remain as they are at present. Thereafter all costs of every nature that may be incurred or made necessary in the keeping up or preservation of any work or improvement done under the provisions of this section shall be borne by the counties affected by such work or improvement, and the lands within said district in the proportion provided in section 10 of this act.

SEC. 2. Section ten of the above mentioned and described act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

sioners

termine

Section 10. Said commissioners shall proceed to view the Commislands embraced within the boundaries of such protection dis- shall view trict, and may examine witnesses under oath, to be adminis- lands, detered by any one of them. Having viewed the land to be taken, values, etc. and the improvements affected, and considered the testimony presented, they shall proceed with all diligence to determine the value of the land and damage to improvements and property affected and also the estimate amount of the costs of the proposed work or improvement and the expenses incident thereto, and having determined the same, shall proceed to assess the same to the county or counties and upon the lands embraced within the exterior boundaries of such protection district. Such assessment shall be made in the manner following, to wit: The board of supervisors shall assess to the county Manner of or counties where more than one as an interested and benefited party or parties not exceeding one half of such assessment; provided, that in no case shall a county be liable for Limit of an amount in excess of one fourth thereof or for any sum county. greater than twenty-five hundred dollars where there are two or more counties within which said district is formed, and the

assessment

liability of

remainder of such assessment may be made upon the lands within said district in proportion to the benefits to be derived from said work or improvement, so far as said commission can reasonably estimate the same, including in such estimate the property of any railroad company, within said district, if such there be.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

Legal distances.

Alameda.

Alpine.

Amador.

Butte.

Calaveras.

Colusa.

Contra
Costa.

CHAPTER CCXLVI.

An act to amend sections 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, and 203 of the Political Code, and to add five (5) new sections thereto, to be numbered sections 204, 205, 206, 207, and 208, all relating to legal mileage in the state.

[Approved March 20, 1903.]

The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section one hundred and fifty-one of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

151. From the county seat of Alameda county to Sacramento, eighty-four (84) miles.

SEC. 2. Section one hundred and fifty-two of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

152. From the county seat of Alpine county to Sacramento, two hundred and twenty-five (225) miles.

SEC. 3. Section one hundred and fifty-three of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

153. From the county seat of Amador county to Sacramento, fifty-nine (59) miles.

SEC. 4. Section one hundred and fifty-four of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

154. From the county seat of Butte county to Sacramento, eighty-six (86) miles.

SEC. 5. Section one hundred and fifty-five of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

155. From the county seat of Calaveras county to Sacramento, seventy-three (73) miles.

SEC. 6. Section one hundred and fifty-six of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

156. From the county seat of Colusa county to Sacramento, seventy-seven (77) miles.

SEC. 7. Section one hundred and fifty-seven of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

157. From the county seat of Contra Costa county to Sacramento, sixty-two (62) miles.