2006 Kansas Code - 65-1424

      65-1424.   Proprietor defined; revocation of license, when. The term "proprietor" as used in this act includes any person who:

      (a)   Employs dentists or dental hygienists in the operation of a dental office; or

      (b)   places in possession of a dentist or dental hygienists or other agent such dental material or equipment as may be necessary for the management of a dental office on the basis of a lease or any other agreement for compensation for the use of such material, equipment or offices; or

      (c)   retains the ownership or control of dental equipment or material or office and makes the same available in any manner for the use by dentists or dental hygienists or other agents except that nothing in this subsection (c) shall apply to bona fide sales of dental equipment or material secured by a chattel mortgage or retain title agreement.

      A licensee of dentistry who enters into any of the above described arrangements with an unlicensed proprietor may have such license suspended or revoked by the board.

      The estate or agent for a deceased or substantially disabled dentist may employ dentists, for a period of not more than one year, to provide service to patients until the practice can be sold.

      History:   L. 1943, ch. 221, § 7; L. 1996, ch. 85, § 1; L. 2000, ch. 169, § 4; July 1.