A. 1. On or before the last day of December of each year, every dentist, dental hygienist, dental assistant, oral maxillofacial surgery assistant and other licensee or permit holders previously licensed or permitted by the Board to practice in this state, with the exception of those listed in paragraph 2 of this subsection, shall submit a completed renewal application with information as may be required by the Board, together with an annual renewal fee established by the rules of the Board. Upon receipt of the annual renewal fee, the Board shall issue a renewal certificate authorizing the dentist, dental hygienist, dental assistant or oral maxillofacial surgery assistant to continue the practice of dentistry or dental hygiene, respectively, in this state for a period of one (1) year. Every license or permit issued by the Board shall begin on January 1 and expire on December 31 of each year.
2. Resident and fellowship permits shall be valid from July 1 through June 30 of each year and dental student intern permits shall be valid from August 1 through July 31 of each year.
B. Beginning July 1, 2021, continuing education requirements shall be due at the end of each two-year period.
C. 1. Continuing education requirements for a dentist or dental hygienist shall consist of:
2. Full-time graduate study, internships, residencies and dentists and dental hygienists engaged in a full-time program accredited by CODA shall be exempt from continuing education for a continuing education year per academic year completed.
3. New graduates of dental and hygiene programs shall not be required to complete continuing education for the first year after graduation. Continuing education requirements for dentists and dental hygienists who are new graduates shall begin July 1 of the calendar year following the year of graduation. Hours shall be prorated by year of new licensure.
D. 1. Dentists shall complete forty (40) hours of continuing education with no more than twenty (20) hours to be completed online. Hygienists shall complete twenty (20) hours of continuing education with no more than ten (10) hours to be completed online. Interactive classes or webinar classes may, at the discretion of the Board, count as in-person.
2. Oral maxillofacial surgery assistants shall complete eight (8) hours of continuing education including one (1) hour of infection control.
3. Dental assistants shall complete two (2) hours of infection control.
4. Any newly licensed dentist shall complete a two-hour opioid and scheduled drug prescribing class within one (1) year of obtaining licensure.
E. Upon failure of a dentist, dental hygienist, dental assistant or oral maxillofacial surgery assistant to pay the annual renewal fee within two (2) months after January 1 of each year, the Board shall notify the dentist, dental hygienist, dental assistant, oral maxillofacial surgery assistant, or other permit holder that the license or permit will be officially canceled as of April 1 pursuant to subsection M of Section 328.21 of this title. A list of canceled licenses or permits not otherwise renewed shall be published at the following meeting of the Board.
F. Any dentist, dental hygienist, dental assistant or oral maxillofacial surgery assistant whose license or permit is automatically canceled by reason of failure, neglect or refusal to secure the renewal certificate may be reinstated by the Board at any time within one (1) year from the date of the expiration of the license, upon payment of the annual renewal fee and a penalty fee established by the rules of the Board. If the dentist, dental hygienist, dental assistant, or oral maxillofacial surgery assistant does not apply for renewal of the license or permit and pay the required fees within one (1) year after the license has expired, then the dentist, dental hygienist, dental assistant or oral maxillofacial surgery assistant shall be required to file an application for and take the examination or other requirements provided for in the State Dental Act or the rules promulgated by the Board before again commencing practice.
G. The Board, by rule, shall provide for the remittance of fees otherwise required by the State Dental Act while a dentist or dental hygienist is on active duty with any of the Armed Forces of the United States.
H. In case of a lost or destroyed license or renewal certificate and upon satisfactory proof of the loss or destruction thereof, the Board may issue a duplicate, charging therefor a fee established by the rules of the Board.
I. A dentist, dental hygienist, oral maxillofacial surgery assistant or dental assistant that is in good standing and not under investigation that notifies the Board in writing of a voluntary nonrenewal of license or requests retirement status shall have a right to renew or reinstate his or her license within five (5) years from the date of notice. The Board may require any training or continuing education requirements to be met prior to reinstatement.
J. A dentist, dental hygienist, oral maxillofacial dental assistant or dental assistant that has not had an active license or permit in excess of five (5) years shall be required to apply as a new applicant.
K. Any application for a license or permit that has remained inactive for more than one (1) year shall be closed.
Added by Laws 1970, c. 173, § 41, eff. July 1, 1970. Amended by Laws 1999, c. 280, § 10, eff. Nov. 1, 1999; Laws 2003, c. 172, § 6, emerg. eff. May 5, 2003; Laws 2012, c. 270, § 9, eff. Nov. 1, 2012; Laws 2013, c. 405, § 15, eff. July 1, 2013; Laws 2015, c. 229, § 22, eff. July 1, 2015; Laws 2017, c. 302, § 6, emerg. eff. May 17, 2017; Laws 2018, c. 151, § 11, eff. Nov. 1, 2018; Laws 2019, c. 397, § 9; Laws 2021, c. 566, § 12, emerg. eff. May 28, 2021; Laws 2022, c. 158, § 7, eff. Nov. 1, 2022.
NOTE: Laws 2019, c. 428, § 4 repealed by Laws 2021, c. 566, § 17, emerg. eff. May 28, 2021.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
Title 59. Professions and Occupations
§59-15.1. Short title - Declaration of policy.
§59-15.1A. See the following versions:
§59-15.2. Oklahoma Accountancy Board - Membership - Qualifications - Terms.
§59-15.3. Vacancies - Disqualification - Removal.
§59-15.4. Officers - Meetings - Duties.
§59-15.6A. Confidentiality of investigations - Use as evidence – Disclosure of information.
§59-15.7. Disbursement of fees and monies.
§59-15.8. Application to take examination - Format - Fees - Qualifications.
§59-15.9. Issuance of certificate.
§59-15.10A. Fees – Application and test.
§59-15.11. Use of titles or abbreviations.
§59-15.12. Employees and assistants without certification or permit.
§59-15.14. Registration - Expiration and renewal - Fee.
§59-15.14B. Acts subject to penalty.
§59-15.15B. Designated manager - Succession of business.
§59-15.15C. Services provided by unregistered firm.
§59-15.16. Revocation or suspension of registration and permits of firm.
§59-15.24. Penalties - Reinstatement or termination of suspension.
§59-15.25. Misrepresentation or fraud - Violations of act - Penalty.
§59-15.26. False reports or statements - Penalty.
§59-15.27. Cease and desist order – Fine - Injunction.
§59-15.28. Prima facie evidence.
§59-15.29A. Unlawful use of titles or abbreviations - Injunction, restraining order, or other order.
§59-15.29B. Enforcement actions - Evidence of single act sufficient.
§59-15.35. Continuing professional education.
§59-15.36. Persons who may perform assurance services and audits or issue reports.
§59-46.1. Short title - State Architectural and Registered Commercial Interior Designers Act.
§59-46.6. Meetings - Officers - Salary - Quorum.
§59-46.7. Powers and duties of Board.
§59-46.8a. Unlawful practice or use of title - License—Reciprocity.
§59-46.10. Dues - Cancellation of license or registration for nonpayment.
§59-46.11. Renewal of license or certificate - Display.
§59-46.12. Reinstatement of license, registration or certificate.
§59-46.15. Appeals from Board - Jurisdiction of District Court of Oklahoma County.
§59-46.17. Criminal penalties.
§59-46.19. Board of Architects' Fund.
§59-46.21b. Architects required for certain buildings - Code Use Groups - Exempted buildings.
§59-46.26. Acceptance of compensation from other than client - Unlawful.
§59-46.29. Landscape architecture license required.
§59-46.30. Licensing of landscape architects - Temporary licenses - Certificate of qualification.
§59-46.32. Practice of landscape architecture - Not transferable.
§59-46.33. Restoration of license - Application.
§59-46.34. Seal of landscape architect.
§59-46.35. Unlawful compensation.
§59-46.38. Registration of commercial interior designers - Certificate of title.
§59-46.39. Alternative requirements for commercial interior designer registration.
§59-46.41. Unlawful use of commercial interior designer title.
§59-46.42. Registered commercial interior designer seal.
§59-46.43. Unlawful to receive compensation except from client.
§59-46.44. Unlawful to bid or hold financial interest in entities competitively bidding.
§59-46.45. Personal privilege – Registration nontransferable.
§59-46.46. Application for reissuance of registration.
§59-46.47. No authority to engage in practice of architecture or landscape architecture.
§59-61.5. Practice of barbering defined.
§59-61.6. Board of Barber Examiners - Licenses.
§59-137. Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners - Membership - Qualifications - Terms - Removal.
§59-140. Employees of Board - Prosecutions - Materials and supplies - Bonds - Seal.
§59-142. Acts constituting practice of podiatric medicine - Exceptions.
§59-143. Unlawful practices - Penalty.
§59-144.1. Training license - Eligibility - Restrictions.
§59-145. Renewal of licenses - Fees - Suspension on nonpayment - Reinstatement - Records.
§59-145.1. Continuing education requirement for renewal of license - Exemptions.
§59-147. Penalties - Guidelines.
§59-148. Violations – Definitions.
§59-154. Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners' Revolving Fund.
§59-155. Investigations and hearings.
§59-158. Restraining orders and injunctions.
§59-159.1. Rules and regulations concerning casts for individual shoes.
§59-159.4. Inapplicability to manufacture or sale to persons generally.
§59-160.1. Interpretation of "podiatry" and "podiatric medicine".
§59-161.2. Scope of practice of chiropractic.
§59-161.4. Board of Chiropractic Examiners.
§59-161.5. Meetings of Board – Duties of officers - Bonding and liability.
§59-161.6. Powers of Board - Advisory Committee.
§59-161.7. Application for original license by examination – Definitions.
§59-161.8. Subjects covered by examination.
§59-161.9. Application for original license by relocation of practice.
§59-161.10a. Continuing education.
§59-161.11. Annual renewal license - Fee - Suspension and reinstatement - Disciplinary guidelines.
§59-161.12. Penalties - Grounds for imposition.
§59-161.12a. Certificate – Chiropractic claims consultant.
§59-161.13. Suspension of license because of mental illness.
§59-161.14. Practice without license - Penalties – Injunction.
§59-161.15. Doctors of chiropractic governed by public health laws.
§59-161.16. Chiropractic Education Scholarship Program.
§59-161.17. Chiropractic Undergraduate Preceptorship Program.
§59-161.18. Listing in publications.
§59-161.20. Board of Chiropractic Examiners' Revolving Fund.
§59-199. Short title – Oklahoma Cosmetology and Barbering Act.
§59-199.2. State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering.
§59-199.4. Executive director.
§59-199.5. Positions and salaries.
§59-199.6. Rules - Implementation - Unlawful acts - Penalties.
§59-199.7. Cosmetology and barber schools.
§59-199.9. Inspection of facilities – Licensure required.
§59-199.10. Expiration and renewal of licenses
§59-199.11. Grounds for denial of license, certificate or registration – Definitions.
§59-199.13. Reciprocity licenses - Criteria for issuing licenses without examination.
§59-199.15. State Cosmetology and Barbering Fund.
§59-199.18. Services provided in a private residence.
§59-328. Designation of parts.
§59-328.1. Citation - Subsequent enactments.
§59-328.7. Board of Dentistry - Membership - Tenure - Nomination and election districts - Vacancies.
§59-328.10. Officers - Election - Tenure - Meetings - Bond - Liability - Expenses.
§59-328.15A. Board investigators - Powers.
§59-328.15B. Executive Director - Authority.
§59-328.17. Standing committees – Composition - Functions.
§59-328.19. Acts constituting practice of dentistry - Acts not prevented.
§59-328.21. Application for license – Qualifications - Examination.
§59-328.22. Specialty license.
§59-328.23. Emergency temporary licenses for dentistry or dental hygiene.
§59-328.23a. Special volunteer licenses.
§59-328.23b. Retired volunteer licenses.
§59-328.24. Dental assistant permits - Expanded duty permits.
§59-328.25. Oral maxillofacial surgery assistant permits.
§59-328.26. Dental student intern, resident or fellowship permits.
§59-328.27. Faculty licenses and faculty specialty licenses.
§59-328.28a. Applicant criminal background check.
§59-328.31. Professional entities formed for practice of dentistry.
§59-328.31a. Use of trade names – Rules regulating advertisements.
§59-328.31b. Patient record keeping requirements.
§59-328.32. Dentists - Grounds for penalties.
§59-328.36. Permit to operate dental laboratory.
§59-328.36a. Laboratory prescriptions.
§59-328.39. Dental laboratory permit holders or technicians - Grounds for penalties.
§59-328.39a. Dental laboratory permit holders - Grounds for penalties.
§59-328.40a. Registration for mobile dental clinics.
§59-328.41. Renewal certificate - Continuing education requirements – Fee - Automatic cancellation.
§59-328.42. State Dental Fund.
§59-328.43a. Complaints - Review and investigative panels - Panel authority.
§59-328.43b. Patient fatalities - Adverse Outcomes Review and Investigation Panel.
§59-328.44a. Penalties - Judicial review.
§59-328.44b. Surrender of license, permit or certificate.
§59-328.48. Annual statement of receipts and expenditures.
§59-328.49. Unlawful practices - Criminal and civil actions.
§59-328.53. Dentists - Professional malpractice liability insurance.
§59-328.54. Dental practice - Diagnosis via the Internet.
§59-328.55. Death of patient - Notification of Board.
§59-328.56. Unauthorized or forged prescribing of controlled dangerous substances.
§59-328.57. Providing care during a pandemic, disaster or emergency – Administering vaccinations.
§59-328.60. Citation - Subsequent enactments.
§59-328.61. Declaration of public policy.
§59-328.62. Definitions - Mediation committee - Powers.
§59-328.63. Voluntary status - Protections from liability.
§59-328.64. Proceedings of mediation committee privileged - Exceptions.
§59-328.66. Recommendations of mediation committee.
§59-328.67. Appeal to state mediation appeals committee.
§59-328.68. Request for final appeal.
§59-328.69. Review and hearing by the Board of Governors of Registered Dentists.
§59-328.70. Reasonable procedural rules to be followed.
§59-328.73. Election of remedies - Patient's rights.
§59-353. Short title - Purpose - Declaration of pharmacy as profession.
§59-353.1a. Advanced practice nurses - Prescribing authority.
§59-353.1b. Certified registered nurse anesthetist - Prescribing authority.
§59-353.3. Board of Pharmacy - Membership - Qualifications - Terms of office - Appointments.
§59-353.5. State Board of Pharmacy – Elections and terms - Executive Director.
§59-353.7. State Board of Pharmacy - Powers.
§59-353.7a. Licensure fees for certain entities.
§59-353.10. Assistant pharmacists.
§59-353.11. License renewal - Fee
§59-353.11a. Continuing education requirements - Inactive renewal certificates
§59-353.16A. Incapacity of pharmacist - Effect on license.
§59-353.17. Unlawful use of titles relating to pharmacy.
§59-353.17A. Unlawful impersonation of a pharmacist.
§59-353.18A. Pharmacy technicians - Permits.
§59-353.20.1. Recording of prescriptions - Prescription label requirements.
§59-353.25. Violation of act - Penalty - Perjury.
§59-353.29.1. Veterinary prescription drugs.
§59-353.29.2. Prescriptions for ocular abnormalities.
§59-355.1. Dispensing dangerous drugs - Procedure - Registration - Exemptions.
§59-355.2. Violations of act – Adoption of rules.
§59-355.4. Substituting interchangeable biological products for prescribed biological products.
§59-356. Pharmacy Audit Integrity Act.
§59-356.1. Definitions – Purpose - Application.
§59-356.3. Appeals process - Dismissal - Fraud or willful misrepresentation - Application of act.
§59-356.4. Extrapolation audit prohibited.
§59-356.5. Retrospective application – Audits not covered by act.
§59-358. Pharmacy benefits management licensure – Procedures – Penalties for noncompliance.
§59-360. Pharmacy benefits manager – Contractual duties to provider.
§59-367.3. Program for utilization of unused prescription drugs.
§59-367.4. Criteria for accepting unused prescription drugs.
§59-367.7. Promulgation of rules – Donation of unused prescription drugs.
§59-367.8. Maintenance of drugs in emergency kits by pharmacies.
§59-368. Access to prescription drugs for low income Oklahomans.
§59-369. Emergency contraceptive prescription.
§59-374. Medication services procedures.
§59-375.1. Short title - Oklahoma Durable Medical Equipment Licensing Act.
§59-375.3. Supplier license – Inspections – Promulgation of rules.
§59-375.5. Application of act.
§59-396. Oklahoma Funeral Board - Appointment - Term - Qualifications.
§59-396.1A. Removal of Board members.
§59-396.1B. Expenses of Board members - Executive director - Other personnel.
§59-396.1C. Executive director of Board - Powers and duties – Collection and disposition of funds.
§59-396.2a. Board - Additional powers and duties.
§59-396.3a. Persons and businesses required to be licensed.
§59-396.5. Expiration of license - Renewal.
§59-396.5b. Continuing education courses.
§59-396.6. License required - Employment of licensed embalmer – Display of license or certificate.
§59-396.8. Reciprocity – Definitions.
§59-396.10. Application - Rules of Board - Publication of changes in rules.
§59-396.11. Apprenticeship - Application - Certificate - Rules.
§59-396.12c. Refusal to issue or renew, revocation or suspension of license – Grounds – Definitions.
§59-396.12d. Violations - Penalties - Liabilities.
§59-396.12e. Administrative penalty and costs - Surrender of license in lieu of penalty.
§59-396.16. Records of Board - Contents - Public inspection.
§59-396.17. Board - Officers - Rules.
§59-396.19. Act inapplicable when.
§59-396.20. Suspicion of crime - Embalming body without permission unlawful.
§59-396.22. Meetings of Board.
§59-396.23. Schools - Privileges.
§59-396.24. Violations - Penalties.
§59-396.26. Partial invalidity.
§59-396.27. Risk of transmission of communicable disease - Precautions.
§59-396.28. Funeral directors and embalmers from other states – Temporary permit.
§59-396.31. Rules for licensing, inspection, and regulation of crematories.
§59-396.32. Residue of cremated body.
§59-396.33. Cremation without license and permit a felony.
§59-475.1. Registration as engineer or land surveyor - Privilege.
§59-475.3. State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors.
§59-475.4. Qualifications of Board members.
§59-475.6. Removal of Board members - Vacancies.
§59-475.7. Meetings - Officers - Quorum.
§59-475.8. Powers and authority of Board.
§59-475.9. Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors Fund - Expenditures - Audits.
§59-475.12a. Licensure or certification as professional engineer.
§59-475.12b. Licensure or certification as professional land surveyor.
§59-475.12c. Qualifications to use title Professional Structural Engineer.
§59-475.13. Application form - Certified council record in lieu of form - Fees.
§59-475.15. Certificate of licensure - Seal - Intern certificate.
§59-475.16. Terms of certificates – Maintaining certificates.
§59-475.17. Lost or destroyed certificates - Replacement.
§59-475.18. Disciplinary actions - Grounds - Rules of Professional Conduct – Definitions.
§59-475.19. Allegations of violations - Notice and hearing - Appeal.
§59-475.20. Criminal and administrative penalties - Legal counsel.
§59-475.21. Condition for practice of engineering or land surveying by firm.
§59-475.22a. Land surveying documents - Conditions of filing.
§59-478.1. Establishment of physician-patient relationship through telemedicine.
§59-480. Short title - Intent - Definitions.
§59-481. State Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision - Members.
§59-481.1. Statutory references.
§59-482. Tenure - Appointment list - Persons ineligible.
§59-485. Organization - Officers.
§59-488. Meetings of Board - Determining qualifications of applicants.
§59-489. Rules - Fees - Increasing or changing educational requirements.
§59-490. Administration of oaths - Evidence and witnesses.
§59-491. Practicing without a license - Penalties.
§59-493.1. Contents of application - Requirements for licensure.
§59-493.2. Foreign applicants - Requirements for licensure.
§59-493.3. Licensure by endorsement - Temporary and special licensure.
§59-493.5. Special volunteer license.
§59-493.5a. Temporary critical need license.
§59-493.6. Enactment of Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
§59-493.7. Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
§59-494.1. Medical licensure examinations.
§59-495. Issuance of licenses.
§59-495a.1. License reregistration.
§59-495c. Reregistration fees - Depository funds - Disposition.
§59-495d. Suspension in absence of reregistration - Reinstatement.
§59-495e. Appeal from rejection of reregistration.
§59-500. Notice of practice location and address - Proof of licensure.
§59-503. Sanctions for unprofessional conduct.
§59-503.1. Emergency suspension of licensure.
§59-503.2. Authority to prescribe administrative remedies for licensee violations.
§59-504. Process - How served - Depositions - Subpoenas.
§59-505. State as party to actions - Board as trial body - Rulings - Record.
§59-506. Decisions of Board - Suspension and reinstatement - Narcotics conviction.
§59-508. Revocation for fraud, misrepresentation or mistake - Misdemeanor.
§59-508.1. Reinstatement on Board's own motion.
§59-508.2. Reinstatement on application of person whose license is suspended or revoked.
§59-509. Unprofessional conduct - Definition.
§59-509.1. Disciplinary actions.
§59-510. Corporations - Firms - Practice of medicine.
§59-511. Deposit of fees and other monies - Payments from fund - Disposition of balance.
§59-512. Salary of secretary - Personnel - Investigators - Travel expenses.
§59-518. Emergency care or treatment - Immunity from civil damages or criminal prosecution.
§59-518.1. Allied Professional Peer Assistance Program – Committees - Records.
§59-519.3. Physician Assistant Committee - Powers and duties.
§59-519.4. Licensure requirements.
§59-519.7. Temporary approval of a license and application to practice.
§59-519.7a. Temporary critical need license.
§59-519.8. License renewal - Fees.
§59-519.9. Preexisting certificates.
§59-519.10. Violations - Penalties.
§59-519.11. Construction of act.
§59-521.1. Primary care provider.
§59-521.2. Billing and payment.
§59-521.3. Emergency or state or local disaster medical care – Liability immunity.
§59-521.4. Physician supervision required – Practice agreement with delegating physician.
§59-524. Abortion - Infant prematurely born alive - Right to medical treatment.
§59-528. Board - Powers and duties.
§59-529. Athletic Trainers Advisory Committee.
§59-531. Expiration of license - Renewal - License fees.
§59-532. Denial, suspension or revocation of license – Definitions.
§59-533. Violation of act - Penalty.
§59-535. Practice of medicine unauthorized - Exemptions from act.